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Re: Help (please) gnuchess/xboard doesn't seem to know the rules !

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From: Tim Mann
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 01:06
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> I wonder if somebody on the net can throw some light on my problem with 
> gnuchess/xboard ? Yesterday I compiled gnuchess version 4 pl 61 together with
> xboard version 2.1 pl 17 and both seemed to compile ok and produced binaries
> that function.

The first thing you should try is to get the latest versions of xboard
and gnuchess.  Those are xboard 3.0 pl 9 and gnuchess 4.0 pl 62.

You can get gnuchess from prep.ai.mit.edu, and xboard from
export.x.org.  (Normally you could get both from prep, but for some
unknown reason the latest version of xboard has not been moved to the
public ftp area there yet.  prep does have xboard 3.0 pl8, though.)

It's hard to tell exactly why you're seeing the problems you are---one
difficulty is that there is no such thing as xboard 2.1 pl 17, so I
would have to guess what version you really have.  The problem is most
likely a known bug in gnuchess 4.0 pl61 that corrupts memory, however.
This is all historical trivia though.  Just get the latest versions,
then ask again if you have any problems with them.

	--Tim
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