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- from : uzun@crash.cts.com
-
- June 14,1995
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- NOTE TO WARP USERS: Make sure that your Workplace Shell Palette
- Awareness option is set to OFF to run UChess, if you run a 256 color
- desktop, otherwise colors will not look right in the UChess window.
- You can find this option in the system settings notebook, on the screen page.
-
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- UChess 1.17GA by Roger Uzun
- v1.17GA Fixed a bug in the exit code, the program would lock up
- if you closed it from the (Ctrl-Escape) Window/Task list.
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- UChess 1.16GA by Roger Uzun
- v1.16GA Fixed a bug that could cause SYS ERROR 3175 after UNDO on some
- machines (I hope its fixed...seems to be from my testing).
- Also fixed an error in eval.c, as pointed out by Kong Sian.
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- UChess 1.15GA by Roger Uzun
- v1.15GA features stronger gameplay, many enhancements to search/eval
- based on 4PL74 changes to gnuchess.
-
- UChess requires a 256 color display, v1.14 features a few minor fixes to
- display/mouse handling.
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- This is the 3rd release version of UChess a 32 bit pentium optimized
- PM native mode chess program. Based on gnuchess 4pl73 with
- some enhancements to gameplay/chess engine. Notable
- improvements vs gnuchess include:
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- Separate opening books for Black and White
- Completely rewritten time management
- enhancements to search/eval
- optimized for pentium architecture
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- Both the source and executable for UChess are freely distributable.
- The source archive includes a .wpj and .mk file for Watcom 10.0a
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- UChess startup options:
- UChess : gives "normal" table sizes based on mem config
- UChess MAX : gives extra large tables...for 16MB or more systems..may swap on some
- UChess MINI : gives smaller tables..this is default for systems with 8-16MB of RAM
- UChess MICRO : gives very small tables, this is default for systems with < 8MB of RAM
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- This is a Pentium optimized chess pgm, 256 color board compiled using
- watcom 10.0b. It should play quite strong chess.
-
- Based on Gnuchess 4pl74 with enhancements to book management,
- time management search/eval
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- ===Brief Descrption of options dome ===
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- Load game : Load a previsouly saved game
- Save Game : Save current game
- List Game : Ascii listing of current game moves
- New Game : Start a new game
- Exit : leave the pgm
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- Time Controls : Set time controls, either xxx moves in xxx minutes, or
- a fixed depth search of N ply. Opening book means let computer use
- its opening book of preferred moves, Deep thinking means let the
- computer think about its next move, while you are making your move.
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- Players : set computer to play black, white or neither.
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- Hint : Give me a hint on what my next move should be
- Move Now : Force computer to move this instant
- Undo Move : Undo last 1/2 move, this also switches sides, so do it twice to
- get one full move back
- Calc Pgm rating : measures how long computer takes to solve first move for
- White on your machine, to 6 ply fixed. On a pentium 90 this takes 2-3 secs
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- Test Pgm : for a given board, gives number of movelist/capturelist and eval
- nodes/sec On a P90 for a new board, this is 400,000 MoveList, 0 Capture List
- (no captures possible) and 15,000 nodes/sec eval
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- Help : Product Info
- =====================================
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- email problems etc to uzun@crash.cts.com
-
- -Roger Uzun
-
- SPECIAL NOTE: Thread synchronization can take a while on some machines,
- Just wait until you get the UChess ready beep and msg in the msg box and
- continue.
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