Re: [Bug-XBoard] Chess Viewer

. -- Tim Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim-mann.org/ ___ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #17234] Bogus en-passant capture

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #17234 (project xboard): This is a known and documented limitation. See the LIMITATIONS section of the documentation. It's up to the back end (chess engine or internet chess server) to enforce the rules. XBoard just does a preliminary, incomplete check for illegal

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #18687] Check reported instead of a mate

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #18687 (project xboard): This happens because of a documented limitation: xboard doesn't check whether possible en passant captures are actually legal (i.e., whether or not the pawn to be captured just moved). In the given game, the illegal en passant capture cxd3

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #19648] Editing Position

Update of bug #19648 (project xboard): Status:None = Invalid Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Reply to this item at:

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #19648] Editing Position

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #19648 (project xboard): I added a comment when I closed this item but I don't see the comment now. Repeating it: Use the middle button to add white pieces, or Shift+Right. This is documented, but of course I realize people don't expect to have to read the

Re: [Bug-XBoard] WinBoard 'en passent' error?

mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard -- Tim Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim-mann.org/ ___ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard

Re: [Bug-XBoard] WinBoard Installer

or whatever.) If there is a script file or the like, it should go into the CVS on Savannah. Thanks, Tim On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 23:01:54 -0700, Tim Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Mark. Thanks for reminding me about that! I will give it a quick test run and put it up as a download. D'oh

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Winboard.ini file is missing

can you help me? -- Thanks Regards, Prafulla ___ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard -- Tim Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim-mann.org

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #22880] xboard segfaults when clicking File/Load in the menu bar

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #22880 (project xboard): It works for me under Ubuntu 7.10, 64-bit, Gnome. I don't recall seeing or hearing about this issue under any other distro either. ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: [Bug-XBoard] ICS protocol

pn-- ---p --PP --B--N-- PP-- R--QKB-R B -1 1 1 1 1 0 28 jarum cyed -1 20 12 36 36 1229 1233 6 B/d2-c3 (0:02) Bxc3 0 1 174..fics% -- Tim Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim-mann.org/ ___ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org

Re: [Bug-XBoard] small bug

' , freezing the opponent's neighboring piece that was checking you.) Regards, H.G.Muller ___ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard -- Tim Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim-mann.org

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #10273] 7 bit ascii problem in interface

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #10273 (project xboard): timeseal is a separate closed-source program provided by FICS. You should ask them to fix it. The someone at FICS you talked to is mistaken. I just downloaded the latest versions of timeseal for Linux from the freechess.org web site (both

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #17234] Bogus en-passant capture

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #17234 (project xboard): Did HGM fix this in 4.4.x? ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17234 ___ Message sent via/by Savannah

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #10273] 7 bit ascii problem in interface

Update of bug #10273 (project xboard): Status:None = Invalid Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #3: Although timeseal is

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #17234] Bogus en-passant capture

Update of bug #17234 (project xboard): Status:None = Fixed Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #3: HGM says yes.

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #26127] Enhancement: XBoard support for MiniChess 2009

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #26127 (project xboard): From: h.g. muller To: bug-xboard@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #26127] Enhancement: XBoard support for MiniChess 2009 Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:11:00 +0200 This patch as given is inompatible with the latest source, as the code it

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #26126] Enhancement: XBoard support for MiniChess 2007

Update of bug #26126 (project xboard): Status: Need Info = Postponed ___ Follow-up Comment #2: See #26126. ___ Reply to this item at:

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #25689] Winboard Help does not work with Vista 64bit

Update of bug #25689 (project xboard): Status:None = Fixed Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Reply to this item at:

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #8021] e.p. square not passed to engine in setboard?

Subject: Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #8021] e.p. square not passed to engine in setboard? Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:41:11 +0200 At 08:26 3-10-2009 +, Tim Mann wrote: Follow-up Comment #1, bug #8021 (project xboard): HGM, is this one fixed too? Yes, this should be fixed

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27650] Line wrap in ICS mode

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #27650 (project xboard): If the ICS splits the line in the middle of a style12 board, that would screw things up for other interfaces besides xboard, wouldn't it? So I'd think we could get the ICS folks to fix that, though it's nice to tolerate it if we can. Can we

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not found

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #27687 (project xboard): I think this could be improved a lot within the package management systems. For instance, in ubuntu, I notice the xboard package does this: Recommends: xfonts-75dpi | xfonts-100dpi Suggests: gnuchess | phalanx, x-terminal-emulator

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27630] Black fairy pieces partly transparent

Follow-up Comment #11, bug #27630 (project xboard): Historical note: For the orthodox pieces, the xboard bitmap pieces are the originals. They were generated using MetaFont from a chess font that was designed in MetaFont format, then hand-tuned to some extent (especially the smaller sizes).

