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 GNUCHESS.DAT GNUCHESS.HLP GNUCHESS.LAN README.TXT \DOC ARTICLE.TXT ARTICLE2.TXT COPYING.TXT HEURIST.TXT MOVE_GEN.TXT WINPORT.TXT Executable file Opening book file (not essential) Windows Help file File of string constants This file Article on GNU Chess by Stuart Cracraft "GNU Chess: Experiences learned with communal sharing" by Stuart Cracraft GNU general public license Description of GNU Chess's heuristics Description of GNU Chess's move generation algorithm 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

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