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

John Stanback