1 ChangeLog for XBoard/WinBoard
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4 (latest entries created by git log --no-merges --pretty="* %ai: %s%n %b" vnew vold)
6 * 2009-09-05 09:44:21 -0700: updated AUTHORS and README files for release
8 * 2009-09-05 08:52:09 -0700: fixed some typos
10 * 2009-09-04 22:39:45 -0700: set castling rights after setting up a position
11 I was going through old WB forum posts, and I encountered a
12 bug report for a bug that I never fixed: The castling rights should
13 be properly set (actually: cleared) after setting up a position
14 in Edit Position mode (as opposed to pasting a FEN).
16 * 2009-09-03 23:11:18 -0700: removed install files from master
17 they now live in their own branch
19 * 2009-09-03 22:30:18 -0700: updated polyglot protocol
20 I added a new option type "-reset" to the protocol for the new option feature.
21 4.4.0 does not implement it yet, but Michel wants it for future Polyglots,
22 and I think it is best to update the protocol in one big swoop. So I want to already
23 include it in the specs now. (engine-intf.html)
25 I made xboard's response to an unknown option type compliant with the new protocol specs.
27 * 2009-09-03 22:28:50 -0700: fixed some typos
29 * 2009-09-03 20:47:13 -0600: Updated project files for DevCpp and Visual Studio to add wsettings.c
31 * 2009-09-03 20:46:33 -0600: Added newline at end of file to silence warning.
33 * 2009-08-31 20:29:49 -0700: workaround for error message for missing pieces used in variants and initstring bugfix
34 error messages showed for non-existing pieces showed up for old user supplied pixmaps. Loading a pixmap of the king for
35 the missing pieces now.
37 Another bad bug surfaced: the -initString argument does not work in any
38 XBoard version! (Including 4.2.7b) The escape sequences for linefeed in
39 the string are not understood: -initString "new\nrandom\n" actually sends
40 the \ and n to the engine (which then does not recognize the line as a
43 So I also added a patch to expand escape sequences in the InitString and
44 ComputerString command-line options.
46 * 2009-08-31 20:27:24 -0700: updated installe script
47 I re-organized the doc files in the install, so they now all go in the
49 (and none in the root). I so included the COPYING and COPYRIGHT files there.
50 This required some updates of the links in some html files, and of the menu
52 to README.html in the install script. I also fixed an error with the
54 in the menu short-cuts of some engines (which started in the fonts folder, and
55 could not find the opening book there...).
57 * 2009-08-31 20:25:17 -0700: updated documentation
59 * 2009-08-31 20:20:55 -0700: updated installer script
61 * 2009-08-31 19:51:48 -0700: new help files for windows
63 * 2009-08-25 20:41:29 -0700: updated installer
65 * 2009-08-25 20:36:53 -0700: undid some previous changes
66 some files got mixed up
68 * 2009-08-25 20:32:22 -0700: fixed small bug in wsetting
70 * 2009-08-25 20:29:06 -0700: trigger a focus switch to ICS input field when typing
71 old behavior was that "." or "," triggered this, now every printable character except 1-9 will trigger the focus switc
74 * 2009-08-25 20:26:20 -0700: bug in backend.c when receiving lines from ICS
75 A space was appended to every character received from an ICS in stead of just at line breaks.
77 * 2009-08-24 23:47:48 -0700: fixed warning messages from compiler
79 * 2009-08-23 14:24:38 -0700: fixed build on OS X
80 this seems to fix it. Bug reported by Louis Zulli who also did the testing.
82 * 2009-08-23 11:54:28 -0700: OK, this is the beefed up version of the Polyglot info-string kludge, for WB and XB.
84 * 2009-08-23 10:22:48 -0700: added missing X_LIBS references to Makefile.am
86 * 2009-08-22 23:33:44 -0700: made the install script and executable
88 * 2009-08-22 23:19:07 -0700: changed beta1 to beta2
90 * 2009-08-22 23:14:11 -0700: fixed enable zippy in configure script and added some checks for OS X
91 make tried to compile zippy even when --disable-zippy was given. Also fixed a bug in xboard.c where #ifdef instead of #
92 if was used to test for ZIPPY (it's either 0 or 1, so we need #if).
94 Also added some special checks for OS X, not sure if these will do it, but it's a start;)
96 * 2009-08-22 19:09:54 -0700: added configure summary to configure output, also cleaned up configure.ac a bit
97 used AS_HELP_STRING where possible
99 * 2009-08-22 18:10:57 -0700: added check for malloc.h
100 this should fix a build error on OS X
102 * 2009-08-22 17:47:44 -0700: A small cosmetic change in the size of buttons inside a groupbox of the Engine-Setup dialog
105 * 2009-08-22 17:32:14 -0700: make xboard usable with UCI engines
106 I made a small patch in xoptions.c (where the corresponding Engine Settings
107 dialog was for XBoard), to make it at least usable for UCI engines: I now
108 divide the options over upto 4 columns, if there are too many to fit into
109 a single column. This seems to work. Still looks very ugly, but it is
112 * 2009-08-22 17:30:05 -0700: fix premove for winboard
113 This might fix the illusive premove problem. In 4.2.7 the code was not properly
114 indented, and this led to an unbalanced braces error that I then fixed the
116 Click-click premoves did only work after clicking the toSquare twice. It
118 that they actually did work after clicking it once, but that the highlights
120 displayed (although set) for lack of a display refresh.
122 * 2009-08-22 17:28:11 -0700: fixed bug for double saved games
123 This patch should solve the problem with doubly saved games when XBoard is
125 I calculate a cecksum of each saved game now (including move comments),
126 and suppress saving if the checksum is not changed.
128 * 2009-08-22 17:25:58 -0700: fixed xengineoutput.c, to keep the duplicated code identical to that of wengineo.c.
130 * 2009-08-22 17:24:08 -0700: updated xboard.texi: added warning that pixmaps are not build for all variants
132 * 2009-08-22 17:19:11 -0700: added a dialog for engine-specific option settings
134 * 2009-08-22 17:09:58 -0700: updated some documentation
136 * 2009-08-22 17:07:10 -0700: fixed several bugs in the backend and added some more polyglot support
137 * I added recognition for the new UCI3 option types that are recognized in the WB
138 option features, to make sure this version is compatible with future Polyglots.
139 Also fixed a bug that failed to strip an asterisk prefix from the first
142 * I fixed the ICS-time-in-PGN bug.
144 * I fixed a bug which caused a space to be missing when long lines broken up by
147 * 2009-08-22 17:02:58 -0700: better polyglot support for engine ouput
148 I fixed the algorithm for clearing the Engine Output window to work better with
149 the latest Polyglot, whight outputs UCI "info strings" amongst the thinking
152 * 2009-08-22 16:23:32 -0600: Beginnings of installer for 4.4.0. HGM asked me to forward the nsi file, but it seemed bes
153 t to just add the installer tree to git even though it's not finished. You must install NSIS then FontName-0.7.exe (inc
154 luded in installer folder) then run build.bat in the same directory.
156 * 2009-08-05 22:18:29 -0700: patch backend.c to make the -noGUI option also work in ICS mode.
158 * 2009-08-01 13:09:49 -0700: temporary fix for pre-select
159 As a temporary kludge I replaced looking into the holdings for the piece type by figuring out which piece would belong
160 on the clicked holdings square. This is a non-trivial process, as it depends on which pieces participate in a certain va
163 * 2009-07-30 00:19:37 -0700: changed click-click moves
164 I got complaints about the way XBoard 4.4.0 handles click-click moves, in particular changing the selected piece after
165 selecting King (for which I suppressed interference with FRC castling in a rather brutal way). People tell me it is very
166 annoying that clicks sometimes don't work to select a piece. WinBoard uses refined logic in the back-end to handle this
167 , but the XBoard front-end is not interfaced with that yet. (This would require a major rewrite of the mouse handler.)
169 This temporary patch suppresses this behavior in all variants that do not support Fischer castling, and even there only
170 exhibit it for Rook-after-King selection (which will be interpreted as an attempt to enter a castling move as K x own R)
173 * 2009-07-26 08:43:35 -0700: option -adjudicateDrawMoves is not included in the XBoard list.
174 added it to the option list
176 * 2009-07-21 20:23:23 -0700: converted files from dos to unix format
177 run dos2unix over a bunch of files
179 * 2009-07-16 07:43:38 -0600: Stripped out unused VersionInfo
181 * 2009-07-15 23:16:19 -0700: changed version to 4.4.0.beta1
183 * 2009-07-15 23:12:37 -0700: updated INSTALL file to add ./autogen.sh
185 * 2009-07-15 22:44:05 -0700: higher number of engine options possible now
186 I upped the number of options per engine from
187 50 to 100, and the average number of characters per option from 10 to 20.
189 * 2009-07-15 12:30:37 -0600: Fix of bad bug
191 * 2009-07-14 23:41:36 -0600: Added version information to resources.
193 * 2009-07-14 23:40:50 -0600: Added Jaws targets to IDE projects.
195 * 2009-07-14 23:39:12 -0600: Final makefile adjustments and compiling instructions.
197 * 2009-07-13 22:35:17 -0600: Cleaned up garbage left behind from my makefile update.
199 * 2009-07-13 22:26:56 -0600: Updated cmdline makefiles to be able to produce JAWS binaries.
200 This breaks support for MSVC 4.x. It may still be possible to
201 use that compiler if you obtain the latest SDK from Microsoft.
202 MSVC 6.0 still works, but I had to change the target windows
203 version to 0x500 which causes warnings about building beta
204 applications. This is all due to the use of MENUBARINFO data
205 type in the jaws binary. You can reduce the WINVER to 0x0400
206 safely if you are not building a JAWS binary, and MSVC 4.x
209 * 2009-07-13 22:26:10 -0600: Removed dependency on jfwapi.h
210 Allows anyone to compile a jaws compatible binary.
212 * 2009-07-13 22:23:31 -0600: Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc
213 PLEASE remember to pull before commiting. This is the 2nd
214 time I've fixed this. It's a waste of time to keep fixing
217 * 2009-07-13 19:36:58 -0700: resolved conflict between Xt and Xaw libraries
218 seems like we don't need to link against Xt.
220 * 2009-07-13 19:33:57 -0700: help-menu was not un-grayed in the JAWS version, when it played with engines
222 * 2009-07-13 19:29:53 -0700: integrated jaws into winboard
223 I integrated the JAWS patch now into WinBoard in such a way that the
224 JAWS and standard version can use the same resource file. This new
225 winboard.c contains the improved dialog layot of the JAWS version,
226 but none of the menus and JAWS-specific acclerator keys. The latter
227 are now generated at run time by code in jaw.s. As a result jaws.h
228 could be cancelled, as there the JAWS-specific defines are no
229 longer needed outside jaws.c (now the .rc does not use them), and
230 is incorporated in it.
232 * 2009-07-12 15:37:26 -0700: fixed problem in autoconf using Xaw3d
233 rewrote the section for Xaw3d in the autoconf file
235 * 2009-07-12 15:29:28 -0600: Added Jaws support to GCC makefile
237 * 2009-07-12 15:28:20 -0600: added help support: MSVC IDE and DevCpp IDE project files
239 * 2009-07-12 15:26:49 -0600: Removed obsolete makefiles and support files.
241 * 2009-07-12 12:33:26 -0700: updated AUTHORS with the help of git
244 git log --pretty=oneline --name-only --author=AUTHORNAME v4.2.7..HEAD |sort |uniq
246 a bit of hand editing and a quick emacs macro later and you have a nice comma seperated list of all files changes by one
247 author between two commits.
249 * 2009-07-12 12:31:47 -0700: updated Changelog using git log --no-merges --pretty="* %ai: %s%n %b" HEAD v4.2.7
251 * 2009-07-12 11:34:28 -0700: cleaned up some more copyright notices
253 * 2009-07-12 11:22:30 -0700: updated copyright to reflect A. Scotte as copyright holder
254 need to mention him, since the paperwork won't be finished before the next release
256 * 2009-07-12 10:56:29 -0700: updated patchlevel to "k"
258 * 2009-07-12 10:53:50 -0700: fixed autoconf problem with VERSION/PATCHLEVEL variables
259 xboard used it's own version of PRODUCT, VERSION and PATCHLEVEL variables. Switched to PACKAGE_STRING provided by autoconf
261 * 2009-07-12 10:29:46 -0700: cleaned up old CVS left overs
262 removed $Id tags from all files
264 * 2009-07-12 10:10:17 -0700: converted xhistory via dos2unix
266 * 2009-07-12 10:09:24 -0700: fixed crash in history window
267 someone discovered that opening the move-history window in XBoard leads to
268 an immediate crash. Turns out that renaming the menu item broke it! (The
269 name of the item was apprently used elsewhere in the code to access it,
270 for putting a check mark there.)
272 * 2009-07-12 10:04:30 -0700: fix for Animation of castling moves in Chess960
273 Animation of castling moves in Chess960 turned out to sometimes make the
274 king disappear from the display. For the time being I patched this in
275 xboard.c to suppress animation of FRC castling moves altogether. As FRC
276 castlings internally are represented as KxR, the to-square does not make
277 sense anyway, which made the animation look very weird even when it led
278 not to a king disappearance act. And the Rook move of a castling is never
281 * 2009-07-11 22:44:53 -0600: Update GCC makefile to remove .obj targets.
282 Dunno how they got in there, but they should be .o
284 * 2009-07-11 22:42:41 -0600: Update makefile dependencies on help.c and help.h.
286 * 2009-07-11 22:36:59 -0600: Allow compiling with MSVC6.0 and 4.1
287 Move prototypes into help.h, after making sure that DWORD_PTR is
288 defined. Include help.h from winboard.c and help.c so both files
289 benefit from the definition.
291 * 2009-07-11 18:26:16 -0700: lists these accelerator keys in the menus for JAWS
293 * 2009-07-11 18:24:19 -0700: added shortcuts
294 This patch allows the use of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for Copy Game and Paste even in I C S mode when the board has focus.
296 * 2009-07-11 18:22:17 -0700: better handling of pasting a game without PGN tags
297 patch in wclipbrd.h to make it smarter to decide between pasting a game or a position so it can handle games without PGN tags. If it doesn't parse as a FEN it is assumed to be a game.
299 * 2009-07-11 18:20:56 -0700: fixed parser error for knight move
300 The parser had a strange quirk: it recognized bd2 as a valid Knight move
301 (Nb1-d2) while this SAN format should be reserved for Pawn moves only.
303 * 2009-07-11 18:19:30 -0700: fixed a few warnings in connection with the help patch (now warning free)
305 * 2009-07-11 18:13:50 -0700: some major re-assignment of accelerator keys in the JAWS
307 * 2009-07-11 16:54:53 -0600: several small fixes
308 uptracked winboard.ini
310 Cleanup: moved "Some definitions required..." from winboard.c to config.h,
311 and combined some definitions from borland w/ MS.
313 Changed internal HtmlHelp return type and 4th argument to facilitate various
314 compilers. These changes, while not strictly adhering to HtmlHelp() conventions,
315 won't impact anything since the function modified is internal only.
317 Modified HtmlHelp return values to integer to silence warnings.
319 Added help.c to the project in makefile.gcc & makefile.ms.
321 Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc.
323 * 2009-07-09 22:08:15 -0700: added JAWS support; help files for Vista; bugfixes for winboard.c
325 * help files should now work under Vista (the user has to have either a program to view old windows help files or to view html-files installed)
326 * I fixed the tabbing between all windows that were added according to Tim's sugestions.
327 * I added typing in of a move number in the move type-in dialog as a shortcut to going to that position by use of the < and > buttons. Mainly intended to ease life for the blind, but I think it can be generally useful. (Although the move-history dialog provides that functionality too, this is quicker if you don't happen to have it open.)
328 * I added typing of a FEN in the move type-in dialog in Edit Position mode. (Which could not be used without mouse at all, and is defective in crazyhouse even with mouse, as there was no way to populate holdings.)
330 * 2009-07-09 22:03:00 -0700: some bugfixes: ICS error handling
331 * play a different sound for takebacks in ICS mode
332 * pop up error messages for illegal moves for typed-in moves
334 * 2009-07-09 21:50:41 -0700: removed no longer needed debug message
336 * 2009-07-09 21:48:23 -0700: fixed compile error from a previous change
338 * 2009-07-09 21:44:54 -0700: user selectable font in game list
339 This makes the game list use the same (user selectable) font as the the move-history window.
341 * 2009-06-30 21:27:34 -0700: fixed typos in xboard.texi documentation.
343 * 2009-06-30 21:16:59 -0700: updated the FAQ
345 * 2009-06-27 17:06:26 -0700: changed font in engine output window
346 The engine-output window now uses the same font as the move-history window
347 (which was selectable in the "Options -> Fonts..." menu, while the other
350 * 2009-06-27 17:03:19 -0700: fixed some characters in xboard.texi
351 It seems that copying manual sections from the RTF to th texi file did
352 somehow mess up the double-quote characters, and changed them into some
353 strange (unicode?) symbols.
355 * 2009-06-27 16:56:36 -0700: two shogi related bugfixes
356 I discovered a bug in the move generator for the Shogi Dragon King. I
357 guess it went unnoticed so far because this is a promoted version of the
358 Rook, which hardly occurs in games. (moves.c)
360 There was also a problem with the piecesfix I sent you before; Shogi
361 chosen as initial variant did use wrong piece symbols. (I had tested this
362 on gothic, but there it happened to work for a different reason, unique to
363 gothic.) This affects xboard.c.
365 * 2009-06-27 16:54:04 -0700: small cleanup
367 * 2009-06-27 16:51:02 -0700: adds bitmaps for shogi promotions, and selects the bitmaps or pixmaps for the more rarely used piece types on a per-variant basis.
369 * 2009-06-27 16:44:36 -0700: adds new piece types in the promotion dialog and edit-position piece menu
371 * 2009-06-27 16:13:15 -0700: updated bitmaps files
372 files for fairy pieces where missing, others had names that didn't work with autoloading.
374 * 2009-06-27 16:06:35 -0700: fixed a bug concerning bitmaps
376 * 2009-06-27 15:53:45 -0700: give a default directory for bitmaps files (tiny change)
377 this is also one of the debian patches, should be rewritten to use the correct install directory. No Author was given.
379 * 2009-06-27 15:47:52 -0700: verbose_error_message_about_recognized_options (tiny change from Debian patches)
381 * 2009-06-27 15:45:14 -0700: add a visual low time warning (tiny change from Debian patches)
383 * 2009-06-24 23:31:52 -0700: dos 2 unix conversion of backend.c
385 * 2009-06-24 23:30:07 -0700: exchanged some sprintf with snprintf
386 found in a patch for the debian system, extended it a bit to other sprintf's
387 original patch included only 11 lines by Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>
389 * 2009-06-24 23:07:23 -0700: enabled a patch for default settings in winboard
391 * 2009-06-24 22:53:11 -0700: updated copyright notice
393 * 2009-06-24 22:52:20 -0700: patches a bug in chosing the initial board size on a virgin startup I introduced recently
395 * 2009-06-24 22:49:33 -0700: I put in testing for the winning condition in 3checks
396 on a check it just goes through the entire game to subject every position on a check test, to see if there were two more.
398 * 2009-06-24 22:47:01 -0700: updated copyright notice in docs
400 * 2009-06-24 22:41:40 -0700: added small patch from debian (tiny change)
401 according to the debian patch tracker, this patch is by Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>.
402 It fixes whitespace issues in filename called from cmail.
404 * 2009-06-24 22:33:13 -0700: converted dos2unix format for xboard.texi
406 * 2009-06-24 22:31:57 -0700: deleted two more files that don't need to be in git
407 these files can be generated by autogen.sh
409 * 2009-06-21 12:10:31 -0700: major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature
410 I did a major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature. The game-list and ICS-interaction windows are now also sticky. I also added a form of stickiness when the main window is resized; edges of auxiliary windows sticking to the right or bottom side of the main window stay attached when the window resizes (due to nr of board squares or their size). The way the window coordinates are saved in the .ini file is now relative to the main window, and some dummy options are added to be able to recognize right- and bottom-edge sticking, and reconstruct that when WB starts up with another board size. Also added are volatile options to ensure there will be space for auxiliary windows above and left of the main window.
412 * 2009-06-21 12:07:01 -0700: fixed long-algebraic form of drops
413 The WB parser turned out not to understand the long-algebraic form of drops send by an ICS. (like B/@@-e4), so even with legality testing off I now use the SAN move for drops.
415 * 2009-06-18 18:35:31 -0700: Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, some cleanup
416 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, which seems to be not always won
417 for the stalemated side, but for the side with the smallest number of pieces.
418 Cleaned up the adjudication code in the process. (backend.c moves.c, moves.h)
419 Also includes a tiny change in the -autoKibitz format, as requested on
422 * 2009-06-18 18:32:57 -0700: Enhancement of the way -autoLogo decides which logos to display
424 * 2009-06-16 00:06:59 -0700: bugfix and enhancement in autoKibitz mode
425 changed the format of the autoKibitz: score/depth in stead of depth/score, as in PGN. I also supress the ICS time for the move now in the PGN if extended info is available.
427 When enhancing the functionality of the autoKibitz command (using the
428 opponent engine kibitz for the saved PGN) I discovered that the xengineoutput.c
429 in our tree was obsolete, and contained a routine of which the arguments
431 longer compatble with the call from backend.c, and caused segfaulting. I
433 the corresponding routine in wengineo.c, which was compatible. That the
435 did not flag this is a sign of badly organized code, I suppose...
437 The enhancement itself affected backend.c.
439 * 2009-06-16 00:04:13 -0700: modified clock layout
440 I altered the display of the clocks in the presence of engine logos; I used to
441 stack them, but some inquiry on Talkchess sowed that people disliked the
442 stacking. So now I display them next to each other again, but as 2-line-high
443 fields to make room for te logos.
445 * 2009-06-15 23:59:32 -0700: new zippy option zippyShortGame
446 On request of Mike Adams I added a new zippy option, -zippyShortGame, to make life more difficult for abusers of abort and disconnect for cheating.
448 * 2009-06-15 23:56:40 -0700: fixed some bugs in the animation of atomic captures
450 * 2009-06-13 15:27:26 -0700: some small bugfixes
451 I had overlooked one place from which the FEN writer (of whicf I changed the argument types), which made WB crash if you copied a FEN (or PGN that cotained FEN) to the clipboard. I must have overlooked a warning during compile, or some depedency is not correct in the makefile. Anyway, wclipboard.c had to be changed.
453 I also moved adjudication of some losing conditions to before tetsing for stalemate, (e.g. in atomic, if your king get destroyd you lose, even if you have no moves after that because it was your only piece.). this affects backend.c.
455 I had used the same bits in the frule-modifier flags for indicating mandatory capture as was already used for indicating FRC-style castling. This led to frequent illegal move calls in FRC... (moves.h)
457 * 2009-06-13 10:45:17 -0700: cleaned up HTML in FAQ.html -- still need to work on content
459 * 2009-06-13 09:36:26 -0700: added option for work-around for some FRC engines in regards to FRCFENs
460 It suddenly occurred to me that I had promised on CCC to include an option to provide a work-around for the problem that some FRC engines do not understand FRC FENs (and thus do not play at all under WinBoard, as FRC always has to begin with sending the initial position).
462 So I added the options -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN, -secondNeedsNoncompliantFEN. This affects winboard.c and xboard.c, (for defining the option), common.h, backend.h, backend.c, (for implementing it), xboard.texi and winboard.rtf (decribing it). This option provides users with a means to always force the FEN castling field to KQkq (but can be used for many other work-arounds as well).
464 * 2009-06-13 09:30:31 -0700: fixed bug with random calls
465 There also seemed to be a bug with the shuffling of opening positions; I had changed the declaration of the position number from long long int to u64 to comply with MSVC, but this suppressed shuffling completely. I now changed it to int. I recently noted a problem with true randomizing anyway: this was based on srand(time()), but time() apparently did not change fast enough, so that starting several games in rapid succession (because the book line contained a 3-fold repetition) produced identical games. So I now seed the random once and for all during startup, based on the msec of the time mark, and removed the other calls to srand().
467 * 2009-06-13 09:26:14 -0700: changed name for fairymax program in xboard.h
469 * 2009-06-13 09:25:07 -0700: removed my name from copyright message in help->about menu
471 * 2009-06-13 09:22:02 -0700: fixed -stickyWindows option
472 I figured out why -stickyWindows was not working in XP and Vista
473 (while it always worked under Win2K), and I think I found a fix for
474 it that works under all Windows versions. (I tried XP and Win2K.)
476 * 2009-06-13 09:20:38 -0700: Updated docs for Engine-Settings menu
478 * 2009-06-13 09:19:05 -0700: Awareness of winning conditions for atomic and giveaway variants; two bugfixes
479 fixed bug in claim verification
480 Bugfix on initial position of Great Shatranj
482 * 2009-06-13 09:16:47 -0700: Legality testing (mandatory capture) in giveaway variants
484 * 2009-06-13 09:16:17 -0700: don't ignore winboard/parser.c
486 * 2009-06-13 09:12:15 -0700: Added new variant Twilight Chess
488 * 2009-06-13 09:08:57 -0700: some renaming and restructuring of WB menu items, to conform more to XBoard
490 * 2009-06-13 09:07:07 -0700: Fixed bug in atomic patch that interfered with non-atomic variants
492 * 2009-06-10 21:46:11 -0700: fixed different use of engine option compared to Polyglot
493 it turns out the new Polyglot uses a sightly different version of the GUI->engine option command than the one I proposed (and implemented in XBoard; Michel sneaked in an '=' sign between the NAME and VALUE of the option, to allow for more unambiguous parsing.
495 I guess in principle this is a good idea, so I adapted XBoard to Polyglot rather than the other way around. The result is that there are canges in xboard.c, and the documentation.
497 I noticed that I unjustly had internationalized the option strings to be send to the engine in xoptions.c; this was of course nonsense, as this was WB protocol. So I undid that too.
499 * 2009-06-10 21:37:47 -0700: add the already supported variants 3check and great (=Great Shatranj) to the New Variant... menu.
501 * 2009-06-10 21:32:22 -0700: animate explosions in variant atomic (if animate moves is on).
503 * 2009-06-10 21:30:19 -0700: fixed castling bug in variant twokings.
505 * 2009-06-10 21:22:36 -0700: fixed forteitary wins for special game variations
506 feature that corrects forfeitary wins (e.g. on time) of a bare King to draws of course breaks proper operation in losers, suicide and giveaway
508 * 2009-06-09 21:02:51 -0700: automatically test ini file extension for files from commandline option @filename
509 The winboard.c is a patch that automatically tries indirection files on the
510 command line (@filename type arguments) also with an extension .ini if the name itself
511 did not match any existing file and contained no period. This saves the user typing the
512 .ini all the time (which I started to find pretty annoying while working on the installer
515 * 2009-06-08 15:23:58 -0700: added gamelisttag option to xboard
516 also updated documentation.
