From: arch@us4binr.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sys5.r4
Subject: xboard-2.0.tar has been uploaded to US4BINR
Date: 12 Oct 92 04:06:18 GMT
Organization: us4binr

US4BINR is a new archive site for UNIX System V Release 4 binaries
for 386/486 PCs. To foster interest, I will post upload announcement in comp.unix.sysv386, comp.unix.sys5.r4, and comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives.
Later, I will restrict annoucement to the comp.binaries... hierarchie.

If you have ported some PD or Freeware on SVR4 for 386/486,
uploading the binaries to US4BINR might help a lot of peoples. PD, freeware
and shareware are accepted.

To get help on uploads and downloads, mail the following
message to request%us4binr.uucp@uunet.uu.net:

    reply your_email_address
    help
    quit


to download xboard-2.0.tar, mail the FOLLOWING 3 LINES to request@us4binr.uucp
or to request%us4binr.uucp@uunet.uu.net

    reply your_email_address
    get games/xboard-2.0.tar
    quit

This is version 2.0 of xboard, an X interface to gnuchess.

There is also a text version of this program available
(games/gnuchess-4.0.58.tar). Both versions are standalone:
you DON'T need parts of the other to run it.

It has been compiled and uploaded by Jacques Gelinas
maintainer of US4BINR (jack@us4binr.uucp).

The file gnuchess.lang and gnuchess.book must be installed
in the /usr/local/lib/gnuchess directory.

Sources are available at prep.ai.mit.edu in the /pub/gnu
directory, file gnuchess-4.0.pl58.tar.Z.

Original authors:  Dan Sears and Chris Sears
Enhancements (Version 2.0):  Tim Mann

XBoard borrows its colors, icon and piece bitmaps from XChess
which was written and is copyrighted by Wayne Christopher.

Copyright 1991 by Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts.
Enhancements Copyright 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

GNU Chess 4.0 is an international effort by:

        Mike McGann (mwm@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch)
        Urban Koistinen  (md85-epi@nada.kth.se)
        Phillipe Schnoebelen ( phs@lifia.imag.fr)
        Kenneth D. Jordan ( kdj@genrad.com)
	Stuart Cracraft (cracraft@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu)

Extracted from file ARTICLE:

-----------------------------------
                          GNU Chess
                      by Stuart Cracraft
                copyright 1987,1988,1989,1990 Stuart Cracraft


   GNU Chess is a communal chess program. Contributors donate their
time and effort in order to make it a stronger, better, sleeker program.
Contributions take many forms: interfaces to high-resolution displays,
opening book treatises, speedups of the underlying algorithms, additions
of extra heuristics. These contributions are then distributed to the
large user-base so that all may enjoy the fruits of our labor. The
original and continuing purpose of this project is to permanently end 
the rampant hoarding of computer chess software that has been the 
case for the past 20 years.

   Many people have contributed to GNU Chess. Their contributions have
improved the program from being a patzer (weak program) to being a
grandpatzer (decently strong program). In its growth since initial
release, GNU Chess has gone from approximately class D to strong
master strength. It beats the Fidelity Mach 3 (USCF 2265) rather
handily when run on a Sparc-1 (RISC). Since these types of RISC
chips are becoming fairly common, the age of "master chess
in your computer lab" is now a reality. From there, it will be a
short hop to master chess in your home with FSF software.
-- 
----------------------------------------------------------
Jacques Gelinas
Maintainer of US4BINR. Archive site for UNIX SVR4 (386/486) binaries.
jack@us4binr.uucp jack%us4binr.uucp@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386