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Subject: WHO STARTED GNUCHESS??

Author: stegner, jamie

Date: 17:01:00 03/26/04


	1.

Subject: WANTED: GNUCHESS VER 1.00 (the original version that started it all)
Posted by stegner, jamie (Profile) on March 24, 2004 at 23:55:22:


Does anyone know where to find GnuChess ver 1.00 or GenricChess(genchess.exe)?

Q1. gnuchess ver 2.00, written by John Stanback, is on his Website,
http://john.stanback.net. Interestingly, the Zip file includes separate source
codes for ENGINE and GUI, leading to today's boom of WinBoard/XBoard stuff.

By the way, I have never seen the original 1.00 version of this preious freeware
chess jewel. Is there anyone who still has the program or source code? Anyone
knows about a Website that lists it as downloadable?

Q2. Before the DotBomb era, you could download "kiss_001.zip"(Generic Chess)
from the GambitSoft homepage, which was a stripped-down version of Gnuchess Ver
2.00(the code can be compiled on any compiler, hence the name "Generic"). I want
to examine and work on the file. If I am not quite wrong, the source was not
more than 2,000 lines. But as the page has gone off now, I cannot found it
anywhere else on the Net.

Any help appreciated in advance.
Best
Jamie


	2.

Subject: Re: WANTED: GNUCHESS VER 1.00 (the original version that started it
all)
Posted by Ricardo Gibert (Profile) on March 25, 2004 at 20:29:11:

In Reply to: WANTED: GNUCHESS VER 1.00 (the original version that started it
all) posted by stegner, jamie on March 24, 2004 at 23:55:22:


Reading at the link you give above, Gnuchess was originally SCP. SCP can be
found at Dann Corbitt's chess site.


	3.

Subject: #### WHO AUTHORED THE ORIGINAL GNUCHESS? John or Stuart? ####
Posted by stegner, jamie (Profile) on March 26, 2004 at 06:55:27:


(Dear Ricardo,)

From the COPYRIGHT/LEFT ATTRIBUTION of vaious GnuChess releases, the original
must have been written by Stuart Cracraft, therefore SCP(Stanback's Chess
Program) cannot be ver. 1. 00.

Same is also evidenced by the Websites below:(arrow added)


_____________________________________________________________________

http://www.openresource.com/orgs/CS/P/Cracraft_Stuart.shtml

Stuart Cracraft

Consultation topics:  Entire GNU suite - porting, compilation,
installation, user-training, administrator-training.

Method: telephone line support, call-in via modem to your site,
or direct visit.

Experience: supporting GNU since the mid-1980's, coordinator of
GNU Chess (original author), GNU Shogi, GNU Go. Ported GNU Emacs  <----
to Solaris (System V Release 4). Expertise in C, Emacs Lisp, and Perl.
Customized programming also available.
---------------------------------------------------------------------


http://ftp.clara.net/pub/pc/win3/games/chess/Gazebo_Chess_Win.txt

...
Gazebo Chess for Windows and DOS is brought to you by Robert Hyatt,
programmer of two-time world champion Cray Blitz, and Stuart Cracraft,
founder of GNU Chess, world's most globally widespread chess      <----
program.
...
----------------------------------------------------------------------

John rendered a huge contribution to the GnuChess Family(esp. ver 2.xx ~ 4.xx),
but it was not him who initiated Project GnuChess.

Stuart also authored Gazebo(for Win 3.x), and GnuChess Ver5.00+(w/ Chua Kong
Sian)

thx any way // plz upload any response,info etc // best // jamie ",)



	4.

Posted by David Mitchell (Profile) on March 26, 2004 at 09:39:43:
In Reply to: #### WHO AUTHORED THE ORIGINAL GNUCHESS? John or Stuart? ####
posted by stegner, jamie on March 26, 2004 at 06:55:27:


That would be Stuart, IIRC.

dave


	5.

Posted by David Mitchell (Profile) on March 26, 2004 at 09:53:47:
In Reply to: Re: #### WHO AUTHORED THE ORIGINAL GNUCHESS? John or Stuart? ####
posted by David Mitchell on March 26, 2004 at 09:39:43:

Sorry, make that John. From the Kiss Chess file/Generic C Chess file:

"Written by John Stanback (Author of Zarkov & first GNUChess)"

Just not eating enough fish, maybe. :)

dave


	6.

Subject: Re: #### WHO AUTHORED THE ORIGINAL GNUCHESS? John !

Posted by Dann Corbit (Profile) on March 26, 2004 at 14:02:11:

In Reply to: Re: #### WHO AUTHORED THE ORIGINAL GNUCHESS? John ! posted by David
Mitchell on March 26, 2004 at 09:53:47:


There may have been some sort of "unofficial" GnuChess written by Stuart, as I
have seen conflicting answers on the internet.

One site said that version 1 was Stuart, versions 2-4 were John, and version 5+
Stuart again.

The first one I ever saw (in 1988) was written by John Stanback.  It had no
version numbers in it.

Back in those days, my favorite engine was something called "EdChess" and I
played a sort of corresondence chess with it.  I would have the engine think all
night on a position, and go and look at what it did in the morning.  When I came
home from work, I would give it my response and let it think all night again.
It ran on a 286 and did it's own screen updating.  (I had a Hercules Graphics
card and so everything was orange.)


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