[Bug 258183] Re: Please update Scid to new upstream version 3.6.24

2009-12-20 Thread geneven
I don't know what the cause of this is, but it is ridiculous that Ubuntu uses a version of Scid, the best chess database program for Linux, from 2004 when there have been many recently released superb versions. Couldn't someone who understands the big picture of how to get this stuff done take

[Bug 235960] Re: When I go to help in glChess, it says White wins - one of the players has died

2008-11-02 Thread geneven
This just happened to me. We were in a dead drawn king and pawns (no pieces on either side) endgame. The game was going to end in threefold repetition soon. We were probably on move 40-50 somewhere. I haven't had any problems with GNU Chess ending unexpectedly. I'm in Ubuntu 8.04, I think it is.