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- Chess for Psion 3a and 3c version 1.2 jan 1997
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- 1. About Chess
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- Here's my Chess program for the Psion.
- It costed me of a lot of sleepless nights and headaches
- because I had to stare for hours at the little Psion screen.
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- But finally I got it working!
- The thinking part of the program is using a min/max algorithm,
- written in C on the PC. I used a great tool called 'plink' from
- Steve Duncan to generate a Psion binary (thanks Steve!)
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- The program plays chess in 3 different levels (novice, normal and expert).
- It recognizes about 77 great chess openings and allows
- to save a played game for later replay.
- You can continue with other applications while Psion thinks about his move.
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- 2. Installation
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- Create a directory called '\app\chess'
- Copy 'chess.lib' and 'chess.fon' to '\app\chess'
- Copy 'chess.opa' to '\app' and install as a regular Psion program
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- 3. Registration
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- If you register after evaluation, you receive the full version,
- which includes a chess openings book containing 77 great openings.
- You are free to distribute or copy the unregistered shareware version
- of Chess as long as you respect the copyright.
- You may however not reverse engineer or change any part of the code!
- You can register by sending 10 US Dollars, 5 UK Pounds or 15 DMark to:
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- Johan Van Barel
- Koestraat 134
- 9190 Stekene
- Belgium
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- If you send money, do not forget to specify your email address,
- so I can send you the full version as soon as possible.
- If you register you will also receive all future updates free.
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- 4. Disclamer
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- I take no responsibility for any losses due to the use of
- this product, including damages to the user's computer, or its information.
- Using this software is at your own risk, and I am in no way liable
- for any of the user's problems.
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- Have fun and mail your suggestions and bugs to:
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- Johan Van Barel
- jvb@ockham.be
- http://www.ockham.be/jvb
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- 5. Release info
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- 13 jan 1997: release 1.0 of Chess
- 14 jan 1997: release 1.1
- corrected bug with frozen knights after loading a saved game
- 20 jan 1997: release 1.2
- some minor fixes
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