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Subject: Re: GNUchess 4.14

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 14:26:37 07/15/99

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On July 15, 1999 at 15:13:07, Pete Galati wrote:

>On July 15, 1999 at 13:30:40, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>
>>On July 14, 1999 at 19:37:37, Pete Galati wrote:
>>
>>>On July 14, 1999 at 14:08:46, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 14, 1999 at 09:37:01, Terje Vagle wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>How does GNUchess 4.14 play compared to the other programs. I tried it against
>>>>>Rebel 9, on a PII-450, and GNUchess won 4 out of 5 games.
>>>>>
>>>>>I think it plays excellent chess.
>>>>
>>>>	I was unaware of gnuchess 4.14, the last version I have is 4.0.80. In gnu's ftp
>>>>site I do not see the source for versions 4.14 or 4.15, they seem to be for PC
>>>>only. Does anybody know if they correspond to different source code version
>>>>number?
>>>>José.
>>>
>>>Version 4.14 is available at Gambitsoft's download site, and version 4.15 has a
>>>link to it somewhere on Winboard's site. And they both come with a sub-directory
>>>full of source code. I like the graphics on the GNUchess' latest GUI, looks good
>>>once you get the colors set the way you like them. It will probably retain the
>>>colors used in your last gnuchess version because of the ini file in the windows
>>>directory.
>>>
>>>Pete
>>
>>	I downloaded version 4.15, and it is definitely for windows. I can not try it
>>here (different operating system). But I am happy with 4.0.80, only that I
>>always want the most up-to-date version of my engines.
>>José.
>
>Is version 4.0.8 a Dos version? The Dos version that I have is 4.0 I think. If
>you are using Windows 3.1 you can get what I think is described as a 32 bit
>extender (I might be wrong about what that is called) that will allow the use of
>that 4.15 version in win 3.1, I've used it in Windows for Workgroups (3.11) and
>it works great there. But that is talked about somewhere in the text files.
>
>Pete

	I downloaded version 4.0.80 from gnu's ftp site. It is source code, and I think
it compiles and runs in most Unix flavors. I particularly use it under Solaris.
I do not know if it can be compiled for DOS.

José.



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