Description of problem: The AI player will often refuse to move when faced with a losing situation and refuse requests of "Ask to move". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Version: 0.8.2 Package: pychess-0.8.2-4.fc12.noarch How reproducible: The refusal to move happens in about one of every three games in which the AI is a few moves from losing the game. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open pychess 2. Play the game, forcing the AI into a poor situation. 3. The AI stops moving, but the interface is still interactive. Actual results: The AI player ruses to move. Any attempt to force it to move either has no results or causes the game engine to disconnect. Expected results: The AI should continue to play until the game is completed. Additional info: This bug happens fairly often (about once in every three games) but doesn't seem to fit any pattern other than the AI is in a losing position. It seems that when faced with few options, all of them leading to mate in a few moves, the engine will lock up. This leaves the GUI still functioning, but brings the game to a stand still.
Created attachment 387094 [details] Saved game where AI refuses to move. Here is a saved game from a match where the human player is white and the AI is black. The AI ran out the last three minutes of its time refusing to move.
pychess-0.10-0.1.20100203svn.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pychess-0.10-0.1.20100203svn.fc12
pychess-0.10-0.1.20100203svn.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update pychess'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-1432
I could directly continue the game you saved as attachment, could you please test it too?
Restoring that game allowed me to continue play. Which makes for a fair work-around.
So you consider this as 'fixed'? ;) Sounds like that. Can you reproduce such a refusing again?
No, I wouldn't consider saving a game ands restoring it as a "fix". It's a work-around, but the game should play through without freezing. The game locks up fairly often, about one in every three games it's losing, so I think there's something wrong.
ok, leaving this open, till a real fix from upstream is implemented...
pychess-0.10-0.1.20100203svn.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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Could you test with the new updates? https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pychess-0.10-0.8.rc1.fc13 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pychess-0.10-0.8.rc1.fc14
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