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I have just recently FTP'd gnuchess4.0p62.tar.gz from prep.ai.mit.edu.                                 
I also got the xboard X-windows interface.                                                             
Now at first I thought xboard was at fault as it reported an illegal move                              
a perfectly valid move - but just this morning I tried the ascii-curses version                        
(the 'gnuchess' executable) on its own and playing 1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4                           
it reported the 3. Bc4 was an illegal move - I tried an alternative notation f1c4                      
still no success.                                                                                      
I have compiled it on IBM's AIX V3 Unix with no apparent errors. Anyway there                          
shouldn't be any need for fancy compile options with an ASCII based program - so                       
what gives? The only thing I can think of is that its scanning Bc4 in incorrectly but                  
Nf3 works in move 2. Anyway it won't accept f1c4 as an alternative. Can anyone                         
think of a reason it doesn't work? Maybe some CFLAGS that need to be set                               
according to AIX Unix. If anyone has got gnuchess to work under AIX - I'd be very                      
grateful for a copy of their Makefile.                                                                 
        I'd much rather play chess with a RISC/6000 than the crappy computer-chess                     
we have at home - so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.                                    
                                                                                                       
Colm.