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- GNU Chess
-
- Copyright (C) 1987 Stuart Cracraft
- (Copying permission notice at the end.)
-
- GNU Chess is your program (as long as you follow the copyright and
- licensing rules listed in the file COPYING). Your contributioinspire current and future software
- developers.
-
- This document
- -------------
- This document is not meant to be a an introduction to computer chess.
- The following books are excellent introductions and treatises.
- They are listed in order of difficulty:
-
- Computer Chess (2nd edition), by David Welsh and Boris Bazcynski
- The Joy of Computer Chess, by David Levy
- Chess Skill in Man and Machine (2nd edition), by Peter Frey
- How Computers Play Chess, by David Levy
-
-
- Current Distribution
- --------------------
- The most recent distribution of GNU Chess contains the following
- main-level files and directories:
-
- Filename Purpose
- ------------------------------------------------------
- doc:
-
- ARTICLE ---------- general gnuchess documentation ---------
- ARTICLE.2
- CHANGES
- COPYING
- GENERAL
- HEURISTICS
- MOVE-GEN
- PORTING
-
- ChangeLog ----------- specific gnuchess documentation ----------
- README
- README.font - ChessFont copyright info
- README.output - how to read gnuchess output
-
- checkbook.1 ---------- man pages -----------
- checkgame.1
- game.1
- gnuan.1
- gnuan.hlp
- postprint.1
- gnuchess.1
-
- misc:
- ChessFont - ChessFont for use with game and postprint
- match* - script to play a match with xboard
- gnuchess2.book - opening book
-
- src:
- Makefile - unix makefile
- Makefile.dos - MSDOS makefile not updated, needs a dos fan
-
- ataks.c - sources for the chess playing program
- ataks.h
- book.c
- dspcom.c
- eval.c
- genmoves.c
- init.c
- main.c
- gnuchess.h
- search.c
- util.c
- version.h
-
- nondsp.c - ASCII interface for acsii terminal/ chesstool/ xboard
- nuxdsp.c - IBM PC graphics character set based user interface.
- uxdsp.c - curses based user interface
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- postprint.c - source for postprint
- checkbook.c - source for checkbook
- checkgame.c - source for checkgame
- gnuan.c - source for main analysis module.
- game.c - source for game.
-
- test: directory containing 16 test positions from Levy book.
- each file also shows correct move.
-
- RESULTS.p11 - results from test cases on a sparc 2.
- test1
- test10
- test11
- test12
- test13
- test14
- test15
- test16
- test2
- test3
- test4
- test5
- test6
- test7
- test8
- test9
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