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Re: What's causing this?

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From: Tim Mann
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 04:02
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There seems to be more than one thing that can cause gnuchessx to hang
when it gets out of its opening book.  Anyway, there is at least one
thing that I understand, and at least one that I don't.

If you have this problem, first check to be sure you really have
gnuchess 4.0 pl62.

Next, check the Makefile for gnuchess.  There should be two lines
with the string "OPT=" near the beginning, one that says "gnufour ICS
client" on the previous line, and one that says "normal" on the
previous line.  The one following "gnufour ICS client" should be
commented out, while the other is uncommented, like this:

# gnufour ICS client
#OPT= -DCACHE -DCLIENT -DGDX -DGNU3 -DHASGETTIMEOFDAY -DHISTORY -DNULLMOVE  -DQUIETBACKGROUND -DSEMIQUIETBOOKGEN 
# normal
OPT= -DCACHE -DGDX -DHASGETTIMEOFDAY -DHISTORY -DNULLMOVE  -DOLDTIME -DQUIETBACKGROUND -DSEMIQUIETBOOKGEN 

If your gnuchess Makefile doesn't look like this, you need to edit it,
then do "rm *.o; make; make install".

My copy of gnuchess 4.0 pl62 was distributed with the makefile edited
the correct way, but at least one person told me his wasn't.  (Perhaps
he really had 4.0 pl62beta, which is different; I don't know.)

Unfortunately, some people who are having gnuchess hang after it gets
out of the opening seem to be hitting a different problem, or
problems.  Hopefully we'll find out more in the future.

	--Tim
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From: mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
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Subject: Re: What's causing this?
Date: 24 Sep 1993 04:02:54 GMT
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