** DESCRIPTION
  This program is is chess notation processor. It reads chess games, either
in full algebraic or shortened notation (ie Nf1-g3 or f1g3 or Ng3) and
is able to output the games and/or the board af any move, in ascii,
postscript, TeX, nroff, ChessMaster, Zarkov, PGN and more. It also can
generate output for the gnuan and xboard programs.
The program understands piece identifications in about 14 languages.
The program also handle variations and symbolized comments.

This is a freeware program. You have the right to modify it, give it,
provided you don't modify the copyright notice and my name still
remains.

** COMPATIBILITY
  This program is ok on UNIX (DEC 3100 and 5000). It uses
standard C, and functions declarations are done in both K&R-C and
ANSI-C.  The latest development was done under DOS with Turbo C/C++ 3.0
with the desire to keep it as standard as possible. It will probably run
on any platform that has ANSI-C available.

** QUICK USE
  Anyway, you want to try quickly the program, issue the command
"make" in this directory, and then type "chessprn algebric.txt" to
test the programm on Kasparov/Karpov game 13 (Lyon, November 1990).
If you want to install it completely ( TeX, helpfile etc), edit the
Makefile and type "make install".  Read and modify the makefile for
customizing chessprn to your national language and library path.  If
you want a complete manual, read chessprn.doc.  To print a postscript
file, merge the ps font definition and the output of the ChessPrn
program (say foo.ps) and send it to the printer (for instance "cat
Cheq foo.ps | lpr" or for Walker Font "cat Font foo.ps | lpr")

** CONFIGURATION
  See the Makefile and the file config.h to customize your copy of
chessprn.

** IMPORTANT
  If you want to use PostScript or LaTeX, you need three packages not
provided here. However, here is a way to get them:

**** Cheq Postscript:
  You need the font "Cheq", freely distributed by Adobe.  Send a mail
to "ps-file-server@adobe.com" with the body "send Programs
chessfont.ps". For use with "chessprn", rename the file "Cheq".

------------------------------------------------------------------
chessfont.ps              58548 Jun 22 1989
    This is the Adobe chess font "Cheq", created by John Renner. It
    is an ASCII downloadable version of the font that is not in any
    particular font format for a specific platform. See also
    "chessfontUNIX.shar" and "chessfontMAC.shar" for the font bundled
    with other useful files like screen fonts and AFM files. If you
    just want the font, it is available in this file separately for
    convenience.
------------------------------------------------------------------

**** Walker Font Postscript
  You need the font "Font", freely available via ftp (and maybe else where.)
The font lives as a shell archive on valkyries.andrew.cmu.edu with path
/pub/chess/Unix/ChessFont.sh

**** LaTeX:
  You need the chess fonts designed by Piet Tutalaers
"rcpt@urc.tue.nl". YOU NEED VERSION 1.2 (released 10/02/91). The
complete distribution is available

-- by ftp : on sol.cs.ruu.nl (131.211.80.5) with path TEX/chess.tar.Z
(please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e.  between
about 2000 and 0.900 UTC)).

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-rw-r--r--  1 piet     staff        2984 Dec  3 10:11 chess.README
-rwxr--r--  1 piet     staff      129679 Dec  3 15:57 chess.tar.Z
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-- by e-mail : send the following message to
mail-server@cs..ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf):

begin
path john@highbrown.edu
send TEX/chess.tar.Z
end

The path command can be deleted if we receive a valid from address in
your message. If this is the first time you use the mail server, we
suggest you first issue the request:
send help


** DOCUMENTATION
  See the file chessprn.doc for any info

** COPYRIGHT

  This is a freeware program. Commercial use is prohibited. It is free
for non-commercial use.  You have the right to modify it, give it,
provided you don't modify the copyright notice and my name still
remains clearly indicated. For the other packages (Cheq and chess
font and Walker Font) refer to the original copyright notice.
See the file COPYING for full copyright details.

