Re: GNU chess version 1.2 - QUESTION

[Simon Waters]

> Stuart Cracraft wrote:
> 
> I didn't know GNU Chess 1 was even in circulation
> any more. That was written about 17 years ago
> by me and I wanted to get it out of circulation
> which is why John Stanback's program became
> GNU Chess 2 through 4. However, these became
> pedantically unreadable and unmaintainable
> and non-valuable from an educational point of
> view so GNU Chess 5 by Chua Kong Sian became
> the new reality.

I think Apple are shipping GNU Chess with MacOS X where the
version reported is the Apple GUI version 1.1 or 1.2. I'm trying
to get some more information, as it seems to have castling
problems not in the original GNU Chess 5 (or 4).

Apologies if this has been said in a later message already, but
a week off for xmas and 400 messages to go.

GNU Chess 5 is scoring around 2100 rating at Blitz on FICS on
300MHz Pentiums, FICS ratings are slightly deflated compared to
ELO. On the kind of processors Apples are using a few hundred
extra points might accrue.

The next version should be substantially stronger, assuming we
can iron out the bugs.

 Simon