Re: UCI issue in 6.2.5

[Ryan Sarson]

Hello!

I have the same issue as John Cheetham, from his post a couple of
years ago. The issue persists with the latest build I could find,
6.2.5e. I use both Scid and Xboard and, in both cases, they appear to
hang when trying to play a game against gnuchessu. When running
gnuchessu from the command line, the appearance of 'White (1) : "
requires at least a newline to be entered before the 'uci' command
will work as expected.

It seems related to the removal of the 'showprompt' and 'ShowPrompt()'
lines from main.cc and frontend/engine.cc from 6.2.4 but I do not know
enough about C programming to fix it - other things break if i just
add the deleted lines back in.

Ryan

[Antonio Ceballos]

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for your report. Yes, it seems the same problem that was found a

couple of years ago. Could you please indicate the version of XBoard and

operating system that you are using? I don't think it will make a big difference,

but it can be helpful.

Cheers,

Antonio

[Ryan Sarson]

Hi Antonio!

I'm using the apt installed version of XBoard, 4.9.1-1 amd64, in
Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) x86_64 (Kernel: 4.9.0-9-amd64).

I also use the apt installed version of GNU Chess, 6.2.5-1 amd64. The
previous version I tried, 6.2.4, I compiled from source
(https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/chess/) and it works as expected without this
bug (ie, the 'White (1) : ' prompt does not appear in UCI mode).

Ryan