518 * 2009-06-08 15:20:00 -0700: updated RTF file for winboard
520 * 2009-06-06 09:12:48 -0700: fixed syntax error in texi file
522 * 2009-06-06 08:57:52 -0700: updated to patchlevel "j"
524 * 2009-06-06 09:00:25 -0700: fixed adjudicating probelm in Shantranj
525 Refrain from adjudicating a draw based on insufficient mating material
526 (except bare King vs bare King) in Shatranj (where in this case you can
527 still win by baring the opponent's King).
529 * 2009-06-06 08:55:17 -0700: updated documentation and FAQ
531 * 2009-06-04 22:52:31 -0700: source clean up. Fix compiler warning, removed unused variables, etc.
533 * 2009-06-04 20:43:29 -0700: adding support for different windows compiler
534 Eric kindly provided us with some makefiles for different windows compiler and also fixed some issues that came up while using those compilers.
536 * 2009-06-04 18:27:26 -0700: cleanup: got rid of a lot of files that are not needed for a new release
537 lots of documentation was available in several places, old unused source files and not used graphics file were floating around in the tree. This should clean up most of it. No need to keep these files around, especially since we are using version control.
539 * 2009-05-29 18:56:06 -0700: added the Action-menu items that allow the user to adjudicate ongoing games in Two-Machines mode.
540 This was an already existing backend function from Winboard_x; I only had to create a menu item for it to be called. Due to an oversight I had forgotten to do that so far. (Logically, I should have done it in the 4.3.5 release, where I updated the XBoard menus to conform to the WinBoard menus.)
542 I tested them, and they seem to work. (As expected.)
544 * 2009-05-28 22:23:00 -0700: updated patchlevel to "i"
546 * 2009-05-28 22:19:08 -0700: small change to mousewheel support; two changes in window behaviour
547 * Visible effects during resizing suppressed, bug in chosing new size fixed.
548 * No longer reserves left and top margins next to main window on first popup.
549 * built in some hysteresis into mousewheel support, ignorng the first event in any new
550 direction to suppress effects from accidential mouse movement.
552 * 2009-05-28 22:11:11 -0700: corrected 'animate dragging'
553 I finally figured out how the 'animate dragging' works in XBoard,
554 so that I could add code to do the unstacking of multiple pieces
555 in the holdings, rather than always leaving an empty square while
556 you drag them. (And then suddenly re-growing the remaining pieces
557 as you make the drop.) It does not look as fancy as in WinBoard
558 yet, because the counts still only decrease when you release the
559 piece, rather than when you lift it. But this is not nearly as
560 disturbing as leaving empty holdings (if only temporarily) when
561 you still have pieces there.
563 * 2009-05-28 22:06:15 -0700: Added comand-line options -debugFile (as synonym for -nameOfDebugFile, as WinBoard also has these synonyms), and -engineDebugOutput (wich already existed in the backend).
565 * 2009-05-28 21:57:53 -0700: updated documentation for new release
567 * 2009-05-28 21:55:51 -0700: added Xiangqi perpetual-chase detection
569 * 2009-05-28 00:06:53 -0700: Updated all files to GPL version 3.
571 * 2009-05-28 00:03:32 -0700: converted two files from dos to unix format
573 * 2009-05-27 23:12:24 -0700: updated INSTALL, NEWS and other files for new release
574 cleaned up a bit and updated some information in the text files.
576 * 2009-05-07 21:48:23 -0700: winboard/config.h shouldn't be in .gitignore, only ./config.h
578 * 2009-05-07 21:47:37 -0700: bumped patchlevel to 0g
580 * 2009-05-07 21:46:02 -0700: corrected path in makefile
582 * 2009-05-07 21:45:48 -0700: updated rtf
584 * 2009-05-07 21:45:25 -0700: added firstOptions, secondOptions, noGUI, firstXBook, secondXBook
586 * 2009-05-07 21:44:03 -0700: handle promotion case for Shogi
588 * 2009-05-07 21:43:34 -0700: add note about RESULT command for GUI programmers
590 * 2009-05-07 21:42:37 -0700: small changes to book.c
591 added code for different board sizes
593 handle promotion of pieces
595 * 2009-05-05 23:07:18 -0700: added a .gitignore file
597 * 2009-05-03 12:41:06 -0700: wrong line ending for Unix... ran dos2unix on both files
599 * 2009-05-02 13:51:50 -0700: fixed texinfo files, added windows help file, removed config.h from git
600 texinfo.in is not needed anymore, since it only provided a version string, but this can be created automatically using autotools
602 deleted config.h from version control, since it is automatically created.
603 added winboard.hlp file (not sure if needed)
605 * 2009-04-26 23:34:34 -0700: updated autoconf init file
606 * renamed autoconf init file from configure.in to configure.ac
607 * added bug-report email address to ac_init
608 * replaced ac_output(...) with ac_config_files, ac_config_commands and ac_output
609 * 2009-04-26 14:49:03 -0700: parser.c is generated by lex, so it shouldn't be tracked and also parcer.c shouldn't be in Makefile.am
610 * 2009-04-26 14:44:51 -0700: added book.c to Makefile.am
611 * 2009-04-26 13:49:15 -0700: use autoheader to create config.h.in
612 no need to track this in git anymore
614 * 2009-04-26 11:13:26 -0700: fixed autoheader warings, remove depreciated acconfig.h
616 * 2009-04-26 10:30:23 -0700: added a autogen.sh
618 * 2009-05-02 10:55:39 -0700: changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.16
620 * 2009-05-02 10:50:10 -0700: changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.15
622 * 2009-05-02 10:38:39 -0700: changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.14
624 * 2009-05-02 10:13:41 -0700: HGM fixed cygwin compile for winboard
626 * 2009-04-24 16:11:57 -0700: cross compilier working
628 * 2009-04-19 10:00:52 -0700: changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.13
630 * 2009-04-19 09:52:47 -0700: changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.12
632 * 2009-04-19 09:48:59 -0700: changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.8
634 * 2009-04-19 09:44:15 -0700: changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.7
636 * 2009-04-19 09:39:19 -0700: changes by H.G. Muller; version 4.3.4
638 * 2009-04-19 09:34:31 -0700: changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.2
640 * 2009-04-19 10:26:24 -0700: changes from H.G. Muller
642 * 2009-04-16 23:06:13 -0700: cleaned up the directory a bit. Removed winboard-dm-beta, merged the two Changelogs together
644 * 2009-04-16 14:12:48 -0700: changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060129
646 * 2009-04-16 14:09:33 -0700: changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060112
648 * 2009-04-16 14:04:02 -0700: changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051231
650 * 2009-04-16 13:59:12 -0700: changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051129
652 * 2009-04-16 13:53:41 -0700: changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20050322
654 * 2009-04-10 04:18:59 +0000: translated a handfull of strings and set the codeset to UTF-8 for the translations.
656 * 2009-03-18 03:20:50 +0000: Translation: added German po file (roughly 50% translated)
658 * 2009-03-01 04:23:54 +0000: fixed bug #22853: changed all .Xdefaults to .Xresources in xboard.texi
660 * 2009-03-01 02:43:43 +0000: fixed bug #25672, patch #6182 by adding DESTDIR support to Makefile.in
662 * 2009-03-01 02:33:26 +0000: fixed a warning message in the configure script
664 * 2009-02-28 22:58:57 +0000: fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
666 * 2009-02-28 22:58:14 +0000: fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
668 * 2009-02-28 22:55:30 +0000: added myself to the AUTHOR file
670 * 2007-06-15 04:26:57 +0000: Initial check-in of NSIS Winboard installer files.
672 * 06/12/2005: bugfix some more possible buffer overflows.
674 * 06/27/2004: added simple icsEngineAnalyze for xboard
676 * 06/26/2004: added icsEngineAnalyze for winboard: Analyze observe games
677 with a chessprogram on a Internet Chess Server (ICS)
679 * 02/12/2004: Bugfix ICS interaction console crashed while chess
680 engine starting and user type in some stuff. We wait now to finish
683 * 02/11/2004: Winboard: Added color lines for the ics interaction
684 console if zippy used
686 * 02/09/2004: Added mousewheel support for winboard. Play moves
687 backward and forward with the mousewheel.
689 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.7 -- Fri Nov 28 13:36:00 PST 2003 -- Tim Mann
691 * 11/26/2003: In WinBoard, setting the -debug flag now logs ICS output
692 to WinBoard.debug too. (This isn't needed in xboard because ICS
693 output already goes to stdout, so it's easy to capture along with the
694 debug output on stderr.) This was issue #280 in the ToDo file.
696 * 11/23/2003: Cleaned up some minor problems in cygwin.mak. Thanks to
697 Hans Werner Strube for the problem report.
699 * 11/23/2003: Updated the default list of chess servers in
700 winboard/defaults.h. Deleted two that appear to be dead and added a
701 new one that is active.
703 * 11/19/2003: Swapped icon_white.bm and icon_black.bm in XBoard.
704 Hopefully this will get them the right way around by default on more X
705 window managers. I wish I understood this better.
707 * 11/18/2003: Implemented a simple 32-bit random number generator for
708 WinBoard, replacing the Windows rand(), which ranges only up to
709 0x7fff. Formerly on Windows, only zippy.lines sayings that started in
710 the first 32767 bytes of the file could ever be used. This was issue
711 #505 from the ToDo file.
713 * 11/16/2003: The xboard man page and info files are now built from a
714 common set of texinfo source files, and the xboard man page now covers
715 cmail as well. Formerly, ever since the texinfo file was first
716 contributed to the project, it was separate from the man page and the
717 two files had to be updated in parallel, making for a maintenance
718 nightmare. To make combining the files possible, I took the Perl
719 script "texi2man" from the GNU Units project and added support for a
720 larger subset of the texinfo markup language. I then carefully
721 compared the old man page and old texinfo file to make sure the latest
722 and clearest words survived into the new combined texinfo file. It
723 would be great to merge in WinBoard's help file too, but that's a
724 larger project. It would have to be heavily conditionalized to
725 deal with differences in features between XBoard and WinBoard.
727 * 11/15/2003: Cleaned up and applied a small patch from Daniel
728 Mehrmann, to stop overly long PVs in thinking output from causing a
729 buffer overflow crash in backend.c.
731 * 11/5/2003: When a chess engine sends a "telluser" command (including
732 the cases where "tellall" or "tellopponent" acts like telluser), the
733 information now goes into a nonmodel popup that is automatically
734 dismissed when the user clicks anywhere on the board. This fix is
735 more significant on WinBoard, where formerly you got a fully modal
736 dialog that had to be dismissed by clicking on OK before anything else
737 could happen. The bug was issue #406 in the ToDo file.
739 * 11/1/2003: Removed email addresses from this file to reduce spam
740 load, as it gets linked to from the Web.
742 * 11/1/2003: Updated READ_ME and winboard/READ_ME.txt.
744 * Modified xboard and winboard makefiles to be able to build the
745 project in the new combined directory structure.
747 * Applied a small security fix to pxboard, from Martin Maeok.
749 * Fixed a bug in the game list dialog. The change in 4.2.6 to opening
750 games in text mode (meant to avoid getting extra \r's into comments)
751 caused a new bug in determining seek offsets when parsing a game file
752 to form the game list. Also, the change was incomplete; on some code
753 paths games were still being opened in binary mode. Thanks to Lenik
754 Terenin for reporting the offset bug. I've now gone back to always
755 using binary mode when reading game files, and I've fixed the comment
756 bug by adding code to remove \r's from parsed comments explicitly. I
757 still use text mode for writing game files so that games written by
758 WinBoard will have Windows-style line endings.
760 * Fix for minor bug in WinBoard installer. If you chose a non-default
761 destination directory, the default directory was still used for a
762 couple of unimportant things, namely setting the App Paths registry
763 keys (unused by WinBoard) and trying to copy the existing WinBoard.ini
764 file to WinBoard.old. I inherited this bug from the InstallShield 5
765 sample template. Thanks to "l.d." for noticing the incorrect keys.
767 * Patch from Chris Priest: when two engines are being run through rsh,
768 avoid reusing the same stderr port for both. I'm not sure why this
769 should be needed, but it's harmless, at least.
771 * Bugfix: The kludge to deal with old engines that give an error
772 message because they don't know the "st" command was too sloppy; it
773 could hit on an "st" substring anywhere in an error message. GNU
774 Chess 4 is the only engine I know of where the kludge was needed, so I
775 changed the kludge to match a longer, more GNU-specific string.
777 * Changed the WinBoard self-extracting installer to choose a unique
778 temporary subdirectory name within the Windows temp directory instead
779 of always putting wb-setup directly in temp. Besides being better
780 practice, this avoids the need to deltree wb-setup first, which
781 occasionally alarms someone who thinks that deltree is only used by
782 trojans to delete all your files. (Yes, I'm serious.)
784 * Fixed a bug where FICS-style "wild/0" strings were not parsed as the
785 proper wild type. The "/" was not being skipped.
787 * Fixed a WinBoard bug where temporary files created by game
788 copy/paste were being created in the root directory of the current
789 drive instead of the TMP directory and were not always deleted on exit.
791 * Fixed a small bug in winboard.c's ErrorDialog() function. Thanks to
792 "Ron" (no last name given). The bug might have caused a problem when
793 pressing OK or Cancel in an error dialog when more than one error
794 dialog was being displayed, but I'm not really sure.
796 * Removed a hack that worked around a bug in very old versions of
797 Crafty, where it would sometimes reply "illegal move" to a "."
798 command. The hack kept us from recognizing real illegal move messages
799 in analyze mode from engines that don't respond to the "." command.
800 Thanks to Fabien Letouzey for the report.
802 * Fixed a bug in the xboard version of GetDelayedEvent. It would
803 return the most recently scheduled event even if it had already fired.
804 This caused at least one visible error: in -ics -xreuse mode, starting
805 the engine again and seeing another "feature done=1" would re-run the
806 initialization code in InitBackEnd3, including the code that opens the
807 connection to ICS. The WinBoard version didn't have this bug. Thanks
808 to Bob Hyatt for the bug report.
810 * The promotion popup for ICC wild 26 (giveaway) now includes King.
811 Thanks to Fredrik Josefsson for the bug report.
813 * The first game in a file (or being pasted from the clipboard) can
814 now start with a bare move -- no PGN tags, no move number "1", etc.
815 Suggested by Shane Harrelson. One could imagine taking this farther
816 and accepting something like "e4 e5 1/2-1/2 d4 d5" as two games, but
819 * Bug fix: xboard didn't really accept a paste of multiple games,
820 contrary to what I wrote when adding the feature to WinBoard in
821 4.2.4. Now it works in both.
823 * Fixed generic start/end of game messages to work on chess.net, where
824 they put ratings in parens after the player names.
826 * Updated config.sub and config.guess to newer versions from
827 automake-1.4p5-2. This makes configure work with MacOS X + X11.
829 * Bugfix: when examining a game fragment on FICS where black plays
830 first, don't show two "(0:00.000)" times on the initial "none" move.
832 * If TestLegality is on and one of the engines makes an illegal move
833 in TwoMachines mode, it forfeits immediately. Formerly the game would
834 get stuck at that point and the engine that made the illegal move
835 would eventually lose on time.
837 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.6 -- Fri Feb 1 22:26:31 PST 2002
840 Another small bugfix release.
842 * Put in a small change from Alexander Mai to allow xboard to build in
843 an OS/2 EMX environment.
845 * Fix WinBoard-only bug where editing a PGN file with comments would
846 insert more \r characters before the \n after every Load/Save cycle.
847 For some unknown reason we were reading the files in "rb" mode but
848 writing them in "a" mode, so we kept the \r characters on reading and
849 added an extra one on writing. Fix: change the "rb" to "r". Thanks
850 to Joel (last name not given) for the bug report.
852 * Put the arguments to rsh/remsh in the right order for better
853 portability. Thanks to Michael Kalisz.
855 * FreezeUI is now implemented in WinBoard; it was previously only
856 implemented in xboard. This function prevents the user from entering
857 moves or other commands while we are waiting for an engine to
858 initialize itself. Implementing it fixes a bug where the user could
859 start a game (etc.) during feature negotiation. One of the symptoms
860 of this bug was that we could send "new" one or move moves *after* the
863 * Fixed some handle leaks (WinBoard only), including a nasty one that
864 leaked one handle per command sent to ICS. Thanks to several folks
865 who helped characterize the bug and tried to look for leaks.
867 * We now install and look for the info file in ${prefix}/share/info
868 instead of ${prefix}/info. The latter is still the default in
869 autoconf, but the former is currently used in Red Hat Linux and
872 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.5 -- Sat Dec 15 11:42:51 PST 2001
875 * Changed the bundled GNU Chess 5.02 in the WinBoard package to
876 include a much smaller book and to use much less hash table space by
877 default (8 MB transposition table, 0.5 MB pawn evaluation table). The
878 large book included with 4.2.4 made the WinBoard download too big for
879 some people, and the default hash tables were larger than the
880 available physical memory on some people's computers. I built the
881 small book by running Crafty's "small.zip" book line collection
882 through a Perl script that makes it look enough like real PGN games
883 that the GNU Chess book builder will accept it. The script and some
884 minor patches to GNU Chess 5 are available in the WinBoard source
885 distribution and at http://www.tim-mann.org/gnuchess.html.
887 * Fixed a bug in the code that deals with engines that complain that
888 "time" and "otim" are illegal moves. This was a new bug in 4.2.4.
890 * Revamped the implementation of ToStart in analysis mode. Formerly
891 there was some ill-conceived code that would try to get back to the
892 start of the game by doing a "new" command (and all the followup
893 commands that requires) while remaining in analysis mode. This is
894 problematic for engine authors to support, though it works with
895 Crafty. This code was trying to solve the problem of ToStart being
896 slow because the engine would try to start an analysis after every
897 "undo" command all the way back to the start. But ToEnd already had a
898 much better solution to this problem, and now ToStart does the same
899 thing: we exit from analysis mode and enter force mode instead,
900 make/unmake moves to get to the end/start of the game, and then
901 reenter analysis mode.
903 * Formerly, Zippy could try to start playing a game before the engine
904 was initialized; that is, during the initial timeout for protover 1
905 engines, or before "feature done=1" for protover 2 engines. We now
906 wait until the engine is initialized before connecting to ICS, which
907 fixes this in the common case. If you turn off engine reuse for
908 multiple games (that is, if you give the -xreuse option), there could
909 still be problems; see item 503 in the ToDo file. Thanks to Dieter
910 Buerssner for the bug report.
912 * Bugfix: All WinBoard versions since the merge with WinBoard Plus
913 (but not xboard) have had a bug in changing the PeriodicUpdates,
914 PonderNextMove, and ShowThinking options from the menu. The bug
915 mostly just caused changing these options during a game to not take
916 effect until after the next reset. For TwoMachines games, though,
917 changing PonderNextMove just before the game would take effect
918 immediately for the second engine but not until the next game for the
919 first engine. Thanks to Koundinya Veluri for the bug report.
921 * Bugfix: In 4.2.4, we sometimes got confused when trying to leave and
922 reenter analyze mode. One symptom was that Analyze File did not work.
923 Thanks to Igor Syry for the bug report.
925 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.4 -- Sun Dec 9 14:56:30 PST 2001
928 * WinBoard now includes GNU Chess 5.02 in place of GNU Chess 5.00.
930 * WinBoard's PasteGameFromClipboard will now handle a paste with
931 multiple games in it, popping up the game list dialog. xboard
932 already did this. Suggested by Robert Gerstman.
934 * We now use the "clearboard" command on ICC where appropriate.
936 * Bugfix: don't generate a bogus "variant normal" command to an engine
937 for the loadable ICC wild types that we internally flag as
938 VariantLoadable. Also clarified the message that Zippy sends when
939 declining such wild games -- it can't deal with the possibility of
940 loading an arbitrary position into the game. Thanks to Dieter
941 Buerssner for reporting the problem. It would be nice to be able to
942 actually play these wild types some day; presumably there would have
943 to be an option to either send "loadgame" with a specified position,
944 or to deal with an opponent sending it.
946 * If we get a holdings message from ICS when we thought we were
947 playing normal chess, we now try asking for a move list so that we can
948 find out from the header what's really happening. Formerly we guessed
949 bughouse in this case. Response to a comment from Gian-Carlo
952 * Fixed two longstanding bugs in the clock code. These affected only
953 play between a user and a local engine, or between two local engines,
954 not ICS play. (1) The last fractional second used by a player before
955 moving and virtually pushing his clock was being charged to his
956 opponent instead of to him. (2) The time and otim commands were being
957 sent to an engine before the (buggy) fractional second update was
958 done. The second bug was pretty harmless in itself, but the first one
959 was serious. Many thanks to Peter Rosendahl for carefully diagnosing
960 and reporting these bugs!
962 * Changed WinBoard timestamp key. Nothing is changed other than the
963 key and a recompilation. ICC may phase out the old key soon; if they
964 do, you'll need to use the timestamp.exe from WinBoard 4.2.4 or later
965 to connect to chessclub.com.
967 * Fixed an xboard-only bug where most dialogs would not take keyboard
968 input unless the mouse was actually over the dialog, even if the
969 dialog window had focus. Thanks to Jason Varsoke for the bug report.
971 * Bugfix; Remember to send time and otim commands to engine before
972 sending playother. Thanks to Bob Hyatt for the bug report. Also
973 fixed a bug where time and otim were sometimes sent even with feature
976 * Added small patches from Wilkin Ng that are meant to fix a crash in
977 CopyGameToClipboard and a "can't unlock clipboard memory" error in
978 PasteTextFromClipboard, under Windows 2000.
980 * Changed cygwin.mak to not use -mno-cygwin. In other words, it now
981 uses cygwin1.dll instead of the mingw libraries. This works around
982 bugs in fileno() and stat() that I encountered in mingw. (fileno
983 seems to always return 0. stat fails because the library routine uses
984 a different definition of struct stat than the header files provide.)
985 Thanks to Robert Gerstman for reporting the symptoms these bugs caused
986 when WinBoard was compiled with Cygwin.
988 * Added -showButtonBar option. This lets you delete the << < P > >>
989 buttons and thus widen the message widget a bit.
991 * Added code to address a very obscure bug. If an engine dies and
992 needs to be restarted while in one of the analyze modes, it was not
993 getting put back into analyze mode. This bug should not really ever
994 have gotten tickled unless reuse was turned off and the engine sends
995 game end commands (such as 1-0) when a game ends by rule while in
996 analyze mode. The next version of the protocol spec will say that
997 engines should not do that, but version 2 and earlier didn't address
1000 * We now use the FICS "iset ms 1" feature to get times in ms instead
1001 of seconds. Thanks to DAV for email telling me about this feature.
1003 * Changed clock display to show tenths of seconds for 9.9 seconds and
1004 less, instead of 0.9 seconds and less as before.
1006 * It has been discovered that Zippy can play simuls on ICC (but not on
1007 FICS). If you arrange for Zippy to send the ICC command "simulize" in
1008 the -zippyGameStart string, it will accept additional games while
1009 playing. Zippy will use the same engine for every game, so whenever
1010 it switches opponents, the engine's state will be reset with the "new"
1011 command. This will of course weaken its play, so don't enable simuls
1012 if you want your engine to have the highest possible rating. Zippy
1013 was never designed to work with simuls; it just works by accident, and
1014 it hasn't been tested much. So please report any bugs you notice, but
1015 don't expect them to be fixed rapidly. Thanks to Paul McGuire for
1016 noticing that this works.
1018 * Bugfix: Suppress the direct command to engine popup if there is no
1019 engine. In WinBoard this case used to cause a crash. Thanks to
1020 "Dargon" for the bug report.
1022 * Bugfix: formerly we did part of the engine initialization for the
1023 very first game too soon, before feature negotiation. One result of
1024 this is that engines would never get the "ics" command for the first
1027 * Lengthened timeout to detect protocol version 1 chess engines to 10
1028 seconds. This should reduce problems with protocol version 2 engines
1029 that are slow to initialize missing the timeout and not getting a
1030 chance to send their feature commands before the first game starts.
1032 * Klaus Friedel says that adding a short sleep to WinBoard after
1033 starting a new chess engine solves a problem that occurs under Windows
1034 2000, in which engines sometimes don't see the initial command(s) from
1035 WinBoard and hang. I don't understand how that can happen, but the
1036 sleep is harmless, so I've put it in. Others have also reported what
1037 may be the same problem, so hopefully this will fix it for them too.
1039 * Bugfix: editing the Result field in EditTags will no longer cause a
1040 later crash. Thanks to DAV for a clear bug report that let me
1041 reproduce the problem.
1043 * ICC wild 28 is now recognized as shatranj, but it is not supported.
1044 You might be able to play it by turning off Test Legality.
1046 * Formerly we would always turn off "feature time" if the engine
1047 printed an error message with the string "time" or "otim" in it; now
1048 we do that only if the message comes before the engine makes its first
1049 move. This change is useful because some engines spew a lot of bogus
1050 error messages about commands they don't fully parse, so something
1051 like "result 0-1 {White lost on time}" could generate such a message.
1052 Engines shouldn't do that, but if they do, mysteriously turning off
1053 "feature time" is not a good way to react.
1055 * Fixed an infrequently occurring Zippy bug: formerly, resuming from
1056 adjournment by position (that is, with GetMoveList turned off) or
1057 starting/resuming a wild game (nonstandard starting position) would
1058 try to set up the position without putting the engine into force mode
1059 first. That was probably tolerated by most engines, but if the
1060 position was black-to-play and the engine hadn't set feature
1061 setboard=1, then the fake "a2a3" move (which we use as a kludge to get
1062 black to be on move before sending the edit command) would appear to
1063 be a real move, and the engine might reply to it! This bug could also
1064 be seen when trying to use Zippy to play a simul -- something that
1065 Zippy was never designed to support, but which seems to mostly work
1066 anyway. Thanks to Paul McGuire for sending a WinBoard.debug file that
1067 showed the bug occurring. Some other cases of resuming adjournments
1068 or starting games from nonstandard positions may have been broken too;
1069 I think I've straightened out the problems.
1071 * Agreeing to a draw in the human vs. local engine case formerly did
1072 not work if the human offered first; now it does. A human's
1073 unsolicited offer is considered valid until he makes another move.
1074 Thanks to Bruce Moreland for the bug report.
1076 * Bugfix: We used to look for just "fr" in Event tags or strings from
1077 ICSes to recognize Fischer Random games. This caused a lot of false
1078 matches. Now we look for "wild/fr" instead, which is what FICS uses.
