WinBoard 4.3.15 released

[hgm]

Hmm, this looks like a very bad bug, and I should certainly release an immediate bugfix. I only tested on ICC, and perhaps not in human mode. Anyway, the winboard.exe in the ICSclient should have it fixed

[slobo]

The version 4.3.14i works well on FICS.

[hgm]

This is pretty amazing, as I did not change anything in this area. I will compare sources to see what is wrong. An older source file might have slipped back into my source tree.

[edit] OK, now I see what happened. It is an unintended side effect of a bugfix I made immediately after releasing 4.3.14, long before I started working on 4.3.15 proper. 4.3.14 had the promotion characters hard-coded, which led to wrong promotion pieces if the pieceToChar table was set to give the pieces alternative names. In the process of fixing it I somehow lost the translation NULLCHAR -> EmptySquare, so that in stead a non-promoting move was caught by the default case of Queen.

Very stupid and entirely my mistake...

I will replace the winboard.exe in the GoldPack with a fixed one, and put a fixed winboard.exe as a replacement download for people who have already downloaded the Gold Pack. I will make the announcement here when they are in place.

Thanks for catching the bug!

[slobo]

This is pretty amazing, as I did not change anything in this area. I will compare sources to see what is wrong. An older source file might have slipped back into my source tree.

[edit] OK, now I see what happened. It is an unintended side effect of a bugfix I made immediately after releasing 4.3.14, long before I started working on 4.3.15 proper. 4.3.14 had the promotion characters hard-coded, which led to wrong promotion pieces if the pieceToChar table was set to give the pieces alternative names. In the process of fixing it I somehow lost the translation NULLCHAR -> EmptySquare, so that in stead a non-promoting move was caught by the default case of Queen.

Very stupid and entirely my mistake...

I will replace the winboard.exe in the GoldPack with a fixed one, and put a fixed winboard.exe as a replacement download for people who have already downloaded the Gold Pack. I will make the announcement here when they are in place.

Thanks for catching the bug!

I am happy to be useful.

Is it possible to let users configurate their menu with FICS commands, as suggested in http://www.edcollins.com/chess/winb-config.htm ?

It was possible to previous winboard versions.

[hgm]

It should still be possible. I did not change anything in that area, and it is not likely that I would have inadvertantly broken something there. I never tried it, though. As the menu indeed does pop up, I guess that the code to translate the description in the winboard.ini file to the actual menu must be still operational.

[slobo]

Thanks Guenther. I´ll have a look at Pascal´s new Scid.