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- From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell~)
- Newsgroups: gnu.chess
- Subject: Wrong "illegal move" pl58 and pl60
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 15:44:23 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corporation
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- Sender: tmcconne@sedona (Tom McConnell~)
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-
- System: RS/6000, AIX-3.1
- gcc-2.3.3
- xboard-2.0.pl25
- gnuchess-4.0.pl60
-
- I get an "Illegal move" error from gnuchessx for good moves. The errors appear
- to be random, but repeatable. Here is one example:
-
- thunder> xboard -size small -debug true
- Received from first: Chess
- Sending to first: new
- beep
- random
- easy
-
- Received from first: transposition table is 131072
- Received from first: new
- Received from first: beep
- Received from first: random
- Received from first: easy
- Sending to first: e2e3
-
- Received from first: e2e3
- Received from first: 1. e2e3
- Received from first: 1. ... g8h6
- Sending to first: d2d4
-
- Received from first: d2d4
- Received from first: 2. d2d4
- Received from first: 2. ... e7e6
- Sending to first: f1d3
-
- Received from first: f1d3
- Received from first: 3. f1d3
- Received from first: 3. ... d8g5
- Sending to first: g1f3
-
- Received from first: g1f3
- Received from first: Illegal move (no matching move)g1f3
-
- The last move is white King's knight to white Bishop 3. This is a legal move,
- but gnuchessx refuses to let me play it.
-
- This problem also shows up when xboard is told to play two machines, although
- it usually takes longer.
-
- Another interesting item is that after the first game, after
- "gnuchess.book.data" is written, gnuchessx just seems to hang. If you are
- running "two machines", you get two gnuchessx processes running full blast,
- but neither one actually makes a move. This does _not_ happen with pl58.
-
- Thanks for any help.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Tom McConnell
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