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- Readme file for GNU Chess 4.14 for Windows, June 16, 1997
-
- GNU Chess is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- GNU Chess is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with GNU Chess; see the file COPYING.TXT. If not, write to
- the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- This is a port of GNU Chess to the Win32 environment. The program requires
- Windows 3.1 or later and a 386 or higher processor. To run it under
- Windows 3.1 requires the Win32s 32-bit extender, which is available free
- from many FTP sites including ftp.microsoft.com in
- Softlib/MSLFILES/PW1118.exe. Win32s is not required and should not be
- installed on Windows 95 systems. If GNU Chess will not run in Windows 3.1,
- it is probably because Win32s has not been successfully installed. A 32-bit
- version which runs under Windows 3.1 without Win32s will probably be
- available shortly.
-
- In Windows 95, you can add a shortcut to the start menu by opening Windows
- Explorer, clicking on gnuchess.exe, selecting Create Shortcut under the File
- menu, and moving the shortcut into the Windows/Start Menu/Programs folder, or
- a subfolder of it.
-
- Change from version 4.13:
-
- - Fixed a bug which prevented use of the book file.
-
- Change from version 4.12:
-
- - Fixed an error in gnuchess.lan which incorrectly referred to the bookfile
- as gnuchess.boo
-
- Changes from version 4.11:
-
- - The program is now compiled with Watcom C, with speed optimisations for
- Pentium processors. The file CW3215.DLL is no longer required.
-
- - Fixed a bug in the loading of saved games which caused pieces to disappear
- after castling in the Review Game function. (This bug is in the original
- character mode version of GNU Chess, where its effect is much less likely
- to be noticed).
-
- - Fixed a bug which caused the next move to go to the other player if an
- illegal move was selected in Force mode.
-
- - The clocks stop when checkmate is reached. "Checkmate" is displayed instead
- of whose move it is.
-
- - The hint is cleared after Undo (to prevent an illegal move being displayed).
-
- - The filename for the List function can be chosen.
-
- - The clocks are initialised when the game is run.
-
- - The dialog backgrounds are now colored according to the Windows color
- scheme set in the Color control panel.
-
- The package should contain the following files:
-
- GNUCHESS.EXE Executable file
- GNUCHESS.DAT Opening book file (not essential)
- GNUCHESS.HLP Windows Help file
- GNUCHESS.LAN File of string constants
- README.TXT This file
-
- \DOC
- ARTICLE.TXT Article on GNU Chess by Stuart Cracraft
- ARTICLE2.TXT "GNU Chess: Experiences learned with communal sharing"
- by Stuart Cracraft
- COPYING.TXT GNU general public license
- HEURIST.TXT Description of GNU Chess's heuristics
- MOVE_GEN.TXT Description of GNU Chess's move generation algorithm
- WINPORT.TXT Notes on the windows port
-
- \SRC Source code (not essential - you can delete it if you don't want it)
- ATAKS.C
- ATAKS.H
- BOOK.C
- DIALOGS.C
- DSPCOM.C
- EVAL.C
- GENMOVES.C
- GNUCHESS.H
- GNUCHESS.HPJ Help project file
- GNUCHESS.ICO
- GNUCHESS.RC
- GNUCHESS.RTF Help source
- INIT.C
- MAIN.C
- SEARCH.C
- TTABLE.C
- TTABLE.H
- VERSION.H
- WINDSP.C
- Six bitmaps per piece (total 36), eg for the bishop:
- B40D.BMP 40x40 detail
- B40M.BMP 40x40 mask
- B60D.BMP 60x60 detail
- B60M.BMP etc
- B80D.BMP
- B80M.BMP
-
- Please report bugs or suggestions to:
-
- bug-gnu-chess@prep.ai.mit.edu.
-
- Have a great GNUchess game!
-
- The team:
-
- Conor McCarthy
- Stuart Cracraft
- John Stanback
-