ChessTrainingWheels
A chess GUI for GNU Chess with game visualations meant for novice to intermediate chess players.
Written and designed by Josh Weihnacht.

Instructions:
Simply double click ChessTrainingWheels.jar to run the game.  Requires Java to be installed for Windows computers.  Runs on Mac OSX computers (Java is already installed on OSX).

Known Issues:
Menus are currently not functioning correctly on Windows.
May not work properly when played from a CD-Rom since the computer opponent wants to write a log file to the applications directory.
The computer opponent currently uses excessive amounts of CPU resources.


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In addition to the work of Josh Weihnacht, this program contains or depends on code 
from the following sources / authors:

- Xan Gregg (chessbox_gnu4j, a Java port of GNU Chess (5.0.7), GPL'd)
- MD. Z. Hossain (xChess, some of whose code used for connecting to GNUChess, GPL'd)
- Dr. Andrew Davison (animation code, info and links below)

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This program relies on chessbox_gnu4j, a (GPL'd) Java port of GNU Chess (5.0.7).
Those portions are:
  Copyright (c) 2005 Xan Gregg (Java port)
  Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  Contact Info:
    bug-gnu-chess@gnu.org
    xan.gregg@pobox.com
	http://www.forthgo.com/chessbox/

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Portions of this program's GNU Chess interface are based on 
xChess, a multiplatform graphical chess user interface
Copyright (C) 2007  MD. Z. Hossain <z_hossain@users.sf.net>
For more information visit http://xchess.sourceforge.net

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This program's animation code was based on code written by Dr. Andrew Davison 
who requests that a link be included to his book, Killer Game Programming in Java.
Web Site for the book: http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg
Web page for the code: http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/code/index.html

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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  
02110-1301, USA.