Gnuchess 3.0 and chesstool

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3 total messages Started by Michael Johnston Sun, 09 Sep 1990 01:08

#6168

Author: Michael Johnston
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 1990 01:08

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I've compiled GNUchess 3.0 for SunOS as per the instructions (I.E. -DCHESSTOOL)
however I'm unable to get it to interact properly with chesstool. The basic
problem is that it allows me to make my first move and it then locks up.
Without the time to pursue the cause of this I've left it on the back burner.
Can someone perhaps tell me if they've got it working on their machine and
if so did you have to perform any special steps to get it working? My system
is a Sparcstation 1 with SunOS 4.03.  Oh, one other thing. I notice that
when it does lock up that when I kill the chesstool window and return to
the parent window from where I invoked it that I see "My move...." etc. So,
it would seem to me to be some sort of I/O mismatch or something. Anyone?

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Michael R. Johnston, Mgr.           Internet: mjohn@citib.com
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Re: Gnuchess 3.0 and chesstool

#6173

Author: William M. Schmidt
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 18:06

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In article <1990Sep9.010858.9090@rosewall.citib>, mjohn@citib.com (Michael Johnston) writes:
> I've compiled GNUchess 3.0 for SunOS as per the instructions (I.E. -DCHESSTOOL)
> however I'm unable to get it to interact properly with chesstool. The basic
> problem is that it allows me to make my first move and it then locks up.

The problem seems to be with chesstool. If you run the non display version
of gnu chess without chesstool you'll find that it works just fine. Just
for grins, I tried running chesstool with the chess that comes with SunOS
4.1 and it resigned before I even made a move which is flattering, but not
a lot of fun. It looks like a new graphical display needs to be written.

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Bill Schmidt                 |
Texas Accelerator Center     | "Eagles may soar, but a worm never
emcalc@sugar.hackercorp.com  |  gets sucked into a jet engine"

Re: Gnuchess 3.0 and chesstool

#6175

Author: Matthew Litwin
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 1990 01:23

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In article <6564@sugar.hackercorp.com> emcalc@sugar.hackercorp.com (William M. Schmidt) writes:
>In article <1990Sep9.010858.9090@rosewall.citib>, mjohn@citib.com (Michael Johnston) writes:
>> I've compiled GNUchess 3.0 for SunOS as per the instructions (I.E. -DCHESSTOOL)
>> however I'm unable to get it to interact properly with chesstool. The basic
>> problem is that it allows me to make my first move and it then locks up.
>
>The problem seems to be with chesstool. If you run the non display version
>of gnu chess without chesstool you'll find that it works just fine. Just
>for grins, I tried running chesstool with the chess that comes with SunOS
>4.1 and it resigned before I even made a move which is flattering, but not
>a lot of fun. It looks like a new graphical display needs to be written.
> 
>-- 
>Bill Schmidt                 |
>Texas Accelerator Center     | "Eagles may soar, but a worm never
>emcalc@sugar.hackercorp.com  |  gets sucked into a jet engine"



On a Sparc OS4.1, with gnuchess-3.1, and compiling -DCHESSTOOL as instructed:

Sun's chesstool seems to balks at receiving a bell character.

Comment out the offending statement in the file nondsp.c (lines 455-456).

if (flag.beep)
 printz ("%c", 7)

Then invoke chesstool as follows:
chesstool gnuchess.chesstool

P.S.
	I don't know if there are other similar problems in the chesstool
	interface, or if this is the same problem found in gnuchess3.0 .

Matt Litwin

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