Bug#771853: ITP: gnucheese -- Modern chess engine based on GNU Chess 5.07.

[Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>

* Package name    : gnucheese
  Version         : 1.0.0
  Upstream Author : Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>
* URL             : http://hardy.uhasselt.be/GnuCheese
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Modern chess engine based on GNU Chess 5.07.

GnuCheese is an independent fork of the venerable GNU Chess 5.07 chess 
engine. GnuCheese is unrelated to GNU Chess 6 which has been released by 
the Free Software Foundation and which is a rebranded Fruit engine. 
Currently GnuCheese is about 180 elo stronger than GNU Chess 6 at the 
time control of 40 moves per 60 seconds.

This project was originally started as an attempt to fix a number of 
well-known bugs in GNU Chess 5.07 which dragged down its intrinsic 
strength. A number of updated versions were released, the most recent 
one being GNU Chess 5.60.  To reduce the possibility of confusion with 
GNU Chess 6, the engine has now been renamed as GnuCheese 1.00.  This is 
the name under which the 5.xx versions have been playing 24/7 on FICS 
since 2009.

GnuCheese supports both the UCI and the CECP (xboard) protocol for 
seamless integration with chess GUIs such as xboard.