Chess does not automatically draw cpu-vs-cpu games where same position repeats 3 times

[Scott Ritchie]

Binary package hint: gnome-games

I setup two normal difficulty cpus to play eachother, and they got stuck in a loop of rook moves up, king moves down, rook moves down, king moves up. This continued for about 10 cycles -- normally this is suppsed to force a draw after 3 moves.

Eventually (after the tenth repitition) the rook computer decided to do something different and then eventually lost.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Aug 11 07:15:50 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-games 1:2.27.5-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-games
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic x86_64

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Reported upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592980

Note that a draw is not automatic - it has to be requested by either player. It appears that GNU Chess assumes this draw is automatic and does not explicitly request it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-games - 1:2.27.92-0ubuntu1

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gnome-games (1:2.27.92-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * New upstream release: (LP: #417900)
    - Fixes (LP: #400931), (LP: #421874), (LP: #154683), (LP: #387903),
      (LP: #389889), (LP: #411966), (LP: #426354)
  * debian/rules:
    - Compile with --enable-introspection=no
  * debian/control.in:
  * debian/_game_.install:
  * debian/_game_.menu:
  * debian/_game_.manpages:
    - Split games into separate packages (LP: #376744)
    - Re-enable gnometris (LP: #415464)
  * debian/patches/99_autotools.patch:
    - Refreshed

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * debian/control.in: Add missing Conflicts:/Replaces: to gnome-games-data.

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:12:09 +0200