usr/src/games/chess/DOCUMENTATION/GENERAL

                              GNU Chess

Copyright (C) 1987 Stuart Cracraft
  (Copying permission notice at the end.)

GNU Chess is your program (as long as you follow the copyright and
licensing rules listed in the file COPYING). Your contributioinspire current and future software
developers.

This document
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This document is not meant to be a an introduction to computer chess.
The following books are excellent introductions and treatises.
They are listed in order of difficulty:

   Computer Chess (2nd edition), by David Welsh and Boris Bazcynski
   The Joy of Computer Chess, by David Levy
   Chess Skill in Man and Machine (2nd edition), by Peter Frey


Current Distribution
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The most recent distribution of GNU Chess contains the following
main-level files and directories:

    Filename         Purpose
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   README           Pointer to main README below.
   gnuchess.c       Most recent version of GNU Chess
   nondsp.c         Non-display interface, and chesstool/xchess interface
   uxdsp.c          Unix (curses) display interface
   ansidsp.c        ANSI display interface
   gnuchess.book    Most recent version of opening book