Re: Looking into creating a Native Client port of GnuChess

on file I/O is concerned, GNU Chess v6 also uses a book (optional) and a configuration file (mandatory, as of today). Like v5, it can use additional files for debugging and game storage. Cheers, --Antonio Ceballos On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Matthew Ball mb...@google.com wrote: On Fri

Re: newbie question

Hi Mike, I assume you downloaded the last version of GNU Chess from an FTP mirror, i.e. 6.0.0. In that case, the instructions in the INSTALL should work (and also for the previous versions 5.x), namely: ./configure make cd src ./gnuchess Aha! While I am typing this, I am realizing that the

Re: Cant run gnuchess5.07 on Xboard

'gnuchess --xboard' The manual of GNU Chess explains it: http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/manual/ Antonio Ceballos GNU Chess Team On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Antonio Ceballos Roa acebal...@gmail.comwrote: We recommend to use the last version of GNU Chess: 6.0.1. Anyway, v5,07 should work

Re: Patch to suppress gcc warning about return of non-void function

Hi Josef, Thanks a lot for the patch. I had to add the -Wall flag to the g++ command for components.cc in order to see the warnings. Did you notice them with the original make files? On which system? SuSE, I presume? Antonio Ceballos GNU Chess Team On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Josef

Re: Patch to suppress gcc warning about return of non-void function

it is printed in result as warning. So it is not system dependent. Josef On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:14:36 +0100 Antonio Ceballos acebal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Josef, Thanks a lot for the patch. I had to add the -Wall flag to the g++ command for components.cc in order to see the warnings. Did you

Re: gnuchess 6, trouble to build book.bin

:21 PM, Vincent Legout vinc...@legout.info wrote: Hi, Antonio Ceballos acebal...@gmail.com writes: I have verified your report, i.e. that the command below works for GNU Chess v5, but not for v6, due to the different way to handle the user input. The obvious way to compile a book in v6

Re: GnuChess 6 pgnload

Thanks for reporting that unexpected behaviour of GNU Chess v6. I will investigate both issues as soon as I can. Antonio Ceballos On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:41 AM, VoiDeT voi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, So just upgraded to version 6 of gnuchess. When I now try use pgnload the board loads and I

Re: Bug in GNU Chess 4.10 for Windows

are no longer maintained. Regards, Antonio Ceballos On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Buzz Bloom buzzbl...@rcn.com wrote: Hi: The HELP window for the version of GNU Chess 4.10 for Windows I am using says that the version was ported from GNU Chess 4.0 patch level 77, and it was compiled

Re: Unable to enter manual mode after undo

Hi Chris, Thanks for reporting that problem. I will investigate it and will get back to you. Regards, Antonio Ceballos On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Chris Young ch...@chris.net.au wrote: Hi, I can enter manual mode by typing manual such as: $ gnuchess GNU Chess 6.0.2 Copyright (C

Re: bug in setboard on version 6.0.3

Hi Chad, Thanks a lot for your kind contribution. I will review it as soon as possible in light of incorporating it into the next release of GNU Chess. Regards, Antonio Ceballos On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Chad Hendry chen...@nextchessmove.comwrote: Greetings! The setboard command

Re: gnuchess: Support for new ppc64le arch

...@linux.vnet.ibm.comwrote: Hi Antonio Ceballos, We are adding support for new ppc64le (IBM powerPC Little Endian) architecture as part of which we are looking at all the packages that need update. I was looking at gnuchess-6.1.0 tarball and was failed to build on ppc64le machine because of outdated

Re: Why chess stopped at this point?

ambiguity, the file number must not be included in that case. Hope this answers your question. Best regards, Antonio Ceballos On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:22 AM, A. P. Jena apj...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir, I don't understant if its a bug or anything else. Attached the file. Why did it stop

RE: eating 100% cpu, even when a game had not started yet and also after a game has ended

This is to reply a question from Folkert van Heusden asked on May 1st, 2014. Current version of GNU Chess is 6.1.1. The problem was fixed in version 6.1.0, so it should not be a problem any more. Please let me know if you experience it somehow. Regards, --Antonio Ceballos

RE: book doesn't handle castling moves

in versions higher than 6.1.1. Thanks again to Pawel Koziol for his kind contribution. --Antonio Ceballos ___ Bug-gnu-chess mailing list Bug-gnu-chess@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-chess

