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In article <2971@tellab5.tellabs.com>, stein@tellabs.com (Peter Stein) writes:
>
>   2. Yes, I've seen the comments regarding pawn promotion, but I can't
>      even promote to a Queen!!

    to promote to a queen use (e.g.) h7h8q
    under-promotion e.g. a7a8b (bishop)

>   3. I've tried using "edit" to handle the pawn promotions, but it seems
>      there is no way to delete individual pieces. Do I have to use "#"
>      to delete the entire board and then enter all the pieces??

    The following (slightly modified) EditBoard routine will enable you to
    delete an individual piece. e.g. use 'xa1' to delete the piece at a1.

void
EditBoard()
/*
 * Set up a board position. Pieces are entered by typing the piece followed
 * by the location. For example, Nf3 will place a knight on square f3.
 */
{
    short a, r, c, sq, i;
    char s[80];

    ClrScreen();
    UpdateDisplay(0, 0, 1, 0);
    printz(".   exit to main\n");
    printz("#   clear board\n");
    printz("c   change sides\n");
    printz("enter piece & location: \n");

    a = white;
    do {
	scanz("%s", s);
	if (s[0] == '#')
	    for (sq = 0; sq < 64; sq++) {
		board[sq] = no_piece;
		color[sq] = neutral;
	    }
	if (s[0] == 'c' || s[0] == 'C')
	    a = otherside[a];
	c = s[1] - 'a';
	r = s[2] - '1';
	if ((c >= 0) && (c < 8) && (r >= 0) && (r < 8)) {
	    sq = locn(r, c);
	    board[sq] = no_piece;
	    color[sq] = neutral;
	    for (i = no_piece; i <= king; i++)
		if ((s[0] == pxx[i]) || (s[0] == qxx[i])) {
		    board[sq] = i;
		    color[sq] = a;
		    break;
		}
	}
    } while (s[0] != '.');
    for (sq = 0; sq < 64; sq++)
	Mvboard[sq] = (board[sq] != Stboard[sq]) ? 10 : 0;
    GameCnt = 0;
    Game50 = 1;
    ZeroRPT();
    InitializeStats();
    ClrScreen();
    UpdateDisplay(0, 0, 1, 0);
} /* end of EditBoard */

Brian

stein@tellabs.com (Peter Stein)in his writing about GNUCHESS

     1. "book" is not enabled on successive games unless the program is
	exited and started up again. I tried various combinations of
	commands to no avail. What always happens is:
		     1. e2e4  g8f6
		     2. e4e5  f6e4 ??? and loses the knight in a few after
				       3. d2d4.

I would disagree with this line. It's a playable.
After 3.d2d4 black can continue with f7-f6 oe e7-e6.
A sample line could be 1.e4 Sf6 2. e5 Se4 3.d4 f6 4.Bd3 d5 5. f3 Sg5
6.Bg5 fg 7.f4 g6. Whites black quares are weak.

For more info you might look for Stefan Bueckers Grotesgue Schacher|fnungen.

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In article <2971@tellab5.tellabs.com> stein@tellabs.com (Peter Stein) writes:
->Some new observations:
->  3. I've tried using "edit" to handle the pawn promotions, but it seems
->     there is no way to delete individual pieces. Do I have to use "#"
->     to delete the entire board and then enter all the pieces??
cf7 should clear square f7. This worked for me but of course xf7 would be
better.
->  4. So far I've conducted two games between CM 2100 and GNUCHESS. At
->     30 seconds a move GNUCHESS won rather handily, CM dropping a piece
->     after 17 moves. At 1 minute a move the game fizzled into a dead
->     drawn position in 52 moves. Both claimed a draw by repetition!
->     This game started as a sharp double king pawn opening with both 
->     programs offering their queen pawn for initiative. Suddenly the 
->     game degenerated into "brownian motion" as both programs became 
->     eager to eliminate material and shuffle their pieces back and 
->     forth. The resulting equal material ending should have been a draw
->     with best play, but as it was conducted was in fact a win from 
->     either side on several occassions!!
->	My assessment so far: a. CM has superior opening book
->			      b. GNUCHESS seems stronger in the middle
->				 game
->                              c. both are equally weak in the ending
->     NOTE: I've yet to try them at higher levels. I know from experience
->     that CM isn't half bad at the higher levels.
->
->			 Your 2200 fish-at-large
On a sun4 (sparc) I got about 6000 nodes/s.
On a 12 MHz PC-AT-clone I got 300-550 nodes/s.

I have heared that CM is much better on 68kx than on 80x86.

rgs
UK