Sjaak 263

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Sjaak 263

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I have just uploaded a new version of my chess-variant program Sjaak (revision 263), it's available at http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-download.html
Precompiled binaries for Windows, Linux as well as Mac are provided (Windows ones are weakly tested). It requires SSE, which essentially means a computer that is less than 10 years old., and it will benefit greatly from running in 64 bit mode.

New in this version:
1. Ponder mode and analyse mode
2. Three new playable variants: Capablanca, Gothic and Courier* chess.
3. Fixed problems with variant "Makruk" under XBoard. Should now work correctly.

*) XBoard arguably sets the wrong opening position for Courier, which means you will need to start from a FEN specifying the position you want to play from, or else the two programs will have a different idea of what the position on the board looks like.

This version should be considerably stronger than the previous release, although there are still some things missing that I will try to add in the next few weeks.

Have fun! :)