🚀 go-pugleaf

                                         NBI/Aleph, Copenhagen,  3-AUG-1992

    Hello again,

Could somebody please explain to me how the 'force' command works? From
experimenting it seems that 'force' alone will (sometimes?) enable me to
enter one move for white and black. Typing 'force 1' (or just about any
number) will allow me to enter any number of moves. What is the proper way
to end this? The answer is *not* 'both', because when I type that, the
computer will move white allowing black no moves at all! Usually white is
quick to QxK (!!) and after that white plays (!!!) all sorts of fun things
:-) An example is below my sig. Surely this is a bug. (This is on ULTRIX,
btw.)

        --- Allan.

PS: Thanks for the pointers to the VMS port of gnuchess at
nrlvax.nrl.navy.mil. I'll try to get it running (there is a checsum error
in the share files, but the source seems to be avaliable [I hope --- but
the link is down now.])

Internet:     Allan.Engelhardt@nbi.dk        |  Allan Engelhardt
HEPnet:       NBIVAX::ENGELHARDT             |  Niels Bohr Institute
Bitnet/EARN:  ENGELH at CERNVM               |  Blegdamsvej 17
Phone direct: (+45)31424284<dial-tone>355    |  DK-2100 Copenhagen
Fax:          (+45)31421016                  |  DENMARK

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[Slightly edited save file]

Black computer White Human 14
Castled White true Black false
TimeControl 1 Operator Time 0
White Clock 159500 Moves 34
Black Clock 175000 Moves 39

8 RNBQ.B.R 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
7 PPPP.qPP 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0
6 ........ 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
5 ....n... 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
4 ....n... 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0
3 ........ 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
2 pppp.ppp 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
1 r.b..rk. 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1
  abcdefgh

move  score depth  nodes  time flags capture color
e2e4     0     0       0   800     0  00000000 00000000           
e7e5     0     0       0   200     0  0x9fb07a93 0xb4865a78           
f1c4     0     0       0   700     0  0x14f50002 0x13c27e49           
g8f6     0     0       0   500     0  0xb8d9d702 0x24de5670           
b1c3     0     0       0   800     0  0x596e6cfd 0xdf2f31f2           
f6e4     0     0       0   600   512  0xcf9a1107 0x71556172  P   White
c4f7     0     0       0   500   512  0xb891cab8 0xf3405fff  P   Black
e8f7    -5     6   99100  5000   576  0x5aa12118 0x7926d1cf  B   White
c3e4   -10     6  169602  6500   512  0x2982da3f 0x135263b8  N   Black
d1h5    88     6  147149  6000    64  0x850fdbdb 0xa7159e8d           
[
    The following move is fun :-) QxKf7  It's not legal!! You can't capture
    the king. Neat score, btw. Also note the time and the depth.
]
h5f7 10000    34      35     0   512  0xcf472b06 0x54a9e4dc  K   Black
g1f3  1179     5   88928  3900     0  0xb11f810a 0xf89ba93f           
f3e5  1273     5   89627  3300   512  0xa4ec82c2 0x71632f36  P   Black
e1g1  1307     4   14016   800    64  0x1acde94b 0x709f32c8      White