Re: Weird behavior

showing the inconsistent behavior that you report. I write it down for future improvement. By the way, this issue is not new to 6.1.2, but comes from previous 6.x.x, possibly from 6.0.0. Regards, Antonio Ceballos On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Kooothor kooot...@gmail.com wrote: Hello

Re: Weird behavior

and it seems to work fine (with or without capitalization). I running Archlinux btw. Regards, ~ktr On 1 August 2014 10:55, Antonio Ceballos acebal...@gmail.com wrote: The reason for that is the use of lowercase letters for the pieces. According to the Standard algebraic notation, you must use

Re: Weird behavior

culprit that will mess things up later (but shows no error) d5 Nxd5 I'm quite happy to finally solve this (because I hate using outdated versions :p). I hope this bug can be fixed :) Thanks again, Regards, ~ktr On 1 August 2014 16:56, Antonio Ceballos acebal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kooothor

Re: Request for auto-install standard

Dear H.G. Muller, I am willing to implement your suggestion indeed. That would do for a tighter integration of GNU Chess with XBoard, which is good for GNU. File gnuchess.eng seems an easy thing. 'gnuchess -x' is the correct command to start GNU Chess in XBoard mode. As for the logo, let me check

Re: Small patches

, Antonio Ceballos On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:59 PM, blue hut g.blue...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I am not sure whether this is the right way to go about this. First I tried registering at Savannah and then applying as a member there, but I got no response. So I will send some small patches

Re: cpu usage

running, enter the 'easy' command. Best regards, Antonio Ceballos On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Matthew Lai m...@matthewlai.ca wrote: Did you turn off pondering (thinking on opponent's time)? Matthew On 2015-01-01 3:12 AM, Svetlana Tkachenko wrote: I would like to report a bug

Re: Structure of gnuchess

to give you a better focused reply. Regards, Antonio Ceballos On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:02 PM, dragonsoul178 . element1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I assume gnuchess developers here? My question concerns the version 6 of Gnuchess, and it´s structure. I see that it uses array-based lists

Re: Possible bug in load command for a FEN file.

could not say for sure. Please try GNU Chess with the fixed FEN position and get back to us in case of need. By the way, I would be very interested to see your web site using GNU Chess. Regards, --Antonio Ceballos On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Clayten Gillis clgil...@gmail.com wrote: Hello

Re: -a doesn't work in gnuchess-6.2.2

Hi Adam, Thanks for spotting this error. Your analysis has helped me to fix it. I have uploaded the change to the software repository, but it will take some time to release a new version. Regards, Antonio Ceballos On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Adam Sampson <a...@offog.org> wrote:

Re: GNUchess: error with chess rules/ Linux

, --Antonio Ceballos On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:14 PM, dieterw <e...@gmx.net> wrote: > hi, > > the jpg-appendix shows a rule-violation by gnuchess. > > > -- > > MfG > EDSW >

Re: "nps" command does not work

. Cheers, Antonio Ceballos On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:36 AM, Joseph Schoonmaker < josephmschoonma...@gmail.com> wrote: > The xboard command "nps" does not work: > > admin@localhost:~$ gnuchess --xboard > Chess > nps 10 > TimeLimit[0] = 0 > TimeLimit[1]

Re: gnuchess --addbook doesn't exit anymore

Hi Vincent, Thanks for reporting this issue on version 6.2.2. I will check it and revert it as soon as possible. Antonio Ceballos On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Vincent Legout <vinc...@legout.info> wrote: > Hello, > > In Debian, we build the gnuchess-book package using gnu

Re: gnuchess --addbook doesn't exit anymore

one: > > http://sources.debian.net/src/gnuchess/6.2.2-2/debian/patches/exit.patch/ > > Thanks, > Vincent > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 07:42:33AM +0200, Antonio Ceballos wrote : > > Hi Vincent, > > > > Thanks for reporting this issue on version 6.2.2. I will check it

Re: bug when castling

Hi Tom, Thanks for your interest in GNU Chess. Could tell me if you are using the last version of GNU Chess (6.2.4)? Could you let me know the complete game from the beginning? Regards, Antonio Ceballos On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Tomek Marchowiecki <tmarchowie...@gmail.com >

Re: gnuchess-6.2.5 is not working with xboard-4.9.1

xboard -fcp 'gnuchess --xboard' - Which operating system are you using? Regards, Antonio Ceballos On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 7:28 AM, niksa <ni...@jurinovic.com> wrote: > Hello, > > unlike gnuchess-6.2.4, the 6.2.5 version is not working with xboard-4.9.1, > regardless of

