stops moving in the opening...makes bad chess moves in opening even after long processing times

thanks for the report, may you tell us a few easy steps in order to reproduce that or save the same and submit it to the report ? thanks.

Sure...I set the time at one hour, computer player difficulty at hard, then started a new game from the menu bar...ran into the same problem on a different Ubuntu 9.04 machine as well (thirty-minute move time, at normal difficulty), but that was a 32-bit Ubuntu version on a five-year-old Dell Dimension 3000. Both Ubuntu machines were newly upgraded with no modifications other than running the Update Manager as is normal. So, there have been no arcane system tweaks on either system that could mess up the chess program. Also, I was running the chess program in 2-D graphics mode. Good luck. If there are any more questions, please let me know!

Thanks!

> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:44:38 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 385868] Re: stops moving in the opening...makes bad chess moves in opening even after long processing times
>
> thanks for the report, may you tell us a few easy steps in order to
> reproduce that or save the same and submit it to the report ? thanks.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-games (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-games (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-games (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
>
> --
> stops moving in the opening...makes bad chess moves in opening even after long processing times
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385868
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gnome-games” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-games
>
> computer player seems to halt play after only the seventh move (uses up almost all it's remaining time (1-hour) even though next move seems obvious, also, AI engine makes silly moves even with long processing time on modern PC (running Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit, dual-core Pentium, 2GB RAM, 1.6GHz processor).
>
> Good luck!
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> Package: gnome-games 1:2.26.1-0ubuntu2
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gnome-games
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

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Yeah... with me already happened in different steps and also with no time... I let the pc on for hours and nothing...

cheers

@gnuchessbugreporter, please could you check if this issue is still occuring under latest release included in Ubuntu Lucid? Thanks!