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    Types: TextFile
    Names: »README«

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└─⟦b20c6495f⟧ Bits:30007238 EUUGD18: Wien-båndet, efterår 1987
    └─⟦this⟧ »EUUGD18/General/Cchess/README«

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CCHESS version 1.00

Corrispondence chess is a program which moderates chess games between two
players on the same system.  When run, it displays a representation of the
current board and allows you to make a move.  It sends mail to the other
player telling him it is his turn to move.

FEATURES:
  - Enforces all rules of chess.
  - Supports about a dozen standard Fairy Chess games, and lets you mix
    up a staggering number of other varients by combining options and
    editing the initial board positions.
  - Choice of two formats for board display.
  - Optional "computer kibitzer" warns you of incredibly stupid moves.
  - Allows the display of playbacks and the printing of transcripts.
  - Maintains a scorefile showing outcome of all past games.
  - Works on just about any imaginable terminal, yet does a fairly nice
    job of taking advantage of whatever smarts your terminal has.
  - Much effort has been expended to make this code reasonably portable.
    It has been tested on a large variety of systems.
  - Does it's own screen motion.  Doesn't use curses.
  - Optional "ccreap" utility reminds people to move, and deletes abandoned
    games.

NONFEATURES:
  - Does not play over uucp-type nets, and would be difficult to adapt to
    that job, because the game transcripts are kept in a local file.  NSF-
    type nets work fine, of course.
  - Different code for different unixes, different terminals, and different
    fairy chess options leads to a truely boggling number of places bugs can
    lurk.  I've put a lot of work into debugging, but I promise there are
    plenty more bugs to find and fix.
  - This is the exact opposite of an object-oriented program.  There are
    zillions of global variables and even some goto's.  Hackers will love it.

INSTALLATION:
    See installation instructions in Makefile before compiling.

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