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I'm using xboard 1.1 with gnuchess 3.1 and most things seem to work
to, with the notable exception of pawn promotion. When I move a pawn
into the 8th rank, I can see it flash to a queen, then it dissappears
and the pawn reappears on the 7th rank and the message Illegal move is
displayed.  Since I just updated xboard and this didn't get fixed,
I've come to the conclusion that I've incorrectly configured
something.  I've looked through the text files but haven't seen
anything obvious.

Here is what happened when I made gnuchessr

[1.97]sunspot) make gnuchessr
gcc -W -O -finline-functions -fstrength-reduce -DHASHFILE=\"/net/puma/d0/vaughan/gchess/gnuchess.hash\" -DBOOK=\"/net/puma/d0/vaughan/gchess/gnuchess.book\" -c gnuchess.c
gcc -W -O -finline-functions -fstrength-reduce -DCHESSTOOL -c nondsp.c
gcc -W -O -finline-functions -fstrength-reduce -o gnuchessr gnuchess.o nondsp.o

and this is the way I invoke xboard

xboard -firstChessProgram ../gnuchessr

What am I doing wrong?


Also--just a reality check here--does the pair (xboard, gnuchess) tend
to get confused after taking back moves and trying different lines
several times, especially if the time on the clocks expires for anyone
else, or just for me?

And would most folks agree that the best way to handle taking back
moves is to restore the clocks to the time at which the position was
first reached, or is that my own peculiar idea?

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