Chess: Setting board orientation to human doesn't work when playing as black

[James Deibele]

Binary package hint: gnuchess

I have selected black for human. The board always starts out with black on top and white on bottom, then switches.

It's not too bad when it's a new game. But it's very difficult to see my position when resuming a game.

I'm using black because I'm trying to improve my game and I want to see what the program is trying to do so I can react to it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 25 08:55:56 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20091209)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnuchess (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-9.13-generic
SourcePackage: gnuchess
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic x86_64

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, please remark this bug as New.

Also, it's unclear what chess program you are using. Please check Help>About and leave a comment here with the name of the program.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Well, I was able to duplicate this in glchess, part of gnome-games so I reported it upstream there. James, what chess program were you using?

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Settings>Preferences>Appearance>Board Orientation.