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #10990] cmail does not seem to support .cmailgames or .cmailaliases

Update of bug #10990 (project xboard): Status:None = Confirmed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Looking back through the old RCS history, those features were deleted in 1995. Apparently it

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #8847] Moving backward while examining on FICS not reported to engine

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #8847 (project xboard): The bug submitter must have been examining a game on FICS while in zippy mode (-zp). Zippy mode is the only case where xboard is connected to both an ICS and an engine at the same time. (Or at least it was in 4.2.7... have we added anything in

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #8847] Moving backward while examining on FICS not reported to engine

occurs despite of it, it must be because the ICS does not send a board. -- Tim Mann t...@tim-mann.org http://tim-mann.org/ ___ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #8847] Moving backward while examining on FICS not reported to engine

Update of bug #8847 (project xboard): Severity: 3 - Normal = 2 - Minor Open/Closed: Closed = Open ___ Follow-up Comment #3: I just tried with the

Re: [Bug-XBoard] premove bug?

. By the way, I notice -premoveBlackText is not documented in the xboard docs, but is in winboard. (That was my error -- I notice it's that way in 4.2.7.) -- Tim Mann t...@tim-mann.org http://tim-mann.org/ ___ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27799] fix for nested-nested-nested variations

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #27799 (project xboard): All good points, and you understand the syntax correctly. Looking at the next pattern, besides the fact that the patterns are wrongly looking for Mateed we actually are trying to recognize White mated as both a win and a loss by white! I guess

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27810] Copy Game / Position do not work in XBoard?

Update of bug #27810 (project xboard): Status:None = Fixed Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #9: That turned out to

Re: [Bug-XBoard] configure doesn't do the right thing after no malloc.h detected on MacOSX

I don't remember anything about the #include malloc.h. It might have been added for some ancient Unix that didn't have stdlib.h yet, or might have been a mistake from the start. On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Arun Persaud apers...@lbl.gov wrote: Hi On 04/03/2011 06:55 AM, Dima Pasechnik

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #33241] xboard quits with Unable to create font set.

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #33241 (project xboard): Presumably this worked for Arun on his system before he checked it in. Could you say exactly what linux (or other unix) distro you are on? What does gettextize --version say on your system? I had a different problem: I'm on Ubuntu 10.04 with

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #33241] xboard quits with Unable to create font set.

h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote: At 01:13 17-5-2011 -0700, Tim Mann wrote: p.s. I just tried, and editing the .xboardrc file to change the fonts from iso8846 to iso10646 did NOT fix the broken umlauts. So there is more to that problem. I don't really know anything about X-fonts, but apparently

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #33241] xboard quits with Unable to create font set.

After some more random googling and flailing, I have learned that setting the resource *international: True in Xaw widgets makes them do something more nearly correct. Try this: env LANG=de_DE.utf8 xboard -xrm '*international: True' When I do that, I get correct umlauts and the ß character in

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #33241] xboard quits with Unable to create font set.

-0700, Tim Mann wrote: It looks like we need to change FindFont to just return the fontset, then change the rest of the code to set fontSet resources using that value instead of setting font resources. That looks like it will be a fair amount of work to carry through fully. Maybe it's best

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #33241] xboard quits with Unable to create font set.

Basically this happens because the helvetica fonts that xboard uses by default don't have Cyrillic characters, at least not the versions of those fonts that you and I have on our machines. (I think we are both using some release of Ubuntu, right? I'm using 10.04.) I don't understand why we get

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #33241] xboard quits with Unable to create font set.

Update of bug #33241 (project xboard): Status: Ready For Test = Fixed ___ Follow-up Comment #12: After some more emails, it seems that that Auguste's main issue was just that helvetica is not

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #33241] xboard quits with Unable to create font set.

Update of bug #33241 (project xboard): Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33241 ___

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #33241] xboard quits with Unable to create font set.

, when the real problem is just that they don't have helvetica installed. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Tim Mann t...@tim-mann.org wrote: Basically this happens because the helvetica fonts that xboard uses by default don't have Cyrillic characters, at least not the versions of those fonts

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #33241] xboard quits with Unable to create font set.

practical way for us to work around an issue in the XLC_LOCALE file, but if I finish tracking this down I can try reporting it upstream. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Tim Mann t...@tim-mann.org wrote: I pushed a commit that uses fixed as a fallback font for missing charsets. It's ugly in large

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #33241] xboard quits with Unable to create font set.

apers...@lbl.gov wrote: Hi On 05/29/2011 02:04 PM, Tim Mann wrote: What does the garbage look like? screenshot attached I think it might be just that you don't have a font with the necessary characters. yes, I think that's the problem... I think it's an Xaw or Xt bug that it puts up

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #34457] xboard: no fonts match pattern -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Sorry, I failed to reply-to-all with the following: That bug report should quit recurring with 4.6.0 when my fixes to the internationalization code get released. However, we may instead get complaints that the menus look ugly -- because the user didn't have Helvetica installed and xboard fell

