Bug#989809: Loading chess.sty cause Babel error

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 03:56:28AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > Processing a document that uses chess.sty fails, for example
> 
> Well, chess.sty is from 1992 or so 
> 
> I recommend chessboard (or skak).
> 
> Also, according to our policy, I am closing this report since it is a
> problem of up-upstream (not TeX Live itself). If you want it fixed in
> the original package, please don't contact TeX Live but the original
> author of chess.sty.

Why then including it in TexLive and Debian if it is not usable ?

Cheers,
Bill.