Short: GNU chess program Uploader: wiedmann@neckar-alb.de Type: game/board TITLE GNU Chess VERSION 4.0.pl75 AUTHORS Various, Amiga port by Jochen Wiedmann Am Eisteich 9 72555 Metzingen Germany Phone: (0049) +7123 / 14881 Internet: wiedmann@neckar-alb.de DESCRIPTION GNU Chess is a well known chess program written in C and designed to be portable. Depending on the hardware it can get very strong. (About 2200-2300 ELO on a DEC Alpha, about 1800 on an Amiga 1200) There are different versions available: - A simple ASCII version, printing the complete chessboard with ASCII characters after each move. - A Curses version, similar to the ASCII version, but with the ability to move the cursor. - An AmyBoard client; AmyBoard is a frontend, which allows you to play with the mouse on a beautiful chessboard. Some tools for analyzing a chess game and postsript output are included. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS AmigaOS version 2.0 or later Installer (available on Aminet, util/misc) If you want to use AmyBoard, you can get it on Aminet, game/board. AVAILABILITY Aminet, for example ftp://ftp.netnet.net/pub/aminet/game/board ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/game/board Internet chess servers, for example ftp://chess.onenet.net/pub/chess/Amiga Distribution consists of three archives: gchess4.0.75b.lha Binary distribution gnuchess4.0.pl75bin.lha gchess4.0.75s.lha Original sources gnuchess4.0.pl75src.lha gchess4.0.75d.lha Amiga sources and a pathfile gnuchess4.0.pl75diffs.lha DISTRIBUTABILITY GNU General Public License, Copyright Free Software Foundation