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

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 02:29:39 11/11/03

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On November 10, 2003 at 13:14:36, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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.

Common decency would be to at least inform you.

Tony

>
>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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