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Re: Chess - brain dead?

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From: andrew
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 03:30
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In article <1992Nov3.153512.29333@news.nd.edu> jscott@vardamir.next.nd.edu (James Scott) writes:
>I sat down to play a game of /NextDeveloper/Demos/Chess last night, and I  
>noticed that the 2 human player feature seems to be broken.  The white  
>player moves as normal, but the computer moves for black, even though  
>black is set to be a human player.  When I tried to move a black piece, I  
>got an "Illegal move" message, a couple of pawns disappeared, and my  
>knights changed position.  
>
>That was on a 3.0 machine.  I tried it this morning on a 2.2 machine and  
>the same thing happened.  "This is not a Good Thing," I said.  Human vs.  
>computer seems to work fine.
>
>Please tell me that I'm missing something, and not that a big ol' bug has  
>escaped 3 major revisions of NeXTSTEP.  Okay, maybe it's not important to  
>everyone, but it's important to me.

If it's important to you, then get the source code and fix it...


andrew
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Subject: Re: Chess - brain dead?
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