Chess-FIDE version 0.01
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This package contains a library providing an interface for retrieval
and manipulation of the chess players who are listed in the FIDE Official
Rating List (http://www.fide.com/ratings/download.phtml)
FIDE is Federation International d'Echecs - International Chess Federation.

A sample list from April 2004 is provided under filename APR04FRL.TXT
INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

LWP::UserAgent
IO::File
IO::Scalar
Archive::Zip
Archive::Zip::MemberRead

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Put the correct copyright and licence information here.

Copyright (C) 2004 by Roman M. Parparov

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

Fide Rating List is Copyright (C) by International Chess Federation
http://www.fide.com