1080 * Bugfix: Clicking on a move in the MoveList window only updated the
1081 displayed position; if a chess engine was active, its state was not
1082 updated. Thanks to Alejandro Dubrovsky for the bug report.
1084 * Bugfix: The "resign" command from engine to xboard formerly did not
1085 work in ICS (Zippy) mode.
1087 * Bugfix: Formerly we would register a garbage premove if the user
1088 clicked on a piece, then clicked on an edge or outside the board. Now
1089 such an errant click is ignored.
1091 * Bugfix: GameEnds would send "exit" to an engine in analyze mode even
1092 if we did not actually want to leave analyze mode.
1094 * Bugfix: "feature pause" was being rejected. We don't currently use
1095 it, but that is no reason to reject it. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto
1098 * Bugfix: when "partner" needed to be sent both to ICS and the engine,
1099 Zippy was erroneously sending the ICS prefix character to the engine
1100 too. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto for the bug report.
1102 * Zippy now declines challenges when the engine is not yet ready to
1103 play again, instead of ignoring them. This is needed so that the
1104 server will let the opponent repeat the challenge. It might be better
1105 to remember such challenges and accept them when the engine is ready,
1106 but that would be a bit more complicated to implement.
1108 * Bugfix: Zippy's emotes didn't work on FICS because there, "i" is a
1109 built-in alias for "it", not a real command. So sending "$i foo" gave
1110 an error message instead of doing "it foo". We now leave out the
1111 alias-suppressing prefix for emotes.
1113 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.3 -- Mon Feb 19 19:55:05 PST 2001
1116 * Bugfix: The error message "Variant X not supported by gnuchessx"
1117 formerly could pop up even in -ncp mode.
1119 * Fixed an xboard bug in premove highlighting. If you had
1120 HighlightLastMove turned on, premoves got highlighted in
1121 highlightSquareColor (yellow) instead of premoveHighlightColor (red).
1123 * Modified premove again. Now we are back to displaying the move
1124 locally immediately after sending it to the server, as in versions
1125 prior to 4.2.1. This is good because it lets you register your next
1126 premove sooner. As a better fix to the problem that the change in
1127 4.2.1 had been trying to address, we now suppress animating the
1128 opponent's move if you have a premove reply pending. However, it's
1129 probably still a good idea for you to turn off AnimateMoves entirely
1130 if you are trying to play extremely fast games.
1132 * Removed an erroneous patch that left zombie chess engines around
1133 when both sigterm and reuse were turned off. (Bug was in xboard only,
1136 * Bugfix: loading a game with autostepping did not work for games with
1137 PGN result "*" (unfinished). This bug was introduced in 4.1.0, caused
1138 by some outdated code that was supposed to leave you in EditGame mode
1139 after loading an unfinished game. I fixed this, and also changed it
1140 to leave you in EditGame mode after loading *any* game, but without
1141 changing the tags to say it's an edited game. It's not really clear
1142 whether that is the best thing is to do here -- ideally, perhaps, the
1143 tags should change to say "edited game" if you actually make any
1144 changes, but that is harder to make work.
1146 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.2 -- Tue Feb 6 20:00:00 PST 2001
1149 * Fixed a problem introduced in 4.2.1. In -zippyPlay mode, 4.2.1
1150 started sending the initString immediately after the old game ended,
1151 but then when the next game started, it would still send "force" and
1152 another initString. Another problem was that the first initString put
1153 the engine out of sync with the displayed board position, though that
1154 might not usually have been noticeable. This is now changed to do a
1155 full Reset at the end of the previous game, and avoid doing a Reset at
1156 the start of a new game if we are still in BeginningOfGame mode.
1158 * Fixed some limitations in -zippyPlay mode. The engine was not being
1159 fed the moves or history of games that were displayed but not being
1160 played, so it would get confused if you tried to do something like
1161 examine a game, then enter EditGame mode from somewhere in the middle
1164 * Made a small change so that cygwin can compile xboard for Windows
1165 (an X server is required to run it). Thanks to Volker Zell. Most
1166 people would probably prefer to run WinBoard on Windows, however; note
1167 that cygwin could already compile WinBoard.
1169 * Added some missing documentation to engine-intf.html: It is okay to
1170 send "feature done=0" even before you receive the xboard and protover
1171 commands, if this is needed to give your engine enough time to
1172 initialize. See engine-intf.html for more discussion.
1174 * Bugfix: "feature done=0" did not work for the second engine; now it does.
1176 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.1 -- Sat Feb 3 19:52:26 PST 2001
1179 * Bugfix: in Zippy mode with feature san=1, the elapsed time was being
1180 sent to the engine after the SAN move; for example, "e4 (0:01)" was
1181 sent instead of just "e4".
1183 * It seems that scroll wheel mice with incompletely installed software
1184 (under Windows 95, at least) can send repeated middle button up events
1185 when the wheel is turned. Moved QuickPaste from middle button up to
1186 middle button down to avoid problems with this.
1188 * A premove is now sent *before* the opponent's move that it replies
1189 to is animated. The premove itself is no longer displayed (or
1190 animated) when sent; instead, it is displayed when the chess server
1191 echoes it back as a board update.
1193 * Bug fix: in -xreuse mode, xboard was only sending command line
1194 arguments to the engine the first time it was started. (WinBoard
1195 didn't have this bug.)
1197 * In -zippyPlay mode, we now initialize the chess engine for a new
1198 game immediately after the old game ends. (In -xreuse mode, this
1199 means starting a new engine process; in the default -reuse mode, it
1200 just means sending "new".) If the engine supports ping, we don't
1201 accept challenges until the "new" has finished. This should help
1202 avoid losing time (re)initializing the engine after the game starts.
1204 * We now handle the new FICS field in style 12 that says whether the
1207 * whiteFlag and blackFlag are now reset whenever an ICS board image
1208 arrives, giving autoflag a fresh chance to work.
1210 * Suppressed "geometry error" debug messages unless -debug flag is given.
1212 * Bugfix: avoid core dump on Solaris with -debug flag, caused by
1213 passing NULL to a %s format in GameEnds.
1215 * Added -firstProtocolVersion and -secondProtocolVersion. This will
1216 allow use of extremely broken engines that hang or die when given the
1217 "protover 2" command. It should be rarely if ever needed.
1219 * Zippy now strips highlights from player names in the Creating
1220 message; previously the ratings would not be extracted from this
1221 message properly if you had set the highlight variable.
1223 * Bug fix: Zippy with -zp but not -zt used to be fooled by false
1224 partner tells inside channel tells; e.g.:
1225 Garf(24): Garf (your partner) tells you: sit
1227 * Bug fix: when an engine reported its name with the new "feature
1228 myname=" command, we had been putting just that name into the window
1229 title even when in TwoMachines mode.
1231 * By default, WinBoard no longer uses the new feature introduced in
1232 4.2.0beta of keeping the ICS menu, ICS server list, and lists of chess
1233 engine command lines in separate files; instead, the lists are back in
1234 the winboard.ini file. This gets rid of some problems where the
1235 separate files could not be opened because the working directory was
1236 not set to WinBoard's installation directory.
1238 * WinBoard command lines and ini files now have another optional
1239 syntax for quoting an option value. All characters within { } curly
1240 braces are interpreted literally except for '}' itself. SaveSettings
1241 now uses this syntax for string values that contain a backslash or
1242 newline and do not contain a '}'. This should address the problem
1243 that the separate .ini files had been meant to fix; engine command
1244 line lists can now be written without \-escapes.
1246 * Fixed three bugs in relaying moves between engines in TwoMachines
1247 mode: an engine would be sent SAN if the *other* engine had set
1248 feature san=1, a relayed SAN move did not end with a newline, and
1249 feature usermove was not implemented for relayed moves.
1251 * Fixed several bugs in exiting: File/Exit would sometimes hang;
1252 timestamp/timeseal would not get killed off; an engine crash would
1253 cause error messages to be printed recursively until stack overflow.
1255 * Fixed a bug in the code to detect which ICS is in use and adapt to
1256 it; the chess.net case was broken.
1258 * Removed the leading alias-suppression character when sending a move
1259 to ICS, because it seemed to break accuclock on chess.net.
1261 * Fixed a bug where a FICS prompt like "10:01_fics%" would be matched
1262 as finger note number 10, causing a problem detecting when the user is
1265 * Added tellicsnoalias command to protocol.
1267 * Changed st command in protocol back to old behavior.
1269 * Added done=0 feature to protocol, to lengthen initial timeout.
1271 * Added missing -colorSeek command line option to xboard. (Was
1272 present in WinBoard.)
1274 * Bug fix: setting feature reuse=0 was not working.
1276 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.0beta -- Sat Dec 16 16:34:56 PST 2000
1279 * Setting -searchTime no longer turns off -clockMode. Note that when
1280 -searchTime is set, some engines may search for the lesser of
1281 searchTime and the amount of time their normal clock management would
1282 dictate, while others will disable their normal clock management and
1283 always search for exactly searchTime.
1285 * Fixed WinBoard bug where on Windows 2000 (and maybe Windows 98) the
1286 ICS Interaction window would scroll back to the top whenever it filled
1287 to capacity and WinBoard trimmed some text off the top.
1289 * Changed xboard dragging so that the center of the dragged piece is
1290 forced to be over the mouse cursor. (WinBoard dragging already worked
1291 that way.) This should avoid confusing cases when you start a drag
1292 with the mouse near the edge of a square -- formerly most or all of
1293 the piece could be over one square but the mouse cursor over another.
1296 * Added move list window for xboard. Code contributed by Manuel
1297 Hoelss and re-hacked a bit by me. Performance of this window is poor,
1298 because the implementation regenerates the entire window contents
1299 whenever anything changes. It's hard to avoid this when using the
1300 Athena List widget, though we could be a little smarter and notice
1301 when the current move number has changed but the move list has not.
1302 There are also several drawing problems caused by bugs in the Athena
1303 Form and List widgets. The window should not really allow a
1304 horizontal scroll bar, but the bugs are much worse if I turn it off.
1305 In both Xaw and Xaw3d, the List widget tries to resize itself when
1306 XawListChange is called, even if you tell it not to; and what's worse,
1307 if the widget cannot resize itself to be large enough to avoid
1308 clipping any of the list item, it does not change the list! Arrgh.
1309 On top of that, the Xaw Form widget is very buggy in XFree86 4.0.1
1312 * The OK button in the WinBoard startup dialog is now simply disabled
1313 if none of the radio buttons is selected, instead of bringing up an
1314 error dialog. Suggested by Ted Milbaugh.
1316 * Used ping to address the worst of the race conditions in the
1317 protocol. Now if an engine supports ping, we ping it after sending
1318 the "new" command and after trying to place it in force mode at the
1319 end of a game. When a ping has been sent and the corresponding pong
1320 has not yet come back, we (1) ignore or undo any moves the engine
1321 sends, (2) ignore game end messages (such as "offer draw", etc.) from
1322 the engine, (3) ignore thinking output from the engine, (4) delay
1323 starting the next game if in -matchGames mode, (5) in -zippyPlay mode,
1324 respond to challenges with a polite message to try again soon instead
1325 of accepting them. There are a few more things that should be done
1326 (and item 5 might not be quite what we want), but it's hard to fit
1327 them all into the existing code.
1329 * Patched the version of GNU Chess 5.00 included with WinBoard to
1330 support protover, feature, setboard, and ping, and to fix some minor
1331 bugs. See gnu500+.patch.
1333 * Changed the GNU Chess 4 kludges for missing "st" and "sd" commands
1334 to be invoked only if the engine gives an error message for "st" or
1335 "sd", and to always use protocol commands instead of engine
1336 command-line options. See "Idioms" in engine-intf.html.
1338 * Added new protocol command "protover 2" to tell the engine what
1339 version of the protocol is in use. Version 2 is still compatible with
1340 old engines; see engine-intf.html.
1342 * Add new protocol command "feature ..." The engine can send this in
1343 response to the protover command command, to say what extended
1344 protocol features it would like to enable, etc. xboard responds
1345 "accepted F" or "rejected F" for each feature F that is set. See
1348 * Added new protocol command "setboard <fen>". This is an alternative
1349 to "edit", used only if the engine says "feature setboard=1".
1351 * Added new protocol command "ping <msg>". The engine is supposed to
1352 respond "pong <msg>". This gives us a tool to fix some race
1353 conditions in the protocol, but it is not used to the fullest yet.
1355 * Added new protocol command "tellopponent". This will do a "say" if
1356 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
1359 * Added new protocol command "tellall". This will do a "kibitz" if
1360 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
1363 * Added new protocol command "tellothers". This will do a "whisper" if
1364 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or do nothing otherwise.
1366 * Changed the WinBoard /icsNames, /icsMenu, /firstChessProgramNames,
1367 and /secondChessProgramNames options to accept a filename preceded by
1368 "@", meaning to find the value in the file. Changed the defaults to
1369 use this feature, with filenames icsnames.ini, icsmenu.ini, fcp.ini,
1370 and scp.ini. This should make it easier for users to edit the values,
1371 since one less level of quoting is needed, and each value is in its
1372 own file, not mixed into winboard.ini. Those who upgrade from an
1373 older winboard version and already have a winboard.ini file will not
1374 automatically have these values moved to a file; that has to be done
1377 * We now strip .exe from engine names for "name" command, tags, etc.
1379 * Allowed WinBoard input widget to hold more than one line. You can get
1380 a newline into the widget with copy/paste or with Ctrl+Enter.
1382 * Fixed an xboard bug where the [P] button would appear in the
1383 opposite highlight state from what it should be after being pressed.
1385 * We now use the "/" or "$" alias suppression feature on the chess
1386 servers, to avoid problems if the user inadvertently aliases a
1387 needed command to something else.
1389 * Changed the method used to deiconize xboard in AutoRaise and cmail.
1390 This may fix bugs under some window managers where after
1391 deiconization, the board window was mapped but nothing was drawn
1394 * Preliminary, partial support for playing several chess variants
1395 against a local engine or editing variant games. The -variant option
1396 must be given on the command line or WinBoard startup dialog; there is
1397 no menu. The current variant is not displayed (except in the
1398 Tags/EditTags window). Many variants will not work quite right even
1399 if the engine supports them; see item 326 in the ToDo file for
1402 * Added a workaround to detect the variant type when examining a
1403 scratch wild game on an ICS.
1405 * Fixed two cases where "variant" command should be sent to the engine
1406 when necessary but was not: loading a game from a file and restarting
1407 a dead engine. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto.
1409 * Added missing support for FICS games that start from a bsetup position
1410 with Black moving first.
1412 * Fixed a bug in loading a file from the game list window while in
1413 Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. This now leaves us in AnalyzeFile
1414 mode, analyzing the new file.
1416 * Fixed a bug in loading games with a comment before the first move.
1418 * Fixed a bug in handling LoadGame (or -lgf) with -td 0.
1420 * Added a command line option to select an initial minor mode from the
1421 Mode menu. This should satisfy requests from a couple of users with
1422 special applications.
1424 * Fixed a problem where some things in WinBoard's General Options
1425 dialog box were grayed out at the wrong time.
1427 * We look for a few messages from the chess engine pipe that are
1428 intended to catch problems starting an engine via rsh, such as "No
1429 such file". Moved code so that these strings won't match until other
1430 protocol messages have been looked for, and documented the messages in
1433 * Fixed the WinBoard bug that sometimes made the console input box
1434 white-on-white even when not in password-entry mode.
1436 * Small changes to WinBoard to be compilable with the latest Cygwin
1437 net release (as of 10-16-2000). Thanks to Mark Schoenberg.
1439 * Recompiled GNU Chess 5.0 for WinBoard with the latest Cygwin net
1440 release (as of 10-16-2000). Also rebuilt the book just to be sure,
1441 since I had one bug report about it. It came out identical and seems
1444 * Added messages for some common InstallShield errors instead of just
1445 printing InstallShield's stupid error code numbers.
1447 * Added -firstComputerString and -secondComputerString, allowing you
1448 to suppress or change the command that is sent to a chess engine when
1449 its opponent is another computer.
1451 * Added "configure --with-Xaw3d" to allow use of Xaw3d widgets instead
1452 of Xaw widgets in xboard. Thanks to Johnny C. Lam of the NetBSD
1453 project. I've left Xaw as the default because Xaw3d is too ugly.
1455 * The version of the Xaw Form widget released in XFree86 4.0.1
1456 (X11R6.4.3) has a bug that causes xboard to display the button bar
1457 on top of the message widget. I've reported the bug and have
1458 installed a kludge workaround into xboard.
1460 xboard/WinBoard 4.1.0 -- Sun Sep 17 17:30:14 PDT 2000
1463 * Merged Winboard Plus 4.0.8 from Mark Williams into xboard
1464 source pool. Status of Winboard Plus features in xboard:
1466 - White pieces now have borders, but the implementation is
1467 completely different from WinBoard's; see below.
1469 - Options menu not changed, probably won't be.
1471 - Copy&paste support working, using Mark's changes to backend.c, Ben
1472 Nye's changes to xboard.c for FEN positions, and some code of my
1473 own in xboard.c for PGN games.
1475 - Premove hooked up and working. No pre-first-move, though.
1477 - ICS Alarm hooked up and working.
1479 - Auto-flip working.
1481 - PGN Training mode hooked up and working.
1483 - Improved menu item enable/disable working.
1485 - Improved >> button working.
1487 - Auto activate board working. I changed this to be optional; you
1488 might not always want it, especially in Zippy mode.
1490 - Blindfold working.
1492 - Documentation updated.
1494 * Fixed more colorization bugs. Commands like "message foo tells you:
1495 xxx" and "tell 33 tells you: xxx" will no longer generate bogus
1498 * Added low-tech sound support to xboard, by invoking an external
1499 program on a filename for each sound to be played.
1501 * ICC wild 27 is now recognized as VariantAtomic, and it sets the
1502 "ignore check" flag, but is not otherwise supported.
1504 * Converted the piece bitmaps from .bm to .xpm for use with xboard's
1505 xpm support. (An .xim version was not created.) Wrote a shell script
1506 using ImageMagick to do the conversion and to bucket fill from
1507 coordinate 0,0 with the background color. Used xpaint by hand to
1508 clean up a few pieces where background color "leaked" into the inside
1509 or didn't flow all the way around the outside, then a sed script to
1510 fix up color names and bitmap names in the xpaint output. If any more
1511 sizes are added later, they should be straightforward to convert with
1512 reference to the existing scripts. With this conversion, not only do
1513 the white pieces now have dark borders, but (unlike with WinBoard) the
1514 light details on the black pieces are opaque.
1516 * If the XPM library is found when building xboard, the new xpm pieces
1517 are compiled in as the default. External bitmap (or xpm) pieces can
1518 still be used by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory)
1519 option. If the XPM library is not found, the old bitmap pieces are
1520 the default. In this case external bitmap (or xim) pieces can be used
1521 by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory) option. There is no
1522 way to compile in xim pieces.
1524 Winboard Plus 4.0.8 -- Sat Aug 5 15:51 PDT 2000
1529 * Main menu now visible in Win NT. Thanks to Microsoft for creating a
1530 compiler which auto-mutilates the WinBoard.rc file so that the menu is
1531 displayed under Win 98 but not Win NT. I fixed the problem by hand editing the
1534 * "Reset game" now works properly when invoked from Analysis mode when two
1535 engines are present. Correction of bug introduced in Winboard Plus. Thanks to
1536 Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
1538 * Pasting a FEN position with Black to move now works in all modes.
1539 Thanks to Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
1541 * Added gnuchess.dat to the distribution and a couple of text files that were
1544 *** Merged in the following changes from Tim Mann:
1546 * Bugfix: Highlights would sometimes not be taken down, at least in
1547 xboard. The problem is that SetHighlight works in chess coordinates,
1548 not view coordinates, so if flipView has been toggled since the
1549 highlight was put up, it gets taken down from the wrong square. Fixed
1550 by being careful to call ClearHighlights before toggling flipView, not
1553 * Bugfix: HighlightLastMove would sometimes highlight square a1 after
1554 a FICS "tomove black" command.
1556 * Bugfix: a move list with initial position that has black to play was
1557 not being handled correctly.
1559 * Removed "decline abort" and "decline adjourn" commands from Zippy.
1560 The syntax is changing on FICS, and Zippy really doesn't have to
1561 explicitly decline the requests anyway; it's sufficient to not accept
1564 * ICC wild 26 is now recognized as VariantSuicide (the FICS name; ICC
1565 calls it "giveaway").
1567 * Bugfix: PGN games with black to move in the initial position weren't
1568 being legality checked correctly. I think this was introduced in
1569 4.0.6 when I fixed a different PGN bug. Thanks to Mark Williams for
1570 spotting the bug and suggesting a fix.
1572 * Bugfix: the initial "name(" of a kibitz wasn't being colorized.
1574 Winboard Plus 4.0.7 -- Thu May 12 17:57 PDT 2000
1577 * New white pieces with black borders.
1579 * Major overhaul to Options menu. New dialogs for setting General Options,
1580 Board Options, ICS Options, Sounds, Fonts, Colors.
1582 * Clipboard support for PGN game scores and FEN positions.
1584 * Optional ICS Premove with user-specified first moves for White and Black.
1586 * New sound events: ICS Win, ICS Loss, ICS Draw, ICS Unfinished, ICS Alarm.
1588 * New auto-flip option when playing against a chess program.
1590 * Added PGN Training mode.
1592 * Certain menu options now disabled while program is thinking.
1594 * ">>" button now always goes to the end of the game.
1596 * In ICS mode, the board is automatically activated at the start of a
1599 4.0.7 -- Sun Mar 5 17:17:49 PST 2000 Tim Mann
1601 * Fixed a nasty bug in parsing ICS game histories that was introduced
1604 4.0.6 -- Fri Mar 3 16:20:11 PST 2000 Tim Mann
1606 * Fixed bugs in Zippy's code for responding to messages sent with the
1607 ICS "message" command.
1609 * Fixed bugs where xboard could still create dialogs partially off the
1610 top of the screen. Fixed unwanted interactions between initial sizes
1611 and positions of various unrelated xboard dialogs. Deleted
1612 borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources.
1614 * Fixed restoring the xterm name on exit to work in more cases.
1616 * Small fix to the WinBoard self-extracting installer: when it starts
1617 up, it now always deletes any old wb-setup directory left over from a
1618 previous installation. Formerly this worked only on Windows 95/98, so
1619 on NT the self-extractor would sometimes stop and ask the user whether
1620 it was OK to overwrite the old wb-setup files.
1622 * Modified WinBoard to be compilable with the free Cygwin tools
1623 available from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/. Based on work by
1624 Mark Schoenberg. (His mods were enough to get WinBoard through the
1625 compiler, but a few things were broken along the way, so I reworked them.)
1627 * Merged changes from Don Fong to make WinBoard compilable with
1628 Borland C++ 4.5. I do not have Borland C++ and am unable to test with
1629 it, but I did make sure the changes don't stop it working with MSVC++
1632 * Forbade entering TwoMachines mode from MachineWhite or MachineBlack
1633 mode when machine is on move. This used to confuse the engine and
1634 cause problems, because when we try to get the engine to stop, it
1635 might make a move first, and it might not do that immediately.
1637 * Variant classification now deals with new ICC wild 25, classifying
1638 it as "3check". Also, we are now conservative about new wild numbers
1639 we don't know about, classifying them as "unknown" instead of
1642 * Replaced bad GNU Chess 5.00 book in WinBoard distribution with a
1643 correct one. 1.e4 now no longer takes GNU Chess 5.00 out of book!
1644 Thanks to Pete Galati.
1646 * Made move parser accept and ignore nonstandard ep suffix on PGN moves,
1647 e.g., "exf6ep" or "exf6e.p."
1649 * Fixed bugs in parsing PGN files starting with no move number, or
1650 with a move number other than "1." (including "1..."). Thanks to
1651 Michael Soulier and Stefan Zipproth for example PGN files
1652 demonstrating the bugs.
1654 * Changed InitComboStringsFromString to not modify the input string;
1655 this caused an exception when WinBoard was compiled with MSVC++ 6.
1656 Thanks to Bert Tuyt for the report.
1658 * In WinBoard, dragging a piece off the edge of the board without
1659 releasing the mouse button no longer instantly aborts the move. You
1660 still must release the mouse button inside a square to complete a
1661 move, but you can now drag off the edge and come back inside.
1663 * WinBoard bugfix: If you went into EditGame or EditPosition mode
1664 while observing or playing an ICS game, and a new move came in
1665 (snapping you back to ICSClient mode) while you were dragging a piece
1666 around, the drag state would not be reset, causing the piece you were
1667 dragging to remain on the board wherever you dropped it. Thanks to
1668 David Brinegar for the bug report.
1670 * WinBoard bugfix: If you moved or resized the board while your
1671 opponent was moving, and you had AnimateMoving on, his move would not
1672 be displayed until after your next move. Thanks to DAV for reporting
1673 the bug repeatedly until I finally understood it.
1675 * Added a Zippy "farewell" feature; see zippy.README.
1677 * Fixed a bug (xboard only) in processing -zippyReplayTimeout on the
1678 command line. Thanks to Steve Beer for the report and patch.
1680 * Send "computer" command to both sides in TwoMachines matches.
1682 * Fixed a Y2K bug in Evan's cmail code! Thanks to Brian Mays for the
1685 * Bugfix: Initialize variant field of GameInfo struct in gameinfo.c.
1686 This could cause crashes in LoadGame. Thanks to Andrzej Nagorko.
1688 * Fixed several pattern matching problems: Finger notes and formula
1689 vars no longer get replied to by zippyTalk or colorized. Channel
1690 tells by players with many titles are now colorized fully, and
1691 zippyTalk handles channel tells by such players correctly. The shout
1692 "--> foo(99): bar" no longer gets colorized as a channel tell. Code
1693 is cleaned up a bit, and autocomment capture now uses the same
1694 criteria as colorization.
1696 * xboard fix: Enter key now closes error popups as in WinBoard.
1697 Especially nice for the "Exiting: Connection closed by ICS" popup.
1699 4.0.5 -- Tue Dec 7 10:30:40 PST 1999 Tim Mann
1701 * Added missing documentation of SIGTERM usage into engine-intf.html.
1703 * Bugfix: New -zippyReplayTimeout option was misspelled in WinBoard as
1704 -zippyReplyTimeout. Thanks to Francesco Di Tolla.
1706 * xboard -ics now restores the xterm's original title upon exit, at
1707 least if $WINDOWID is set.
1709 * Bugfix: -matchGames mode wasn't terminating properly. Final score
1710 popup would come up twice and engines would not be killed off. Thanks
1711 to Frank Quisinsky for the bug report. Bug was introduced in 4.0.4.
