Dear Maintainer,

After installing Pychess and clicking the 'Start game' button, there is no
apparent result within the app. By choosing 'New game' from the 'Game' menu,
Pychess just returns to the main window.

By launching from the command line, there's no error message when I try to
start the game, but when I exit, I get this:

$ pychess

(pychess:141785): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:40:15.548: Can't set a parent on widget
which has a parent
Downloading https://api.github.com/repos/pychess/pychess/releases/latest ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pychess/widgets/gamewidget.py", line
409, in game_ended
    self._update_menu_undo()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pychess/widgets/gamewidget.py", line
311, in _update_menu_undo
    if self.gamemodel.isObservationGame():
       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pychess/Utils/GameModel.py", line 541,
in isObservationGame
    return not self.hasLocalPlayer()
               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pychess/Utils/GameModel.py", line 520,
in hasLocalPlayer
    if self.players[0].__type__ == LOCAL or self.players[1].__type__ == LOCAL:
       ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^
IndexError: list index out of range


If I try to start more than once, this traceback is repeated.

Other features of Pychess that I have tried, seem to be working. Checking, or
leaving unchecked, the settings 'database querying needs scoutfish' and
'database opening tree needs chess_db' do not have an effect. 'ICC lag
compensation needs timestamp', when checked, produces another error message in
the traceback, but doesn't seem to have any other effect. That's apparently a
known issue upstream and that option is dropped in Pychess 1.1.0.

I also tried installing Pychess 1.1.0, downloaded from
https://github.com/pychess/pychess/releases, and had the same results.

Between installation attempts, I had removed the directories,
~/.cache/pychess/, ~/.config/pychess/, and ~/.local/share/pychess/, to make
sure it was a clean install.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pychess, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1132008@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org> (supplier of updated pychess package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:18:17 +0800
Source: pychess
Architecture: source
Version: 1.1.0-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org>
Changed-By: Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org>
Closes: 1132008
Changes:
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 .
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