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colm@watson.ibm.com wrote:
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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.                                    
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: Colm.                                                                                                  


Well, I do have gnuchess on AIX v 3.2 (?) working fine.  Using the resident
cc compiler, I have the flags as

CFLAGS = -O3 -D_POSIX_SOURCE

This reduces plenty of warnings and errors.  I might have #define huge as
nothing, not sure about that though.  Give this a shot.  

On the other hand, I haven't been able to get xboard working.  For one thing,
my X11 kit does not have the Xaw library.  I did manage to get the Xaw
package from another source, and xboard links fine, but on startup, I get
a board with the pieces, but all the buttons/boxes are empty.  Ah well..

Kong Sian
kongsian@nsrc.nus.sg