[Bug-XBoard] [Fwd: I think I found a bug in winboard 4.40 beta 1]

[Arun Persaud]

Hi

I got the following bug-report... HGM this might be something for you ;)

> Hi,
> following happened more than one time my engine is playing on the server 
> this game:
> 
> [Event "ICS rated crazyhouse match"]
> [Site "freechess.org"]
> [...]
> [Variant "crazyhouse"]
> 
> 1. e4 (0:00.000) e6 (0:00.000) 2. d4 (0:01.547) Nc6 (0:00.111) 3.
> e5 (0:01.500) d5 (0:00.108) 4. exd6 (0:00.797) cxd6 (0:00.111) 5.
> Nc3 (0:00.375)
> {xxxxxxxxxx forfeits on time} 1-0
> 
> but I got from the winboard illegal-move address@hidden before the time was 
> over 
> (the move is legal). see the debug file of winboard:
> 
> 6419937 <first : move address@hidden
> machine move 9, castling = 9 2 6 9 2 6
> move to parse: address@hidden
> Disambiguate in:  22(3,-1)-(3,3) = 0 (-)
>  22  1 25 44 24 26 43 24 23 25  0 44
>  44  0 22 22 44 44 44 22 22 22  0 44
>  44  0 44 44 23 22 22 44 44 44  0 44
>  44  0 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44  0 44
>  44  0 44 44 44  0 44 44 44 44  0 44
>  44  0 44 44  1 44 44 44 44 44  0 44
>  44  0  0  0  0 44 44  0  0  0  0 44
>  44  0  3 44  2  4 21  2  1  3  1  0
> Impossible move _1_1í, type = 36
> 
> I tried to play the position local against the engine sjeng, I got the 
> same error. In the old winboard 4.2.7 I have not such problem (I tested 
> it too).
> 
> It happened only in crazyhouse games.

(I edited out some info from the user...)

cheers
     ARUN