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Short: Chess program. Requires 68020+ and KS3.0
Type: game/think
Author: greiner@wpts0.physik.uni-wuppertal.de (Thorsten Greiner)
Uploader: greiner@wpts0.physik.uni-wuppertal.de (Thorsten Greiner)
AmiBoard - An electronic chess board
by Thorsten Greiner
V1.0 (25.3.1994)
Introduction:
This is a new chess program for the Amiga. It is not a port of GNUChess
but a completely new program. It requires a 68020 or better processor and
Kickstart/Workbench 3.0. Also lots of RAM are welcome :-)
What's in it:
- Strong chess engine (evaluates between 500 and 1000 nodes/sec on
68030@25 MHz), parts of kernel written in 68020+ assembler
- Opening book from GNUChess with about 30000 opening lines
- supports PGN (Portable Game Notation), several thousand games in this
format are available via anonymous ftp. One example file is included.
- uses Standard Algebraic Notation (e.g. Nf3 instead of g1-f3)
- Chess pieces are loaded from IFF brush, can easily be changed to your
liking with any standard paint program
- Fontadaptive GUI
- Mostly localized (Some error texts will always appear in English)
What's not (yet):
- Full localization
- Support for comments in PGN
- Detection of draws according to threefold repetition of position or the
50 moves rule
- Setup of positions
- Installer script
This package includes:
AmiBoard - the main program
AmiBoard.book - Opening book
AmiBoard.readme - This .readme file
Brushes/* - IFF brushes for chess pieces
Catalogs/* - Catalogs
Docs/* - Documentation
Install - Installer script for installation of brushes
PGN/Alekhine.pgn - Games of Alekhine in PGN format
PGN/Standard - Description of PGN standard
(by Steven J. Edwards)
Legal Stuff:
AmiBoard is (C) 1994 Thorsten Greiner
No guarantee of any kind is given that the program described in this
document is 100 % reliable. You are using this material at your own risk.
The author CAN NOT be made responsible for any damage which is caused by
using this program.
This package is freely distributable, but still copyrighted by Thorsten
Greiner. This means that you can copy it freely as long as you don't ask
for a more than nominal copying fee.
Permission is granted to include this package in Public-Domain
collections, especially in Fred Fishs Amiga Disk Library (including CD ROM
versions of it). The distribution file may be uploaded to Bulletin Board
Systems or FTP servers. If you want to distribute this program you MUST
use the contents of the original distribution archive `AmiBoard_V1_0.lha'.
The archive may be distributed unpacked or packed with a different
archiver, if necessary.
This program is SHAREWARE. If you use it regularly, please pay a shareware
fee of US-$ 15 or DM 20 to the author. The author's address:
Thorsten Greiner
Wettinerstr. 68
42287 Wuppertal
Germany
email: greiner@wpts0.physik.uni-wuppertal.de
If you register, you will receive a keyfile which unlocks certain features
in this and following versions of the program. Your name and address will
be encoded in this keyfile.