1713 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo shouts: bar" no longer gets colored as a shout;
1714 similarly for "...s-shouts:" and "...c-shouts:". Thanks to David Lee
1717 4.0.4 -- Fri Dec 3 17:51:27 PST 1999 Tim Mann
1719 * Bug fix: formerly if you invoked SaveGame from EditPosition mode
1720 with black to play, the position was not saved properly. As a quick
1721 fix, SaveGame now takes you out of EditPosition mode before saving.
1723 * Changed -matchGames to keep track of the score (won-lost-drawn) and
1724 display it in the banner. The final score is displayed in a modal
1725 popup before the program exits.
1727 * Changed "Connection closed by ICS" to display in a model popup
1728 before the program exits.
1730 * Added -popupExitMessage option, default on. Setting this to false
1731 suppresses the modal popups that you sometimes get just before
1732 xboard/winboard exits -- both the two new ones listed above and the
1733 existing Fatal Error popup. This is useful when running Zippy
1734 unattended from a shell script (or .bat file) that loops and starts a
1735 new copy after a time delay when there is an error.
1737 * In xboard, added missing support for WM_DELETE_WINDOW to all
1738 windows. This makes xboard a better citizen, and is much needed with
1739 the newer X window managers that put an [X] button on every window and
1740 bind it to "kill application" if the applicationd does not support
1741 "delete window". We can't allow xboard to be thoughtlessly killed,
1742 since that leaves the chess engine running in the background.
1744 * We now avoid positioning tops of xboard dialog boxes offscreen.
1746 * zippy.lines can now use the caret ('^') character as an inter-saying
1747 separator. You no longer need to dig up a text editor that can put NUL
1748 ('\000') characters in text files.
1750 * Bugfix: In traditional chess clock mode, White now gets time added
1751 to its clock as soon as it makes time control. Previously both White
1752 and Black got their time added only when Black made time control,
1753 which would cause some engines to make their 41st move as White too
1754 quickly, thinking they were low on time.
1756 * The zippyAcceptOnly feature no longer sends a decline command or
1757 a tell. Thus you can use it to put Zippy into a manual accept mode.
1759 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo tells you: bar" no longer gets colored as a
1760 personal tell; similarly for "...whispers:" and "...kibitzes:".
1762 * WinBoard no longer blanks the message line when you start a new
1763 move, unless there was an error message there from the previous move.
1765 * WinBoard now never puts the white piece drop menu on the middle
1766 mouse button. Both colors are always on the right button. Windows
1767 users often don't think to look for a middle button menu, or don't
1768 really have a working middle button despite what Windows says.
1770 * Guest login handles on ICC are now parsed again; an ICC wording
1771 change had broken this feature.
1773 * Autodetect when the engine does not support the "draw" command and
1774 don't relay the command to it in that case. Needed because sending an
1775 unsupported command to GNU Chess makes it move immediately, so people
1776 could make Zippy move without thinking by continually offering a draw.
1777 Thanks to Frank Walker for the problem report.
1779 * Small changes based on code from Robert Jurjevic: The WinBoard
1780 analysis window can be minimized (though not to the taskbar). The
1781 WinBoard ICS Interaction window will autoscroll if you drag the mouse
1782 above or below the window while selecting, and password entry mode
1783 leaves the entry line as the background color instead of using 75%
1784 gray. Seeks are now colorized with a new color of their own.
1786 * Added -zippyMaxGames feature.
1788 * -zippyNoplayCrafty command line option was missing in xboard; fixed.
1789 Thanks to John Perry.
1791 * Fixed bug in detecting when Zippy loses his bughouse partner.
1792 Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura.
1794 * allobs fix in 4.0.3 didn't work; corrected it.
1796 * WinBoard will now update the board immediately if a move is made
1797 while the window is being moved or resized.
1799 4.0.3 -- Sun Aug 15 18:44:39 PDT 1999 Tim Mann
1801 * Bugfix: moved winboard wizard functions that send a command directly
1802 to the chess engine from Ctrl+Alt+1 and Ctrl+Alt+2 to Alt+1 and Alt+2.
1803 Ctrl+Alt is equivalent to the European AltGr key, so the old assignments
1804 conflicted with typing an @-sign on some keyboards.
1806 * Bugfix: prevent "If this message stays up, your chess program does
1807 not support analysis" from appearing if AnalysisMode is selected when
1808 already in Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. Also, deleting analysis window
1809 in WinBoard now switches you to EditGame mode, to avoid the anomaly of
1810 being in an analysis mode with no analysis window present.
1812 * Change all Zippy environment variables to work as command line
1813 options. For now they still work as environment variables too, but
1814 the environment variables are deprecated.
1816 * Use unsigned long to hold node counts from engines.
1818 * Print error instead of crashing on attempts to use xpm or xim pieces
1819 in monochrome mode. Thanks to Jim Torrance for the bug report.
1821 * Tightened pattern recognition for ICS messages sent to Zippy; should
1822 no longer match ICC allobs output. Fixed recognition of when Zippy is
1823 sent a message; small change to FICS output had broken it.
1825 * Zippy now exits if the engine dies unexpectedly.
1827 * Added Zippy "spoofedby" feature; see zippy.README.
1829 * Narrowed the margins on some older WinBoard dialogs to make their
1830 style uniform with the newer ones.
1832 * Bugfix: Changing Ponder Next Move from the Options menu did not take
1833 effect until the next game. This bug was in WinBoard only. Thanks to
1834 Stefan Zipproth for the bug report.
1836 * Got rid of "Internal error: bad move type" message when the engine
1837 makes a move that we can parse but think is illegal. Now the move is
1838 just passed on (which also may be the wrong thing to do).
1840 4.0.2 -- Thu Feb 25 19:55:32 PST 1999 Tim Mann
1842 * Added one more built-in sound choice to WinBoard: move.wav from Pete
1845 * Added new larger piece sizes: big, huge, giant, colossal, titanic.
1847 * Modified the xboard font searcher to be able to use scalable fonts.
1848 The new -fontSizeTolerance flag controls how closely a nonscalable
1849 font must match to be used in preference to a scalable font.
1851 * Zippy environment variables ZIPPYABORT and ZIPPYADJOURN now control
1852 whether Zippy will accept abort and adjourn requests.
1854 * We now determine the variant type being played on ICS, send it as a
1855 command "variant VARTYPE" to the chess engine (if in Zippy mode), and
1856 put it in the PGN tags. See engine-intf.txt for variant names. See
1857 ZIPPYVARIANTS in zippy.README to control what variants Zippy will
1858 accept. Note that this now applies to bughouse, too.
1860 * Zippy now won't do -zippyTalk in a channel unless his handle is
1863 * Zippy now ignores bughouse holdings if not actually playing, instead
1864 of stupidly trying to abort the game. Let me know if other strange
1865 things happen when Zippy is observing a game.
1867 * Set ICS Interaction title bar to "user@server". User name is
1868 determined by parsing message during the login sequence. Zippy now
1869 uses this method to get its name too, so ZIPPYNAME is eliminated.
1870 Problem: with xboard, the title bar gets set to "xterm" upon exit,
1871 since we didn't know what it was to start with.
1873 * Fixed xboard-only bug in -colorChannel1 command line option. Thanks
1874 to Fredrik Sandstrom for the bug report and fix.
1876 * Check for overflow of MAX_MOVES. Still not sure this is checked for
1877 everywhere it needs to be.
1879 * Added .epd to suffixes recognized by WinBoard as position files.
1880 This is a bit of a kludge, as the .fen reading code was not written
1881 with .epd files in mind, but reading them with it is said to work.
1883 * Added ZIPPYGAMESTART feature, suggested by Jason Hoblit. See
1886 * Restored the feature of soaking up the moves from a user-typed "moves",
1887 "oldmoves", or "smoves" ICS command when xboard/WinBoard is idle, but
1888 changed it so that the move list is also echoed to the screen. Some folks
1889 still liked the old feature since it is faster than examine mode, and
1890 printing the moves to the screen should eliminate the confusion it caused
1893 * Bugfix: in WinBoard, starting a click-click move and then clicking on
1894 a black line would cause the source square to be forgotten without taking
1895 the highlight down. Now the errant click is ignored.
1897 * Corrected shortcut key labels for LoadNext/PrevPosition in WinBoard's
1898 File menu. Thanks to Andreas Stabel for the bug report.
1900 * Bugfix: if you had a completely full ICS context menu in WinBoard
1901 (90 items), the last one would do nothing if selected.
1903 * The "computer" engine command added in 4.0.1 was not working; I had
1904 left out part of the code patch. Oops.
1906 4.0.1 -- Fri Feb 12 21:24:15 PST 1999 Tim Mann
1908 This is a minor bugfix release. The first item listed below is the
1909 only interesting new feature.
1911 * You can now type in moves from the keyboard in WinBoard. Either
1912 select TypeInMove from Step menu, or (if you are not in ICS mode),
1913 just start typing. In ICS mode you can type moves into the ICS
1914 interaction window anyway, so I've retained the feature that typing
1915 switches you there. Not implemented in xboard.
1917 * Removed the "noise 1000" command that used to be sent to the chess
1918 engine when entering analysis modes.
1920 * Deleted the feature where we soak up the output of a user-typed ICS
1921 "moves" or "oldmoves" command. This ancient feature is not really
1922 useful anymore, now that "examine" exists, and it caused a lot of
1925 * Increased maximum size of ICS text menu to 90 entries and added
1928 * The command sent to ICS by Zippy at the end of each game can now be
1929 customized with the ZIPPYGAMEEND environment variable.
1931 * We treat xboard.info as a pseudo-source since most people don't have
1932 the tools to rebuild it. But "make install" erroneously had a
1933 dependency on it, even though "make all" did not. Fixed.
1935 * Miscellaneous minor updates and clarifications to engine-intf.txt.
1936 In particular, documented the st and sd commands (support for command
1937 line options -searchTime and -searchDepth), warts and all.
1939 * Added a small code patch from Bob Hyatt to detect when Zippy's ICS
1940 opponent is a computer and send the command "computer" to the engine.
1941 Added this command to engine-intf.txt. Thanks, Bob.
1943 * Bugfix: configure was looking for usleep(), but config.h.in didn't
1944 have an entry for it, so HAVE_USLEEP was never defined. Also, in the
1945 non-HAVE_USLEEP case, there was a possible race condition between the
1946 signal handler and the pause() call. Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura for
1949 * Bugfix: a "1..." preceding Black's first move (usually present if
1950 there is a comment on White's first move) would cause the parser
1951 to think a new game started there and report "End of game" on the
1952 current game. Thanks to Dell Garner for the bug report.
1954 * Changed the abbreviation for -searchDepth from -sd to -depth to fix
1955 a clash with -secondDirectory.
1957 * Changed -searchDepth to be orthogonal to the various timing options.
1958 Previously it would search for an unlimited time to the given depth;
1959 now the engine is allowed to choose its search time in the normal way,
1960 but is told to cut off the search early if it reaches the given depth.
1962 * Bugfix: SaveSettings in WinBoard was saving both the long form
1963 option highlightSquareColor and its abbreviation (hsc).
1965 * Fixed a redisplay bug in DisplayBothClocks that could cause White's
1966 clock to be highlighted in EditPosition mode when Black's should have been.
1968 * Fixed Zippy's feature of passing on draw offers from the ICS opponent.
1969 The colorization code was eating the offer before Zippy saw it, so I disabled
1970 colorization of offers while in -zp or -zt mode. (Other types of
1971 colorization are already disabled in Zippy mode for similar reasons.)
1973 * Added some more commands to the default ICS context menu in WinBoard,
1974 and put "(name)" on the ones that insert a playername (or game number).
1976 * Added missing documentation to WinBoard help file: PonderNextMove, the
1977 -ponder/-xponder argument, and the up/down arrow history feature in the
1978 ICS Interaction window.
1980 * Fixed ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature to fire only if the opponent is Crafty,
1981 not if some other Crafty is observing the game and kibitzes.
1983 * Fixed bugs in generating "partner" commands when Zippy is playing
1986 4.0.0 -- Sat Jun 20 16:59:47 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
1988 * Fixed WinBoard resizing so that the edges you do not drag remain in
1989 place, even when the final size is different from what you dragged to.
1990 (This doesn't work on NT 3.51 or earlier, if anyone cares.)
1992 * Fixed problems with resizing WinBoard on Windows NT: you no longer get
1993 whitespace around the board, a clipped board, or a lot of flashing during
1996 * Added customization for highlight-square color.
1998 * Bugfix: backend.c wrote to stderr in a few obscure places, which doesn't
2001 * Added Index Number field back to LoadGame/LoadPosition dialog boxes in
2002 WinBoard. This required some extra code to work with both the
2003 Explorer-style dialog boxes and the old-style NT 3.51 dialog boxes. Ugh.
2005 * WinBoard startup dialog now understands -zp mode. The first chess
2006 engine selector is enabled and the value is used.
2008 * Bugfix: ResetGame would send "exit" to engine twice if it was in an
2011 * Bugfix: The response "Illegal move: bk" to the "bk" command, indicating
2012 that it is not implemented, would confuse xboard.
2014 * Bugfix: Ignore empty hints ("Hint:\n") instead of printing a message
2015 saying that some bogus string (often "Hint:") is illegal.
2017 * Bugfix: LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame/ReloadSameGame were broken.
2019 3.6.12 -- Sat Jun 13 14:57:10 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
2021 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
2023 * Spruced up xboard man page a bit.
2025 * Added Highlight Last Move to xboard too.
2027 * The revamped xboard mouse click code had several more bugs than the
2028 previous version, so I revamped it again. All fixed now, I hope.
2030 * xboard bugfix: crash in CreatePieceMenu.
2032 * Oops. winboard-3_6_11beta.exe installed 3.6.10beta, not the new version.
2034 3.6.11 -- Fri Jun 12 20:00:48 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
2036 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
2038 * Major reorganization to engine-intf.txt. Some new features added,
2039 many existing features clarified and hints for engine programmers added.
2040 Support for new features added to program.
2042 * Changed defaults for -scp (etc.) back to being independent of -fcp, as
2043 in 3.6.2. That is, the default is no longer to copy the value from -fcp if
2044 -scp is not specified. This will sometimes make command lines longer but
2045 will remove some confusing situations.
2047 * Split -reuseChessPrograms into two options: -reuseFirst and
2048 -reuseSecond. Fixed obscure bugs when reuse is off.
2050 * Detect ICC and change some command usage slightly there: only ICC has
2051 set-quietly; only FICS has iset and bsetup clear. With this feature, we
2052 can now safely use bsetup clear when appropriate instead of deleting each
2055 * Added indent to lines that are wrapped by WinBoard ICS Interaction
2056 window. This seems to tickle a Microsoft bug in the RichEdit control:
2057 occasionally the start of the next line after the wrapped line is indented
2058 too. I think the wrapped indent feature is useful enough that it's worth
2059 having in spite of the bug.
2061 * WinBoard bugfix: bounding box for the board was computed incorrectly by
2062 mouse code. It would think you moved off the bottom of the board before
2063 you really did, so it was hard to drag pieces along the bottom rank on
2064 smaller board sizes.
2066 * Fixed obscure parser.l bug: ambiguity between capture using : instead of
2067 x and email header line. Also removed or simplified a lot of complex
2068 patterns for English (as opposed to PGN) end-of-game indications while I
2071 * Added PonderNextMove option.
2073 * xboard EditPosition piece menus now let you set the side to play by
2074 selecting the "White" or "Black" label at the top of the menu, like
2075 WinBoard. (Both xboard and WinBoard still let you set the side to play by
2076 clicking on the clock.)
2078 * Merged documentation of Crafty and GNU Chess thinking output in
2079 engine-intf.txt. Corrected code in backend.c to match documentation; it
2080 used to require the PV to start in column 27 (!).
2082 * Fixed bug that caused crashes in "-reuseChessProgram false" mode.
2084 * Draw by agreement in Two Machines mode now works as it is supposed to.
2085 Other minor bugs in handling game end messages from machines are also
2086 fixed, and engine-intf.txt is revised in this area.
2088 * Revamped xboard code for handling mouse clicks on the board. In
2089 particular, it had a bug if a click-click promotion move was made.
2091 * Fixed and reinstated optimization for << in analysis modes: send
2092 initString and re-send the board if needed. Sending repeated undos
2093 is bad because Crafty prints some analysis after every one.
2095 * Don't go into a spin loop while pausing between xboard animation frames.
2096 This caused problems, especially when compiling with -O2 on HP-UX.
2098 * WinBoard Options/Colors/RevertToDefaults now also turns off Monochrome
2099 if it was on, and similarly for Options/ICSInteractionColors/RevertToDefaults.
2100 This seemed to confuse people before.
2102 * Bugfix: ICS Interaction context menu items with neither of the two
2103 optional flags set did not work.
2105 * Bugfix: PGN move numbers are optional, but we were insisting on "1"
2106 right after the tags.
2108 * Bugfix: only the first game of an -mg match was loading -lpf or -lgf.
2110 * Other minor fixes and code cleanup.
2112 3.6.10 -- Mon Jun 1 01:32:31 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
2114 * Added ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature; see zippy.README.
2116 * Added timestamps for chess engine interaction to -debug output.
2118 * Now allow 10 seconds (was 5) between games in match mode for engines to
2119 respond to "force" command that ended previous game.
2121 * When a game is picked from the game list and the names of White and
2122 Black are known, display them in the window banner instead of the filename
2125 * Changed default for -scp and -sd to be the values of -fcp and -fd.
2127 * Added boxes for both engines to WinBoard startup dialog. Changed to
2128 dropdown boxes whose content can be set from winboard.ini, similar to
2129 the box for ICS name.
2131 * Accept "offer draw" (or "*offer*draw*") from engine to offer a draw.
2133 * Accept "move mmmm" from engine as well as silly "1. ... mmmm" syntax.
2135 * Added support for bughouse engines (Zippy mode only).
2137 * Move bombproofing for engines sending illegal or out of turn moves.
2139 * Always send "xboard\n" to engine as first command. Eliminates need
2140 to run crafty as "crafty xboard".
2142 * Rewrote xboard code for input from engines to fix longstanding bugs.
2143 Previously an engine that sent one line in two separate writes with
2144 some time lapse in between (or perhaps that sent several lines in one
2145 write) could make xboard hang. WinBoard did not have this bug.
2147 * Fixed minor bugs in dealing with illegal moves.
2149 * Added "iset startpos 1" for FICS.
2151 * Removed special support to put "GNU Chess" or "Crafty" in the window
2152 banner instead of the engine's base filename. This gives a more level
2153 playing field for other engines. Also fixed bugs in the code that finds the
2154 engine's base filename.
2156 * Bugfix: Abort or Resign at the very start of a game in chess engine mode
2157 would fail to send "force" to the engine.
2159 * Fixed some minor bugs in new "result" messages, and changed format to
2160 include a trailing PGN comment giving the reason the game ended.
2162 * Changed syntax of /font options in WinBoard; old syntax was assuming
2163 that a font name can't contain a digit, which is wrong. Old font names in
2164 WinBoard.ini files are still accepted.
2166 * Serious further work on getting WinBoard to read/write files in the
2167 "right" directories and documenting exactly what it does.
2169 * Added LoadPreviousPosition, LoadNextPosition, ReloadSamePosition.
2171 * Misc. tiny fixes and cleanup.
2173 3.6.9 -- Sun May 24 20:53:08 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
2175 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
2177 * Tightened up illegal move handling. Illegal or meaningless moves from a
2178 file or chess engine should no longer get translated into a1a1 and blindly
2179 applied. Explicit moves to the same square (like a1a1) no longer make the
2180 piece on that square capture itself and vanish.
2182 * Added AlwaysOnTop feature to winboard.
2184 * Fixed bug in winboard "@" command line indirection operator.
2186 * Removed buggy "optimization" code for ToStart in analysis modes.
2188 * Fixed typo bug in zippy.c that would often cause winboard to crash
2189 right after starting a game in -zp mode.
2191 3.6.8 -- Sat May 23 22:23:19 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
2193 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
2195 * Added -firstDirectory and -secondDirectory so that chess engines can
2196 be started in a different directory from xboard/WinBoard itself.
2198 * Added -matchGames to allow more than one game in -matchMode. The games
2199 are played with colors alternating between the two chess engines. Had to
2200 add a time delay at the end of each game to catch up with game ending
2201 messages from both chess engines -- yuck.
2203 * Changed TwoMachines mode to have firstChessProgram play White by
2204 default. Added -firstPlaysBlack to restore old behavior.
2206 * Major rework of code in backend.c for dealing with first and second
2207 chess engines. Generalized the code and created a struct type with one
2208 instance for each engine. Several small bugs fixed along the way.
2210 * Fixed bugs in Abort in local chess engine mode.
2212 * Tightened pattern matching to recognize moves from machine. Should cure
2213 bogus "Illegal move" errors while Crafty is pondering with Show Thinking
2214 on, among other things.
2216 * WinBoard keeps focus in board window after popping up a comment due to
2217 Forward/Backward/ToStart/ToEnd commands.
2219 * Finally got rid of warnings on compiling moves.c under Windows.
2221 * Fixed so WinBoard will compile on machines where WM_MOUSELEAVE is not
2224 * Removed various bits of unused code.
2226 * Parse (and ignore) NAGs in PGN files.
2228 * Updated engine-intf.txt.
2230 * Send "result R" to the chess program at the end of each game, where
2231 R is the PGN result 1-0, 0-1, 1/2-1/2, or *.
2233 * Bugfix: suppress animation when loading a game with timeDelay=0.
2235 * Bug fix: pondering output from Crafty that contained "..." could be
2236 mistaken for a move, causing bogus error messages and general chaos.
2238 * xboard "make clean" bug fix: moved things created by configure to be
2239 removed only by "make distclean".
2241 * Fixed a remaining case where move was being animated before being
2242 relayed to opponent.
2244 * Backend was reversing time/otim commands to the chess program (new bug),
2245 and was often not sending them on the first move of a game or the first
2246 move after a mode change (old bug). Fixing the latter required a kludge
2247 to work with both GNU Chess and Crafty, because Crafty swaps white and
2248 black clock times when it swaps sides, while GNU Chess does not. The
2249 kludge is that we always make sure the chess engine thinks its opponent is
2250 on move before we set the clock. This will sometimes result in sequences
2251 like "white\ntime xxx\notim yyy\nblack\ngo", or the same with white and
2254 * Removed last trace of old -whiteString and -blackString arguments.
2256 * Fixed so that you can type "bd" into the Direct Command dialog when
2257 debugging gnuchess, without having xboard parse the clock display
2258 (starting with "White") as "White wins" and end the game.
2260 * Changed moves.c to make a distinction between IllegalMove (where we
2261 could tell what move was intended, but it violates the chess rules) and
2262 MeaninglessMove (where we could not tell). This is a step towards getting
2263 rid of cases where we translate meaningless moves into "a1a1", but some
2264 work is probably needed to track them all down.
2266 * Fixed bug in WinBoard monoMode dragging.
2268 * Changed WinBoard to new style file dialogs. In the process, disabled
2269 the feature that let you enter the index number of a game or position within
2270 the file in the dialog. This is no loss in LoadGame, as you can pick your
2271 game from the game list dialog that follows, but it does remove some
2272 functionality from LoadPosition.
2274 3.6.7 -- Mon May 18 21:25:00 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
2276 xboard and WinBoard beta test release. I've been unable to reproduce some
2277 reported drawing bugs, so they may still not be fixed.
2279 * Changed PopUpErrors option to PopupMoveErrors, which is more useful, and
2280 changed default to off. Errors other than move errors should always be in
2281 popups; they are often too big for the message area and too important to
2282 put where they can be easily missed. But it seems good to get rid of the
2283 popups for move errors by default.
2285 * xboard analysis window no longer forces itself to top whenever there is
2286 new output. Also, now uses built-in Xaw word wrapping instead of trying
2287 to do its own; works better.
2289 * Bugfix: Reset did not take Crafty out of analyze mode.
2291 * A chess engine no longer has to claim to be Crafty to be able to use
2292 AnalysisMode and AnalyzeFile; it just has to implement the analyze
2293 command as Crafty does. Put in heuristics to generate more informative
2294 error messages if the engine does not support analyze, and checked that
2295 they work at least with GNU Chess.
2297 * Added click-click moving, HighlightLastMove, and HighlightDragging to
2298 WinBoard. The highlight features are unlikely to go into xboard unless
2299 the xboard drawing code is cleaned up to do *all* drawing on the board
2300 from DrawPosition, as WinBoard does. This is low priority for me.
2302 * Eliminated bogus "Error gathering move list: no header" popup. You
2303 could get this by observing two fast games at once without turning off
2306 * Disable WinBoard Sounds menu entirely in -ncp mode, since not even
2307 MoveSound is used in that mode.
2309 * WinBoard bugfix: Several problems were caused if the user changed
2310 WinBoard's current directory in a Load, Save, or Browse dialog. In
2311 particular, WinBoard.ini would get saved in the wrong directory, and
2312 sound .wav file names would not get saved with a full pathname. I think
2313 all such problems are now fixed.
2315 * WinBoard bugfix: iconizing the board after an aborted mouse resize would
2316 (partially) resize it to Tiny.
2318 * WinBoard bugfix: board was not being drawn in color on 256-color
2319 displays. This bug was introduced in 3.6.6.
2321 3.6.6 -- Tue May 12 17:43:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
2323 xboard and WinBoard beta release. Note: not all reported bugs are fixed.
2325 * Move animation in WinBoard, programmed by Henrik Gram. Great stuff!
2327 * Animate backward moves too.
2329 * xboard bugfix: -font (and friends) can now specify a font alias (such
2330 as "fixed"), not just a full X Consortium name pattern. Previously this
2331 would give a resource conversion error message.
2333 * Some coding style cleanup in xboard.c.
2335 * Earlier error check for moving wrong color piece in EditGame mode.
2337 * Completed fix to pattern matching; see 3.6.5.
2339 * Fixed some software rot bugs in Zippy.
2341 * Split AnimateDragging as separate option from AnimateMoves.
2343 * Added FlashMoves to options menu and -flash/-xflash to command line
2344 options (xboard only).
2346 * Some preliminary work on visible bughouse holding support. Most of the
2347 code is not present in this release because I have not gotten it working
2348 properly yet; my first approach went down a blind alley and I had to
2349 remove most of the partially working code in preparation for a rewrite.
2351 3.6.5 -- Fri May 8 14:22:09 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
2353 Not generally released.
2355 * Pack bughouse holdings display in banner more tightly when board is one
2356 of the smaller sizes (when smallLayout or tinyLayout is true, that is).
2357 An interim measure, but should help.
2359 * Completed fix to make move list parsing recognize the end condition and
2362 * Fixed pattern matching for chatter (tells, etc.) to be more reliable.
2363 This should reduce the incidence of colors starting in the wrong place and
2364 of incorrectly matching things that look like other patterns inside
2365 chatter, such as "shout <12>". (These errors were already rare.)
