Re: Bug in GNUchess 5 engine

[Simon Waters]

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Gert Winderlich wrote:
> Hello programmers,
>
> I found a bug in GNUchess 5.0 engine
> Winboard 4.2.6 + GNUChess v5.02+
> running on PC, Win2000
>
> - Mode > Edit Position
> - right click > Clear Board
> - set black king to e8
> - set white king to e6
> - set white pawn to d6
> - Mode > Edit Game
> - move Kf6
> - Mode > Machine black
> after 9 seconds a Windows message box pops up:
> Fatal error
> Error: first chess program (GNUChes5 xboard) exites unexpectedly.
> - after clicking OK, the program crashs
> - there are no problems in GNUChess 4.0 when doing the same actions
>
> Can you reproduce this?

Thanks for the report Gert,

I can not reproduce this under Xboard (no W2K here) and GNU Chess 5.07.

5.02 did have some problems with editting positions.

5.07 is available for download, but I am withholding the official
announcement until I have time to sort out some minor formatting errors
in the opening book on the GNU ftp site.

A number of people have announced 5.06 binaries for Windows in the
gnu.chess newsgroup. In most cases you can just replace the gnuche5.exe
executable, with an updated one.

I suggest you try updating.

 Apologies for the problems,

 Simon
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