
    Welcome to PSP GNU Chess

Original Authors of GNU Chess

  Chua Kong Sian, Stuart Cracraft, Lukas Geyer,
  Simon Waters, David A. Wheeler.


Author of the PSP port version 

  Ludovic.Jacomme also known as Zx-81 (zx81.zx81@gmail.com)


1. INTRODUCTION
   ------------

  GNU Chess was written in 1986 by Stuart Cracraft, who is continuing to
  develop it with other coders.  It comes with an interface to the X 
  window system to display a pretty chessboard.  It also has an opening 
  book which is being added to all the time.

  (see http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/chess/)

  PSP Gnu Chess is a port on PSP of the version 5.7 of GNU-Chess.

  This package is under GPL Copyright, read COPYING file for
  more information about it.

  Special thanks to Yiorgos for his feedback.


2. INSTALLATION
   ------------

  Unzip the zip file, and copy the content of the directory fw3x or fw15
  (depending of the version of your firmware) on the psp/game or 
  psp/game371 or psp/game150 directory.

  It has been developped on linux using Firmware 3.71-M33

  For any comments or questions on this version, please visit 
  http://zx81.zx81.free.fr or http://zx81.dcemu.co.uk


3. CONTROL
   ------------

3.1 - Virtual keyboard

  In the chess menu, press Start to open/close
  the On-Screen Keyboard of "Danzel" and "Jeff Chen"

  Use Analog stick to choose one of the 9 squares, and
  use Triangle, Square, Cross and Circle to choose one
  of the 4 letters of the highlighted square.

  You can use this keyboard to specify game filename ...


3.2 - Game Control

  In the game window you have the following mapping :

  Cross       Valid 

  Square      Undo
 
  Cursor      Move on the board
  Analog      Move on the board
 
  Select      Menu

3.3 - IR keyboard

  You can also use IR keyboard. Edit the pspirkeyb.ini file
  to specify your IR keyboard model, and modify eventually
  layout keyboard files in the keymap directory.

  The following mapping is done :

  IR-keyboard   PSP

  Cursor        Digital Pad

  Tab           Tab   
  Ctrl-W        Start

  Escape        Select
  Ctrl-Q        Select

  Ctrl-E        Triangle
  Ctrl-X        Cross
  Ctrl-S        Square
  Ctrl-F        Circle
  Ctrl-Z        L-trigger
  Ctrl-C        R-trigger

  Ctrl-L        Clear

  Enter         Cross
  

4. COMPILATION
   ------------

  It has been developped under Linux using gcc with PSPSDK. 
  To rebuild the homebrew run the Makefile in the src archive.

5. How to play Chess ? 
   ------------

  Have a look to the manual on Wikipedia:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess


    Enjoy,
  
         Zx
