Re: How to report a bug in GNU Chess 5.0?

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From: Simon Waters
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:23

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Tim Mann wrote:
> 
> Simon Waters wrote:
> > Looks to me like perhaps it tried to play 1. ... c6 and got
> > misunderstood
> 
> I don't see how xboard could misunderstand GNU Chess 5's attempt to play
> c6 (or c7c6) as Nc6 (or b8c6).  What seems a bit more likely is that
> GNU Chess 5 played c6 internally but sent something different to xboard.

That is of course what I meant. Although I can't see what it could have
sent either. I play a fair number of matches between machines using
xboard and haven't seen gnuchess 5 make any illegal moves in these.

> That seems pretty surprising too, but it think it's a lot more likely
> than xboard having a bug in parsing chess notation.  xboard has a lot of
> miles on it, and there has been no other sign of such a bug.

Agreed although I asked for the version of xboard - this one might not
have so many miles on the clock.

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From: Simon Waters <Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: How to report a bug in GNU Chess 5.0?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:23:17 +0000
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