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Message from Steven
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Samir wrote:
>
> Today I uploaded the remaining four programs 
> announced more than one month ago on my Basic 
> Linux additions web page. 

Thank you.  I am sure users will find them useful.

> However, instead of porting GNU Chess, I have found 
> an incredibly small chess program. 

Yes, it is incredibly small.  It reminds me of the
early 80s when programmers did amazing things on
Commodores and Apples with just 4 kilobytes of code.

> And it knows castling, en passant, and pawn promotion 
> to queen, rook, bishop or knight.  For each move you 
> can type it yourself (for example e2e4), or just press 
> ENTER to give computer a try. 

Yes, it seems very capable.  To be popular, it probably 
needs some sort of point-and-click front-end (that e2e4
stuff is greek to most casual chess players).  But other
than that, it is a very nice find.  Thank you for porting
it to BasicLinux.

Cheers,
Steven