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[Prima]

I'm not sure exactly where to post this announcement but considering WinBoard is an alternative GUI of its own, I decided to post in the Chess Base section.

The latest WinBoard is now 4.3.15 and overall enhancement has been in the Cores, Memory, and EgtbPath areas. Unfortunately, 64-bit versions of these newly
developed WinBoards aren't available (Apparently 64-bit OS doesn't exist to these WinBoard-developers!). Here's the link to WinBoard 4.3.15 :

http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?t=49439.

[dene]

Thanks for letting us know

[XsupremeX]

Thx Prima...Now I see why my winboard gold gives me error in all games I play and I want to split hehehe Im in 64bit.

[Prima]

Thanks for letting us know

My pleasure, Dene.

[Prima]

Thx Prima...Now I see why my winboard gold gives me error in all games I play and I want to split hehehe Im in 64bit.

You're welcome xsupremex. I do experience similar problems with these 32-bit WinBoards including lots of "freezings" and/or crashes during games - especially during end-games when the pieces are moving extremely fast. The 32-bit Winboards also crashes, for example, when an opponent's pawn promotes to Knight while simultaneously "checking" (not checkmate!) your King!

The most disturbing part of the matter is, try telling these WinBoard-Developers that, in fact, 64-bit OS do exist. They'll rather spend all their energy, time & eternity giving the public excuses why 32-bits are better/faster rather than spend that time and energy on re-writing codes for 64-bit OS.

[matematiko]

Thx Prima...Now I see why my winboard gold gives me error in all games I play and I want to split hehehe Im in 64bit.

You're welcome xsupremex. I do experience similar problems with these 32-bit WinBoards including lots of "freezings" and/or crashes during games - especially during end-games when the pieces are moving extremely fast. The 32-bit Winboards also crashes, for example, when an opponent's pawn promotes to Knight while simultaneously "checking" (not checkmate!) your King!

The most disturbing part of the matter is, try telling these WinBoard-Developers that, in fact, 64-bit OS do exist. They'll rather spend all their energy, time & eternity giving the public excuses why 32-bits are better/faster rather than spend that time and energy on re-writing codes for 64-bit OS.

- First, it looks like the original developer of Winboard stopped working on it, so a bunch of well intentioned guys continue the work. From what I seen in forums, looks like they are not well organized and everybody has different pieces of code. Anyway, I don't like these new versions because in their effort to add support to more variants of chess, I think they are introducing bugs to it.

- Second, Is there a difference between the 32 bits and 64 bits versions of the same engine: Hell yeah...big difference....but, when it comes to winboard, which its sole purpose is to serve as a GUI, no... I don't think a 64 bits version will help much, it will actually send us backwards because then new bugs introduced in the convertion have to be discovered and fixed. So, I stay with my old 4.2.7 and the winboard_x that derived from 4.2.7 .

- Third, Be sure that Always promote to queen is not checked in Winboard options. These will defently crash winboard if the piece promoted by the engine is not a queen.

Cheers,

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-Fourth: Be sure that under Winboard options, test legality is unchecked. Yahoo and YaY modules from YtoICS ( movecheck.pm, board.pm and pieces.pm) they check the legality of the move.

-Fifth: How often this happens? I mean, promoting a pawn to knight and putting opponent in check at the same time? One in a million?

[Prima]

For those that already downloaded the WinBoard 4.3.15 Gold Pack (with Polyglot 1.5w), there's a bug-fixed Polyglot 1.5w available. Issues included incorrectly printing "nodes" in place of PV(s).

I've already posted the download link to the bug-fixed Polyglot 1.5w in the Polyglot Section: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=610

or you can get the bug-fixed Polyglot directly from here: http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 95&t=25871

Prima.