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- Springer is a chess program for the IBM PC which offers several
- levels of varying playing strength to challenge the vast majority
- of human players, as well as an excellent on-screen display of
- the chess position. The playing strength of this program is,
- quite frankly, not as good as that of the best commercial
- programs, though most human players should find it more than
- adequate in this respect. In several ways (including playing
- strength) I believe this program is far superior to all others I
- have seen released as shareware products or in the public domain.
-
- You should have no trouble using the program if you already know
- how to play chess. Springer starts out in its normal playing
- mode, with the board shown on-screen in the format of a standard
- chess diagram. Moves are entered by using the "arrow" keys to
- move an indicator around the chess board and the Enter key to
- select the piece you want to move and the square you want to move
- it to. If you press an invalid key, a help screen/menu will
- appear, providing brief instructions and allowing single-key
- access to special functions such as saving/recalling games in
- disk files.
-
- The files included on this disk are listed below:
-
- Filename Description
- ------------ -----------------------------------------------
- SPRINGER.COM The chess program itself
- SPRINGER.DOC Printer-ready documentation (8 pages)
- CHESS.BAT A simple batch file to run Springer
- AUTOPLAY.GAM A game played between Levels 5 (White) and 0
- AUTO2.GAM A game played as above with colors reversed
- AUTHOR.GAM One of the author's tournament games
- HITECH.GAM A recent game between a powerful chess computer
- and a noted Grandmaster
- READ.ME What you're reading now