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Springer is a chess program for the IBM PC which offers several
levels of varying playing strength to challenge the vast majority
of human players, as well as an excellent on-screen display of
the chess position. The playing strength of this program is,
quite frankly, not as good as that of the best commercial
programs, though most human players should find it more than
adequate in this respect. In several ways (including playing
strength) I believe this program is far superior to all others I
have seen released as shareware products or in the public domain.
You should have no trouble using the program if you already know
how to play chess. Springer starts out in its normal playing
mode, with the board shown on-screen in the format of a standard
chess diagram. Moves are entered by using the "arrow" keys to
move an indicator around the chess board and the Enter key to
select the piece you want to move and the square you want to move
it to. If you press an invalid key, a help screen/menu will
appear, providing brief instructions and allowing single-key
access to special functions such as saving/recalling games in
disk files.
The files included on this disk are listed below:
Filename Description
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SPRINGER.COM The chess program itself
SPRINGER.DOC Printer-ready documentation (8 pages)
CHESS.BAT A simple batch file to run Springer
AUTOPLAY.GAM A game played between Levels 5 (White) and 0
AUTO2.GAM A game played as above with colors reversed
AUTHOR.GAM One of the author's tournament games
HITECH.GAM A recent game between a powerful chess computer
and a noted Grandmaster
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