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I've been playing speed chess against gnuchess-3.0 using Xchess as the
interface.  Unfortunately, the thing frequently hangs up and lets its
time run out.  For example, in the following game , after I (white)
made the 15th move, gnuchess had about 4 min remaining (5 min/60
moves), but failed to move in more than 15 minutes.

X Chess -- Tue Jun 12 12:50:06 CDT 1990
	Game played on unix:0.0
	english
 1. P/k2-k4          N/kn1-kb3
 2. P/k4-k5          N/kb3-k5
 3. P/q2-q3          N/k5-qb4
 4. P/q3-q4          N/qb4-k3
 5. P/qb2-qb4        P/q2-q3
 6. P/q4-q5          N/k3-qb4
 7. P/kb2-kb4        N/qn1-q2
 8. N/kn1-kb3        P/k2-k3
 9. P/qn2-qn4        N/qb4-k5
10. Q/q1-qb2         P/k3xP/q4
11. P/qb4xP/q5       P/kb2-kb4
12. P/k5-k6          N/q2-kb3
13. B/kb1-qn5+       K/k1-k2
14. Q/qb2-q3         P/qr2-qr4
15. N/qn1-q2         

I'm not really sure if the problem is with Xchess or gnuchess.  I
tried playing the game without using Xchess, but either I botched it
(translating to algebraic while working on something else), or
gnuchess made different moves (I wasn't using a board).  Given no book
and non-random play, the machine (SUN3/60) will repeat this sequence
of moves every time when I use Xchess and move quickly (I had only
used about 30 seconds).  What's the story here?



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