2367 * WinBoard now lets you customize the list of ICS's in the startup dialog.
2368 For now, at least, requires editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
2370 * Bug fix: WinBoard window sizing and position setting save/restore did
2371 not work right when the taskbar was at the top (or left side) of the
2372 screen and not in autohide mode.
2374 * Merged xboard click/click mode and drag mode, and deleted
2375 ClickClickMoving option on menu. Now if you click on a piece, it
2376 highlights and a further click on another square will move it. (A second
2377 click on the same square takes down the highlight.) Or if you press down
2378 on a piece and start to drag, you can drag it to a new square.
2380 * When making click/click style moves, if your second click is on a piece
2381 of the same color, instead of saying "Illegal move", we now cancel the first
2382 starting square, replace it with the second, and wait for another click to
2385 * Separate -secondInitString. Default: same as -initString. Suggested by
2388 * Patch from Frank McIngvale to make animation work with XIMs. Yay!
2390 * Changed move animation to happen after move is passed on to ICS or the
2391 chess engine, where applicable. Fixed problems with updating moveList
2392 that this uncovered.
2394 * Changed game list to show PGN result token for each game.
2396 * The usual minor bug fixes.
2398 3.6.4 -- Thu Apr 30 23:14:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
2400 xboard and WinBoard beta test release.
2402 * xboard documentation updated, both man page and info file. An attempt
2403 to generate both from the same source with LinuxDocSGML was abandoned, at
2404 least for now. WinBoard doc updated too.
2406 * Merged updates to animation code from Hugh. Fixed a couple of remaining
2407 bugs, mostly to do with handling Pause mode correctly.
2409 * Added SaveSettingsOnExit to WinBoard.
2411 * WinBoard now saves the last screen position of the Comment, Edit Tags,
2412 Game List, and Analysis windows (in addition to the board and ICS
2413 Interaction windows) in WinBoard.ini.
2415 * WinBoard now provides a way to customize the right-button context menu
2416 in the output area of the ICS Interaction window. For now, requires
2417 editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
2419 * Various minor fixes to ICS message recognition, most affecting only Zippy.
2421 * Colorize the notification when someone sends you a message while you are
2422 logged in, not the output of the "messages" command.
2424 * Fixed colorization to turn off at the right place more reliably.
2426 * Added a new color and WinBoard sound for "requests": abort, adjourn,
2427 draw, pause, and takeback. The same color and sound are used for all of
2430 * Added GUI to change sounds in WinBoard.
2432 * Suppressed WinBoard error popup when a sound can't be played. They were
2433 popping up when two separate WinBoards tried to play a sound at the same
2434 time (such as during a bughouse match).
2436 * Fixed WinBoard crash when a sound file didn't exist.
2438 * WinBoard ports of timestamp and timeseal now produce decent error
2439 messages if they fail to connect, and WinBoard captures the messages and
2440 puts them into a popup. Previously WinBoard would exit with no message on
2443 * WinBoard resizing with mouse improved; now accurately picks the largest
2444 size that fits in the new area.
2446 * Added option to turn off error message popups.
2448 * Added sizes slim, dinky, and teeny.
2450 * Fixed some minor problems with error message wording.
2452 3.6.3 -- Mon Feb 23 19:08:57 PST 1998 Tim Mann
2454 xboard beta test release only. Man page is updated for the changes, but info
2457 * Bug fix: LoadGame could not load a PGN game whose first move was
2458 castling (which is possible from setup positions).
2460 * Bug fix: we were ignoring illegal move messages from chess engines in
2461 modes where the engine is refereeing but not participating (EditGame,
2462 LoadGame, AnalyzeFile). The problem was in a workaround for a Crafty bug,
2463 where Crafty generates a bogus illegal move message if a "." (used by
2464 the PeriodicUpdates feature) is sent in analysis mode when the current
2465 analysis reveals a forced mate. Installed a different workaround (that
2466 works in most but not all cases) and reported the Crafty bug. Bob Hyatt
2467 replied with a fix, so the Crafty bug should be gone in Crafty 14.12 or so.
2469 * WinBoard only: enabled resizing board with the mouse. It snaps to the
2470 nearest (but not too much larger) predefined size.
2472 * The xboard default font is now sized according to piece size, just as
2473 clockFont and coordFont have always been.
2475 * Added more sizes: bulky, moderate, average, middling, mediocre, petite.
2477 * xboard only: Added Animate Moves and Click-Click Moving to Options menu.
2479 * xboard only: Added code to animate piece movement, from Hugh Fisher.
2481 * New feature: autoflag is implemented in MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and
2482 TwoMachines modes. If it is on and either a chess program or the user
2483 oversteps his time, xboard will automatically call the flag and end the
2484 game. This feature was requested by someone who runs matches between
2485 programs and wants to penalize GNU Chess for its habit of running slightly
2486 over at the end of a time control. I personally think it's pointless.
2488 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's pattern matching; he can now reply to ICC
2491 * Generate prettier notation for illegal moves. If a move is illegal only
2492 because it leaves the player in check, generate notation as if that were
2493 not illegal. For instance, if two knights are a knight's move away from
2494 f3, one on g1 and one on e5 that is pinned, the notation would be Nf3 to
2495 move the g1 knight, Nef3 to move the e5 knight. (Suggested by Philippe
2496 Schnoebelen.) In addition, if a move is illegal because the type of piece
2497 moved cannot go that way, would be jumping over another piece, etc., we
2498 give fully disambiguated coordinate notation; for example, Ng1g3, Ke1xe8,
2499 d2xd8=Q, etc. An alternative would be to still write Ng3 if there is only
2500 one knight on the board, or Ngg3 if the other knight is not on the g file,
2501 but life is too short to code up all this stuff, and perhaps the way I did
2502 it is better as it emphasizes that this move was really made despite being
2503 illegal. I wonder if the new PGN standard revision will speak to notation
2506 * Fixed gross bug from 3.6.2: if a chess program said "checkmate" and
2507 White was left on move, the PGN outcome was "1-0 {Black mates}" instead
2508 of "0-1 {Black mates}"! The bug occurred only for that specific string.
2510 3.6.2 -- Wed Jul 23 16:47:29 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
2512 * There was a bug in backing up from the end of a game against a chess
2513 engine, introduced when -reuse mode was added. Fixed.
2515 * Recognize "{" as terminating an ICS move list. Previously we needed to
2516 see a prompt (containing %), but occasionally ICC can send more stuff
2517 right after a move list with no prompt in between.
2519 * In WinBoard, -mm now implies -cp, so you don't get the startup dialog.
2521 * WinBoard startup dialog no longer sets -scp. People used to get
2522 confused because they would give the -fcp and -scp arguments, but omit
2523 -cp. This would bring up the startup dialog, which would set both -fcp
2524 and -scp to the value in the engine name box. Now you can change -scp
2525 only with the command-line argument. That will confuse some people too,
2526 but hopefully fewer. I think overall it's better than putting spaces for
2527 both -fcp and -scp in the dialog, which would puzzle newbies.
2529 * Bug fix: Analyze File mode now works in WinBoard.
2531 * Bug fix: WinBoard window no longer cuts off part of the bottom row if
2532 the menu bar wraps to a second line.
2534 * Accept game end messages of the form "PGN-result {comment}" from the
2535 chess engine, where PGN-result is 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2. Accept "resign"
2536 or "computer resigns" from the chess engine as a synonym for "0-1 {White
2537 resigns}" or "1-0 {Black resigns}". Accept any message from the chess
2538 engine containing "game is a draw" as a synonym for "1/2-1/2 {Draw}".
2539 Accept "White resigns" or "Black resigns".
2541 * Enable "Action / Draw" menu item in chess engine mode. It sends the
2542 command "draw" to the engine. Accept any message from the chess engine
2543 containing "offers a draw" as a draw offer. WARNING: Draw offers from the
2544 user and the engine (or from two engines) are not yet matched up by xboard
2545 in chess engine mode. Two engines could get into a loop offering each
2548 * Bug fix: Game end messages from the chess engine are always ignored in
2549 Zippy mode. Previously they could sometimes be processed, which was
2550 sometimes making Zippy hang at the start of a new game that followed
2551 quickly after an old one.
2553 * Zippy can now respond to titled players in channels. Zippy will avoid
2554 talking to himself in a channel if he knows his own name.
2556 * Bug fix: in colorization arguments, the bold setting was being ignored
2557 if the background color was defaulted. (xboard only.)
2559 * Extended ParseFEN to accept Crafty 12.2's interpretation of FEN.
2560 If fewer than 8 squares are given in a row, or fewer than 8 rows are
2561 given, the uncovered squares are empty. Also, there can be a / after the
2564 3.6.1 -- Sat May 17 01:02:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
2566 * Bug fix: Hitting escape while entering a password on WinBoard no longer
2567 sets the font color back to black (which made further typing visible).
2569 * Bug fix: On Windows NT 4.0, WinBoard /ics /icshelper=timestamp would
2570 often hang if you tried to exit with the Exit menu item, the [X] button,
2571 etc. The same fix may also have corrected the problem where running a
2572 chess program with /xreuse would sometimes crash Windows 95 (but not NT)
2573 when the chess program was killed and quickly restarted.
2575 * Bug fix: Periodic Updates would not work if turned on after having been
2576 off. Also, the default was needlessly "off" in WinBoard.
2578 * Zippy bug fix: Continuing an adjourned game was totally broken. The
2579 wrong moves, or no moves at all, were being fed to the chess program.
2581 * WinBoard change: Giving -ics without -icshost now pops up the startup
2582 dialog with "Use an Internet Chess Server" pre-selected, so that you get a
2583 menu of chess servers instead of going directly to ICC.
2585 * Bug fix: WinBoard's SaveSettings was saving -icshost, -icsport, and
2586 -icshelper in winboard.ini. This causes a problem if you use a different
2587 icshost later that needs the default values for icsport (5000) and
2588 icshelper ("", meaning none).
2590 * Disabled complaints about unexpected "[Ii]llegal move" messages from
2591 the chess program; we still get them at times.
2593 * Greatly simplified the code for Move Now and SIGINT (ATTENTION). Fixes
2594 the bug where Move Now did not work with GNU Chess in WinBoard, and
2595 several more obscure bugs as well. Reintroduces a minor bug: GNU Chess might
2596 not think on your time after a Move Now command. Trying to fix this
2597 causes too many other problems. Documented change in engine-intf.txt.
2599 * Cleaned up code for obtaining ratings from ICS. It was kludgey and may
2600 have had bugs on systems with no "Creating:" message. It should fail
2601 gracefully there, just not finding the ratings.
2603 3.6.0 -- Thu May 8 19:55:58 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
2605 * WinBoard now has right-button context menus in the ICS Interaction
2606 window. Some of the items do immediate commands on the player name you
2607 have selected or pointed to. (Suggested by Paolo Casaschi.) Also, the
2608 middle button or shift+right does a immediate Copy and Paste.
2610 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's wild rejection. The bug was causing Zippy to
2611 reject all forms of wild. Now it rejects only 1, 9, 16, 17, and 24, as
2612 was intended. These variants have different rules, while the other
2613 variants defined so far only have different starting positions.
2614 (Actually, wild 2, 3, and 4 never allow castling, but may sometimes by
2615 chance have king and rook start on squares where castling appears legal.
2616 This could cause a problem later.)
2618 * Zippy now resumes adjourned games by feeding the chess program
2619 the move list instead of the position. Setting -getMoveList to False
2620 restores the old behavior. Feeding in the move list is better because
2621 it enables the chess program to correctly handle en passant legality,
2622 castling legality, draw by repetition, and draw by the 50 move rule.
2624 * Added a WinBoard startup dialog for people who run WinBoard.exe without
2625 using the Start menu or reading the help file. Instead of being dumped
2626 directly into GNU Chess mode, you now get a menu of choices. You now have
2627 to give the new WinBoard -cp option to go directly into chess engine mode.
2628 I did not add this feature to xboard.
2630 * Handling of "illegal move" from Crafty is now back on. (It was turned
2631 off in 3.4.6; see below.) Crafty 12.0 doesn't seem to send bogus ones
2632 anymore. I did have to suppress sending time and otim in analyze mode to
2633 make this work, but there is no harm in that.
2635 * Zippy now sends "gameend" to ICS at the end of each game. You can alias
2636 this to "seek" or whatever you like.
2638 * Added Crafty support for Move Now, using the "?" command. We test
2639 whether this command exists by trying it once at the start of the first
2640 game, before it really makes sense. If we don't get a message like
2641 "Illegal move ... ?", we assume it's OK. (We're careful about this
2642 because sending a "?" to GNU Chess on Move Now keeps it from pondering the
2643 next move as it should.)
2645 * Added support for a tellusererror command from the chess engine. See
2648 * Attempted to make engine-intf.txt complete.
2650 * Minor fixes/cleanup to GameEnds code, to be sure we always interrupt
2651 when needed, and always undo an extra move generated by stopping the chess
2652 program while it is thinking.
2654 3.5.7 -- Sat May 03 22:37:44 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
2656 Beta release of both xboard and WinBoard.
2658 * Updated xboard documentation. I really wish the man page was built from
2659 the info file instead of being separate! It's a pain to update them both.
2661 * Updated documentation of the interface between XBoard/WinBoard and chess
2662 programs, and renamed it to engine-intf.txt.
2664 * Added support for tellics, telluser, and askuser commands from the chess
2665 engine. See engine-intf.txt.
2667 * Various bug fixes. On WinBoard, 256 color displays are finally handled
2668 right; no more color flashing when you switch windows unless the colors
2669 really need to be updated. Also, I think the problem of the console font
2670 failing to change or changing back by itself is finally fixed.
2672 3.5.6 -- Tue Apr 29 03:08:00 PDT 1997
2674 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release,
2677 * Added ICC timestamp and FICS timeseal to WinBoard distribution. These
2678 are my own ports to Win32, based on and used by permission of the owners
2679 of the proprietary source code (Daniel Sleator for timestamp, Henrik Gram
2680 for timeseal). The owners permit these programs to be distributed only in
2681 binary form (to help prevent cheating), so to avoid running afoul of the
2682 GPL, I have kept them as separate programs, not linked into the WinBoard
2683 address space. Updated Start menu icons to use them.
2685 * Miscellaneous smaller changes.
2687 3.5.5 -- Fri Apr 25 03:06:00 PDT 1997
2689 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release;
2692 * Added simple sound support to WinBoard.
2694 * Updated WinBoard documentation.
2696 * Internal implementation of the telnet protocol is now more complete.
2697 You can now hop through a VMS host on the way to ICS. For example, do
2698 "xboard -ics -icshost vms.host.edu -icsport 23", then log in. Do not use
2699 the -telnet flag; that says to use an *external* telnet program. To avoid
2700 double echoes, you need to force character mode in VMS telnet after
2701 connecting from VMS to ICS. Do "^]^Mset mode char^M^M".
2703 * Display opponent names in the title bar for MachineWhite, MachineBlack,
2704 and TwoMachines modes.
2706 * WinBoard now has an installer, built with InstallShield. The installer
2707 works with a binary-only distribution. Sources are still freely
2708 available, but now separately.
2710 * Added SaveSettings to WinBoard, which saves current option settings to
2711 winboard.ini. Made sure all options can be saved and loaded, including
2712 fonts and com port settings.
2714 * If the game ends while you are dragging a piece, we now don't let you
2715 finish the move. Formerly the move was accepted and your opponent's clock
2716 would start running again.
2718 3.5.4 -- Fri Apr 18 01:15:24 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
2720 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard. The documentation remains
2723 * Many fixes and improvements to new WinBoard user interface code.
2725 * In Zippy mode, avoid sending another copy of the same move to the chess
2726 program if ICS sends us another copy of the board image. Hard to believe
2727 it took me until now to diagnose and fix this problem!
2729 3.5.3 -- Sat Apr 12 19:49:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
2731 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard.
2733 * Fixed fatal bug in WinBoard input handling.
2735 * Made code to stop chess program for reuse a bit smarter. Removed kludge
2736 of "white" in initString; it didn't work well, and is unneeded
2737 with Crafty 11.21 and later.
2739 3.5.2 -- Sat Apr 12 15:40:01 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
2741 Beta test release of WinBoard.
2743 * Ignore check and permit promotion to King during suicide games; no need
2744 to turn off TestLegality.
2746 * Renamed CheckLegality to TestLegality to avoid confusion with the chess
2749 * Added Rematch to Action menu.
2751 * WinBoard now has a custom ICS interaction window with scrollback, a
2752 separate line for input, and colorization. Accelerators that conflict
2753 with normal editing keys were changed (by requiring Alt+) so they can work
2754 in both the console and the main window.
2756 * WinBoard error popups are now non-modal and disappear when you make a
2757 new move, as in xboard.
2759 * Configure now defaults to --disable-ptys on all systems. If anyone has
2760 an ancient SysV system where pipes don't work with select, they can still
2761 do "configure --enable-ptys" explicitly. I would appreciate getting a bug
2762 report if this happens to anyone, with complete output from configure and
2765 * "make install" now makes the installation directories too.
2767 * Fixed a bug that would cause an "Illegal move" message for Black from
2768 GNU Chess to be incorrectly considered bogus.
2770 * Handle name changes during an ICS game (FICS bname and wname commands).
2772 * You can force both chess programs to be killed at the end of each game
2773 by turning off the reuseChessPrograms option. There are still some
2774 problems with reusing Crafty even in version 11.20.
2776 * Now the second chess program stays around by default too, if it ever
2779 3.5.1 -- Sat Apr 5 16:47:48 PST 1997 Tim Mann
2783 * Don't kill off and restart the chess program for each game; keep the
2784 same one running, using the "new" command to start a new game. This
2785 change works around the problem in Windows 95 that makes WinBoard crash it
2786 at times, and is generally desirable to make new games start faster. The
2787 second chess program (for TwoMachines) is still killed at the end of the
2788 game, and unfortunately this can still crash Windows 95. Temporarily
2789 added "white" to the initString to make this work with Crafty 11.20, which
2790 has a minor bug in "new". Older versions of Crafty have worse bugs in
2791 "new"; they should not be used with this version of xboard.
2793 * Support for FICS suicide chess: Parse illegal moves (that leave King in
2794 check) in game history. If CheckLegality is off, allow promotion to King
2795 and illegal moves in game files. We still generate e2e4 style notation
2798 * Handle FICS "has timeseal; checking" message.
2800 * Changed the coords from white back to black; this was a bug.
2802 * Fixed problems compiling with K&R compilers.
2804 * Fixed an old bug in RegisterMove that was crashing cmail on some systems
2807 3.5.0 -- Thu Jan 2 16:59:49 PST 1997 Tim Mann
2809 Thanks to Frank McIngvale for much of the work on versions 3.4.4 and above!
2811 * Fix Crafty resumed game time bug (frankm)
2813 * Word wrap text in Analysis window (frankm)
2815 * More debug info for XPM loading (frankm)
2817 * Replaced config.sub, config.guess, etc., with up-to-date versions from
2818 autoconf 2.12. Hopefully this will fix problems on Pentium Pro machines.
2820 * Removed some Makefile gunk that was causing looping for one person.
2822 3.4.7 -- Thu Dec 19 14:22:41 PST 1996 Tim Mann
2824 All changes from Frank:
2826 * Retrieve ratings from ICC (and FICS, etc., when they add the Creating:
2827 message), save them in the PGN tags, and pass them to Crafty in Zippy mode.
2829 * Add settable time delay between characters in ICS login script.
2831 * Colorize messages like personal tells. Fix false recognition of channel
2834 * Pass "tells" from Crafty through to ICS (in Zippy mode).
2836 * Implement ~/ filename convention from C shell for game and position file
2839 * ZIPPYACCEPTONLY feature for testing.
2841 3.4, patchlevel 6 -- Sat Nov 23 16:58:50 PST 1996 Tim Mann
2843 * Put recognition of "illegal move" messages from Crafty for
2844 illegal castling, etc., inside an #if that is currently turned off,
2845 because of a bug in Crafty that generates bogus "illegal move" messages
2846 after some moves that are actually legal and accepted by Crafty.
2848 * Added -checkLegality option; previously this could not be turned off.
2850 * Fixed an old bug in finding default board size parameters.
2852 * Differentiated among channel tell, kibitz/whisper, and personal tell/say.
2854 * Fixed a bug in detecting Xpm in the configure script.
2856 3.4, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Nov 18 16:22:53 PST 1996 Tim Mann
2858 * Added zic2xpm to the kit; it had been omitted by mistake.
2860 * Added some default colors for -colorize
2862 3.4, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 16 18:10:17 PST 1996 Tim Mann
2864 This is meant to be a beta release in preparation for version 3.5.
2866 * Added InfoXBoard and ManXBoard to the Help menu.
2868 * Made Frank's ICS input box optional, defaulting to off.
2870 * Merged in Frank McIngvale's XbKit. Many new features, including
2871 -clickClick mode, the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import,
2872 ICS text colorization, and the ICS input box. Many thanks to Frank for
2873 supplying and documenting this code.
2875 3.4, patchlevel 3 -- Mon Nov 11 18:23:14 PST 1996 Tim Mann
2877 Small set of changes made while Frank McIngvale was working on XbKit in
2878 parallel. Unreleased in this form.
2880 * Updated zippy.README.
2882 * Removed useless X event handler and removed strange code for copying
2883 form translation table to board that worked around the bug it caused.
2884 This makes changing bindings in .Xdefaults more straightforward.
2886 * Now pressing the Control key steps back one move, and releasing it steps
2889 * Moved quit from "q" to "Q" for greater safety.
2891 * Use "unobserve" instead of "observe" to stop observing; needed on FICS.
2893 * Support for interface variable.
2895 * Strip titles from people who are talking to us, so (for example) Zippy
2896 won't try things like "tell Darooha(*) hello". Needed on FICS.
2898 3.4, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Jul 9 19:06:42 PDT 1996 Tim Mann
2900 This patchlevel is not planned to be an announced release. It's in
2901 preparation for integrating Frank McIngvale's XbKit. It mostly contains
2902 minor fixes I've accumulated since 3.4.pl1.
2904 * WinBoard /telnet option now fires up an external program, as
2905 with xboard, instead of trying to use a feature of NT 3.1 that does not
2906 exist in later versions of NT or in Windows 95. ChangeLog for 3.4.pl1
2907 said this had been implemented there, but it really wasn't.
2909 * Indicating player to move by the icon color now works under Windows 95.
2911 * WinBoard now kills the chess program when you exit using the system menu
2912 or the [X] button. Thanks to Michael Lowe.
2914 * Minor changes to Zippy, including: Now understands wild challenges on
2915 FICS; these used to crash it. Removed limit on how fast a game will be
2916 accepted. Use "set formula ..." on the chess server to limit this if you
2917 are using GNU Chess. Now sends correct opponent name to Crafty.
2919 * Added some missing default values to documentation. Thanks to Stuart
2922 * Bugfix: Trying to print "No fonts match pattern" error message would
2923 crash. This can happen to Linux users who don't install Helvetica, for
2926 * Bugfix: Defaulting feature in -size n,n,n,n,n,n would put us in an
2929 * Added more directories to search for Athena widgets on HPUX.
2931 * New cmail (3.12) from Evan Welsh; includes small fix from Kayvan Sylvan.
2933 * Recognize "illegal move" messages from Crafty for illegal castling, etc.
2935 * Bugfix: "name" command added to zippy.c for Crafty was producing error
2936 message if GNU Chess was in use.
2938 * In bughouse mode, suppress holding messages from console window; show
2939 holdings only in banner.
2941 * Minor fixes/cleanup to Makefile.in and configure.in.
2943 3.4, patchlevel 1 -- Mon Dec 11 13:43:12 PST 1995 Tim Mann
2945 * This patchlevel updates WinBoard to match xboard, and includes a few
2946 fixes and minor improvements. "-size tiny" and "-size n,n,n,n,n,n"
2947 are still not implemented for WinBoard.
2949 * Installed support for Crafty based on code from Bob Hyatt.
2950 Currently the only documentation for this is in the FAQ, and a few
2951 things don't work with Crafty 8.23. Please do not report these
2952 problems as bugs in either xboard or Crafty. Bob and I know about
2953 them. The worst ones (if not all of them) should be fixed in Crafty
2956 * Changed the kludge command we send when gnuchess wants to print
2957 something that doesn't end with a newline, from "help" to "bogus".
2958 This works because the error message gnuchess prints ends with a
2959 newline. It also improves compatibility with Crafty, which doesn't
2960 need the kludge, but for which sending "help" causes a problem.
2962 * Don't draw grid at all if lineGap is 0; previously we drew the grid
2963 with X "0-width" lines (usually 1 pixel wide) and then overwrote it.
2965 * Makefile: Removed xboard.info from "all" target so we won't try to
2966 rebuild it, because this fails on hosts that don't have makeinfo
2967 installed. Other minor fixes to "clean" targets, etc.
2969 * Fixes and cleanup to Auto Comment code that handles continuation
2970 lines and highlighting.
2972 * Auto Observe now tries to observe the game from the point of view of
2973 the player who was on your gnotify list. Requested by rng.
2974 Limitations: We can't tell which player it was unless you have ICS
2975 highlighting turned on. Also, currently "observe foo" works as
2976 required (observing from foo's point of view) only on ICC, but FICS
2977 will probably implement this soon.
2979 * "-size tiny" now makes the default font smaller automatically. This
2980 was implemented by introducing an extra Form widget in the hierarchy
2981 for all xboard windows, named either normalLayout, smallLayout, or
2982 tinyLayout. So you can have resource specifications that apply only
2983 to certain layouts; in particular, XBoard*tinyLayout*font.
2985 * Bug fix: EditGame or EditPosition while playing or examining still was
2986 not really being permitted.
2988 * WinBoard bug fix: On the EditPosition menu, King did not work.
2990 * Added text catalog of WinSock error messages to WinBoard, because
2991 Microsoft still has not put them in the system message catalog.
2993 * Removed support for older ICS game-ending messages that do not have
2994 a PGN result token (*, 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2) after the closing '}'.
2995 The code for older messages was sometimes firing on the newer
2996 messages, due to parsing ambiguity. If the current code sees an old
2997 message, it will understand that the game is over, but will always
2998 display * as a result token instead of trying to guess the result by
2999 interpreting the text message.
3001 3.4, patchlevel 0 -- Tue Nov 21 01:02:50 PST 1995 Tim Mann
3003 * This patchlevel was released for xboard only.
3005 * Updated the info file. It should now be as up-to-date as the man page,
3006 with good English except in the parts that pertain only to AmyBoard.
3008 * Added "-size tiny", requested by Bob Hyatt. Also cleaned up bitmap
3009 support and added "-size n,n,n,n,n,n" to allow arbitrary-sized bitmaps,
3010 if the actual bitmaps are supplied by the user.
