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Readme file for GNU Chess 4.00 for Windows

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/MSFILES/PW1118.exe (I have also seen it named w32sOLE.exe). Win32s
is not required and should not be installed on Windows 95 systems. If
Windows 3.1 says something like "Not a windows program" when you try to
run GNU Chess, Win32s has not been successfully installed.

Set your unzipper to recreate the subdirectories stored in the zipfile (not
absolutely necessary, but neater). After unzipping, use Program Manager
to create a new program item for GNU Chess.

The package should contain the following files:

    GNUCHESS.EXE     Executable file
    CW3215.DLL       Required dynamic-link library
    GNUCHESS.DAT     Opening book file (not essential)
    GNUCHESS.HLP     Windows Help file
    GNUCHESS.LAN     File of string constants

  \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.WRI      Windows Write file of 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.DEF
    GNUCHESS.H
    GNUCHESS.HPJ  Help project file
    GNUCHESS.ICO
    GNUCHESS.IDE  Borland IDE file. There is no makefile.
    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 Conor McCarthy
(C.McCarthy@sct.gu.edu.au).