cracraft@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft) (06/09/90)
A new version of GNU Chess is available. This version will run on the IBM PC and compatibles. It will compile under Microsoft C, though due to brain-damage in the Microsoft Make, a UNIX-compatible make is necessary (or hand-making). GNU is not in the business of supporting DOS, however the contributors to GNU Chess felt there are so many DOS machines (often with miserable chess programs) they were obligated to do something. The new distribution includes improvements to heuristics. Running on a RISC-chip (Sparc), this program has defeated another program which is a rated chessmaster. On the new 486 chip, a 25mhz cached version should have similar performance. A 33mhz version should be moderately stronger. We are interested in people who would like to port to and test on the Intel i860 chip. Full details in the distribution. The release is available from prep.ai.mit.edu via anonymous ftp. The filename is: gnuchess-3.1.tar.Z A checksum for this file is its byte length: 278221. If the file is not there when you look, try again later. Update time is required due to personnel constraints/limitations. Stuart
esmith@apple.com (Eric Smith) (06/11/90)
In article <8937@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> cracraft@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes: > A 33mhz version should be moderately stronger. We are interested > in people who would like to port to and test on the Intel > i860 chip. Full details in the distribution. I'm currently working on this, as I have a fairly large bet with an associate who believes that I can't build a machine that can beat him under certain time constraints. I'm a very poor chess player myself, but I thought this would be an interesting challenge. I'm building the hardware now. I'm using 2 megabytes of high-speed static RAM. I haven't done to much with/to the software yet, but since it didn't take too much effort to get it running on a Macintosh, I don't expect much trouble with the i860 if (a big if!) the compiler is stable. Eric Smith (408) 974-7791 esmith@apple.com Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of my employer, family, friends, computer, or even me! :-)