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>>>>> On Wed, 17 Mar 93 23:32:15 GMT, mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann) said:

>> Here's a bug I just ran across in xboard 2.1 PL 9.  When using
>> "Force Moves" I can't get Black to castle kingside.  Says its an
>> illegal move. 

> Sigh.  This is a bug in gnuchess 4.0 that will be fixed in pl62.  It
> is not a bug in xboard.  I posted a patch to pl61 from Mike McGann on
> gnu.chess a week or two ago.

> I wonder why everyone blames this bug on xboard.

To be fair, we should say "xboard/gnuchess is broken" and let
you guys sort out the details.  It's not reasonable to expect
folks who merely play chess with these programs to be able
to diagnose which part of the system is at fault.

This sort of thing arises with complex systems all the time.
Nuances about which part is broken makes sense to implementors,
but to a user it's just one big glob and it doesn't work.
I work with a distributed system that, for a single user, involves
at least 4 processes distributed across at least 3 machines.  My users
don't care a wit what component has a problem, they just want
the thing to work.

Jon Vander Hill
jon@cas.org