1) Introduction
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Neophyte is a winboard compatible chess engine. It aims to be unique
by providing the most human-like play possible. Neophyte is platform
independent free software.

2) Licenses
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Neophyte is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Neophyte utilises POSIX threads and as such requires the
Pthreads-win32 library to run under Windows. Pthreads-win32 is
distributed under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL). For more
information on Pthreads-win32 please visit:

    http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32

Both the GPL and LGPL license texts should have been provided with
this software.

Neophyte - Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 William Hoggarth
Pthreads-win32 - Copyright(C) 1998 John E. Bossom
                 Copyright(C) 1999,2002 Pthreads-win32 contributors

3) Version 0.1 Notes
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This is the first release of Neophyte. This merely puts some of the
ground work in place. Neophyte only supports enough of the winboard
protocol to play from the standard position as white or
black. Neophyte uses a basic alpha-beta search, the code for
human-like play has yet to be introduced.