Chessbook software

[Phil Winninghoff]

When I retired I decided to learn how to play chess and bought a few
books to that end. As someone not experienced with the game I found that
I had to have at least one, and many times several, boards in front of
me to follow the moves. The diagrams in the books were helpful, but not
frequent enough. I am afraid I lack a photographic mind. Several years
ago I tried to address this problem by purchasing some chess software
that runs on MS Windows machines. It was not exactly what I wanted so I
began to write my own. I only knew MS Dos at the time (:>( ) so that is
what I began with.  My monitor was old so I used graphics mode 19 (320 X
200 pix resolution) and was unable to get text and graphics on the
screen at the same time. Big time limitation. Then I discovered Linux
and Xfree86. Now I have a rather crude version working that is an
improvement over the printers ink on paper varieties of chess books and
I want to share it with others without photographic minds who read such
books.  I went to a couple meetings of this group and decided I may be
able to find someone interested in having a look at what I am doing. I
can email the source, the data file and Makefile. It should compile on
anything that has the Xfree86 library. It requires 1024 x 768 the way it
is set up, but a simple change to the source can change that.