#: 19825 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    20-Mar-94  18:35:02
Sb: Announcing - KChess
Fm: Zack Sessions 71532,1555
To: all

This message just came across the COCO Bitnet List this past weekend:

 >Hello,
 >
 >  I have just uploaded to chestnut.cs.wisc.edu the gnuchess ver. 4.0 adapted
 >for OSK. It uses alphanumeric screen using TOP ncurses and plays quite a
 >strong game. The previous version, 3.0, still available on chestnut could
 >no tbe used on MM/1 due to a incompatiblity between TOP ncurses and windio.
 >
 >Enjoy,
 >
 >   Andrzej Kotanski
 >(kotanski@zeus02.desy.de)

My thanks goes to Andrzej (pronounced "An-jay" for you uninformed)  for
an excellent job of porting the current version of GNU Chess to OSK. The
chesstool version has a few minor problems, but for the most part, he did quite
a good job.

Let me take this chance to make the following announcement. At the upcoming
Chicago CoCofest I will have ready for delivery a new product called K-Windows
Chess, or KChess for short. It is a K-Windows Graphical User Interface for GNU
Chess. It utilizes standard K-Windows graphics calls and uses the mouse for
virtually all input. It supports all the capabilities and functions of the
chesstool variant of GNU Chess.

Naturally, I will supply each purchaser of KChess with a current copy of GNU
Chess for OSK. An optional source diskette is also available for a small
handling and media fee.

Point is here that it took me 104 minutes of connect time to a) download the
single archive file from chestnut, and b) download the file from my Delphi
workspace to my MM/1a at 2400 bps. If you do not want to invest in this connect
time to perform this download, and you can wait a few weeks until the fest, you
can get your copy of GNU Chess for OSK from me. Free with a purchase of KChess,
or for a small handling and media fee otherwise.

Bear in mind that the current version on chestnut will probably be superseded
by a new release in just a week or two also. Naturally, I will make KChess
(along with GNU Chess for OSK, of course) available via mail order after May
22, 1994. If you are interested in placing an advance order or merely want more
information as to pricing specifics, please contact me via private Email.


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  Zack C Sessions

  "We did not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
     we borrowed it from our descendants."           Ancient proverb