An oddity

[Volker Pittlik]

[Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "vlk-ubuntu"]
[Date "2006.08.25"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Xpdnt_060824"]
[Black "Natwarlal v0.12"]
[Result "0-1"]
[TimeControl "60+1"]
[FEN "r1bqnrk1/ppp1npbp/3p2p1/3Pp3/2P1P3/2N1B3/PP2BPPP/R2QNRK1 b - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]

{--------------
r . b q n r k .
p p p . n p b p
. . . p . . p .
. . . P p . . .
. . P . P . . .
. . N . B . . .
P P . . B P P P
R . . Q N R K .
black to play
--------------}
1... f5
{Forfeit due to illegal move} 0-1

[diag]r1bqnrk1/ppp1npbp/3p2p1/3Pp3/2P1P3/2N1B3/PP2BPPP/R2QNRK1 [/diag]

r1bqnrk1/ppp1npbp/3p2p1/3Pp3/2P1P3/2N1B3/PP2BPPP/R2QNRK1 b - - 0 1

I have no idea what happened and cannot reproduce it. Have I overseen something? Until now I thought something like that couldn't happen.

Volker

[Tony Thomas]

I have not seen any errors like that from Natwarlal so far at the same time control after 58 games. It is possible that something like that happend while I was away, I guess may be I should try using LGpgnver.

[Tony Thomas]

One little problem here, I cant seem to use George Lyapko's utility. When I tried to open it in console mode, it just exits without giving any kind of warnings.

[Guenther Simon]

One little problem here, I cant seem to use George Lyapko's utility. When I tried to open it in console mode, it just exits without giving any kind of warnings.

You must start it in real DOS mode. This applies for a lot
of commandline tools BTW

Guenther

[Tony Thomas]

One little problem here, I cant seem to use George Lyapko's utility. When I tried to open it in console mode, it just exits without giving any kind of warnings.

You must start it in real DOS mode. This applies for a lot
of commandline tools BTW

Guenther

How can I do that? Do I need to run my windows in Dos mode or something?

[Volker Pittlik]

I have not seen any errors like that from Natwarlal ...

What error do you see? Maybe I'm blind but it looks like a correct move. Other engines also want to play it. If entered manually no complaints by anybody are made. No idea what you want to do with LGpgnver here.

Volker

[Guenther Simon]

I have not seen any errors like that from Natwarlal ...

What error do you see? Maybe I'm blind but it looks like a correct move. Other engines also want to play it. If entered manually no complaints by anybody are made. No idea what you want to do with LGpgnver here.

Volker

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{Forfeit due to illegal move} 0-1

Hi Volker,

Who sent that message above?

Guenther

[Guenther Simon]

One little problem here, I cant seem to use George Lyapko's utility. When I tried to open it in console mode, it just exits without giving any kind of warnings.

You must start it in real DOS mode. This applies for a lot
of commandline tools BTW

Guenther

How can I do that? Do I need to run my windows in Dos mode or something?

No, you just start the DOS shell inside windows. There are
shortcuts to it in different places in different Windows versions.
If you have WINXP it should be either in 'Start' itself or in 'Start'
->'Programs'->'Utilities'. If you don't find it go to its real place
in 'Windows/system32'. It is called 'cmd.bat' Best create a shortcut
on your desktop, as you normally need it for several tools.

Guenther

[Tony Thomas]

I have not seen any errors like that from Natwarlal ...

What error do you see? Maybe I'm blind but it looks like a correct move. Other engines also want to play it. If entered manually no complaints by anybody are made. No idea what you want to do with LGpgnver here.

Volker

I made a mistake Volker, I read the post too fast and assumed that natwarlal made an illegal move. It would have been better if you had a debug file. Also, I havent played with the new version of Xpdnt, I read somewhere that David is going to release a new version soon, I think at wbec.