Re: About two bugs in version 2, I suppose

[Simon Waters]

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Jean Rissoto wrote:
>
> I'm playing chess with OpenChess on a PALM. OpenChess has been built
> with gnuchess. May be the version 2. Playing I constate two bugs:
> 1. Computer had moved king rook twice: from h8 to f8 and from f8 to h8.
> After it does a castle (petit roque in french); which as I know is
> illegal: both king and rook must have not moved.
> 2. It does not detect a "pat" ( as we said in french pat=king is not
> chess, but the player can't do any legal move)
>
> I found OpenChess at: http://www.geocities.com/sonaltessefr/
> I hope this help you.

I don't have any specific details of Son Altessa.

As you probably realised GNU Chess 2 is long dead from our perspective.

There appear to be a couple of commercial off shoots of OpenChess for
PalmOS. You may be able to obtain source code changes from these vendors
(Handchess, and 9.95 Chess).

Certainly Handchess is freely downloadable with source code, and has
changes noted in 2003, including a note that the "original" author is
now working on it, presumably Son Altessa.

> May be I shall try to use gnuchess 5.06 with OpenChess. If you have any
> information which can help me it shall be fine, the owner of
> http://www.geocities.com/sonaltessefr/ don't answer me about where his
> project is now.
>
> May I introduce a "ifdef PALM"?

If you have to!

Don't work from 5.06, work from CVS head release if possible,
instructions on doing this are on Savannah (GNU Source Forge). If the
changes are big enough to need a branch ask...

There might also be good reasons to branch from an earlier version -
(5.04 springs to mind for some reason) depending what Palm OS and the
compilers give you in terms of supporting threads and the like.

You might also look around for Winboard protocol GUI's for Palm, as that
might be more appropriate?

 Simon
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