xboard/WinBoard 4.0.0 available
Tim Mann
** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.0.0 **
A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version
4.0.0 is meant to be a stable version, incorporating the changes that
were being tested in versions 3.6.3beta through 3.6.12beta.
You can get both programs from my Chess page on the World Wide Web or
from the Internet Chess Library FTP site. In addition, XBoard should
soon be available from GNU FTP sites.
- http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/chess.html
- ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/X/xboard-4.0.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/Win3/winboard-4_0_0.exe (zip format)
- ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/xboard-4.0.0.tar.gz
XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System that can
serve as a user interface for GNU Chess, Crafty, and other chess
engines, for the Internet Chess Servers, and for electronic mail
correspondence chess. XBoard can also be used by itself. It can read
and write game files in PGN (portable game notation).
WinBoard is a similar program for Microsoft Windows 95/98 and Windows
NT. It includes all the major features of XBoard except email
correspondence chess. Warning: WinBoard does not work on Windows 3.1
or 3.11, not even with Win32s.
Report bugs in XBoard and WinBoard to <bug-gn...@prep.ai.mit.edu>.
--Tim Mann <ma...@pa.dec.com>
=== Some change highlights ===
* Added animated piece movement. xboard version coded by Hugh Fisher,
WinBoard version by Henrik Gram. Many thanks to them both. (Hint:
Turn off AnimateMoving on the Options menu if you are playing
extremely fast blitz.)
* There are now 13 choices for board size instead of 4. WinBoard lets
you resize the board by dragging the edges with the mouse. When you
release the mouse button, the board snaps to the largest available
size that fits in the area you outlined.
* Added click-click moving to WinBoard. Redesigned click-click moving
for both xboard and WinBoard to be always available instead of a menu
option. If you click on a piece, it highlights and a further click on
another square will move it; or if you press down on a piece and start
to drag, you can drag it to a new square.
* Illegal moves are now reported in the message line by default
instead of in a popup dialog.
* Added GUI to change sounds in WinBoard.
* Added a new xboard/WinBoard color and WinBoard sound for "requests":
abort, adjourn, draw, pause, and takeback. The same color and sound
are used for all of these.
* Summary of new menu options and commands that are in both xboard and
WinBoard: PonderNextMove, LoadPreviousPosition, LoadNextPosition,
ReloadSamePosition, PopupMoveErrors, AnimateDragging, AnimateMoving,
HighlightLastMove.
* Summary of new menu options and commands that are only in WinBoard:
HighlightDragging, AlwaysOnTop, SaveSettingsOnExit.
* Summary of new menu options and commands that are only in xboard:
FlashMoves.
* Improved WinBoard startup dialog. There are now boxes for both
engines, and both the engine boxes and the ICS box are drop-down lists
that can be customized by editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
* WinBoard now lets you customize the right-button context menu in the
output area of the ICS Interaction window by editing WinBoard.ini with
a text editor.
* Major reorganization to engine-intf.txt, the document that explains
how to make a chess engine compatible with xboard/WinBoard. Some new
features added, many existing features clarified and hints for engine
programmers added. Support for new features added to program.
* Added -firstDirectory and -secondDirectory so that chess engines can
be started in a different directory from xboard/WinBoard itself.
* Added -matchGames to allow more than one game in match mode. The
games are played with colors alternating between the two chess
engines.
* Autoflag is now implemented in MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and
TwoMachines modes. If it is on and either a chess program or the user
oversteps his time, xboard will automatically call the flag and end
the game.
* Many bug fixes and other small improvements. See ChangeLog in the
distribution for details.
--
Tim Mann <ma...@pa.dec.com>
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/
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+AD4AKgAq- Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.0.0 +ACoAKg-
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+AD4-A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version
+AD4-4.0.0 is meant to be a stable version, incorporating the changes that
+AD4-were being tested in versions 3.6.3beta through 3.6.12beta.
+AD4-
+AD4-You can get both programs from my Chess page on the World Wide Web or
+AD4-from the Internet Chess Library FTP site. In addition, XBoard should
+AD4-soon be available from GNU FTP sites.
+AD4-
+AD4-- http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim+AF8-Mann/chess.html
+AD4-- ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/X/xboard-4.0.0.tar.gz
+AD4-- ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/Win3/winboard-4+AF8-0+AF8-0.exe (zip format)
+AD4-- ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/xboard-4.0.0.tar.gz
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Try going to this URL instead:
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You should find Tim's program there.
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