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Subject: Re: WANTED: GNUCHESS VER 1.00 (the original version that started it all)

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:52:01 03/25/04

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On March 24, 2004 at 23:55:22, stegner, jamie wrote:

>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

My oldest GnuChess has this header:
/*
  C source for CHESS.

  Revision: 5-23-88

  Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  Copyright (c) 1988  John Stanback

  This file is part of CHESS.

  CHESS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.  No author or distributor
  accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it
  or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all,
  unless he says so in writing.  Refer to the CHESS General Public
  License for full details.

  Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute
  CHESS, but only under the conditions described in the
  CHESS General Public License.   A copy of this license is
  supposed to have been given to you along with CHESS so you
  can know your rights and responsibilities.  It should be in a
  file named COPYING.  Among other things, the copyright notice
  and this notice must be preserved on all copies.
*/

I do not know if it is version 1.0 or not.



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