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Re: gnuchess 3.1 on Sparcstation IPC using chesstool

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From: Neil Ostroff
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1991 22:13
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In article <1991Sep26.204341.21317@ncsu.edu> gage@mrips.bgsm.wfu.edu writes:

> ... it starts fine ... then the game freezes.
> Anyone have an idea what the problem may be?

The beep confuses Sun's chesstool interface.  You can un-confuse
chesstool by setting flag.beep to false instead of true in NewGame().

Also, chesstool does not do justice to gnuchess.  You gain a fancy
interface but lose a lot of gnuchess' features.

Enjoy,
Neil
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