Re: Bug in GNU Chess

[Simon Waters]

On Sunday, 30 June 2019 10:12:33 BST Adhokshaj Mishra wrote:
> Hello,
>       While playing Chess via Knights GUI around GNU Chess engine, I
> stumbled upon a possible bug where GNU Chess just keeps churning the CPU,
> and does not return a valid move from computer's side. I have attached a
> screenshot of board, as well as history of moves from both sides.
> 
>       Please feel free to let me know if you need some additional
> information/debugging/testing from my side.

Thanks for the report.

Could you let us know the version of gnuchess in use. (Usually "gnuchess -v" 
or simply typing "gnuchess" in a terminal window will get this information).

Also I assume this is the version packaged with a distro, can you let us know 
distro and version.

I turned position in to epd
r3kb1r/pppb1ppp/2n2n2/1P3q2/2P5/P3Pp1P/3P1PP1/R1BQKB1R b Kkq - bm 1; id 1;

I'm unable to persuade the stock GNU Chess on Debian (6.2.5) to crash from 
this position with a few likely tries, it wants to play fxg2 when it is 
confident it will go on to improve its position.

It can sometimes be hard to reproduce a specific crash from a game, as it can 
depend on time controls, or may be something outside of the program.