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Chess describes itself as: ======================= Play chess in GNU Emacs ======================= More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/chess.html ## Summary: Welcome to Emacs Chess, a chess playing module for GNU Emacs. chess.el is an Emacs Lisp library and several clients on top of the underlying library functionality for performing various activities related to the game of chess. Type `M-x chess', and play chess against one of the default engine modules. Type `C-u M-x chess' to select a specific engine. You can play against various external chess computer programs, like crafty, fruit, glaurung, gnuchess, phalanx, sjeng and stockfish. There is also an Emacs based chess computer module (ai) which does not require any external programs. However, the internal AI is not very strong. ## Recent NEWS: This is the NEWS file for Emacs Chess, a chess client and analysis library written in Emacs Lisp. * Release 2.0.4: This is yet another bugfix release, no new features. ** Fix a bug in PGN annotation parsing. ** Fix missing dependencies in the ECO module. ** Make the third argument of `chess-display-draw-square' optional, as expected by the rest of the code. ** Fix a bug where PGN mode could not load the `chess-file' module. * Release 2.0.3: This is a bugfix release which fixes a recursive dependency between `chess-display' and `chess-pgn' which was accidentally missed in 2.0.2. Also included is further proof-reading of the Info manual. * Release 2.0.2: ** Major updates to the Info manual. ** Algebraic move input: *** It is now possible to enter moves in numeric notation by customizing `chess-input-notation-type'. *** Backspace (DEL) on terminals now deletes input as expected. *** If `chess-display-highlight-legal' is non-nil, target squares of posssible moves are highlighted while you type. ** The board and modeline is now correctly updated when making a move against the internal engine (AI). ** An error when editing positions with the `chess-plain' display has been fixed. ** Legal move target highlights are now properly removed again once a move has been selected, or the selected piece has been deselected. *** As a consequence of this fix, `chess-display-highlight-legal' is now on by default. ** `chess-ply-to-algebraic' can now generate figurine algebraic and numeric notation. ** `chess-algebraic-to-ply' can now handle figurine algebraic notation. ** Several compiler warnings have been fixed. ** The `chess-autosave' module is disabled by default for now. ** The incomplete and unused constant `chess-piece-name-table' has been removed. * Release 2.0.1: ** chess-polyglot now works on 32-bit platforms. ** Redo `chess-algebraic-regexp' with `rx' to improve readability. ** Fix "invalid function" error in `chess-search-position'. This was introduced by the recent conversion of `chess--add-candidates' from a defsubst to a defmacro. * Release 2.0.0: Began keeping this file. See doc/chess.info for information about Emacs Chess. Local variables: coding: utf-8 mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" end:
