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Stephen C Morgana wrote:
> 
> I've encountered a bug in GNU Chess 5.0 on a Sun Sparc Solaris platform and
> attempted to send a report to bug-gnu-chess@ai.mit.edu (the address
> mentioned in the README file) however, my mail bounces back from that
> address.

I'll let Stuart answer that one.

> Hopefully posting the problem to this newsgroup will be helpful. 

Thanks for taking the time.

> The bug:
>   I played a game where gnuchess captured a piece with a knight, by moving
> the knight diagonally forward one square, i.e.  it captured the way a pawn
> would capture.
> 
> I figured someone might  care about this type of behavior.
> Unfortunately I can not reproduce the problem.

I can't reproduce it either.
  
> The problem occurred on move 9 ... Nc6xb5  where it explicitly moved a
> knight diagonally to capture.  I did not notice the problem (was making
> moves in between editing/compiling stuff) until move 12 ... b8c6 produced no
> visible difference in the board (since b8 was an empty square).

Looks to me like perhaps it tried to play 1. ... c6 and got
misunderstood - would help explain b5 (although it use to have a bit of
a preference for this move)
 
> By the way, I launched gnuchess with "xboard -size slim -depth 1" if that
> matters, and I am running it without a book file since the install targets
> in the Solaris Makefile are broken. Yes,  I can not say for sure if this is
> a gnuchess bug or an xboard bug.

What version of Xboard are you running ? As it may not be a bug so much
as a miscommunication.

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