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Subject: Re: Arasan 6.0

Author: Alastair Scott

Date: 13:43:58 09/24/02

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On September 24, 2002 at 09:51:55, Jon Dart wrote:

>Arasan 6.0 has been released and is available from http://www.arasanchess.org.
>There's info there about new features.
>
>It's been about 2 years since the last release (version 5.4). I'm not actually
>sure this version is stronger than the previous one, but it has fewer bugs, a
>better book, and tablebase support, which gives it some advantage. On ICC, it
>has won at least a few games against almost every program (including
>commercials, and yes, even Ruffian), and has also won against a number of IMs
>and GMs. So it is capable of surprises, even if it doesn't top the rating lists.

Nice to see a Linux version!

Unfortunately, there appears to be a problem with it (Scid 3.4 beta 4, Mandrake
Linux 9.0 -> gcc 3.2, i686 compilation). When used as an analysis engine in scid
it crashes every time, after getting to roughly 5 ply, with a core dump. A gdb
analysis of the core dump follows; if you want me to do more please say so.

The command line in scid is simply /home/thebrix/arasan6/arasanx without command
line arguments.

There's no problem using it from the command line, or from xboard 4.2.6 (xboard
-fcp /home/thebrix/arasan6/arasanx).

Alastair

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[thebrix@localhost arasan6]$ gdb arasanx core.3793
GNU gdb 5.2.1-2mdk (Mandrake Linux)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i586-mandrake-linux-gnu"...
Core was generated by `/home/thebrix/arasan6/arasanx'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
Reading symbols from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib/i686/libm.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/libm.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/i686/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#0  0x08079f39 in add_pending(char const*) ()



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