StAndersen is a chessengine created by Erik Robertsson.
It is designed to be used with the graphical interface WinBoard(*). 
You can get the latest version and the source code to StAndersen at

 http://surf.to/standersen

You may modify and/or distribute StAndersen freely, as long as you document the
modifications, and include the source files.

Report bugs in StAndersen to <standersen@surf.to>.   
Give full details, including the program's version number
and the exact text of any error messages.  If you
improve StAndersen, please send a message
about your changes to <standersen@surf.to>. 

About the source code:
 StAndersen is complied with Visual C++, and has som windows specific code (threads, memoryhandling)
 The design of the code is OOP, but due to loss of speed, som of the ideals of OOP has been abandoned.
 Read more about the source at http://surf.to/standersen/about
 Mail questions about the source to <standersen@surf.to> 

StAndersen parameters:
 [-h n] - sets the size of the hashtable n=1..10
 [-createbook file] - creates an openingbook from file and writes it to
                       StAndersen.obk

Use with WinBoard:
 To start StAndersen with WinBoard, put standersen.exe in the same folder,
 and issue the command winboard /fcp="standersen.exe"

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(*) WinBoard is free software, and you can get it from the author's Web page:

 http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/