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Latest developments

The second board, with clocks that count down, would be super for bughouse. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:32 AM, h.g. muller h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote: At 14:41 10-4-2012 -0700, Arun Persaud wrote: didn't have time to test, but a second window with clocks and move highlight sounds better... does

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39971] fix configure switches misbehaving

The documentation for zic2xpm says that it converts ZIICS pieces to xpm format. ZIICS is an old program from way back that few are likely to remember anymore. If zic2xpm works on ChessBase pieces, that's news to me -- where did you hear that? I guess it's possible that ZIICS used ChessBase pieces

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39971] fix configure switches misbehaving

by mb, a player on the US ICS. The other sets with similar names are magnifications of the above sets. The other sets are derived from the GIICS VGA set. On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:24 PM, h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote: OOp Di, 1 oktober, 2013 7:42 am schreef Tim Mann: The documentation

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39971] fix configure switches misbehaving

IMO, there's no hope of automatic PNG to (useful) SVG, seeing that that would involve adding information that isn't in the PNG file -- i.e., the converter would have to guess what lines and curves the bitmap is trying to suggest to the human eye. Maybe a sophisticated machine vision algorithm

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39971] fix configure switches misbehaving

, and anti-aliasing, I imagine SVG looks great for sizes people actually use. On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:02 PM, h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote: Op Di, 1 oktober, 2013 9:49 pm schreef Tim Mann: It would be cool to have the old familiar piece shapes as SVG. Yes, we do have an SVG set, and I

Re: [Bug-XBoard] font name declaration bug

That is not a bug. Those options take a string consisting of font patterns separated by commas. If no match is found for the first pattern, xboard tries the second one, etc. The commas are a part of the string. On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Александр Дидин adid...@yandex.ru wrote: Hi, there

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #43112] XBoard*form.translations doesn't work anymore

Yes, .Xdefaults is rather obsolete and typically doesn't get automatically loaded anymore. Putting the settings in a file called ~/XBoard may still work without the need to run xrdb. Glad you figured this out. On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 1:33 AM, H.G. Muller h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote: OK, I figured

Re: [Bug-XBoard] FICS seekgraph auto-refresh doesn't remove dots

Would it make sense to have xboard always set that ivar, but ignore the notifications if auto-refresh seek graph is turned off? On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 4:27 AM, H.G. Muller h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote: Apparently there is no solution to this problem: The ivar that needs to be set on FICS to

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #48321] Strange 'adjudication: Checkmate but bare king'

Philipp attached pgn for the game to the bug report in savannah. It's here: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=37590 On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 11:10 PM, wrote: > If you don't show the position where this happened, there is no way > telling what the problem

[Bug-XBoard] Fwd: [gnu.org #1394708] Extended Betza notation page in GNU.org has some obvious errors.

-- Forwarded message - From: Therese Godefroy via RT Date: Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 1:35 AM Subject: [gnu.org #1394708] Extended Betza notation page in GNU.org has some obvious errors. To: Cc: Hello Tim, Could you kindly look into this? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Thérèse Le

Re: bug

xboard is just a graphical user interface for chess. You also need a chess engine to play against (or you need to use xboard to connect to an internet chess server or as a viewer for a saved game file; see "man xboard" for the possibilities). On your Linux distro, xboard is configured to use

Fwd: Small Comment to Winboard Source Code

I think I forgot to forward this to the list. I didn't find time to look into it myself. -- Forwarded message - From: Dieter Bürßner Date: Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 2:23 AM Subject: Small Comment to Winboard Source Code To: Hi Tim, my name is Dieter Bürßner, you might know me from

[bug #56024] StockFish engine, doesn't seems to work (crashes).

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #56024 (project xboard): p.s. As a quick start, with new enough xboard: xboard -fcp stockfish -fUCI ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #54568] Both flags felt: not draw

Update of bug #54568 (project xboard): Status:None => Invalid Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: If xboard is

[bug #49287] documentation typo: "fuction"

Update of bug #49287 (project xboard): Status:None => Fixed Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Fixed in git commit

[bug #60112] alternate gameplay options

Update of bug #60112 (project xboard): Status:None => Wont Fix Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: xboard is only a

[bug #48600] Xboard didnt start

Update of bug #48600 (project xboard): Status:None => Invalid Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: xboard is graphical

[bug #50046] xboard doesn't detect a server side disconnection in ics-mode

Update of bug #50046 (project xboard): Severity: 3 - Normal => 4 - Important Status:None => Confirmed ___ Follow-up Comment #2: I can confirm this

[bug #47888] drag/drop -- piece disappears if dropped outside window

Update of bug #47888 (project xboard): Status:None => Works For Me Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: I can't reproduce

[bug #26126] Enhancement: XBoard support for MiniChess 2007

Update of bug #26126 (project xboard): Status: Postponed => Wont Fix Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #3: Given H.G.'s

[bug #26127] Enhancement: XBoard support for MiniChess 2009

Update of bug #26127 (project xboard): Status: Postponed => Wont Fix Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #5: Given H.G.'s

[bug #36202] save games in progress in PGN format

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #36202 (project xboard): I don't fully understand this feature request, but maybe I'm just nitpicking... "as opposed to a proprietary format" -- xboard doesn't save anything in a proprietary format, so I don't know what the feature request mentions this. Ignoring that

[bug #48571] Error after selecting new engine.

