Short follow up: I've gone to version 2.0.0 and renamed the fork
"Little" as it is unethical, I think, to retain the name "Faile"
without being the authorized maintainer, and moreover, to associate
Adrien with the bugs I've surely introduced. Still, all credit to
Adrien for fabulous base code and remarkable playing strength for the
size of the program. All I did was add things and probably break a
few things along the way

This is my last set of feature additions. I revised the opening book
building so now very large books are possible (anomalous with a
minimalist program!) with no hash conflicts. The manual is up to 18
pages or so. XBoard mode is cleanup up a little and so is ICS
mode. I added to the time controls and made them work better.
Etc., etc.

I tested a while with a guest account on FICS and no human did better
than draw over a series of many games. I think the estimate of
2000-2200 ELO playing strength at blitz levels is probably right.

It's been fun. The windows and linux executables, compressed, remain
in the 30k size range. Not 30 megabytes, 30 KILObytes.

Distributions he

http://www.bobnewell.net/filez/little/little200.zip (windows &
linux executables, small opening book, PDF manual)

http://www.bobnewell.net/filez/little/littled.zip (djgpp DOS
executable only)

Read the manual for info on getting several additional opening books
and the source code all of which is freely available.