GNU Chess doesn't follow castling chess rules

[Lieven]

Binary package hint: gnome-games

When playing a game of chess, I was able to castle when a piece of my computer opponent was attacking the field over which my king was castling. This is not allowed by the official chess rules. Furthermore, my computer opponent didn't know what was happening and didn't move again before he timed out. So, this is a simple way to win a game, but of course is not a desired effect.

Below I'll attach the game.

[Lieven (lieven-debels)]

The version of gnome-games I'm using is 1:2.21.91-0ubuntu1

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516459

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Fixed upstream, thanks for reporting.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-games - 1:2.22.0-0ubuntu1

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gnome-games (1:2.22.0-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #200849)
    - Overall:
      + Fix GGZ crash (Roger Light, Andreas Røsdal, bug #363015) (LP: #189020)
      + Support building with GCC 4.3 (Matthias Clasen, Andreas Røsdal, bug #516616)
      + Fix automake 1.9 build problems (Paul, Andreas, Thomas, Jason, bug #518918)
    - Gnome Sudoku:
      + Fix bug that led to game not being registered as solved after user had
        used "clear" button. (Greg Fawcett, Thomas Hinkle, bug #423478)
      + Fix crash when starting new game. (Andreas Røsdal, bug #513894)
    - GLChess:
      + Re-add pygtk.require() call (Robert Ancell, bug #521154)
      + Handle gtk.gtkgl.widget_get_gl_drawable() returning None (Robert Ancell,
        bugs #488902 and #512068)
      + Made AI monitor process more resiliant to OSError exceptions (Robert Ancell,
        bug #517347) (LP: #191828)
    - Aisleriot:
      + Fix the build with guile 1.6 and older gccs. (Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse
        Christian Persch, bug #519990)
      + Use the game filename in the backtrace, not the localised game name.
        (Christian Persch)
    - Gnobots2:
      + Fix a bug where an annoying blank rectangle is left after a robot splat.
        (Fernando Martins, Andreas Røsdal, bug #506162)
  * debian/patches/06_gcc4.3.patch: Removed, fixed upstream

 -- Pedro Fragoso <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:35:46 +0000