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@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Emacs Chess was born after I defeated my father for the very first time. + +You see, for the first 30 years of my life, never once had I one a game. A +couple times against my mother, but Dad always seemed to fork my queen without +mercy. + +So, I began to wonder, "Can anyone get better at chess?" I looked up some +simple strategies on the Web -- such as building a strong center -- and lo and +behold! I won my first game for the very reasons I had read about. + +Needless to say, the excitement of victory at last prompted me to buy a book +on chess (I think it was Chess Analysis), and thus a love was born. + +That same week, early in 2001, chess.el, or Emacs Chess, was created. + +I was visited my father on a month long vacation at the time, at his home in +upstate New Jersey, and I remember spending days and nights just hacking away +on chess.el, and loving every minute of it. What you see in this directory is +pure passion, an obsession that took me by storm for over two years until I +moved to other things. I hope you enjoy using it as much as I did making it. + +John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> + + +Further: Around 2005, another player came on the scene: Mario Lang. Mario is +unable to see, but Emacs Chess's design made it possible for me to integrate +the display code with his braille viewer. He still plays chess with it to +this day, as it is the only client that allows him to do so. He has also +contributed time, the German language translations, a fair bit of code +(chess-eco is his doing, among others), and even money to help me bring Emacs +Chess to where it is today. Thank you, Mario! |