EXChess is a recent chess program with some interesting features. It
seems to be a quite good tactician and is interesting because
it has not the same "view" than others strong chess programs which can
make its moves weaker or stronger.

For creating the book, you will need a PGN file without errors.

This version is compiled for the 68000 and works with AmyBoard.

INSTALLATION
First, you must have a minimal Geek Gadgets distribution. If you don't,
please do the following :

Makedir <YourPath>/GG
Assign GG: <YourPath>/GG
Assign GNU: GG:
Assign ADE: GG
The two Assigns for ADE and GNU are for ancient names of the ADE distribution.
If you do this you will not have any trouble in the future.
Makedir GG:lib
Makedir GG:bin
Makedir GG:Sys

A few words of explanation : The geek gagdets is providing a library named
ixemul.library which is a NetBSD kernel. So it is very Unix-like. I don't want
to go into details but when you want to install a new Geek-Gagdets utility
it will have to be installed here, in the GG: drawer.

Now, install the ixemul.library, the name depends on the flavor you choose :

Cd GG:
Copy <SrcPath>ixemul-bin.lha ""
Lha x ixemul-bin

And ixemul will be extracted to your Sys directory

If the archive is in the form tar.gz :

Cd G::
copy <SrcPath>ixemul-bin.tar.gz ""
gunzip ixemul-bin.tar.gz
tar xvf ixemul-bin.tar

Of course, in this case you will need tar and gzip in your path.

If the ixemul is a special flavor you may need to rename it :

Cd GG:Sys/Libs
Rename ixemul020.library as ixemul.library
Rename ixnet020.library as ixnetlibrary

Now, all you need is to add the following in your user-startup :

Assign GG: <YourPath>/GG
Assign GNU: GG
Assign ADE: GG:
Path GG:bin ADD
Assign LIBS: GG:Sys/Libs ADD

As I said, this is minimal, you might need other assigns such as info:
for GG:info but this is not needed by EXChess. If your are interested,
you should have look on the Geek gadgets docs on the Aminet in dev/gg or
on the geek Gadgets site at http://www.ninemoons.com.

When you have done this, or if you have already a suitable Geek Gadgets
installation, crafty can be installed :


Cd <EXChess>
Copy <SrcPath>EXChess.lha ""
Lha x EXChess

The directory EXChess will be created.


DEVELOPER INFORMATION
This is the list of modifications I have done for making the Amiga version
of EXChess.

I have set UNIX to 1, created a makefile and it compiled without any
problem with g++ !

Dominique Lorre (dlorrecraramail.com) 01-Oct-98

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                  817    6256  13.1% -lh5- f2a3 Feb 10  1998 EXChess/attacks.cpp
[generic]                  829    1917  43.2% -lh5- 66ea Mar 15  1998 EXChess/bk.epd
[generic]                 4269   14705  29.0% -lh5- 6825 Aug 17  1998 EXChess/book.cpp
[generic]                  483    1101  43.9% -lh5- d9bf Feb 10  1998 EXChess/check.cpp
[generic]                  874    2301  38.0% -lh5- 0e94 Mar 21  1998 EXChess/chess.h
[generic]                  358     894  40.0% -lh5- e69f Apr  6  1998 EXChess/const.h
[generic]                  404    1986  20.3% -lh5- d757 Feb 10  1998 EXChess/cpieces.h
[generic]                  917    2258  40.6% -lh5- d39d Sep 19  1998 EXChess/define.h
[generic]                  410     594  69.0% -lh5- 597e Sep 19  1998 EXChess/define.h.info
[generic]                 1359    5193  26.2% -lh5- a5a6 Mar 15  1998 EXChess/ece3100.epd
[generic]                25049   67243  37.3% -lh5- 72fd Mar 15  1998 EXChess/ecm.epd
[generic]                90365  490032  18.4% -lh5- b3aa Oct  1  1998 EXChess/EXChess
[generic]                 2601   14769  17.6% -lh5- 8944 Aug 12  1998 EXChess/exmove.cpp
[generic]                  719    2427  29.6% -lh5- 0f27 Jun 29  1998 EXChess/fine.epd
[generic]                  705    2365  29.8% -lh5- d636 May 23  1998 EXChess/funct.h
[generic]                 2724    9168  29.7% -lh5- 3cd2 Aug  4  1998 EXChess/hash.cpp
[generic]                  424    1053  40.3% -lh5- 586c Jun 29  1998 EXChess/hash.h
[generic]                 7089   18315  38.7% -lh5- 8b9c Aug  4  1997 EXChess/license.txt
[generic]                 9081   31265  29.0% -lh5- 15f8 Aug 22  1998 EXChess/main.cpp
[generic]                  366     956  38.3% -lh5- b8b8 Aug 10  1998 EXChess/main.h
[generic]                  317     999  31.7% -lh5- 4c47 Sep 22  1998 EXChess/Makefile
[generic]                  503    1839  27.4% -lh5- 990b May 26  1998 EXChess/movelist.cpp
[generic]                  446    1004  44.4% -lh5- 102a Mar 15  1998 EXChess/nolot.epd
[generic]                   60      60 100.0% -lh0- 557f Jun  5  1998 EXChess/optimize.txt
[generic]                 2174    8338  26.1% -lh5- a7ba Aug 12  1998 EXChess/parse.cpp
[generic]                 1402    8500  16.5% -lh5- 1c1d Aug 22  1998 EXChess/pcapts.cpp
[generic]                 1582   10176  15.5% -lh5- cd01 Aug 22  1998 EXChess/pmoves.cpp
[generic]                 1291    2622  49.2% -lh5- 3771 Oct  1  1998 EXChess/README.amiga
[generic]                 2001    4578  43.7% -lh5- bba8 Aug 24  1998 EXChess/readme.txt
[generic]                 4520   19672  23.0% -lh5- d765 Aug 12  1998 EXChess/score.cpp
[generic]                 1707   13227  12.9% -lh5- e4da Aug 22  1998 EXChess/score.h
[generic]                 6171   19337  31.9% -lh5- 0b06 Aug 23  1998 EXChess/search.cpp
[generic]                 1323    3545  37.3% -lh5- 14ba Aug 20  1998 EXChess/search.h
[generic]                 1663    4465  37.2% -lh5- 3bd6 Aug 20  1998 EXChess/search.par
[generic]                  825    2201  37.5% -lh5- 70c6 May 23  1998 EXChess/sort.cpp
[generic]                 8662   22997  37.7% -lh5- 4b34 Jul  9  1998 EXChess/wac.epd
[generic]                28214   78271  36.0% -lh5- b478 Mar 15  1998 EXChess/wcsac.epd
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 Total        37 files  212704  876629  24.3%            Oct  6  1998