Re: Could you help me with (my copy of) GNU Chess tendancies

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From: Scott
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 00:00

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Novelty wrote in message <028dde6f.2ce71446@usw-ex0108-059.remarq.com>...

>I have noticed a tendancy for it to lose on time
>(especially when playing itself). Is there a way to solve
>this problem?


I haven't ever had it play itself so I cannot comment on this...

>I also noticed an odd tendancy for any game starting with
>1.e3 to lead to it exiting(with the exception of the 1st
>game). Is this an error ? (the messages and circumstances
>are unusual and confusing)
>'Error: first chess program (GNU Chess) exited unexpectedly'
>'Error writing to first chess program: the pipe has been
>ended'(?)

Yes, I have noticed this.  Dr Watson on NT4 reports this as an
access violation and the program quits.  Must be a bug.  I am
using GNUChess for Windows v4.14.  I don't know if there is a
newer version that corrects this.

Regards,
Scott

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