https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579#c2 --- Comment #2 from Lee Matheson 2007-08-11 09:15:31 MST --- While I prefer the "craft" chess engine, one can successfully launch "xboard" from the konsole (on a 32-bit openSUSE-10.3 beta1) by calling one of the weaker chess engines that are included with opensuse (when calling "xboard"). ie with either the "phalanx" or "gnuchess" chess engines. For example: xboard -fcp "gnuchess" or xboard -fcp "phalanx" -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579#c4 --- Comment #4 from Lee Matheson 2007-08-24 15:45:25 MST --- This Bug (with xboard crashing immediately after launch, because it can not find crafty) is still present in beta2. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579#c6 Michael Jenkinson changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mlj@chase.eclipse.co.uk --- Comment #6 from Michael Jenkinson 2007-10-07 13:46:30 MST --- An interim solution with the default distro is to modify the Kmenu xboard call command as follows (assuming you will have GNU chess installed as is present default, not fruit/crafty/phalanx) xboard -fcp gnuchessx -fd /usr/share/gnuchess this will work without problems but you will need to hide the panel to show the full chess board window and a better call is: xboard -fcp gnuchessx -fd /usr/share/gnuchess -size medium. The reason is that xboard tries to call craft by default and all someone in OpenSuse development has to do to remove this annoying bug is alter the present "xboard" command from reading xboard -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579 User lee_matheson@hotmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579#c8 --- Comment #8 from Lee Matheson 2007-12-16 14:12:23 MST --- The bug in xboard is easy to fix, with the interim solution noted by myself (post#5) and also Michael Jenkinson (post#6). Reference the chess program crafty, if one still wishes to use the strong crafty chess program, it is easy to compile under openSUSE. 1) Download the source package Go to ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/, click on "source" (in addition to crafty source, there are, e.g., books and tablebases to download as well) and then scroll down to select the latest "crafty-21.6.tar.gz" version. Place it at a suitable location (in my case /home/oldcpu/chess/crafty/). 2) Untar and compile Crafty In a terminal execute: cd /home/oldcpu/chess/crafty tar -xzvf crafty-21.6.tar.gz cd crafty-21.6 make linux For amd 64-bit users, instead of "make linux" try "make linux-amd64". Then execute crafty with something like: xboard -fcp ./crafty -size medium Another strong chess program, that works well with xboard, is "spike". -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579 User sbrabec@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579#c10 Stanislav Brabec changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #10 from Stanislav Brabec 2008-09-10 08:01:17 MDT --- Fixed in Factory: - xboard now defaults to gnuchess - xboard package now requires the default backend unconditionally, as there is no chance to change it, if the default is missing. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.