3012 * Updated bughouse support.
3014 3.3, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 18 02:27:21 PST 1995 Tim Mann
3016 * Unreleased beta that works with preliminary FICS bughouse code. Will
3017 need changes before release to track FICS message changes.
3019 * Removed use of .EX macro from man page. It is not supported by some
3020 nroff -man macro packages, notably the one on Slackware Linux. Switched
3021 to boldface for references to xboard and other commands within the man
3022 page, as this seems to be the modern way.
3024 * Bug fix: If ICS rejected a move, it was correctly undone on the board,
3025 but the message widget still displayed the bad move. Reported by DAV.
3027 * Normally, xboard in ICS mode fetches the move list whenever the board
3028 display switches to a new game. Doing this is now an option
3029 (getMoveList) that can be turned off, which is useful if you are watching
3030 multiple blitz games. Requested by rng.
3032 * Move list fetching code is now smarter: it ignores a move list if it is
3033 not for the right game.
3035 * Added support for bughouse as implemented on FICS. Holdings are shown
3036 in the window title in place of the strength numbers. A menu on mouse
3037 buttons 2 and 3 (same on both) lets you drop pieces. There is no checking
3038 as to whether you actually hold the piece you are trying to drop; we rely
3039 on ICS to check that. Notation of the form P@f7 is generated and parsed.
3040 The mate detector does not understand that non-contact mate is not really
3041 mate in bughouse, but this does no real harm. It results in a "#"
3042 suffix being displayed on the move notation, but xboard does not assume the
3045 * Bug fix: Promotion to a knight was not working with ICC! Thanks to
3046 Wendigo for the report.
3048 * Bug fix: Special pty code for host types *-*-aix3* and *-*-irix3*
3049 (supplied from configure.in) had a bug that would cause childio.c to
3050 fail to compile, due to a "continue" that was not within a loop.
3052 * Bug fix: In pgntags.c, memory was being freed while still in use. One
3053 symptom this caused was that on some machines, cmail would fail with a
3054 message that it could not find the BlackNA tag. The error was in some
3055 submitted code that I included in version 3.2.pl3 without reading
3056 carefully enough. Anders Forberg noticed the symptoms, and Evan Welsh
3057 (who had nothing to do with causing the bug) found the bug and submitted a
3058 fix; thanks to them both.
3060 * Removed restriction against using EditGame while playing, observing,
3061 or examining on ICS. You still get a warning popup.
3063 3.3, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Sep 16 11:44:05 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
3065 * Bug fix: Going directly from MachineWhite to TwoMachines mode would kill
3066 off the second chess program after Black's first move.
3068 * Added -timeIncrement feature. Thanks to Joel Rivat.
3070 * Deleted code that tries to keep you from observing more than one game,
3071 or observing while playing or examining. There is actually no problem in
3072 doing this, except that every time an update comes in from a different
3073 game than is currently being displayed, xboard fetches the history of the
3074 new game, which may be time-consuming if you are on a slow link.
3076 * Fixed configure so as not to crash when neither lex nor flex is found.
3077 lex or flex is needed only if the user wants to rebuild parser.c. Thanks
3078 to Phil Humpherys for reporting the crash.
3080 * Bug fix: config.h.in used #define instead of #undef for some macros used
3081 in the pty code in childio.c. This causes the code to fail to compile on
3082 some architectures, because the symbols are supposed to be undefined, not
3083 defined to empty, when they are not set in configure. Bug originated in
3084 3.3.pl0 when config.h was introduced. Thanks to Phil Humpherys for report.
3086 * Bug fix: ShowThinking would not show anything when current position had
3087 no move to display in the move window. E.g., if position was created by
3088 LoadPosition or EditPosition.
3090 3.3, patchlevel 2 -- Mon Aug 28 11:11:11 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
3092 * Zippy code was omitted from xboard-3.3.pl1 by mistake; now included.
3094 * For WinBoard, added hint to help file that you may need to turn off
3095 LocalLineEditing while typing dialing commands to your modem.
3097 3.3, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Aug 19 15:13:30 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
3099 * Zippy distribution is no longer separate from regular xboard distribution.
3101 * Deal properly with Show Thinking output from GNU Chess when it is
3102 thinking on its opponent's time. In TwoMachines mode this output is
3103 suppressed to avoid interfering with the output from the machine that is
3104 on move; in other modes it is displayed (including the move that GNU Chess
3105 is predicting the user will make next). GNU Chess produces this output
3106 only if it is built without -DQUIETBACKGROUND defined; this symbol is
3107 defined by default in patchlevels before pl75, but undefined by default in
3110 * Bug fix: Handling of initial board position in move list for wild games
3111 was broken, so wild games could not be observed and adjourned wild games
3112 could not be continued. Thanks to "Maximum Entropy" for the bug report.
3114 * Added feature: algebraic notation now shows "+" indicator for check
3115 and "#" for checkmate, as called for in PGN standard. Thanks to Kevin
3116 Maher for the suggestion.
3118 3.3, patchlevel 0 -- Thu Jul 27 22:21:07 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
3120 * Changed configuration to use a config.h file instead of passing zillions
3121 of -D options on the cc command line.
3123 * Merged a small fix and some updates to the texinfo file from Jochen
3124 Wiedmann. The texinfo file still needs work.
3126 3.2, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Jul 18 20:29:39 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
3128 * Beta test release of xboard only.
3130 * Updated WinBoard code to include new xboard features.
3132 * Added texinfo file from Jochen Wiedmann to the release, but not as the
3133 primary documentation. It needs updating, and the English needs work.
3134 I did make a few improvements, mostly to change incorrect uses of @var to
3135 either @samp or @code as appropriate.
3137 * Merged in code changes to 3.2.pl4beta from Jochen Wiedmann.
3139 * Fixed EditComment; did not pop up window in previous beta.
3141 * Added AutoComment feature.
3143 * Added GameListDestroy to disable the outdated game list popup in cases
3144 where we load a new game file without building a new popup.
3146 * Added yyskipmoves feature to parser.l to speed up building of gamelist.
3148 * gamelist.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
3150 * Change to yy_text handling in patchlevel 3 still had problems. Can't
3151 use AC_DECL_YYTEXT in configure.in, because that defines YYTEXT_POINTER
3152 according to whether the lexer on the current host makes yytext a pointer.
3153 But most people will be using a parser.c that was generated on another
3154 host and shipped with the package.
3156 3.2, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Jun 25 19:13:43 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
3158 * Beta test release of xboard only.
3160 * Added FIREWALLS section to man page.
3162 * Changed -icsport to be a string. Now with the -telnet option,
3163 specifying -icsport "" suppresses the second argument to telnet.
3165 * Added EditTags feature. Removed AboutGame from menu, because EditTags
3166 subsumes it. EditTags suggested by Jochen Wiedmann and first implemented by
3167 him in AmyBoard. xboard implementation is my own.
3169 * Fixed some missing or incorrect prototypes.
3171 3.2, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Jun 3 18:57:38 1995 Tim Mann
3173 * Beta test release of xboard only.
3175 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh, to fix compatibility problems with
3178 * Added game list feature on Load Game, based on code from Jochen
3179 Wiedmann. Integrated it with cmail.
3181 * Several bug fixes from Jochen Wiedmann, including one to my yy_text
3182 workaround for the difference in the type of yytext between lex and flex.
3184 * Handle clock pause on FICS.
3186 * Suppress clocks in untimed FICS games (time control 0 0).
3188 * Rebuilt configure script with autoconf 2.3. This fixes a bug in
3189 configuring for X11R6, where -lSM -lICE would not be added when needed.
3191 * Fixed inconsistent type declarations on IntSigHandler and
3192 CmailSigHandler. Bug report from Josh Daynard.
3194 * backend.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
3196 3.2, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Feb 7 14:50:30 1995 Tim Mann
3198 * Minor release of both xboard and WinBoard.
3200 * Added recognition of some FICS messages. On the other hand FICS is also
3201 changing some of its messages to match what xboard already recognizes.
3203 * Temporarily went back to using "promote" command on ICS instead of
3204 "a7a8=Q", because FICS doesn't implement the latter yet.
3206 * We now avoid using overlapped I/O on pipes in WinBoard, to make Windows
3207 95 beta 2 happy. This lets WinBoard work with GNU Chess on Windows 95!
3209 * Installed patches from Jochen Wiedmann to coordinate with Amiga XBoard.
3211 * Installed patch to cmail bug in LoadGame from Evan Welsh.
3213 * Bugfix: checkmate and stalemate moves entered with EditGame in ICS mode
3214 were not being handled correctly. Bug was in GameEnds().
3216 * Implemented EchoOn and EchoOff for xboard, using system("stty echo\n").
3217 Now passwords won't be echoed when you connect directly to ICS. Also,
3218 telnet negotiation characters aren't displayed (when possible).
3220 * Implemented more of the telnet protocol. Now connecting to a telnet
3221 server with "-icsport 23" should work even without giving the -telnet
3222 option. The telnet is in "old line-by-line mode".
3224 3.2, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Dec 10 13:50:46 1994 Tim Mann
3226 * This patchlevel released for WinBoard only.
3228 * winboard.c: Fixed ConsoleInputThread(). Needed to change CRLF to LF,
3229 not to CR. This was stopping normal /ics mode from working. Thanks to
3230 Asher Kobin for the bug report.
3232 * winboard.c: Fixed Raw(), EchoOn(), EchoOff(). Now they take effect
3233 immediately, not on the next console read after the one in progress.
3235 * winboard.c: Attempted to make WinBoard work with gnuchessx running
3236 directly on Windows (not remotely via rsh). It now works on NT, but only
3237 if gnuchess is told not to think on its opponent's time ("easy\n" removed
3238 from initString). The problem seems to be that GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent
3239 is not doing anything. On Windows 95 beta 2, we get error messages on
3240 both reading and writing to gnuchessx; I didn't investigate why.
3242 3.2, patchlevel 0 -- Wed Dec 7 13:23:36 1994 Tim Mann
3244 * Thanks to all the beta testers who gave me feedback: Josef Nelissen,
3245 Steve Booth, Evan Welsh, Dima Dakhnovsky, Chris Petroff, Peter Jansen,
3246 Derek Terveer, Michel van der List, Richard Lloyd, Shelly Mistry, and Mike
3247 Lee. Sorry if I forgot anyone. Thanks to Virendra Kumar Mehta for
3248 information about DYNIX/ptx.
3250 * Don't exit on keyboard EOF unless we get two in a row.
3252 * WinBoard only: added -localLineEdit switch to allow turning off local
3253 line editing if you really want to. It is still a bad idea to let the
3254 echoing be done remotely, however; see below.
3256 * Fixed some configure problems on HP-UX. [Steve Booth]
3258 * Fixed (I hope) configure problem on SunOS 5.3/Solaris 2.3. [Josef Nelissen]
3260 * cmail bugfix from Evan Welsh (cmail 3.4).
3262 3.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Dec 2 23:54:56 1994 Tim Mann
3264 * Beta distribution only
3266 * Always do local echo/edit of user typing in ICS mode. Doing the echo
3267 downstream may seem nicer in some modes, and it can be hard to turn that
3268 echo off, but the echoed characters can be interleaved with ICS output
3269 and make it impossible to parse correctly. For xboard this involved only
3270 a change to recommendations in the man page, as Raw() isn't implemented.
3271 For WinBoard, removing Raw() made a real difference. Added code in
3272 WinBoard to change /r/n back into /r on keyboard input, as we get the
3273 former when Raw() is not called.
3275 * Do not issue ICS "refresh" command after we start to observe a game
3276 unless we get to the next prompt without seeing a board image. Newest
3277 version of ICS doesn't require this refresh, but old versions around still
3280 * cmail bugfix and small code cleanup in LoadGame, from Evan Welsh.
3282 * Added keyboard accelerators N/P for LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame. Evan
3285 * Using "-" on the command line as a filename for loading (saving) games
3286 or positions specifies the standard input (standard output). Alain Picard
3289 * On WinBoard only, a command line option without a leading '-' or '/' is
3290 now taken as the value of -lgf.
3292 * Changed to not use stdin, stdout, stderr as initializers in backend.c;
3293 needed for GNU libc compatibility. You also must build parser.c with flex
3294 (not lex) if you are using GNU libc, to avoid having the same problem
3297 * Changed WinBoard to avoid using "overlapped" input on the console. It
3298 now seems to fully work on Windows 95 beta 2.
3300 * Improved comment popups on WinBoard. Now newlines are handled properly,
3301 and the plain Comment popup window doesn't disappear and reappear when we
3302 step to a new move with a new comment.
3304 * Fixed bugs in detecting the absence of the time and otim commands.
3306 * Added built-in implementation of rcmd protocol to WinBoard. Windows NT
3307 does not implement passing signals through rsh, and Windows 95 does not
3310 * Added -remoteUser option.
3312 3.1, patchlevel 8 -- Mon Nov 28 15:26:07 1994 Tim Mann
3314 * Beta distribution only
3316 * Rearranged ChangeLog file into reverse chronological order to be closer
3319 * Integrated new cmail code from Evan Welsh (including cmail RCS rev 3.2).
3320 Includes a bug fix to TruncateGame.
3322 * Updated ICS address to be chess.lm.com.
3324 * Bug fixes to handling the aftermath of FatalError. Thanks to Chris
3325 Petroff for the bug report.
3327 * Test for remsh before rsh, other fixes for HP-UX. Thanks to Richard
3328 Lloyd. I wasn't able to do all the things he suggested, so there may
3329 still be some rough edges in building on HP-UX. See the FAQ file for hints.
3331 * Bug fix; added missing check for HAVE_SYS_SYSTEMINFO. Thanks to Josef
3332 Nelissen for testing on Solaris 2.x.
3334 * Updated WinBoard to match xboard. (WinBoard still has a few option
3335 dialogs that don't exist in xboard.)
3337 * Changed Hint output to a popup.
3339 * ShowThinking output and move output no longer overwrite each other.
3340 ShowThinking output won't appear if the displayed position is not current.
3341 ShowThinking output in TwoMachines mode made clearer and documented.
3343 * Implemented --enable-ptys and --disable-ptys arguments to configure.
3345 * Fixed Book and Hint code to work over a pty with echo enabled and tabs
3346 expanded to spaces. Thanks to Dima Dahknovsky for the bug report.
3348 * Moved Attention calls from all over xboard to one place, inside
3351 * Added bulletproofing to ShowThinkingEvent.
3353 * Added code to handle "refresh N" boards that come in from ICS properly,
3354 assuming ICS is changed to mark them with a new relation code (-3).
3356 3.1, patchlevel 7 -- Sun Nov 13 22:16:01 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
3358 * Beta distribution only
3360 * Changed ShowThinking to just show the current best line in the
3361 DisplayMessage area, instead of dumping everything to stdout.
3363 * Installed new cmail (RCS rev 3.1) and cmail.man (RCS rev 1.10), and
3364 changes to cmail code in backend.c, from Evan Welsh.
3366 * Miscellaneous minor fixes.
3368 3.1, patchlevel 6 -- Fri Nov 4 12:53:53 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
3370 * This patchlevel was not actually released to anyone.
3372 * Updated the pty code to be based on GNU Emacs 19.24, and moved it to a
3373 separate file. It was hard to split out just the pty configuration from
3374 all the stuff emacs does with its custom configure script and .h files,
3377 * Converted from imake to GNU autoconf. This was a serious upheaval.
3379 * Put in code to help trap "error gathering move list" problem reported by
3380 Michel van der List if it recurs. I couldn't reproduce it.
3382 3.1, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Oct 31 21:12:00 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
3384 * Beta distribution only.
3386 * We now test for checkmate or stalemate in EditGame mode after every user
3387 move, and in LoadGame mode whenever we hit the end of a game without
3388 seeing a PGN end marker. cmail needs an update to deal with this
3389 correctly; Evan promises one.
3391 * Bugfixes in new move generator. Thanks to Mike Lee for reporting one of
3394 * Imakefile was omitted from patchlevel 4.
3396 3.1, patchlevel 4 -- Mon Sep 19 18:19:46 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
3398 * Beta distribution only.
3400 * The move generator includes a mate tester. Initially this is used only
3401 by cmail, and even that usage needs further work.
3403 * Wrote a true move generator and used it to replace all the move
3404 disambiguation and legality checking code in parser.l. The move generator
3405 is capable of dealing correctly with en passant and castling availability,
3406 but the rest of the program still does not keep track of this information.
3408 * Bug fix: xboard did not handle "foo has made you an examiner of game 23"
3409 message. Thus you could not use examine features until the next board
3410 came in, showing your new relation to the game. Thanks to POOKIEWOOKIE on ICS
3413 * Added AutoObserve feature. Thanks to Chris Petroff for the idea.
3415 * Added Book feature to use new gnuchess "bk" command. Mike McGann request.
3417 * Redid code to handle missing "time" command in gnuchess, because latest
3418 gnuchess no longer sends a response to this command.
3420 * Eliminated need for -DFLEX. Thanks to Michael Shields (Vladimir?) for
3423 * Added missing code to implement MoveNow in TwoMachines mode.
3425 * Added ShowThinking feature. Thanks to Richard Lloyd for the idea.
3427 * Applied patches from Evan Welsh; some fixes and improvements to the
3430 * Fixed bug in moving from EndOfGame mode to MachineWhite or MachineBlack,
3431 introduced in previous patchlevel. Also fixed related bug in ending a
3432 game in ICS mode; was entering EndOfGame mode instead of IcsIdle.
3434 * Added patch to implement internetChessServerLogonScript flag, from Kevin
3437 3.1, patchlevel 3 -- Wed Sep 7 13:22:07 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
3439 * Beta distribution only.
3441 * Merged in new cmail code from Evan Welsh. He added the ability to have
3442 more than one game per message, needed for official IECG matches. I added
3443 the ability to resign or offer/accept/decline a draw in a cmail game.
3445 * Bugfix: invalid -tc option caused segmentation fault; DisplayFatalError
3446 was called too early in initialization. Georges Honore reported this bug.
3448 * Decided to keep EndOfGame mode as an element of the user interface---it
3449 means that a gnuchess game or loaded game has ended, and the user must
3450 explicitly select EditGame to edit it, rather than just being able to
3451 enter more moves freely. But internally there is no longer an invariant
3452 tying this mode to whether the chess program is running.
3454 * Zippy bugfix: Was saving only the final position in the -sgf file when
3455 the game ended by something other than resignation or flag. Also fixed
3456 the longstanding bug that Zippy would think the final board of such a game
3457 was a new game and restart the chess program.
3459 * Now does a better job of faking castling availability in FEN. We still
3460 don't really keep track of it, but now at least we don't say that castling
3461 is still available when the king or rook is not on its home square.
3463 * Bugfix: Initial board of game history for wild games was going through
3464 too much processing, causing us to forget the game length, which is now
3465 needed by ParseGameHistory. This was causing problems with resuming
3466 adjourned wild games.
3468 * Updated ICS host to ics.onenet.net.
3470 * Zippy now accepts challenges where the opponent specified his color.
3472 * Added ZIPPYPASSWORD2 to let operator give commands directly to gnuchess.
3474 * Bitmap directory can include alternative icons now, too.
3476 * Handle "Game * (*) has no examiners" message from ICS.
3478 * Revamped window title and icon name selection.
3480 3.1, patchlevel 2 -- Sun Jun 12 17:16:28 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
3482 * "Beta" distribution for Zippy users only.
3484 * Bugfix: common.h was assuming that X11 type Boolean is char, which is
3485 not always true. This might have caused all sorts of obscure bugs!
3487 * Installed new bitmaps from Elmar Bartel as the default. Many thanks!
3488 The old bitmaps can be used by changing the "bitmaps" symbolic link before
3489 compiling xboard, or by using the -bitmapDirectory option at runtime.
3491 * Loading a game that ends with the PGN unfinished symbol ("*") now always
3492 leaves you in EditGame mode.
3494 * Added documentation of -icscomm to man page. Thanks to Maarten Remkes
3495 for the linux script.
3497 * ^C now kills gnuchess as well as xboard. Thanks to Dima Dakhnovsky for
3498 reminding me how to do this.
3500 * Bitmap icon color now indicates player to move. Stuart Cracraft
3503 * Changed piece bitmap flags to have just one flag, which points to a
3504 directory full of bitmaps, instead of a flag for each bitmap. Also
3505 changed bitmap naming convention.
3507 * "Connection closed by ICS" is no longer a FatalError popup. This was
3508 too annoying in the normal case where the user typed "quit".
3510 * Changed default font to 14 pixels instead of 10 points. This seems to
3511 make it close to the size I want it to be on more displays.
3513 * Major mode (GNU Chess, etc.) appears in title bar. Stuart Cracraft
3516 * Bug fix: EditGameEvent, MachineBlackEvent, MachineWhiteEvent, and
3517 TwoMachinesEvent were calling PauseEvent to get out of pause mode, which
3518 now has undesired side effects, such as advancing the display to the
3519 forwardMostMove. It works fine to just set pausing = FALSE instead.
3521 * IcsExamining mode now lets you access ICS edit position commands using
3522 the same popup menus as xboard's EditPosition mode. Thanks to DAV on ICS
3523 for inspiring the idea.
3525 * Corrected test for gcc on HP in Imakefile; thanks to Richard Lloyd.
3527 3.1, patchlevel 1 -- Wed Jun 1 16:25:11 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
3529 * Added parser.c.lex and parser.c.flex to the distribution.
3531 * Added HP gcc options to Imakefile, from Mats Nylen.
3533 * EndOfGame mode no longer highlights EditGame mode indicator, because the
3534 modes really do differ. I would like to get rid of EndOfGame mode in the
3535 future, at least as far as users can see.
3537 * Larger %a in parser.l, needed for RS/6000 users.
3539 * Minor improvements to Mail Move error messages.
3541 * When -debug flag is given to xboard, -v is passed to cmail.
3543 * Old Save Style uses "1. ..." instead of "1..." when black moves after a
3544 comment; more like xboard 3.0's actual style.
3546 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh. Looks for UCB Mail in a more
3547 portable way and has some minor bug fixes.
3549 * Bug fix: Saving a FEN position while in EditPosition mode with black to
3550 play was showing white to play in the saved position.
3552 3.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri May 20 16:36:15 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
3554 * This is the first general release since 3.0, patchlevel 9. Releases
3555 since then have been limited-distribution or beta releases.
3557 * Thanks to my version 3.1 beta testers: Dmitry Dakhnovsky, Ed Hanway,
3558 Richard Lloyd, Mike McGann, Shelly Mistry, Josef Nelissen, Chris Petroff,
3559 Jack Robertson, Michel van der List, Ky Macpherson, Derek Terveer, and
3560 Evan Welsh. Sorry if I've forgotten anyone who gave me feedback.
3564 * Minor cleanup on menu sensitivity code.
3566 * Integrated another even better version of cmail from Evan Welsh,
3567 including some code he supplied in xboard itself.
3569 * A few more fixes to cmail support.
3571 * Automatically update clocks after an ICS "moretime" command.
3573 * Handle ICS automatic examine mode (set examine 1) after a game.
3575 3.0, patchlevel 14 -- Tue May 17 13:41:44 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
3577 * Beta test release only.
3579 * Don't suppress prompt on first board of game being examined; otherwise
3580 it looks like nothing happened at all (i.e., like you're lagged).
3582 * Added StopExamining and StopObserving (Chris Petroff suggestion).
3584 * Made Reset do a refresh on ICS. John Chanak's original ICS code for
3585 xboard tried to do this; I finally decided it was a good idea after all.
3587 * Fixed bugs in handling updates that come in while you are pausing in
3588 examine mode. This is pretty tricky to do right.
3590 * Made un-Pausing immediately pop you to the current position. This is
3591 always necessary in examine mode, since the game may have changed under
3592 you; your remembered moves might no longer be right. So I made it do the
3595 * Took Detach Examine mode back out...used Pause mode for this instead!
3597 * Put in a trap for the GNU Chess bug of printing an Illegal Move message
3598 when its own hint move is illegal.
3600 * Attempted to fix a Zippy bug; bogus "exited unexpectedly" messages after
3601 it checkmates its opponent. This involved adding an argument to GameEnds
3602 to say who says it ended (ICS, GNU, etc.) and taking different actions in
3603 different cases. Unfortunately, this just restored an older Zippy bug, where
3604 Zippy restarts gnuchess when it gets the board with the final position,
3605 because GameEnds still puts xboard in EndOfGame mode. Sigh.
3607 * We now capture elapsed time on last move when getting game history.
3608 (Josef Nelissen bug report)
3610 * Rewrote code to redisplay last file title so it really works.
3612 * Fixed bug in oldSaveStyle.
3614 * Larger %a and %o were needed for lex.
3616 3.0, patchlevel 13 -- Mon May 16 16:26:22 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
3618 * Beta test release only.
3620 * FatalError popups stay on the screen now. If the error is really fatal,
3621 all functions are disabled, and the program exits when you press OK.
3623 * Redisplay last file title when using Load (Next/Previous/Same) Game.
3625 * Zippy understands new match challenge message format on ICS.
3627 * Added Revert command.
3629 * When examining a game on ICS, < > buttons do ICS backward/forward
3630 commands, unless you set the Detach Examine option. Thanks to Dima
3631 Dakhnovsky for the idea.
3633 * Fixed various minor problems in cmail mode.
3635 * cmail generates the tags now. New version of cmail from Evan Welsh.
3637 * cmail mode won't let you do MailMove unless the currently displayed
3638 position is exactly one move past the end of the game you loaded.
3640 * Fixed building of man pages in Imakefile
3642 * Updates to INSTALL file
3644 3.0, patchlevel 12 -- Sat May 7 21:10:03 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
3646 * Beta test release only.
3648 * Brought man page up to date.
3650 * Added Shift+R to resign from keyboard.
3652 * Some items on Action menu available in GNU Chess mode now.
3654 * Revamped Action menu.
3656 * Reordered functions in backend.c as a small step toward reorganizing
3659 * Generate TimeControl PGN tag.
3661 * Get type of ICS game (e.g., rated blitz) and save in PGN tags.
3663 * Bug fix: Clocks were not redisplayed when entering EditGame mode.
3665 * Bug fix: Clocks were not being redisplayed after loading a game file
3666 with -td 0, so they could show the wrong color active.
3668 * Bug fix: Chess programs would be killed and match mode would exit
3669 prematurely when loading a PGN game fragment ending with "*".
3671 * ICS command "sposition" no longer confuses xboard.
3673 * Integrated new version of cmail (with support code in xboard) from Evan
3676 * Added TruncateGame, MoveNow, RetractMove, and QuietPlay.
3678 * Bug fix: switching between MachineWhite and MachineBlack was not calling
3679 Attention(). Reported by Dino Dini.
3681 * More improvements to INSTALL and Imakefile.
