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[Rich Chase]

Simon Waters wrote:
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> Rich Chase wrote:
> | JEAN D. DORANCY wrote:
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> |> Hi,
> |>
> |> What is it that I specifically have to click on to download the chess
> |> games? I don't know which files to click on because there are so many.
> |> My operating system is Windows XP. Thanks.
> |
> | GNU is not intended for Windows XP.
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> As far as I know GNU Chess runs fine under Winboard.
>
> Judging by the number of Microsoft Windows viruses I get sent apparently
> from Cracraft's old GNU email address, a lot of people have GNU Chess 5
> installed under Windows who don't know enough about computers to be
> safely let lose with one.
>
> But anyone so clueless as not to type the name of the software they want
> into a search engine and follow the links, or write a subject line, is
> probably clueless enough to fall outside our target user base - I don't
> need more Windows viruses they don't run under my GNU based operating
> system ;)
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Several interesting points. :~)

I suppose many of the GNU projects are portable to various platforms,
including but not limited to Cygwin and minGW. A few are actually
portable to native win32 without such kluges (not intended to insult
Cygwin and minGW, products of genius -- just pointing out that Winblows 
has to be kluged to run posix software).

Anyway, I didn't want to take the time to read documentation, so I did
a quick search on sourceforge for a native Win project for chess. That 
way I could SEEM helpful without doing much work ;~)