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Subject: Re: Free dos chess program

Author: José Carlos

Date: 11:46:28 12/06/01

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On December 06, 2001 at 11:44:25, William H Rogers wrote:

>After entering the CCC4 tournement, I have decided to release the beta version
>of my dos based program, the Warlord. It is written entirely in qbasic and
>compiled with quickbasic 4.5, not to be confused with Visual Basic.
>At this point it has no opening book, end game tbs, cannot save or load games.
>Playing strength is set by the ply-depth. It has its own graphics and you can
>reverse the board for easier viewing. All moves are entered by the keyboard.
>On my computer, I can search 6-plys in about 35 seconds and 7-plys in about 2
>and 1/2 minutes. I only have a 466mhz Celeron.
>I am endevoring to create a small opening book before the CCC4 tournement if I
>can, if not, the playing strength will be greately diminished. A strong opening
>can increase you playing strength.
>Thanks to everyone who has supplied much information over the years and would
>like to comment on my program.
>Bill

  I tested Warlord and it has a very nice board and it plays good chess. Not a
top program, but nice to play against.

  José C.



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