Xboard default engine Fairymax does not use any opening book
Bug #1128006 reported by
latrom
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| xboard (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Hello. I just noticed that behavior. It could be fixed by defaulting to gnuchess with the opening book packages or supplying fairymax a default opening book.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: xboard 4.6.2-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 17 13:13:55 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-29 (19 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xboard
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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| latrom (moertael) wrote | #1 |
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| H.G.Muller (h-g-muller) wrote | #2 |
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Why is this considered a 'bug', and why does this need fixing at all?
Opening books are (often very) bulky architecture-
In addition, XBoard is not dependent on any engine for handling opening books; it can handle such books directly. The user just has to give the filename of the book (through a file-browse dialog, if desired) and tick a checkbox to enable its use. Having engines handle the book is a stupid way to do it, because then you still wouldn't have a book when you want to use another engine.
H.G. Muller
upstream XBoard developer