Bug#541971: xboard: displays kings for variant pieces

[Karl Sackett]

Package: xboard
Version: 4.4.0~beta1-1
Severity: normal

When trying to play a variant chess game, XBoard will display kings in
place of the appropriate variant pieces.  For example,

$xboard -ncp -variant gothic

Instead of displaying chancellors on e1 and e8, and archbishops on g1
and g8, XBoard displays kings on all four squares.  The chancellors
and archbishops do move as they are supposed to.

$xboard -ncp -variant xiangqi

XBoard shows Xiangqi implemented using a chess board and chess pieces,
which is workable except that the king is used to represent three
different pieces - generals, guards, and elephants.

$xboard -ncp -variant shogi

Same problem as with Xingqi:  a chess board instead of a Shogi board and
a chess king is used to represent Shogi kings, gold generals, silver
generals, and lances.

Note also that XBoard screenshots on the XBoard homepage show Xinqgi and
Shogi games with the correct boards and pieces.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xboard depends on:
ii  gnuchess                      5.07-5     Plays a game of chess,
either agai
ii  libc6                         2.9-23     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.2-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxpm4                       1:3.5.7-2  X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.5-3  X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xaw3dg                        1.5+E-17   Xaw3d widget set

Versions of packages xboard recommends:
ii  xfonts-100dpi                 1:1.0.0-4  100 dpi fonts for X
ii  xfonts-75dpi                  1:1.0.0-4  75 dpi fonts for X

Versions of packages xboard suggests:
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-em 2.26.2-2   The GNOME terminal emulator
applic
ii  lxterminal [x-terminal-emulat 0.1.6-1+b1 desktop independent
vte-based term
ii  mrxvt [x-terminal-emulator]   0.5.4-1    lightweight multi-tabbed X
termina
ii  rxvt-unicode-ml [x-terminal-e 9.06-1     multi-lingual terminal
emulator wi
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-em 0.4.0-1    Xfce terminal emulator
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]   243-1      X terminal emulator

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Karl Sackett                                              krs at hiwaay.net