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Subject: Re: Panther (OSX 10.3) comes with Sjeng

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:14:36 11/10/03

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On November 10, 2003 at 11:50:10, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>Hi
>
>When I played a game against Chess.app, which is part the OS-package since ages
>(NeXTStep had that already) I noticed that the internal engine of Chess.app is
>no longer GNUChess but Sjeng! I'm not sure when Apple did this switch. Can
>anyone with Jaguar (OSX10.2) check, whether it's still gnuchess there?
>
>How to test: When Chess.app runs, just open a terminal and type 'top' and see
>whether you can see a process 'sjeng' or 'gnuchess'.
>
>Well, GCP probably knows w/o testing! Any comments, GCP? :)

I wasn't aware of this. Given that they respected the license,
they didn't need to ask me anything either.

I do wonder why they did the switch. Apple must know what's good :)
Perhaps they want to add variant support some later time.

PS. It's actually your fault.

--
GCP



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