What is ShogiVar?
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ShogiVar 1.55a is a free program which can referee games between
human players for any of 17 ancient & modern variants of Shogi
(the Japanese member of the chess family). There is also a computer
player for all supported variants except Tenjiku (Exotic) Shogi.  

ShogiVar is free software, released under the GNU General Public
License (GPL).  See the file COPYING for details.


O/S Requirements
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ShogiVar originally was a 16-bit Windows Visual Basic 3.0 application that
would run under any 16 or 32-bit version of Windows (from 3.1 onwards).

It will not run under more modern 64-bit Windows operating systems. 

Steve Evans

steve.evans@internode.on.net

The Visual-Basic version of ShogiVar is no longer being developed.
Keep this in mind when you send e-mail to Steve!


Linux port
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ShogiVar has been translated to C, with a new GTK+ front-end providing
the services formerly provided by Visual Basic. The code for this
front-end was adapted from the GNU XBoard project. The Linux port of
Shogivar can be built from source code by the commands:

	./autogen.sh
	./configure
	make
	sudo make install

Note that installing is essential, as otherwise ShogiVar would not be
able to find any of its graphics files for boards and pieces.

H.G. Muller

h.g.muller@hccnet.nl

Bug reports on the C version of ShogiVar are best posted in the Shogi-
Variants section of http://forum.81squareuniverse.com .

