XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System. It can
serve as a user interface for chess engines such as GNU Chess, for the
Internet Chess Server, or for electronic mail correspondence chess.
-XBoard can also be used by itself. See the manual page xboard.man for
-further details; use the command "nroff -man xboard.man | more" to
-read it.
+XBoard can also be used by itself. See the manual page xboard.txt for
+further details.
XBoard is free software, copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation
and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file
==================
Report bugs and problems with XBoard and WinBoard to
-<xboard@tim-mann.org>. With XBoard, please use the "script" program
+<bug-xboard@gnu.org>. With XBoard, please use the "script" program
to start a typescript, run XBoard with the -debug command line option,
and include the typescript output in your message. With WinBoard,
please use the /debug command line option and include the contents of
make
./xboard -debug
exit
- mail xboard@tim-mann.org
+ mail bug-xboard@gnu.org
Subject: Your short description of the problem
Your detailed description of the problem
~r typescript
If you improve XBoard, please send a message about your changes, and
we will get in touch with you about merging them in to the main line
of development.
+
+Version 4.3.14
+==============
+
+This relaese was not made by the GNU xboard team, but by H.G.Muller.
+It mainly contains developments on WinBoard. Nevertheless, an attempt
+has been started to back-port the enormous number of improvements that
+have been made to WinBoard since the Linux and Windows developments branched
+to xboard. This is reflected by the source tree now having the same format
+as that of xboard 4.2.7, including all the xboard sources.
+
+An enormous amount of work still has to be done to make the xboard version
+fully equivalent to WinBoard, especially on user-interface side. As a modest
+beginning, the xboard source files have been patched to allow their compilation
+with the newer back-end files from WinBoard. To this end, the number of piece
+types in xboard has been increased from 6 to 22, and the WinBoard bitmaps
+have been converted to xboard source format (.bm) and are included in the
+xboard bitmaps directory. Other quick patches include the coloring of the
+board squares (for xiangqi and holdings), and some code in the user-move
+handling to suppress all moves into or out of the area between board and
+holdings in crazyhouse, and the treatment of king-captures-own-piece
+as a possibly valid move (for FRC castling). This should make it possible
+to run xboard with the new back-end files without too much inconvenience.
+
+New xboard command-line options have been added to make the added back-end
+features available. The include the new variants (as argument of the old
+-variant option), -boardWidth, -boardHeight and -holdingsSize. Be sure
+to call xboard with "-boardSize middling" or "-boardSize bulky" if you
+want to play with fairy pieces, or xboard might crash due to unavailability
+of bitmaps. Other added xboard options are:
+
+ADJUDICATION OPTIONS:
+-checkMates
+-testClaims
+-materialDraws
+-trivialDraws
+-ruleMoves
+-repeatsToDraw
+-adjudicateLossThreshold
+-firstScoreAbsolute
+-secondScoreAbsolute
+
+TIME-CONTROL OPTIONS
+-firstTimeOdds
+-secondTimeOdds
+-timeOddsMode
+-firstNPS
+-secondNPS
+
+GENERAL OPTIONS
+-matchPause
+-engineDebugOutput
+-userName
+-pgnExtendedInfo
+-pgnEventHeader
+-hideThinkingFromHuman
+
+This is all completely untested, but as the options merely switch on well-tested
+code in the back-end, there should not be too many problems with them.
+Bugs can be reported in the WinBoard forum.
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