Re: bug in gnuchess4.0p62

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From: Tim Mann
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1993 19:45

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> There is definitively a bug in gnuchess4.0p62 used with xboard (or xchess) on
> almost every machine (read the previous posts).

This is a wild extrapolation from several different problems people
have reported, most of which have already had solutions posted.

> It seems that the program stops working after a while. I think, this
> appens when the computer try to castle. Then you get the following message:
> 
> Error: parse_imove: piece of wrong color!

This error message is coming from xchess.  xchess is no longer
supported; it was replaced by xboard long ago.  There have been some
changes to the output format of gnuchessx lately which apparently
break compatibility with xchess.  It still works fine with xboard.

	--Tim

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Subject: Re: bug in gnuchess4.0p62
Date: 5 Oct 1993 19:45:07 GMT
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