This binary is only intended to work with XBoard, though I made progress on this topic recently. I do not longer bundled the small book to this package. Phalanx Phalanx is a quite new unknown chess program. It's quite portable and builds out of the box. The most famous free chess program is of course GNUChess.
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Look in the sections above where to get the source. OTOH I always ship the whole documentation and necessary data files to enable at least playing simple matches without time consuming tasks of generating those opening books.