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Hi,

I retrieved gnuchess v3.1 from gatekeeper.pa.dec.com. I compiled
it on a DECstation running Ultrix and It works OK for me. I also
compiled the xchess utility which comes with it and it also seems to
work on its own OK.

The problem occurs when I try to use the xchess -c option to get xchess
to act as a display front end and use gnuchess to decide what moves
to play on behalf of black. The xchess gives an error called
"program dies" approx 10 seconds after invoking gnuchess.

If I run xchess with debug=1, the Xchess program continually prints-out
messages "Error: parse_imove: piece of wrong color!". It seems that
Xchess invokes gnuchess and expects to receive gnuchess to type a move
for black on stdout....instead gnuchess prints a picture of a chess board
which confuses the hell out of Xchess.

How do I get gnuchess to be invoked in the mode where it will just print
out black moves and not print out a board.

\Brian.

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