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The important thing to remember about GNU Chess when desired for
the Chesstool interface is the syntax for its commands are
identical to what you see with /usr/games/chess (the standard
Unix chess program). A quick check that the gnuchess will 
work is:

	gnuchess
	Chess	<== should say this on entry
	e2e4    <== type in a move, pawn-to-king-4
	1. ... c7c5 <=== should see this back (or whatever reply)

Nothing else should be on the screen. No clear-screen, no
statistics, just very plain like /usr/games/chess. If you don't
see this, trace back through and see why. Run a debugger and
find out. Although you receive full source, when you investigate
these things even a little more, you'll often find the solution.

Sorry to lecture!

Stuart

In article <1990Dec24.075033.2170@nntp-server.caltech.edu> morphy@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Jones Maxime Murphy) writes:
>Gnuchessr hangs after the first move, and I don't know why. Chesstool works and
>gnchessr works without chesstool. Any suggestions?
>Jones

This has been mentioned a few times so I guess its worth a posted reply.
Somewhere in your gnuchess documentation you will find reference to
this problem and the solution.  It's been a while so I can't remember 
where in particular it is, but this is another case of RTFM.

Gnuchess sends out a beep (^G) to the terminal when it is the
persons turn to move.  This ^G makes chesstool hang.  This beep
is controlled by a flag and can be turned off when playing without 
chesstool.  The solution to the problem is to make gnuchess default
to beep off.  The variable to change is beep.  Find where it is
initialized and set it to beep=0 instead of beep=1.

Good Luck.
Gil Crouse
crouse@eng.umd.edu