GNU GO 2.0, a GNU GO beta version

This is GNU GO 2.0, a Go program descended from Gnu Go 1.2. It is
quite a bit stronger than Gnu Go 1.2 and is still under
development. Authors of Gnu Go 2.0 program are Daniel Bump
(bump@math.stanford.edu) and David Denholm (daved@ctxuk.citrix.com). 
The author of Gnu Go 1.2 is Man Lung Li (manli@cs.uh.edu).

                      Instructions

Get the most recent tar file from http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/beta.html.

Untar the sources and build them at the command line with the
command `make'.

Obtain the most recent version of CGoban from Bill Shubert's web site
(http://www.hevanet.com/wms/). The version number MUST be 1.9.1 at
least or it won't work.

Start CGoban. When the CGoban Control panel comes up, select `Go Modem.'
You will get the Go Modem Protocol Setup. Choose one (or both) of the
playsers to be ``Program,'' and fill out the box to the path to
gnugo-beta. After clicking OK, you get the Game Setup window. Choose
``Rules Set'' to be Japanese (otherwise handicaps won't work). Set the
board size and handicap if you want. Click OK and you are ready to go.

                      Documentation

Documentation is in the files OVERVIEW DRAGON, PATTERN, and 
in comments throughout the source. Contact us at bump@gnu.org
if you are interested in helping to develop this program.

                    Go Modem Protocol

The Go Modem Protocol was developed by Bruce Wilcox with input from
David Fotland, Anders Kierulf and others, according to the history in
the file protocol.Z, available from
ftp://igs.nuri.net/Go/programs/. Any Go program *should* use this
protocol since it is standard. (For example the rules of the FOST Cup
encourage entrants to use this protocol.) Since CGoban supports this
protocol, the user interface for any Go program can be done entirely
through CGoban. The programmer can concentrate on the real issues
without worrying about drawing stones, resizing the board and other
distracting issues.

                      Copyrights

Copyright 1999 by the Free Software Foundation except for the two
files gmp.c and gmp.h. Gnu Go is issued under the Gnu General Public
License, which may be found in the file COPYING. The two files gmp.c
and gmp.h. These files are copyrighted by Bill Shubert
(http://www.hevanet.com/wms/), and are free for unrestricted use.