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-<p>XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms, including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi Japanese chess), in addition to many minor variants such as Losers Chess, Crazyhouse, Chess960 and Capabanca Chess. It displays a chessboard on the screen, accepts moves made with the mouse, and loads and saves games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:</p>
+<p>XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms, including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess), in addition to many minor variants such as Losers Chess, Crazyhouse, Chess960 and Capabanca Chess. It displays a chessboard on the screen, accepts moves made with the mouse, and loads and saves games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>
Chess engines that will run on your machine and play a game against you or help you analyze, such as GNU Chess, Crafty, or many others.</li>
<li>Correspondence chess played by electronic mail. The CMail program automates the tasks of parsing email from your opponent, playing his moves out on your board, and mailing your reply move after you've chosen it.</li>
</ul>
-<p>XBoard runs on Unix and Unix-like systems that use the X Window System. The project also includes a port to 32-bit Windows systems called WinBoard.</p>
+<p>XBoard runs on Unix and Unix-like systems that use the X Window System. </p>
-<h3>Downloading XBoard</h3>
+<h3>Winboard</h3>
+
+<p>The project also includes a port to 32-bit Windows systems called WinBoard.</p>
+<p>Development for Winboard as well as downloading it, reporting bugs and any other requests can be done at the same places as for XBoard.</p>
+
+<h3>Downloading XBoard/Winboard</h3>
<h4>stable version</h4>
-<p> The current stable version is 4.2.7</p>
+<p>The current stable version is: <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">4.2.7</a></p>
<p>It can be found on the main GNU ftp server:
-<a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/</a>
-(via http) and
-<a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/</a>
-(via ftp).
-It can also be found on one of the <a href="/prep/ftp.html">mirrors of
+<a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/</a> (via http) and
+<a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/</a> (via ftp).</p>
+<p>The Winboard binaries can also be found at those locations in the winboard directory (<a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/winboard/">http</a>,<a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/winboard/">ftp</a>)</p>
+
+<p>It can also be found on one of the <a href="/prep/ftp.html">mirrors of
ftp.gnu.org</a>;
please <a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/xboard">use a mirror</a> if
possible.</p>
+<h4>Popular stable forks (will be merged back in the next release)</h4>
+<ul>
+<li>Winboard_x 4.2.7b by Alessandro Scotti (<a href="http://www.ascotti.org/programming/chess/winboard_x.htm">http://www.ascotti.org/programming/chess/winboard_x.htm</a>)</li>
+<li> XBoard / WinBoard 4.3.15 by H.G.Muler (<a href="http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=49439">http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=49439</a>)</li>
+</ul>
+
<h4>development version</h4>
-<p>Current unstable version: 4.4.0.beta1 (2009-07-15)</p>
+<p>Current unstable version: <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">4.4.0.beta2</a> (2009-08-31)</p>
<p>For development sources and other information, please see the <a
href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/">XBoard project page</a> at <a
<p>At the moment we are working hard on version 4.4.0, which should be out soon (that is summer 2009)</p>
<p>A snapshot of the latest source code is available at the <a href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git">git repository</a> on Savannah.</p>
-<p> We also have test-packages available for debian (link will be available in the next few days, that is mid of 2009-07) and <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/apersaud/">opensuse</a> (rpm). Furthermore you can get a .tar.gz and a Windows executable from <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard</a>. Keep in mind that these are still <strong>beta</strong>.</p>
+<p> We also have test-packages available for debian (link will be available in the next few days, that is mid of 2009-07) and <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/apersaud/">opensuse</a> (rpm). Furthermore you can get a .tar.gz from <a href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/">alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard</a>. Keep in mind that these are still <strong>beta</strong>.</p>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<h3>Screenshots</h3>
-<p>These are screenshots taken from the development version 4.4.0</p>
-<img src="graphics/xboard-4.4.0.png" alt=" [screenshot normal game] " height="200" />
-<img src="graphics/xboard-4.4.0-variant.png" alt=" [screenshot bughouse game] " height="200" />
+<p>These are screenshots taken from the development version 4.4.0 (click to enlarge).</p>
+<a href="graphics/xboard-4.4.0.png"><img src="graphics/xboard-4.4.0.png" alt=" [screenshot normal game] " height="200" /></a>
+<a href="graphics/xboard-4.4.0-variant.png"><img src="graphics/xboard-4.4.0-variant.png" alt=" [screenshot bughouse game] " height="200" /></a>
+<a href="graphics/xboard-4.4.0-showgi.png"><img src="graphics/xboard-4.4.0-showgi.png" alt=" [screenshot bughouse game] " height="200" /></a>
+<a href="graphics/xboard-4.4.0-petite.png"><img src="graphics/xboard-4.4.0-petite.png" alt=" [screenshot bughouse game] " height="200" /></a>
+<a href="graphics/xboard-4.4.0-XQ.png"><img src="graphics/xboard-4.4.0-XQ.png" alt=" [screenshot bughouse game] " height="200" /></a>
<h3>Links</h3>
<li> XBoard/Winboard
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html">Tim's original pages</a> are still available.</li>
+ <li> XBoard can also run engines that use the UCI protocol, with the aid of the Polyglot protocol adapter.
+ A new Polyglot version, (1.4.30b), especially adapted to support the new features of XBoard 4.4.0, can
+ be found <a href="http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/polyglot-release/">here</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Incomplete list of computer engines that work with XBoard
<ul>
- <li> normal chess
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/">GNU chess</a></li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li> xiangqi (Chines chess) </li>
- <li> shogi (Japanes chess) </li>
- <li> variants </li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/">GNU chess</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/CVfairy.html">Fairy-Max</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/lastupdates.htm">A list with lots of engines</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/XQ.html">List of Xiangqi engines</a></li>
+ <li> other popular engines are crafty, phalanx, fruit, toga2, glaurung, ... </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Chess server you can connect to using XBoard
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