Re: gnuchess/Linux woes

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From: Peter Chang
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 18:56

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In article <1994Sep10.131209.19641@midway.uchicago.edu>, ace3@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Tony Acero) writes:
>The last several versions (at least since pl69) of gnuchess have
>exhibited the following behavior under Linux:
>
>	1.  Running under xboard -- "Program gnuchess exited
>unexpectedly". (When debugging is enabled the following message is also
>displayed.)
>
>	2.  Running gnuchess interactively -- "Received unknown signal"
>and gnuchess dies (apparently a kernel message).
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tony Acero
>-- 

Tony,

I can't help. But I also have similarly troubles with gnuchess with
or without xboard.

I did mess around with the source (mainly header files to reduce size
of tables) to stop it thrashing my disk (due to swapping).

Anyway, I get the errors around the middlegame to endgame stage whether
I'm winning or losing. Even if I save the position and restart xboard,
it will spit out "Program gnuchess exited unexpectedly".

Also, rather annoyingly, it doesn't recognise that it has lost
when mated.

Peter Chang - peterc@v2.ph.man.ac.uk

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