Re: Major bug - GNUchess5 declares erronious checkmate.

[Simon Waters]

> Steve Means wrote:
> 
> I played the attached game using Winboard 4.2.3 + GNUChes5. As
> you will see, at the end, it declares checkmate when--in
> fact--the white King has 2 squares to move to. The program did
> not crash, or anything... it just violated the rules of chess.

Thanks Steve,

couldn't reproduce the problem exactly as you describe.

However two 5.02 programs running with xboard gave a similar
error a few moves later on in the same ending, so possibly the
problem is related to depth of search.

We will investigate.
        
        Simon