from : uzun@crash.cts.com

Nov 11,1994

NOTE TO WARP USERS: Make sure that your Workplace Shell Palette
Awareness option is set to OFF to run UChess, if you run a 256 color
desktop, otherwise colors will not look right in the UChess window.  
You can find this option in the system settings notebook, on the screen page.

UChess 1.14 by Roger Uzun
UChess requires a 256 color display, v1.14 features a few minor fixes to
display/mouse handling.
This is the 2nd release version of UChess a 32 bit pentium optimized
PM native mode chess program.  Based on gnuchess 4pl73 with
some enhancements to gameplay/chess engine.  Notable
improvements vs gnuchess include:

Separate opening books for Black and White
Completely rewritten time management
enhancements to search/eval
optimized for pentium architecture

Both the source and executable for UChess are freely distributable.
The source archive includes a .wpj and .mk file for Watcom 10.0a

UChess startup options:
UChess  : gives "normal" table sizes based on mem config
UChess MAX  : gives extra large tables...for 16MB or more systems..may swap on some
UChess MINI : gives smaller tables..this is default for systems with 8-16MB of RAM
UChess MICRO : gives very small tables, this is default for systems with < 8MB of RAM

This is a Pentium optimized chess pgm, 256 color board compiled using
watcom 10.0a.  It should play quite strong chess.

Based on Gnuchess 4pl72/73 with enhancements to book management,
time management search/eval

===Brief Descrption of options dome ===

Load game : Load a previsouly saved game
Save Game : Save current game
List Game : Ascii listing of current game moves
New Game : Start a new game
Exit : leave the pgm

Time Controls : Set time controls, either xxx moves in xxx minutes, or
a fixed depth search of N ply. Opening book means let computer use
its opening book of preferred moves, Deep thinking means let the
computer think about its next move, while you are making your move.

Players : set computer to play black, white or neither.

Hint : Give me a hint on what my next move should be
Move Now : Force computer to move this instant
Undo Move : Undo last 1/2 move, this also switches sides, so do it twice to 
                 get one full move back
Calc Pgm rating : measures how long computer takes to solve first move for
White on your machine, to 6 ply fixed.  On a pentium 90 this takes 2-3 secs

Test Pgm : for a given board, gives number of movelist/capturelist and eval 
nodes/sec On a P90 for a new board, this is 400,000 MoveList, 0 Capture List 
(no captures possible) and 15,000 nodes/sec eval

Help : Product Info
=====================================

email problems etc to uzun@crash.cts.com

-Roger Uzun

SPECIAL NOTE: Thread synchronization can take a while on some machines, 
Just wait until you get the UChess ready beep and msg in the msg box and
continue.