CHESS						Daryl Baker
Copyright (c) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (c) 1988, 1989, 1990  John Stanback

Purpose
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This is a challenging chess game where you can test your skill 
against the computer.  

To install Chess, unzip all the files into your Games directory.  
With the Games program group active, select File, New, then Program 
Item, and type in the path for the Chess game.  That will probably 
be C:\WINDOWS\GAMES\CHESS.EXE.  You can also use the Browse button 
to locate the file.  

Double click on the Chess icon to start the program running.  

To begin the game, click once on the piece you want to move, then 
click on the square where you would like it to go.  If you get 
stuck, click "Hint" on the button bar.


Program Notes
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This file is part of CHESS.

CHESS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 
ANY WARRANTY.  No author or distributor accepts responsibility to 
anyone for the consequences of using it or for whether it serves any 
particular purpose or works at all, unless he says so in writing.  
Refer to the CHESS General Public License for full details.

Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute 
CHESS, but only under the conditions described in the CHESS General 
Public License. A copy of this license is given to you along with 
CHESS so you can know your rights and responsibilities in the file 
CHESSGNU.TXT.  The copyright notice and this notice must be 
preserved on all copies.

Note: Once pawn is promoted UNDO does not restore to pawn.  

Release notes:
        1) I have only tested this under windows 3.0 386 enhanced mode.
           Seems to work ok in real mode though slower.
        2) It requires at least 282k of memory.
        3) Fits on a EGA screen, no scrolling implemented.
        4) Most of the GNUCHESS commands are implemented.
        5) When computer is playing itself abort by clicking on any square.
           The last move made will most likely show "draw" or "mate", ignore
           this message.  You may have to remove the last move.
        6) To have the computer think while it is your turn, select "easy"
           from the menu.  Clicking on square to take your turn will abort
           the look ahead.
        7) There is no help file.
        8) The file gnuchess.boo must be in the same directory as 
           the executable.
        9) The program create a file "chess.ini" in your windows directory to
           store various settings.  Currently only the screen colors.

Enjoy.

Daryl Baker
dkb@mitre.org