Re: Interested in contributing to GNU Chess

. Regards, Antonio Ceballos On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Pranav Deshpande < deshpande.v.pra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, I am interested in chess programming as well as open > source. > I have created s simple chess engine to learn game AI: http://github.com/ > univers

Re: Buffer Overflow in cmd_load

Hi Henry, Thanks for your report. The details you provide are very much appreciated. I see the bug you pinpoint and I will fix it for the next release of GNU Chess. Regards, Antonio Ceballos On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 4:48 PM Henry Ballentine via Bug-gnu-chess < bug-gnu-chess@gnu.org>

Re: UCI issue in 6.2.5

Hi Ryan, Thanks for your report. Yes, it seems the same problem that was found a couple of years ago. Could you please indicate the version of XBoard and operating system that you are using? I don't think it will make a big difference, but it can be helpful. Cheers, Antonio On Fri, Jan 31, 2020

Re: Castling bug in gnuchess version 6.2.5

Hi Raúl, Thanks for your interest. Your report is a bug that has been fixed in the latest version 6.2.6. You can find it here: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/chess/gnuchess-6.2.6.tar.gz Regards, Antonio Ceballos On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 10:44 PM Raul Granados Barbero via Bug reports for GNU Chess

Re: issue saving a game

Thanks for your answer. We will try to track it down. Antonio On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 5:52 PM victorhck wrote: > El 7/10/20 a las 0:27, Antonio Ceballos escribió: > > Hello, > > > > I have been unable to reproduce the problem on version 6.2.7. > > > > I don't u

Re: issue saving a game

Hello, I have been unable to reproduce the problem on version 6.2.7. I don't understand where the two-line date heading of your ARCHIVO comes from, as pgnsave does not write anything before [Event ""]. Do you have any clue? By the way, had you invoked pgnload beforehands? As Simon said,

Re: issue saving a game

I could not reproduce the bug on Ubuntu 16.04, but I could on Debian 10.6. I have verified Simon's patch and I think it is fine and fixes the bug. Therefore, I have uploaded the change to the subversion repository in Savannah. It will be included in the next release, 6.2.8, which may still take

Re: xboard 4.9.1 + gnuchess 6.7.2 don't work together

Hi Frank, Thanks for your report. I think that the problem comes from the way GNU Chess is invoked. When you want to run it from XBoard, you must use the --xboard flag. The manual of GNU Chess (info gnuchess) includes a couple of examples that show how to run XBoard from the command line

Re: xboard 4.9.1 + gnuchess 6.7.2 don't work together

ss to an older version could help. > > I must say sometimes XBoard with GNU Chess works. Even with the simple: > 'xboard' command. > On 11/14/20 4:55 PM, Antonio Ceballos wrote: > > Hi Frank, > > Thanks for your report. I think that the problem comes from the way GNU > Chess is &

Re: GNU Chess Download

Thanks for your interest in GNU Chess. The .tar.gz file can be opened by most compression programs on any computer. You can uncompress it and see the source files. It includes instructions to build the program on GNU/Linux systems, but not on Windows. Regards, Antonio On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at

Re: issue saving a game

Glad to hear that! Antonio On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 6:57 PM victorhck wrote: > El 23/10/20 a las 20:16, Antonio Ceballos escribió: > > I could not reproduce the bug on Ubuntu 16.04, but I could on Debian > 10.6. > > > > I have verified Simon's patch and I think it i

Re: Buffer Overflows in cmd.cc

, Antonio Ceballos On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 5:54 AM Michael Vaughan (RIT Student) < mav8...@rit.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to report a potentially exploitable issue within the > cmd_pgnload() and cmd_pgnreplay() functions in cmd.cc. In the loop between > lines 482-485 i

Re: Possible Bug

Hi Edgardo, Thanks for your report. Could you tell me what version of GNU Chess you are using? Nevertheless, in your game, after white plays 11. e4, I think that black cannot play 11. ..., d4. How did you manage to get that move done? This is what I get if I try to do that: White (11) : e4 11.

Re: Bug in return_append_str

ointer one character to the right. It is a simple typo, the > brackets are placed incorrectly. > > Regards, > Mark > > -- > Sent from my phone, please excuse any typos. > > >> On Jul 3, 2017, at 00:14, Antonio Ceballos <acebal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> &g