Offering Draw after first move.

[Coit, James Joseph (UMR-Student)]

Hardware:  233Mhz P2, 32 Mb Ram, 4 Gig Harddrive

OS:  Debian Linux 3.0r1

 

Compilation commands:

 

CFLAGS=”-O3 –ffast-math” ./configure

make

 

no errors

 

Using book created from book_1.00.pgn (25Mb)

no errors

 

./gnuchess alone works perfectly for commandline play.

 

However, using icsDrone-1.5.0 to connect to FICS works until it accepts a challenge.  After its first move, it immediately offers a draw.  Each game…every game.  If the draw request is ignored, it plays very well, no errors and without offering another draw request (except in obviously drawn positions).  If the draw request is accepted, the game ends and there are no errors.  This is just an inconvenience, as people merely accept the draw request to boost their rating.