[gnu.chess] XCHESS

eric@eddie.MIT.EDU (Eric Van Tassell) (01/30/89)

I just got the new gnuchess from venera.isi.edu. In order to get it
to link under R3 I changed the LDFLAGS line in the xchess/makefile to:

	LDFLAGS = -z -loldX -lX11 -lm

When I typed xchess -c -p../gnuchess, the board came up and after some
unreadable messages in the msg area and a few hundred 
"Error: parse_imove: piece of wrong color" messages in the xterm window
xchess was started from the message area said "program died". Can anyone
help? What more information do I need to provide ?


	eric@eddie.mit.edu
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lma@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Larry M. Augustin) (01/21/90)

Xchess distributed with gnuchess 1.55 has a problem font
initialization.  When it starts up and tries to display the first
message, it doesn't have a current font set.  The following change to
messsage.c fixes the problem:

35c35
< #define MESSAGE_HEADER        "^F1\n  XChess Messages^F0\n"
---
> #define MESSAGE_HEADER        "\n^F1  XChess Messages^F0\n"

Larry M. Augustin			ERL 414
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lma@dayton.stanford.edu			Stanford University
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patri@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Petri Nuuttila) (02/22/90)

I'm looking for game running under X-windows called "xchess".
Could anybody outthere give me  a clue how&where to get it

			With greetings  Petri N.