TITLE

GNU Chess

VERSION

4.0.pl74

AUTHORS

Various, Amiga port by Jochen Wiedmann
Am Eisteich 9
72555 Metzingen
Germany Phone: (0049) +7123 / 14881
Internet: jochen.wiedmann@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de

DESCRIPTION

GNU Chess is a well known chess program written in C and designed to be portable. Depending on the hardware it can get very strong. (About 2200-2300 ELO on a DEC Alpha, about 1800 on an Amiga 1200) There are different versions available:

- A simple ASCII version, printing the complete chessboard with ASCII characters after each move.
- A Curses version, similar to the ASCII version, but with the ability to move the cursor.
- An AmyBoard client; AmyBoard is a frontend, which allows you to play with the mouse on a beautiful chessboard.

Some tools for analyzing a chess game and postsript output are included.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

AmigaOS version 2.0 or later
Installer (available on Aminet, util/misc) If you want to use AmyBoard, you can get it on Aminet, game/board.

AVAILABILITY

Aminet, for example

ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/gnuchess-4.0.pl74bin.lha
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/gnuchess-4.0.pl74bin.lha

Internet chess servers, for example

ftp://chess.onenet.net/pub/chess/Amiga/gnuchess-4.0.pl74bin.lha

Distribution consists of three archives:

gnuchess-4.0.pl74bin.lha Binary distribution
gnuchess-4.0.pl74src.lha Original sources
gnuchess-4.0.pl74diffs.lha Amiga sources and a pathfile

DISTRIBUTABILITY

GNU General Public License, Copyright Free Software Foundation