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Arthur Woll (woll@msc.cornell.edu) wrote:
: I've been trying to get gnuchess working with xboard on my P90 running
: linux 1.2.13 and XFree 3.1.2 for a while now -- with always the same
: problem. GnuChess quits (unexpectedly, of course) whenever it gets out
: of its opeining book. A FAQ that I pulled down does mention this
: problem in pl72, but claims that it happens intermittently and in the
: middle of the game, whereas this ALWAYS happens. I'm  using pl75 and
: xboard 3.3 which I believe are the most recent versions and I've
: recompiled gnuchess several times but with no luck. Anyone have an
: idea about things I can try?

: Arthur Woll

Thanks for everyone's responses! I wanted to pass along the trick that
was passed along to me.  It is also in the FAQ (a newer version than I
new existed).
	
	In line 967 of src/search.c, you have to change:
		g->gmove = -1;
	to	
		g->gmove = 0;

(For those of you who don't know what this means, 'src/search.c'
refers to the source file search.c in the src directory when you untar
(tar -xzvf *or* gunzip followed by tar -xvf) the archived file which
looks like gnuchess-4.0-pl75.tar.gz or something close to that, which
is available through anonymous ftp at a number of sites (see the Linux
Documentation Project home page)).