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Subject: Re: To Tim Mann: Next Winboard release.

Author: Tim Mann

Date: 18:53:17 01/05/01

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If you want to ask me a question, use email.  I don't always read this forum
often enough to catch messages before they scroll off.

On January 04, 2001 at 15:33:36, David Wilke wrote:

>Will the next Winboard release have a better outlined faq file for the GNUChess
>5.0,

I don't write the FAQ files for GNU Chess anymore -- I gave that up around the
time the 5.0 series started, due to lack of time -- so there won't be an updated
GNU Chess FAQ unless Stuart Cracraft or some other volunteer does it.

>or even a later version of it?
>I have seen on the chess servers that there is GNUChess 5.03, and it looks
>impressive, by GNUChess standards atleast.

Stuart is planning to release 5.03 soon.  I think he's mostly waiting for me to
look into a bug in a patch that I submitted to make it work with the WinBoard
protocol version 2.  I'll probably fix that this weekend.  This should allow me
to include a GNU Chess 5.03 executable in a near future WinBoard release.

>I noticed Zippy(C) on ICC is still using an older version of GNUChess, and I
>was wondering why?

No particular reason.  Zippy is just there for fun (and to exercise xboard), and
I happen to feel like sticking with the old 4.0.x GNU Chess that he has always
used.  GNU Chess 4 and 5 are completely different programs (no code in common,
different books), so there is some interest in playing against both; they should
have somewhat different styles.

>GNUChess doesn't learn does it? If not, wouldn't that ultimately
>let others repeat wins vs it?

GNU Chess 4 definitely doesn't learn.  I don't think GNU Chess 5 learns at this
time either.  However, I don't care a great deal if people want to waste their
time trying to repeat games (which should be difficult due to the fairly large
book).



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