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Copyright ©

BugChess2 (*) is a spare time program supposed to play legal moves at chess, and possibly good moves sometimes ;-).
Developped by François Karr (Programmer) and Jean-Philippe Karr (chess expert).

To use BugChess2 you will need a UI supporting the winboard protocol : Winboard  or Arena for instance. I tested both.

BugChess2 comes with a (probably poor) book. It will use it if present.

Line command parameters
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---- compulsory to use with a interface using the winboard protocol
"-winboard"

---- hash size : comes in power of 2 as follow :
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"- hashsize 16777216" -> means 16 MB of hash in human language.
"- hashsize 33554432" -> means 32 MB of hash in human language.
"- hashsize 67108864" -> means 64 MB of hash in human language.
"- hashsize 134217728" -> means 128 MB of hash in human language.
"- hashsize 268435456" -> means 256 MB of hash in human language.
etc...
> default : 32 MB

---- to disable logging
"-nolog"

---- to suppress kibitzing during ponder (for ICC tournaments for instance)
"-noponderkb"

---- when playing on internet, to activate kibitzing :
-kibitzstr 
for instance : with -kibitzstr "tellics kibitz ", BugChess2 will send kibitz string like this one : 
"tellics kibitz ply=8 value=120 t=500 N=1000000 NPS=200000 e2e4 e7e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Bc5 Nc3 Nf6"


Thanks
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Big thanks to all testers for keeping our motivation up.
Big thanks to all programmers i borrowed idea (or pgns ;-) from.
Special thanks to Leo for hosting the bug and helping with the early time losses ;-)

Warranty
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BugChess2 is freeware and comes with no warranty of any kind, especially not of playing good chess ;-)
Please use it freely and share it as long as it is not done for commercial benefits.
I shall not be held responsible in case of direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplar, or consequential damages 
arising in any way out of the use of this software (such as mate for instance...).



François Karr, 06/18/2008.


(*) 	Yes I have developped a BugChess hence the 2 - it was a windows program with an interface supporting about no protocol.
		BugChess2 is a complete rewrite and has no code in common with BugChess (fortunately ;-) except for the name.