Re: [Bug-XBoard] win-chess

[Tim Mann]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:08:01 -0800 (PST), cj kay <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear sir,
>      I have been using win chess for a couple of
> months, and I have really enjoyed it.

I guess mean WinBoard?  "win chess" is not something I know anything
about, if it exists.

> But about a
> week ago some thing odd started to happen.  After
> about 50 moves, the area where all the pieces are goes
> totally white, you can't see anything, the area above
> the playing area is still there, you can see the last
> move and where the program is thinking of moving. 
> Needless to say I was confused and annoyed (I mean I
> used to know how to play blindfold chess, but at least
> then I could feel the pieces).  If I closed the
> program and restarted it, nothing changed.  The only
> way that I could get the program to work was to
> reboot.  This has now gotten worse as the past week
> has gone by, it has gotten to the point that now it
> goes white after 5 moves.  Do you have any idea what
> is wrong or better yet what I should do to fix it.

It sounds like you have some other program running on your machine that
has a bad resource leak.  Check what other programs you have running,
especially if you installed something that has a taskbar applet or
otherwise runs all the time.

If you can't find out what program it is, your machine might be infected
with a virus or spyware.  Update your antivirus software and run a scan,
or try the free scan at http://housecall.trendmicro.com/.  Also try the
free spyware removal program at http://www.spybot.info/.

>     Like I said I have really enjoyed your product,
> and I would really like some insight on how I could
> continue using it.  By the way, it never did anything
> like this before about a week ago.
>                     Sincerely,
>                                Colin O'Brien-Lucas
> 
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