This is indeed a bug, and it happens very infrequently. (It is because the stalemate condition it checked before the piece is promoted - it should be simple to fix (I hope) )
I will get to work on it once I have the new release up. (Don't like to meddle with too many things at once)
The game should be restored for the time being anyway, so enjoy finishing your game.
-Russ
Same game, tiny bug. I tried to check out the game. When I pressed <one move back> I saw the black queen being "demoted" to pawn. Then I wondered how the pawn promoting caused a check mate. After some fiddling I discovered that when the board is first shown, the very last move is played back: Qe8-b8, "unmate". But after that, pressing <one move forward> does NOT show that move anymore. In other words, the game 'ends' one move early, when replaying it.
Is this perhaps what is called an Obi-wan ('off by one'😉 bug? :-)
Originally posted by thiredo you mean by this, where does the term "check mate" come from? I heard somewhere it is from Yatch Mach (and yes, that's phonetically written) meaning "the king is dead". Obviously the langusage is of somemof the earliest players of chess, but embarasingly I can't remember which one.
can anybody tell me why the game is "check mate"? 😕
C&R, have you ever concidered writting or getting someone to write a brief history of chess? I'd find that interesting (maybe I should go down to th elibrary, but all the books ar ein French or Dutch)