New port KnightCap, a learning chess program with an OpenGL-based GUI.

PR:		6631
Submitted by:	Andrey Zakhvatov <andy@icc.surw.chel.su>

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+KnightCap is a chess program.
+
+The principal differences between KnightCap and other chess programs
+are:
+
+ - KnightCap has an optional fully rendered 3D interface, giving a feel much
+   more like an "over the board" game.
+
+ - KnightCap was developed to run on a parallel distributed memory
+   machine, although it also runs on normal unix boxes.
+
+ - KnightCap does not have an opening book---instead it keeps a file
+   (brain.dat) of losing moves and inserts them in the hash table at the
+   start of each search. At present it has about 1500 entries, and
+   this makes it a pretty competitive opening player. 
+
+ - KnightCap learns the parameters of its evaluation function as it
+   plays. The most dramatic example of how this helps is an experiment
+   we conducted on FICS in which KnightCap learnt from a 1650 player
+   to a 2100 player in just 300 games. See
+   http://keating.anu.edu.au/~jon/papers/knigtcap.ps.gz for more info on
+   its learning algorithm.