Update of bug #48571 (project xboard): Status:None => Invalid Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #4: Since the OP

[bug #45773] 'cairo/cairo-xlib.h' file not found

Update of bug #45773 (project xboard): Status:None => Fixed Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #2: This was fixed at

[bug #43792] Highlight last move doesn't work when pre-moved

Update of bug #43792 (project xboard): Category:XBoard (X11) => XBoard (GTK version) ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Copy/pasting the email discussion from when this was filed: From: Joshua Pettus Date: Dec 10,

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #48321] Strange 'adjudication: Checkmate but bare king'

by checkmate. xboard didn't handle this engine bug as well as it could have, but correcting for engine bugs is a bit above and beyond the call of duty. On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:17 PM Tim Mann wrote: > Philipp attached pgn for the game to the bug report in savannah. It's > here:

[bug #39760] Xboard crashes when I try to create variations (using annotate)

Update of bug #39760 (project xboard): Status: Need Info => Invalid Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #2: Arun couldn't

[bug #53053] Crash when using ru_RU locale

Update of bug #53053 (project xboard): Status:None => Invalid Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #3: H.G.'s comment on

[bug #47930] cannot compile with-Xaw3d

Update of bug #47930 (project xboard): Status:None => Works For Me Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: This bug doesn't

[bug #40688] Captured pieces

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #40688 (project xboard): This is a feature that some chess UIs have, and might be nice, but obviously no one has been interested enough to implement it. ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #45599] Xaw frontend build failure in OS X

Update of bug #45599 (project xboard): Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #2: H.G. fixed this bug in 2016 with git commit 0e9da3761 but didn't close it.

[bug #45599] Xaw frontend build failure in OS X

Update of bug #45599 (project xboard): Status:None => Fixed ___ Reply to this item at: ___

[bug #36202] save games in progress in PGN format

Update of bug #36202 (project xboard): Status:None => Wont Fix Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #3: Thanks for the info

[bug #45775] infinite looping in CreatePNGBoard()

Update of bug #45775 (project xboard): Status:None => Fixed Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: H.G. fixed this bug

[bug #48321] Strange "adjudication: Checkmate but bare king"

Update of bug #48321 (project xboard): Status:None => Invalid Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #3: H.G. explained a

[bug #7242] Fonts dialog should not permit setting attributes on ICS Interaction font

Update of bug #7242 (project xboard): Category:None => Winboard Status: Postponed => None ___ Follow-up Comment #3: This was always only

Re: please help me make timestamp work for xboard

For some unknown reason, chessclub.com never gave timestamp the ability to look up hosts by name. So you have to give the numeric IP4 address of chessclub.com instead of the string "chessclub.com". The current numeric IP4 address of chessclub.com is 45.55.120.214. See this example output:

Re: RE[2]: no pxboard

mmand on the command-line? If so, "make install" should do > that, but no longer does. > > Conclusion: either the Makefile should be adapted to do that, or all > references to pxboard should be removed from the man pages. > > > > > > Op ma., nov. 8, 2021 om 01:43,

Re: no pxboard

Ubuntu probably chose not to package pxboard. You can get it here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git/plain/pxboard On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 4:39 PM Richard Trahan wrote: > The man page for xboard describes piping with the pxboard script. > > pxboard is not on my system. I am running

Re: The link to the WinBoard Forum goes to an error page.

The GNU XBoard project doesn't run the WinBoard forum, so we aren't really the right people to ask to fix it. Do you know if it's been broken for a long time, or might this just be a transient issue that the person running it may fix soon? Checking the Internet archive wayback machine, it was

Re: The link to the WinBoard Forum goes to an error page.

Thanks! I must have the ability to update the link and text on https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/, but I don't remember how offhand. I'll see what I can do. On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 4:16 AM h.g.muller via XBoard and WinBoard bugs < bug-xboard@gnu.org> wrote: > OK, I have set up a page at

Re: The link to the WinBoard Forum goes to an error page.

Done. HGM, I hope the results look okay. On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 2:56 PM Tim Mann wrote: > Thanks! I must have the ability to update the link and text on > https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/, but I don't remember how offhand. > I'll see what I can do. > > On Fri, Dec 29,