🚀 go-pugleaf

	We've had similar problems running through ChessTool. There have been so many
	illegal moves (eg. R's moving like B's, Q's jumping pieces) that I just call
	up gnuchessr by itself and play the game in my head :-).

I'd definitely recommend getting xboard then. I used to use XChess,
but find xboard much better. I couldn't queen pawns in XChess either,
and nearly everytime I took back a move, it would fail. The one thing
I miss is that I had hacked XChess so that I could save and restore
games properly but that doesn't work with xboard (and I haven't found
out why yet.)

Here's one tip that's useful with xboard. It occasionally refuses to
recognize a move (doesn't even say illegal move). When that happens,
if I hit pause twice, I can usually go ahead and make the move.

I've played a lot of games with xboard and it's usually satisfactory.
It's pretty rare that I get into a position of queening a pawn where
the game outcome isn't obvious. Most of the time that it fouls up like
how I posted, gnuchessr's game is essentially lost. This is one of the
few times where it did this in a game that was undecided. It does it
pretty frequently when there's a mate in two or something.

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