3683 * Pack moves into 79 character lines in PGN output. We don't generate
3684 check indications, and we always break the line before the result,
3685 so this is not quite PGN export format.
3687 * Use FEN tag in PGN.
3689 * Improved finding and counting of game starts in save files.
3691 * Negative position or game numbers in -lpi/-lgi mean to seek to that byte
3692 offset. Hook for possible future features, not in man page.
3694 * Detect and handle absence of either "time" or "otim" commands in
3697 * Don't use "promote" command to ICS anymore.
3699 * Handle switching sides and taking back moves on FICS.
3701 * Handle flip state flag in style 12 board.
3703 * Handle examine mode on ICS.
3705 * Improved error popups for various kinds of illegal moves.
3707 * Suppress unasked-for hints from gnuchess (which it generates in post
3710 * Load/save position functions use FEN. Old style also supported.
3712 * Added detailed error messages if loading a bitmap file fails.
3714 * Small board has 2-pixel lines between squares instead of 3-pixel.
3716 * Added OldSaveStyle and AboutGame.
3718 * Renamed ForceMoves to EditGame.
3720 3.0, patchlevel 11 -- Tue Sep 21 15:25:36 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
3722 * The following changes were present in xboard 3.0, patchlevel 11, but the
3723 first group did not make it into WinBoard 3.0 until later. xboard
3724 3.0.pl11 was a limited-distribution release only, mostly to Zippy users.
3726 * Man page minor fixes.
3728 * Added a missing file close.
3730 * Removed automatic error popdown on Reset, which was destroying some
3731 error messages before they could be read.
3733 * Fixed char vs. unsigned char warnings on bitmaps.
3735 * Use ICS board style 12. Some improvements to ICS parsing.
3737 * Comment window is now labelled with the move the comment is on, and
3738 comments don't pop down when you step to the next move.
3740 * Save files now in PGN format.
3742 * Support for loading PGN files. PGN tags pop up when a PGN game file
3745 * More info in INSTALL and Imakefile about building for Suns (and
3748 * WinBoard 3.0 patchlevel 11 split off from an early version of xboard
3749 3.0 patchlevel 11, so it does not have all the features of that
3750 patchlevel. The following changes made it into both xboard and
3753 * Made Comment dialog non-modal in WinBoard.
3755 * EndOfGame mode is now more transparent. It looks like ForceMoves
3756 mode except that there is no chess program running.
3758 * Small bug fixes in clock management. Most noticeably, pausing when
3759 it is gnuchess's move now works as documented (again).
3761 * Add minimal support for -icscomm option. Not documented yet because
3762 I haven't sorted out the issues with setting the tty modes on the comm
3763 port device, or with locking it properly. But it's usable by wizards.
3765 * Don't restart the chess program upon Backward event from EndOfGame mode.
3767 * Suppress extra prompt after ICS sends us a board.
3769 3.0, patchlevel 10 -- Sat Sep 11 18:44:03 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
3771 * Beta test release only.
3773 * Zippy now plays chess. zippy.c and zippy.h are still not included
3774 in the standard distribution, but are available on request.
3776 * Switched to using style 12 on ICS.
3778 * Updated man page, and documented use of XBoard*form.translations to
3779 add more shortcut keys.
3781 * Added shortcut keys "d" to claim/offer/accept a draw, and "t" to
3782 call flag. Suggested by venu on ICS.
3784 * More explicit instructions in INSTALL file.
3786 3.0, patchlevel 9 -- Tue Sep 7 14:02:00 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
3788 * General release, minor update to 3.0.pl8.
3790 * Loosened checking on whether it's okay to start a move, to satisfy
3791 ICS ultra-blitz players. Now we don't check whether it's your turn
3792 until you let go of the piece.
3794 * Parser now recognizes "+-+" as meaning the game ended in a draw.
3796 * Got rid of S_NONE symbol, which seems to conflict with some symbol
3799 * Tweaked the man page. Clarified that there is currently no way for
3800 two people running copies of xboard to play each other without going
3801 through the Internet Chess Server.
3803 * Fixed a bug in color name conversion. Asking for two different
3804 colors whose names were the same in the first four characters would
3805 get you two copies of the first one. Thanks to Volker Zink for the
3808 * Improved confusing Usage() message.
3810 * Added a bunch of Sun information to the Imakefile and INSTALL file.
3811 Thanks to Ed Hanway, Arik Klingensmith, and others who responded.
3813 * Test for defined(WIN32) instead of !defined(unix).
3815 * Avoid using (void *) type with non-ANSI C compilers. Thanks to
3816 James Altucher for the bug report.
3818 3.0, patchlevel 8 -- Thu Sep 2 12:23:01 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
3820 * Note: Patchlevel 8 was the first non-beta release of xboard 3.0
3822 * Added cmail to distribution. Contributed (and still maintained) by
3825 * Bug fix: -queen option wasn't initializing menu check. Reported by
3828 3.0, patchlevel 7 -- Thu Aug 26 13:23:24 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
3830 * Sent WinBoard 3.0.pl7 to Torre on ICS
3832 * Added parser.h to hold the interface to parser.l
3834 * Upgraded COPYING file and copyright notices to GNU GPL version 2.
3836 3.0, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Aug 24 15:16:13 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
3838 * We no longer display intermediate positions or intermediate comments
3839 while loading a game file with -timeDelay 0 or loading an opening to
3840 start up a -matchMode game.
3842 * Loading an empty game from an xboard save file now gives a status
3843 message "No moves in game" instead of an error popup saying "Game not
3846 * Added comment.awk to distribution.
3848 3.0, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Aug 17 16:45:54 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
3850 * Bug fix: xboard would crash if it couldn't get all its colors; now
3851 it switches to monoMode instead. Also, xboard was trying to convert
3852 color resources even when using a b/w display. Reported by Larry
3855 * Bug fix: Declared fields of TimeMark as signed so that we get signed
3856 instead of unsigned arithmetic. SubtractTimeMarks was breaking on
3857 Alpha AXP (which has 64-bit longs) with old declarations. Reported by
3858 Michel van der List.
3860 * Bug fixes: Keyboard accelerators now work after EditComment window is
3861 popped down. Iconize keyboard accelerator now works even if xboard
3862 was started with -iconic flag and later deiconized.
3864 * Bug fix: The routine that tests whether a move is illegal because it
3865 would leave you in check was not handling e.p. captures properly.
3866 Reported by Patrick Surry.
3868 * Bug (?) fix: Was adding time to clocks at time control even when
3869 loading a game file. Actually it's not entirely clear how time
3870 controls should be dealt with when some moves are loaded from a file
3871 or clicked in with ForceMoves. For now ForceMoves mode does add the
3872 time (because it can be used to change moves during a live game), but
3873 LoadGame mode does not.
3875 * Updated usage message.
3877 * Previous attempted fix to matchMode had broken TwoMachines mode and
3878 generally needed more work. Also simplified command line interface to
3881 3.0, patchlevel 4 -- Thu Aug 5 14:17:18 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
3883 * Thanks again to the beta testers listed for 3.0 patchlevel 3, and also
3884 Desnogues, Steve Cariglia, Niklas Engsner, Mark Silver, and Roger Rowe.
3886 * Reorganized man page, splitting OPTIONS into subsections.
3888 * matchMode was very broken; fixed.
3890 * Changed convention for turning off command line options from --opt
3891 to -xopt, to be less inconsistent with GNU standards. Also changed
3892 the long command line options to take True/False arguments like
3893 resources; seems to make more sense this way.
3895 * Added AlwaysQueen option -- suppresses promotion dialog and always
3896 promotes to a queen if you move a pawn to the last rank. Has no
3897 effect on gnuchess (or your ICS opponents!) -- they can still
3900 * Subtracted an extra fudge term when determining how wide message and
3901 title widgets should be. This fixes a problem some beta testers had.
3902 Wish I knew why it's needed.
3904 * Bugfix in parser; symptom was that you couldn't do LoadGame after
3905 observing a game on ICS.
3907 * Bugfix in Forward; didn't work after game ended while Pause was turned on.
3909 * Removed bogus execute bits on .h files.
3911 * Use REMOTE_SHELL and TELNET_PROGRAM definitions.
3913 * MachineWhite and MachineBlack now work from TwoMachines mode.
3915 * Popping down an error message with the [ok] button was not turning off
3916 the errorUp flag, so the next move would cause xboard to try to pop it
3917 down again, resulting in a wild memory reference and sometimes a crash.
3919 3.0, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Aug 3 17:40:27 1993 -- Tim Mann
3921 * Thanks to my beta testers: Patrick Surry, Takuya Kojima, Robert J. Luoma,
3922 Chris L. Petroff, Richard K. Lloyd, Michel van der List, Craig Metz,
3923 Antoon Frehe, Simon Clift, Shelly, Eric Peterson, Christopher Mitchell,
3924 Martin Koch, Ed Hanway, Steve Booth, Udo, Ken Hobday, and Joseph Duhamel.
3926 * Improved error messages for trying to move the wrong color pieces or
3927 to move when it's not your turn.
3929 * Special code for monoMode on 1-bit displays now understands displays
3930 where 1=white and 0=black.
3932 * Declare getenv() if <stdlib.h> not included; avoids a compiler warning.
3934 * Documented borderXoffset and borderYoffset.
3936 * Added -titleInWindow option for use with X window managers that
3937 don't let us set the title in the window banner.
3939 * Fixed error message printing in WinBoard; system error messages no
3940 longer appear as numeric codes.
3942 * The error message popup is now non-modal; you don't have to press the
3943 [ok] button before you can do something else. In addition, the popup is
3944 positioned so that it doesn't cover up the board (too much), and making a
3945 move or otherwise clicking on the board pops it down. (Not implemented in
3948 * You can now call your opponent's flag in ICS mode by clicking on his
3951 * Fixed minor bugs in -flipView option and documented exactly how xboard
3952 decides which way to flip the view.
3954 3.0, patchlevel 2 -- Fri Jul 30 22:20:23 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
3956 * Added Autosave to Options menu. Would be better to have Save
3957 Options dialog as in WinBoard, but this was quick to do and gives the
3958 most-needed functionality.
3960 * Changed "Reload Game" on menu to "Reload Same Game".
3962 3.0, patchlevel 1 -- Thu Jul 8 21:22:59 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
3964 * Sent a copy of patchlevel 1 to Patrick Surry to beta-test.
3966 * Added -cmail option that sets appData.cmailMode. Currently a no-op.
3967 In the future this may set special modes for use by the cmail script
3968 for playing chess by email.
3970 * Added LoadNextGame, LoadPreviousGame, and ReloadGame to File menu.
3971 ReloadGame suggested by Patrick Surry.
3973 * Added -flipView command-line option. Suggested by Patrick Surry.
3975 * Fixed bugs in parser.l: (1) Pattern for "# xboard game file ..."
3976 needed to match to end of line. (2) Start of a new file was not matching
3977 the ^ start-of-line character. The fix for this is a kludge.
3979 * Made game counting code in LoadGame more robust, and made LoadGame
3980 able to detect the end of a saved partial game (by noticing the start
3981 of the next game) in game files created by XBoard itself. We don't
3982 try to find the start of the next game that way in other kinds of game
3983 files, because the only way I can think of to do that is to look for
3984 another move #1, and that technique gets too many false hits.
3986 * Fixed recently introduced bug in LoadGame when game starts with a
3989 3.0, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Jun 25 14:17:17 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
3991 * Changes in this patchlevel were too numerous to list. Larger ones are
3994 * Added a popup dialog to enter and edit comments. Inspired by some
3995 code from Patrick Surry. Changed the normal read-only comment popup
3998 * Added ICS init script feature from Karl Schwamb.
4000 * Added some ESIX fixes and OMIT_SOCKETS ifdef option, from Kayvan Sylvan.
4002 * Revamped code to allow use of flex instead of lex on parser.l.
4003 Using flex requires adding -DFLEX to defines in Imakefile.
4005 * Source code is split into front end (xboard.c), which knows about X
4006 and Unix, and back end (backend.c), which knows about chess, gnuchess,
4007 and the ICS. There is also a front end for Windows NT.
4009 * Boolean command line options now use "-foo" to turn on and "--foo"
4010 to turn off instead of "-foo true" and "-foo false". [Later -xfoo;
4013 * Added menu commands to control autoflag, bell, and coords options.
4015 * User interface has a new look: (1) Menu bar instead of array of
4016 buttons. A few very commonly used features have small buttons in
4017 addition to being on the menus. (2) Large font for clock. (3) Pop-up
4020 2.1, patchlevel 11 -- Sat Jun 5 00:01:01 PDT 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
4022 * Added code to deal with "wild" games on ICS. This includes allowing
4023 castling with the king on d1 or d8, which is allowed in wild(1) games
4024 if the king started there. Notation is o-o to castle "short"---to
4025 whichever side the king is closer to---and o-o-o to castle "long."
4026 Right now wild castling is always allowed by xboard; we rely on ICS or
4027 gnuchess to reject it when we aren't really in wild mode.
4029 * memcpy call had arguments in wrong order.
4031 * Removed April Fool code
4033 2.1, patchlevel 10 -- Mon Feb 15 10:19:31 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
4035 * Avoid trying to select on a pipe when using System V. Needed to
4036 copy some code from InitChessProgram() up into establish().
4038 * Bug fix in disambiguating pawn moves like "ed".
4040 * Fix to error handling in ReceiveFromProgram.
4042 * Bug fix: entering EditPosition mode with black to play highlighted
4043 White's clock instead of Black's.
4045 * Added telnetProgram resource in case "telnet" is not the name of the
4048 2.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Jan 22 19:08:27 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
4050 * Entering Force Moves mode clears "flag has fallen" messages from display.
4052 * ICS host name can now be in numeric format; for example 128.2.232.4.
4054 * Bug fix: LegalityTest was failing to test whether a pawn move was
4055 illegal because the move would discover a check.
4057 * Handle ICS message "mann asserts a win over manntest, who disconnected."
4059 * Bug fix: A recent change to PromotionCallBack had broken
4060 underpromotion to a knight.
4062 * Bug fix: In EditPosition mode, dragging a piece onto a square border
4063 would make it vanish. xboard wasn't distinguishing this case from
4064 dragging the piece off the board. Thanks to Matthew Kidd.
4066 * Removed "static" declaration from yywrap for compatibility with IRIX
4067 version of lex. Thanks to stiller@blaze.cs.jhu.edu.
4069 * Added substitutes for bzero, bcopy, and gethostname for Solaris
4070 SVR4. Thanks to Michael Grant.
4072 * Bug fixes to queen move disambiguation. Bugs showed up only when
4073 promotion resulted in more than one queen on the board.
4075 2.1, patchlevel 8 -- Fri Dec 11 17:54:18 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
4077 * parser bug fix: It now really works to leave off the piece a pawn is
4078 promoting to and let it default to queen.
4080 * When starting to observe or play an ICS game, don't draw board in
4081 initial position and then immediately redraw it in the current
4084 * Handle ICS messages when an "abuser" forfeits a game by
4085 disconnecting and when a game is aborted ("removed") by an
4088 * Bug fix: A user move when in LoadGame+Pause mode was resuming the
4089 game load instead of putting us in force mode.
4091 * It seems that crashes inside sscanf when xboard is compiled with gcc
4092 (as on IBM PS/2 AIX, mentioned below, and also on VAX Ultrix 3.1) are
4093 caused by an incompatibility between gcc and the sscanf implementation
4094 on these platforms. A workaround is to specify -fwritable-strings to
4095 gcc (see the gcc documentation). Added info on how to do this to the
4096 Imakefile. Thanks to Tom McConnell for this information.
4098 * Clocks are allowed to go negative. This is mostly for ICS
4099 compatibility, but it affects gnuchess mode too. Also, we give the
4100 time bonus when a player hits the time control boundary even if his
4101 flag is already down. This choice is a bit debatable, but it makes
4102 things look better when you are in TwoMachines mode and gnuchess's
4103 time management screws up causing it to exceed its time limit.
4105 * Implemented move legality checking code. Moves made with the mouse
4106 or parsed from a file are checked for legality before being made.
4107 This is mostly in preparation for future extensions, such as
4108 human-human play. For now it makes -noChessProgram mode more useful.
4110 * If the user takes back moves, we restore the clocks to the earlier
4113 * We now handle the output of the ICS oldmoves command, including
4114 parsing the game end condition.
4116 * Added autoCallFlag mode.
4118 * Fixed glitches in the medium size outline king and rook bitmaps, and
4119 touched up the medium size solid king and outline queen.
4121 * bug fix: DisplayMove would not display backwardMostMove - 1.
4123 * Added CallFlag button and removed AcceptMatch. CallFlag is more
4124 important with new ICS, and accepting the current match offer is easy
4125 with the new ICS command "accept" (can be abbreviated "ac").
4127 * LoadGame and LoadPosition display tail of file name (plus index
4128 number, if any) as title.
4130 * MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and TwoMachines now work properly from
4131 LoadGame and LoadGame+Pause mode.
4133 * Use o-o and o-o-o to castle on ICS, not 00 and 000.
4135 * Stripped out code for old ICS messages; new ICS is now installed.
4137 * Bug fix: don't offer autosave when paused during LoadGame.
4139 2.1, patchlevel 7 - Fri Dec 11 17:40:56 PST 1992 - mann@src.dec.com
4141 * Track change to "Illegal move" message in new ICS.
4143 2.1, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Dec 8 10:48:44 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
4145 * Kludged around bug in keeping comment popup where you put it by
4146 adding borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources that give the width
4147 of the borders added by the window manager. Yucch.
4149 * Changed searchDepth kludge back to using "help" instead of "bd"; the
4150 latter didn't work because the output contains a line starting with
4151 "White", so we think gnuchess is telling us that White won. Oops.
4153 * Removed some code that uses an X11R5 feature, XrmGetDatabase.
4154 Without this, the auto font sizing code is harder to make work, so to
4155 keep my sanity I had to change it to affect only the fonts that appear
4156 in the main window and the comment popup, not the other popups. Maybe
4157 this is better anyway.
4159 * AcceptMatch button now works after a counterchallenge, too.
4161 * Added code for more variants of messages about games being adjourned
4162 or aborted. These messages need to be unified in new version of ICS.
4164 * Added workaround for minor bug in ICS; game number on first board
4167 * Removed code to say "refresh n" instead of "refresh"; was broken and
4168 wasn't needed anyway.
4170 * Added missing casts for compilers that distinguish enums from ints
4171 and missing cast in connect call.
4173 * Added code to recognize "both sides are out of time" draw message
4174 proposed for next version of ICS.
4176 * Thanks to Danny Sleator and Joe Peterson for bug reports.
4178 2.1, patchlevel 5 -- Sun Dec 6 19:52:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
4180 * Removed gcc and CDEBUGFLAGS from Imakefile.
4182 * Corrected setting of mode to ForceMoves when game file ends or
4183 contains an AmbiguousMove or BadMove. Previous bug was harmless.
4185 * Added AcceptMatch button and mention of 50-move rule for Draw button
4188 2.1, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Dec 6 02:55:42 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
4190 * Now handles revised messages from new version of ICS. New ICS is
4191 not released yet, so this code might change further. Next patchlevel
4192 will remove support for old ICS; both are there now.
4194 * Initial processing for a new game being watched or played now
4195 happens when we see the first board image. Removes the need to parse
4196 some messages and unifies some code.
4198 2.1, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Dec 1 19:40:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
4200 * Handles ICS messages "Draw : neither player has mating
4201 material" and "Draw : White has no material, Black has no time."
4203 * Added AcceptMatch button for ICS mode.
4205 * Fixed bug in previous fix to yylexstr().
4207 * Fixed bugs in code for loading old position files that don't start
4208 with "#" and for handling case where user asked for nth position in
4209 file but there aren't that many.
4211 * Handles ICS message "* has restored your old game"
4213 * ResetProc always clears title line now.
4215 * Don't issue just "refresh" when watching a game; use game number.
4216 Upcoming new version of ICS may need this.
4218 * Added code to try to prevent user from watching and/or playing more
4219 than one game at a time. There is a race condition inherent here; if
4220 we get more than one board from the game before our command to stop
4221 watching it takes effect, we'll think the user started it again. Not
4222 clear how to fix this.
4224 * Redid ParseBoard8 to use sscanf. Code is a good deal cleaner now.
4225 Also, we now parse out the game number too, though we don't make much
4228 * (Tried to put in a feature that recognizes the current game in a
4229 game file must have ended when we see the start of a new one, but had
4230 to disable it because we have too many false hits with the current
4231 parser, especially in gnuchess listing files.)
4233 * Moves read from game files or received from ICS are now translated
4234 into canonical algebraic form just like all other moves. Minor nit:
4235 If you use Reset while playing or observing a game in ICS mode, the
4236 game history (including the current board position) is lost, so the
4237 next move of the current game can't be translated.
4239 * Default fonts now vary with board size, and are chosen by pixel size
4240 instead of point size (since piece bitmaps have a fixed pixel size).
4242 * Bug fix: An extra Forward was required to skip over time indications
4245 2.1 patchlevel 2 -- Fri Nov 27 23:30:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
4247 * If you move the comment popup, the next time it pops up it will come
4248 back where you put it.
4250 * Fixed yylexstr() so calls to it can be interspersed with calls to
4253 * Fixed bugs in Forward/Backward while in LoadGame mode.
4255 * Changed Save{Game,Position} functions to append instead of
4256 overwriting if file exists. Changed Load{Game,Position} functions to
4257 deal with multiple games/positions per file.
4259 * Changed load{Game,Position}File resources to trigger automatic load
4260 on program startup. Changed save{Game,Position}File resources to
4261 trigger automatic save after every completed game and on program exit.
4263 * Added autoSaveGames mode.
4265 * Fixed bug with PromoPiece in call to MakeAlg from MakeMove.
4267 * Many changes to get rid of picky compiler warnings and generally
4270 2.1 patchlevel 1 -- Fri Nov 27 02:45:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
4272 * A last minute change before patchlevel 0 went out broke
4273 ParseGameHistory(). Immediately fixed in patchlevel 1.
4275 Version 2.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Nov 27 02:00:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
4277 * Uses "time" command of gnuchess 4.0 and following to keep clocks in
4278 sync. Still works with older versions without this command; we test
4279 whether the command is present the first time each chess program is
4282 * File name dialog pops up under the mouse cursor, so that it's got the
4283 keyboard focus if the window manager is using pointer focus.
4285 * Attempts to move the wrong color piece or an empty square are filtered
4286 out in xboard instead of being passed on to GNU Chess or the ICS.
4288 * The reason a game ended is now remembered even if you move backward
4289 and forward after it ends. It is forgotten only if you make a move
4290 (which is as it should be---this is now a different game, which hasn't
4291 ended yet). The message saying why the game ended no longer wipes out
4294 * Pause, Backward, Forward, ForceMoves, and EditPosition now work from
4297 * Forward and Backward now change only the board display unless you
4298 are in ForceMoves mode. Pause mode keeps new moves that are received
4299 from being displayed on your screen until you unpause (or use
4302 * Added option to ring the bell after opponents' moves.
4304 * Saved games that start from other than the standard initial position
4305 now begin with a postion diagram as in saved position files. The
4306 loader is modified to understand such save files.
4308 * Improved error checking when trying to read from gnuchess.
4310 * Parser understands things that look like time indications, e.g., (0:12),
4311 instead of popping them up as comments.
4313 * Send "quit" to gnuchess before trying to kill it. I needed this
4314 locally because sending a SIGTERM to rsh was not killing the remote
4315 program on some internal field test systems we have.
4317 * Merged in code from John Chanak to make xboard a front end to the
4318 Internet Chess Server, and added several improvements of my own.
4319 (These include parsing end of game messages, loading the current state
4320 and previous history of a game that's joined in progress via "watch"
4321 or "load", automatic switch from board style 1 to 8 when needed,
4322 removing irrelevant buttons and adding some new ones, adding the
4323 useTelnet and gateway resources, and miscellaneous code cleanup, bug
4324 fixes, and documentation.) Many thanks to John for writing and
4325 contributing the initial version of this code.
4327 Fri Oct 30 20:16:40 PST 1992 (patchlevel 25) mann@src.dec.com
4329 * gnuchess now castles by sending us "o-o" or "o-o-o" (starting with a
4330 preliminary version of 4.0.pl60 that I have). Added code to handle
4331 this. The old format ("e1g1", etc.) still works too.
4333 * Added code to format moves in normal abbreviated algebraic notation
4334 (for example, e4, exd4, f8Q, Nf6, 0-0) instead of coordinate algebraic
4335 (for example, e2e4, e3d4, f7f8q, g1f6, e1g1). Moves entered with the
4336 mouse or received from gnuchess are translated into this canonical
4337 format for display on the message line or in saved game files. Moves
4338 read from game files are not translated, however; they are shown and
4339 saved just as they appear in the file.
4341 Mon Sep 14 13:19:01 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 24) mann@src.dec.com
4343 * It's not really correct to write an ep capture of a pawn on e5 as
4344 fxe5; this should be written as fxe6 because e6 is where the capturing
4345 pawn ends up. Nevertheless, the parser now interprets fxe5 as the ep
4346 capture f5xe6 unless there is a pawn on f4, in which case it
4347 interprets fxe5 as f4xe5. By design, the parser does not flag fxe5 as
4348 ambiguous if there are pawns on both f4 and f5; instead it prefers the
4349 more legitimate f4xe5 interpretation.
4351 * A move like fxe6 or fe6 is now interpreted as an e.p. capture of the
4352 pawn on e5 if there is one there and e6 is empty.
4354 * A move like fxe5 can no longer be interpreted as an e.p. capture if
4355 there isn't a pawn on e5 to be captured. Previously this could happen
4356 erroneously if there were pawns on both f4 and f5, and the f4 pawn was
4357 capturing a piece on e5.
4359 * The parser no longer munges the move it is parsing; in the past, for
4360 instance, it would remove the "x" from a move like dxc5 before echoing
4363 * The parser now detects when a move is ambiguous and returns an
4364 error, instead of arbitrarily choosing one possibility as it used to.
4366 Mon Aug 10 18:40:47 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 23) mann@src.dec.com
4368 * Added code so parser can handle fully qualified algebraic, e.g.,
4369 Ng1-f3, N/g1-f3, Ng1f3, or even Pe2-e4. The "P" and "/" work only for
4370 fully qualified moves, not generally.
4372 * Fixed parser bugs in handling moves with rank or file disambiguator,
4375 Mon Jul 6 17:55:32 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 22) mann@src.dec.com
4377 * AIXV3 patch from Tom McConnell; thanks!
4379 * After hitting the Backward button we see the last move made instead of
4380 the word "Pausing" displayed.
4382 * Fixed a couple of problems compiling on IRIX; thanks to Michel Arsenault
4383 and Alan Walsh for bug reports and help with fixes.
