🚀 go-pugleaf

I can answer the xboard part of your message.

> I love the large clocks in xboard-3.0pl9..  But the pulldown menus are a
> hassle.  It takes too long to step forward several moves.  

Use the < and > buttons on the upper right to step backward and
forward, or the b and f keys on the keyboard.

> Also, I dislike
> having to click on the "ok" button when I attempt an illegal move, etc.

You don't have to click the ok button.  Just make a different move (or
click anywhere on the board) and the popup will go away.

> 1) Make it possible to force gnuchess to move (from xboard.)  If I try to
> stop it with "Force Move" I get the popup box "Wait until your turn."

I will probably do something like this in a future version.

> 2) Show the current depth, intended move, and evalution, just like in
> commercial programs (from xboard.)

You can get a poor-man's version of this feature by adding "post\n" to
the XBoard*initString resource (see the xboard man page), and running
XBoard with the -debug flag.  You may also have to remove
"-DBAREBONES" wherever it appears in the Makefile for gnuchess and
recompile gnuchessx; in at least some versions, -DBAREBONES breaks the
post command.  You then get the output you want printed out in the
xterm that you started xboard from, along with some debugging
information that you can ignore.

> 3) Allow a "correspondence" mode, in which gnuchess continues thinking until
> you hit a certain key.

You could get this effect with feature (1) above, by setting -sd or
-st to some large value.

> Gnuchess seems unable to mate itself with BR vs B (opp color bishops.)  It
> keeps moving its rook off the seventh.

Any comment on this from the gnuchess experts?

	--Tim