4385 * Added optional display of algebraic notation coordinates along left and
4386 bottom edges of board. This was inspired by some code from Jean-Christophe
4389 * Swapped EditPosition and Pause buttons to reduce danger of losing the
4390 game in progress by hitting EditPosition when you wanted Backward. Thanks
4391 to Ove Lundberg for complaining (though it bugged me too).
4393 * Despite one complaint, I kept the feature of changing both clocks when black
4394 makes time control, rather than changing each individually when the player
4395 involved makes it. This is to avoid having it look like White is way ahead on
4396 time while Black is thinking about the last move of the time control period
4397 (i.e., when White has made time control but Black hasn't yet).
4399 * Corrected clocks to work as in real tournaments. Time is *added* when you
4400 reach time control; previously the clocks were simply set to the length of the
4401 new time period. Also, when a player's flag falls, he still does not receive a
4402 new time allotment at the next time control, but his opponent does still
4403 receive more time if *his* flag has not fallen; previously, time controls were
4404 ignored for both players if either flag fell. I forget who reported this bug.
4406 * Added a small ESIX patch from Kayvan Sylvan.
4408 Mon Jun 22 13:24:38 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 21)
4410 * Added some SVR4 support code from Ronald Cole. It's Greek to me.
4412 * Note: Stephen Meatheringham reports a bug causing xboard to crash with an
4413 error from the X server when run on a Sun Sparcstation IPX with Solaris 1.0.1
4414 and OpenWindows 3.0. This bug has not been tracked down yet.
4416 * Fixed a problem with ATTENTION code. On some operating systems, you have to
4417 be even more cautious about when you send a SIGINT to gnuchess, because the
4418 signal handler gets deinstalled each time it is used, and gnuchess does not
4419 reinstall it immediately. In particular, if you send a SIGINT and make an
4420 illegal move or ask for a hint, gnuchess does not reinstall the handler until
4421 *after* you make your next move, so you had better not send a SIGINT before
4422 it. I put a workaround for this case into xboard; I hope there are no more.
4424 * The ATTENTION code is needed when compiling for the ESIX operating system,
4425 because ESIX has a bug in the FIONREAD ioctl, so the code in gnuchess that
4426 lets you interrupt its thinking on your time just by typing in your move does
4427 not work. Perhaps gnuchess will have a workaround for this eventually.
4429 * Fixed yet another bug in using XtGetValues; code to inhibit shell resizing
4430 was leaving a null pointer as the place to store the current sizes.
4432 * Man page fixes: corrected -sl to -sd, updated LIMITATIONS.
4434 * Added include of <sys/time.h> conditional on HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY. I hope this
4435 works for all systems; on mine, <time.h> and <sys/time.h> are the same file,
4436 but with an #ifndef that makes it harmless to include both.
4438 * Thanks for reports from Mike Pearlman, Stephen Meatheringham, Kayvan Sylvan,
4439 d87-mal@nada.kth.se, Urban Koistinen, and Ronald Cole.
4441 Mon Jun 8 11:39:18 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 20)
4443 * Documented default value of initString and explained what it means. This
4444 paragraph also serves to inform the user that xboard by default will tell
4445 gnuchess to think on his time, something one user apparently didn't understand.
4447 * Redid -searchDepth (formerly -searchLevel) and -searchTime code. They both
4448 work correctly with gnuchess 3.1 now. The -searchDepth option also works
4449 correctly with gnuchess 4.0. The -searchTime option does not work with
4450 gnuchess 4.0.pl50 or earlier because those gnuchess versions do not have a
4451 working searchTime feature. Instead of having xboard do a half-baked emulation
4452 of this feature by using a 1-move time control, I will be submitting a patch to
4453 the gnuchess folks to restore the feature as in 3.1.
4455 * Improved clock code. It now keeps accurate track of fractional seconds of
4456 clock running time, if your system has gettimeofday(); if not, it is generous
4457 about them---if a clock has been going for n.m seconds when it is stopped, only
4458 n seconds are charged. Previously, xboard would charge one second immediately
4459 when a clock was started, so if n.m had elapsed when it was stopped, n+1 would
4460 be charged. This should stop xboard from thinking gnuchess has let its flag
4461 fall on the last move of a time control, as it often did before. I also
4462 improved the comments and condensed the code a little. I hope there are no
4463 systems that have X11 and don't have gettimeofday(), but if there are, I'd like
4464 to know what to replace it with.
4466 * "Flag dropped" messages now show up on the top line, beside the clocks, so
4467 that they don't obscure more interesting messages on the second line.
4469 * Fixed confusion of NULL and '\000'.
4471 * Include time.h to get ctime() declaration.
4473 * Fix to "parser bug" messages in parser.l.
4475 * Changed code to work with old-fashioned tolower() macro that requires its
4476 argument to be an uppercase letter.
4478 * Minor fix to some usage error messages; was reversing program name and
4479 erroneous argument value.
4481 * Thanks to Mitch Wright, Ranier Orth, and Henrik Schmiediche for bug reports.
4483 Fri Jun 5 13:06:08 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 19)
4485 * Note: xboard does not seem to work when compiled with gcc 1.40 on a
4486 PS/2 running AIX. It crashes at the sscanf in line 768 of xboard.c.
4487 You can work around the problem by specifying the -timeControl option
4488 on the command line instead of defaulting it. This does not seem to
4489 be a bug in xboard itself; it runs okay on PS/2 AIX when compiled with
4490 MetaWare High C. [But see 2.1.pl8 above.]
4492 * Removed bogus files from distribution.
4494 * Changed variable name that conflicted with SVR4 ttyname function.
4496 * Thanks to Christoph Strozyk for another bug report, and to several
4497 of the folks mentioned under patchlevel 18 for testing it.
4499 Wed Jun 3 17:50:37 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 18) mann@src.dec.com
4501 * Added an include of sys/fcntl.h to pick up the definition of O_RDWR for
4504 * Fixed a bug in CatchPipeSignal; was testing the wrong variable to determine
4505 which chess program got the signal.
4507 * Removed the declaration of strrchr, which was causing problems for some
4508 people, and added an include of <string.h> or <strings.h> instead.
4510 * Fixed a bunch of type errors uncovered by compilers that check more carefully
4511 than the one I was using. I just patched many of them with casts---typically
4512 cases where a function didn't take the same number and type of arguments as the
4513 X header file prototype said it should---because I didn't see any other way to
4514 fix them. The versions of the X header files that I have don't actually have
4515 full prototypes for these function types; they declare only the return type and
4516 just give the argument types as comments.
4518 * InitChessProgram returns immediately if chess program died while we were
4519 waiting for it to say "Chess". I think this fixes a bug that could make xboard
4520 crash or go into an infinite loop printing "Warning: Select failed; error code
4521 9" if gnuchess crashed there.
4523 * Removed code that tries to put the file descriptor used to read messages from
4524 gnuchess into nonblocking mode. I don't see how this kludge could ever have
4525 fixed the problem it was intended to (see below), and it seemed to be causing
4526 a race condition when we were waiting for the initial message from gnuchess
4527 after it started up.
4529 * Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Mark
4530 Seiden, Erik Schoenfelder, Andreas Stolcke, Rainer Orth, Henry Thomas,
4531 and Kris Van Hees for bug reports and help with fixes.
4533 Sun May 31 08:00:00 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 17) Bart Massey bart@cs.uoregon.edu
4535 * 'xboard' suffered from a couple of serious bugs. An initial
4536 size needed to be given to the message label to avoid a race
4537 condition (!) so I gave it some text (otherwise occasionally
4538 xboard would fail because the message widget was 0 width under
4539 MIT X11R4). The sizes needed to be Dimension, not int, because
4540 they were written in by Xt -- on my big-endian box Dimension
4541 is short, causing chaos. Also, I hacked a declaration in for
4542 strrchr() to shut the compiler up -- this is arguably a kludge,
4543 but I couldn't think of anything better; maybe you can.
4545 Fri May 22 13:40:50 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 16)
4547 * First real (non-beta) release of version 2.0.
4549 * Added GNU copyleft notices covering version 2.0 enhancements.
4551 Thu May 21 12:30:09 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 15)
4553 * Removed -g from Imakefile.
4555 * Added casts in parser.l to prevent warning messages from some C compilers.
4557 * Bugfix: code to exit if chess program couldn't be started had bug in error
4560 Tue May 19 11:58:06 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 14)
4562 * Fixes one small bug: If LoadGame does not find a game in the file, it resets
4563 xboard to BeginningOfGame mode (as if the Reset button was pressed), instead of
4564 leaving it in LoadGame mode.
4566 Mon Apr 13 18:32:27 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 13)
4568 * Improved error handling when gnuchessx crashes. Now displays a message and
4569 enters EndOfGame state without exiting. This should help with diagnosing
4570 gnuchessx problems, since the position and move history are not lost.
4572 * Debugged man page.
4574 Version 2.0 -- Thu Apr 2 16:04:54 PST 1992 (patchlevel 12)
4576 * Added small 40x40 pixel pieces; board size now specified as small, medium, or
4579 * Improved man page.
4581 * Saved position files now say "white to play" if it's white's move.
4583 * SavePosition while in EditPosition mode now gets side to play right.
4585 * Made "Pawn" the default on edit position menus.
4587 * Removed "To play" from edit position menus, since it's redundant. Left
4588 support code in so it can be restored if someone wants it.
4590 * Tightened parser's definition of a move number to help further with skipping
4591 over stuff before the first move.
4593 * Put back feature of skipping over stuff in game files before a start of game
4594 marker. This helps when loading electronic mail messages that have things
4595 like "00" in the header (looks like castling), or that talk about moves in
4596 running text before the actual game score. Tradeoff is that we can't load
4597 games that don't either have move numbers or say "gnuchess game" just before
4600 * Changed version number to 2.0 because others have used "1.3" for patched
4601 versions of 1.2. Display version number and patchlevel at startup.
4603 Thu Apr 2 15:30:22 PST 1992 (patchlevel 11)
4605 * Bugfix: Match started with TwoMachines button now handles the case where
4606 user loaded/edited a position *and* forced some moves.
4608 * added error message feedback to many cases where the user's button press is
4609 rejected because it isn't allowed in the current mode.
4611 * added -noChessProgram option to allow use as a passive chessboard without
4612 gnuchess, replacing old buggy scheme that tried to do this automatically when
4613 gnuchess was not found on the search path.
4615 * parser accepts "=" in front of promotion piece
4617 * parser accepts ":" notation for captures
4619 * Removed SwitchSides button to make room for EditPosition. Left code in
4620 place, ifdef'ed out.
4622 * Added EditPosition mode.
4624 * Reformatted xboard.c to eliminate long lines.
4626 * Promotion popup now appears near rank to which pawn is moving.
4628 * UI improvement: Button representing current program mode is kept highlighted.
4630 * Bug fix: Hint button is now disabled when machine is on move.
4632 Sat Mar 21 14:57:37 PST 1992 (patchlevel 10)
4634 * TwoMachines now works from MachineWhite or MachineBlack mode.
4636 * ForceMoves and Backward/Forward now work at the end of a game started by
4637 the TwoMachines button.
4639 * Sends o-o or o-o-o to gnuchess instead of O-O or O-O-O.
4641 * Bug fix: SwitchSides button is now disabled when machine is on move.
4643 * Added -searchLevel option and corrected handling of -searchTime to reflect
4644 the way gnuchess really handles command line options instead of what the
4645 documentation used to say. Allowed optional ":seconds" on times.
4647 Tue Mar 17 21:00:35 PST 1992 (patchlevel 9)
4649 * Removed non-working code that tried to recover when a remote chess program
4650 could not be started; now exits with a message instead.
4652 * Now waits for chess program to print its first message (normally "Chess")
4653 before sending it any commands.
4655 * Matches between two machines can now start from a black-to-play position or
4656 black-to-play opening.
4658 * Bug fix: The program would sometimes lose track of the board position after
4659 the end of the game, drawing a board full of white pawns next time it got an X
4660 redraw request. Now fixed.
4662 * Cleaned up handling of illegal moves in game files. Now we just stop reading
4663 and go into ForceMoves mode.
4665 * Saved games against gnuchess indicate who won (restored and debugged 1.2
4668 * Setting -searchTime turns off -clockMode.
4670 * My trick for setting up a black-to-play position broke in the transition from
4671 gnuchess 3.1+ to 4.0. Installed a different trick that works with both.
4673 * Bug fix: Was clobbering memory by mallocing one byte too few for the file
4674 name in SetupPositionFromFileProc. This usually resulted in a crash on the
4675 second attempt to load a position from a file.
4677 Mon Mar 16 16:49:00 PST 1992 (patchlevel 8)
4679 * Game and position files are saved in CHESSDIR as well as loaded from there.
4680 We actually chdir there, so gnuchess listing files also wind up there.
4682 * Underpromotion moves from gnuchess really work now.
4684 Sat Mar 14 14:55:24 PST 1992 (patchlevel 7)
4686 * Cleaned up lots of bugs and kruft in parser.l. It's a wonder the old version
4687 worked at all. Improved rejection of random text interspersed with the moves.
4689 * Relabeled buttons to reduce confusion (Play From File --> Load Game;
4690 Setup From File --> Load Position).
4692 * Bug fix: Doesn't exit at the end of a game that was started by pressing
4693 the Two Machines button.
4695 * Bug fix: Doesn't get confused if you hit Machine Black (White) while
4696 the machine is already playing black (white) and is on move.
4698 * Prints "White to play" or "Black to play" after loading a position file.
4700 * Bug fix: No longer hangs if no start-of-game is found in a game file.
4702 * More permissive about game file format. The first line is not assumed
4703 to be a header comment unless it starts with "#". We don't insist on
4704 seeing a "1." before the first move.
4706 * Added pop-up dialog to allow underpromotion. Moving a pawn to the last rank
4707 pops up a dialog to let you select what piece to promote to. Also added code
4708 to handle underpromotion moves from gnuchess or from a game file correctly.
4710 * Added code to send SIGINT to gnuchess before trying to move, if gnuchess
4711 might be busy thinking on our time. The code is ifdef'ed out because it's
4712 not necessary; only beta-test versions of gnuchess 4.0 at patchlevel 19 or
4715 Mon Feb 24 20:10:22 PST 1992
4717 * Merged fixes received from Stuart Cracraft and Mike McGann, to iconic mode
4718 and to ShutdownChessPrograms. (They both sent the same fixes.) I did not
4719 install the change that removed "easy" from the initialization string, so
4720 xboard will still try to run gnuchessx in "hard" mode (thinking on opponent's
4721 time) by sending this command.
4723 Version 1.3 -- Thu Dec 19 18:19:00 PST 1991 mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
4725 * I've fixed a slew of bugs in this version of xboard:
4727 * You can now back up from the end of a game, even if gnuchess was playing
4728 against you. Since gnuchess exits upon mate or draw (when it's not in force
4729 mode), this feature works by starting up a new copy of gnuchess and feeding it
4730 the saved starting position and moves. Drawback: the new gnuchess starts with
4731 clocks at the beginning of a fresh time control.
4733 * Note: the "force" command to gnuchess is a toggle. I fixed a couple of
4734 places in xboard where "force" was being issued when gnuchess was already in
4735 force mode, which resulted in chaos. I don't know if they were in 1.2 or if I
4736 added them myself in the course of putting in new features.
4738 * ForceMoves button is now legal in PlayFromFile mode. It closes the game file
4739 and lets you force moves (or go Backward) from whatever position you've
4742 * The parser now recognizes "white resigns" and "black resigns" (in any
4743 combination of upper and lower case, with or without the closing "s"). These
4744 used to be misinterpreted as meaning "white wins" or "black wins" respectively!
4745 Added "1 - 0" and "0 - 1" as equivalents for "1-0" and "0-1".
4747 * I removed the parser feature of considering "!" as a comment delimiter.
4748 "!" is so common as an annotation in game scores that this feature seems like a
4751 * Added a wait() after each successful call to kill() to avoid leaving zombie
4754 * Removed the feature of putting an indication of how the game ended into the
4755 internal move list when playing from a file. The only benefit of this was that
4756 it would get written back out if you saved the game at that point. This
4757 feature doesn't seem too useful, since you are unlikely to save a game you've
4758 read in without making any changes, and it caused a lot of problems in the code
4759 and user interface. The end condition is still displayed as a message when
4760 it's first read in from the file. End conditions when playing against gnuchess
4761 are still saved, too.
4763 * programName is now the last file name component of argv[0], not all of it.
4765 * xboard.c got three compiler warnings due to arguments that didn't match the
4766 prototypes on X toolkit functions. I got rid of them by adding some casts, and
4767 adding extra unused arguments to the ReceiveFromProgram function.
4769 * As I received it, the distribution had an extra period glued on the front
4770 of every line that started with a period. This broke the manpage in an
4771 obvious way. It also broke parser.l in a nonobvious way that stopped
4772 PlayFromFile from working.
4774 * Fixed one or two bugs where the clock was started when it shouldn't have
4775 been. I think one example was if you tried an illegal move in ForceMoves mode.
4777 * Now starts the machine's clock if you hit MachineWhite when white is on move
4778 or MachineBlack when black is on move.
4780 * Now updates the to-move indicator (highlight on clock display) when you use
4781 Forward/Backward or ForceMoves.
4783 * gnuchess 3.1+ has a bug that makes it try to think on its opponent's time
4784 even when in force mode; this causes problems with xboard's SetupFromFile
4785 command because gnuchess's saved hint move is garbage after the new position is
4786 loaded, so gnuchess prints out an error message when it tries to think about
4787 what it would do if the user made this move. Here is a patch for gnuchess
4790 *** nondsp.c~ Mon Dec 2 12:37:18 1991
4791 *-- nondsp.c Thu Dec 19 15:36:06 1991
4794 ok = flag.quit = false;
4797 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL)
4800 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
4802 ok = flag.quit = false;
4805 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL && !flag.force)
4808 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
4810 * SavePosition/SetupFromFile now handle black-to-play positions. If it's
4811 black's move in a saved position, the line "black to play" is printed
4812 immediately after the board display. Upon loading a position, xboard
4813 looks for "black" at the beginning of this line to determine whether it's
4816 * SetupFromFile now leaves you (effectively) in ForceMoves mode. This
4817 eliminates some cases where the program would get into an inconsistent state,
4818 and hopefully is more intuitive for the user, too.
4820 * PlayFromFile now leaves xboard in ForceMoves mode after playing through all
4821 the moves in the file. You can use Backward/Forward, make moves, get gnuchess
4822 to join the game with MachineWhite or MachineBlack, etc. The game file can end
4823 with either white or black to play.
4825 * Backward/Forward now seem to work in all cases. Previously using these
4826 buttons during a game against the machine would get xboard out of sync with
4827 gnuchess's idea of what was going on, resulting in chaos. Now using these
4828 buttons puts xboard in ForceMoves mode; you can bring gnuchess back into the
4829 game using the MachineWhite or MachineBlack buttons.
4831 Thu Jun 27 15:06:25 PDT 1991
4833 * Remove comment popups during a reset.
4835 * Bug in my forward move fix. Didn't work for playgamefile mode.
4837 Thu Jun 20 15:04:06 PDT 1991
4839 * Can't do a backward move when it isn't your turn because gnuchess
4840 gets confused. Similar bug for forward move. Do a bunch of moves,
4841 back up move and go forward. These get filtered out now.
4843 * Put easy back into the initString. This DISABLES easy mode which by
4846 * New-line wasn't always being added to forward move strings sent to gnuchess.
4848 * Parsed comments as [ ..............text follows ] into d7d5
4850 * Long game file comments cause core dumps on HP systems.
4852 * Multiple uses of the get positition file button got confused
4853 on the second click.
4855 Minor fixes to the 1.2 release
4857 Version 1.2 -- Tue Jun 11 17:14:12 PDT 1991
4859 * For version 1.2, Jeff Kenton, Richard LLoyd, David Jensen, Martin D.,
4860 Bill Schmidt, Scott Hemphill, Paul Vaughan and Bill Shauck all found
4861 a lot of bugs that we put into xboard just to see if they were paying
4862 attention. They were.
4864 * Changed the protocol that xboard uses to work with the new version of
4867 * There was an off by one error with the clock resetting code. Also,
4868 the clock display highliting was wrong. Thanks to Bill Shauck for
4871 * enumerations are not really integers on some C compilers. I added casting.
4872 The new version of gnuchess expects the "go" command for two machine
4873 and machine plays white cases. The whiteString resource is for
4874 compatibility with previous gnuchess versions which get confused by go.
4875 Thanks to Martin D. for catching these.
4877 * Fixed a bug where the checkmate message wasn't being parsed and xboard
4878 kept playing. Also, the message was added to game file if saved.
4879 Thanks to Scott Hemhill for pointing this out.
4881 * Fixed a bug where saving a long game, resetting and saving a short game
4882 resulted in appending the end of the long game to the short one.
4883 If a game is just being played out and there is no reason for gnuchessr
4884 to be used, ignore pipe signals. This allows people to use xboard
4885 as a chess board without need for gnuchess. Also, trivially bad moves
4886 such as e2e2 are not passed on to gnuchessr but instead ignored out of
4887 hand. This allows people using xboard as a chessboard with gnuchessr
4888 to pick a piece up, think and put it back down without making a move.
4889 Thanks to Jeff Kenton for pointing these out.
4891 * Added the CHESSDIR environment variable. Game and position files are
4892 found in this directory. If this variable is not declared, then the
4893 current directory is used. File names starting with / are treated
4896 * The bitmap file names were changed so that none exceeded 14 characters.
4897 This is necessary for R5.
4899 fcntl(from_prog[0], F_SETFL, O_NDELAY);
4901 The xboard fix was to set non-blocking i/o on the read pipe for gnuchessr
4903 printz ("Illegal move (no matching move generated)");
4905 * fixed a problem with the new version of gnuchessr where xboard wasn't
4906 getting gnuchessr error messages for illegal moves. The problem seems
4907 to be fixed *without* any gnuchess changes but this is likely to be
4908 highly system dependant. There should be a new line on line 246 of nondsp.c
4910 * -iconic doesn't work at all now. The Iconify() does work. This was
4911 a tradeoff and it is really an Xt bug.
4913 * Fixed a compiler warning for gcc and an error for the IBM RT compilers.
4914 This is the VOID_PROC macro in xboard.h. Thanks to David Jensen for this.
4916 * If the DisplayWidth or DisplayHeight is less than 800, use small size mode.
4917 Also the size of the name widget was reduced from 500 pixels to 400 pixels
4918 because in small size mode there was a gap on the right.
4919 Changed the default font from fixed to helvetica_oblique14 to:
4920 **-helvetica-bold-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
4921 helvetica_oblique14 is a font alias not on all R4 systems.
4922 Curiously enough, the 17 point is not available on 75dpi systems
4923 and the 18 point font is not available on 100dpi systems.
4924 Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing these out.
4926 * Minor hacks to work with R5 alpha. Had to add an event handler to the
4927 boardWidget to get translations to work. This may go away with the real R5.
4928 Added <Message>WM_PROTOCOLS: QuitProc() for R5 ICCCM compatibility.
4930 * If the first character of the file is not `1' then the first line
4931 of a game or position file is displayed as the name in a label widget.
4933 * Added a PopUp dialog for getting file names.
4935 * Modified the code to use the R4 routines rather than R3 compatibility.
4937 * Changed the forwards/backwards/readgamefile code to allow a play to step
4938 back and forth in a game. If he steps all the way to the beginning
4939 he has to restart the game. If he gets into a mated position, same problem.
4941 * Moved the man page from xboard.1 to xboard.man. This makes imake man page
4942 installs work correctly. Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing this out.
4944 * Corrected the queening code. XBoard was sending the wrong syntax.
4945 It was sending for example h8(Q) when it should have been sending h8q.
4946 Thanks to Paul Vaughan and Mike McGann for pointing this out.
4948 * Added a lex parser for algebraic games. It should be easy to use the parser
4949 for other interfaces such as the Microsoft Windows version.
4950 It parses comments of the form [anything] and ! to the end of a line.
4952 Version 1.1 -- Mon Jan 7 14:46:03 PST 1991
4954 * Roger Dubar, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht,
4955 Paul Scowen, Mvh Smidt and Kayvan Sylvan all helped immensely during
4958 * older non-ANSI versions of Sun compilers complain vociferously.
4960 * the remoteShell resource was added for HP-UX systems
4961 and other systems where the remoteShell isn't rsh.
4963 * -iconic doesn't work properly. If XBoard is opened iconic then
4964 iconifying it later with a keystroke doesn't work. I think
4967 * For systems with smaller screens, XBoard can use smaller pieces,
4968 and a smaller board. -bigSizeMode False uses a smaller set of pieces.
4969 These are scaled versions of the large pieces. They look ok but could
4972 * getlogin() does not work in all cases.
4973 It was replaced by getpwuid(getuid())->pw_name).
4975 * Warning messages get displayed in the message box.
4977 * Any button restarts a paused game.
4979 * Kayvan Sylvan contributed a patch for ESIX.
4980 It seems that select() on pipes is broken on his system. We declined
4981 to incorporate his patch though, because it was a work-around for
4982 something that was broken on one system, and selfishly, that system
4983 was not my own. Nevertheless, it is likely that other System V users
4984 on PC's may need to use this patch and it is is included as the file
4985 ESIX.patch. To use it, type
4987 patch xboard.c ESIX.patch
4989 * Fixed a bug where hint didn't work. The local version of gnuchessr
4990 had been hacked. The fix was to clone stderr and stdout for gnuchessr.
4992 * Fixed a bug where a player could play after a game had been finished.
4994 * The bitmaps have been pushed into the bitmaps directory.
4996 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the Two Machine code.
4998 * Added StrStr() because many systems don't have this ANSI function.
5000 * Added keyboard equivalents. Added an iconify keystroke, C or c.
5002 * Works with gcc now. gcc complained about casting float constants
5005 * Detect if the visual doesn't support color. If so, run in monoMode.
5006 An alternative would be to detect grayscale visual and use a collection
5007 of gray user interface colors.
5009 XBoard.clockMode: False
5011 * For people who don't like or use chess clocks a clockMode switch
5012 has been added. It is on by default. It can be turned off in the
5013 .Xdefaults file with
5015 * Added a declaration, xtVersion, which will quickly break on R3 Intrinsics.
5017 * Hal Peterson contributed a new Imakefile.
5019 * Rewrote DisplayClocks().
5021 * Rewrote TwoMachinesPlay mode.
5023 * Konstantinos Konstantinides added the -searchTime option.
5025 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the clock code. If a game was paused
5026 and then resumed, the clocks were out of sync.
5028 * Fixed a bug in HandleUserMove() where the user could make a move while the
5029 machine was thinking. The fix detects and ignores these moves. onMove
5030 was not being used and was removed.