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-<h1> Tim's original pages can be found <a href="http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html">here</a>.</h1>
-
<h2>XBoard</h2>
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-<p>XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess. It displays a chessboard on the screen, accept moves made with the mouse, and load and save 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>
</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>
+<h3> Other information</h3>
+
+<p> <a href="http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html">Tim's original pages</a> are still available.</p>
+
<h3>Downloading XBoard</h3>
-<p>Xboard can be found on the main GNU ftp server:
+<h4>stable version</h4>
+
+<p> The current stable version is 4.2.7</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>
please <a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/xboard">use a mirror</a> if
possible.</p>
+<h4>development version</h4>
+
+<p>Current unstable version: 4.4.0.beta1 (2009-07-15)</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
+href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/">XBoard project page</a> at <a
href="http://savannah.gnu.org">savannah.gnu.org</a>.</p>
+<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>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
-<p><a href="manual/">Documentation for Xboard</a> is available online, as
+<p><a href="manual/">Documentation for XBoard</a> is available online, as
is <a href="/manual/">documentation for most GNU software</a>. You may
-also find more information about Xboard by running <em>info xboard</em>
+also find more information about XBoard by running <em>info xboard</em>
or <em>man xboard</em>, or by looking at <em>/usr/doc/xboard/</em>,
<em>/usr/local/doc/xboard/</em>, or similar directories on your system.</p>
-<h3>Mailing Lists</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" />
+
+<h3>Links</h3>
+
+<p>We will add links soon for special topics, such as: computer chess, bughouse and other topics.</p>
-<p>Xboard has two mailing lists:
+<h3>Frequently Asked Question(FAQ)</h3>
+
+<p>If you have any questions, please check out our <a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a>.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Mailing Lists and Discussion Forums</h3>
+
+<h4>mailing lists</h4>
+
+<p>XBoard has two mailing lists:
<a href="mailto:bug-xboard@gnu.org"><bug-xboard@gnu.org></a> and
<a href="mailto:xboard-devel@gnu.org"><xboard-devel@gnu.org></a>.</p>
<p>The main discussion list is
-<a href="mailto:bug-xboard@gnu.org"><bug-xboard@gnu.org></a>,
-and is used to discuss most aspects of Xboard, including development and
-enhancement requests, as well as bug reports.</p>
+<a href="mailto:xboard-devel@gnu.org"><xboard-devel@gnu.org></a>,
+and is used to discuss most aspects of XBoard, including development
+and enhancement requests. Please send bug reports
+to <a href="mailto:bug-xboard@gnu.org"><bug-xboard@gnu.org></a>.</p>
-<p>Announcements about Xboard and most other GNU software are made on
+<p>Announcements about XBoard and most other GNU software are made on
<a href="mailto:info-gnu@gnu.org"><info-gnu@gnu.org></a>.</p>
<p>To subscribe to these or any GNU mailing lists, please send an empty
href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu">mailing list web
interface</a>.</p>
+<h4>discussion forums</h4>
+
+<p>A very active forum is the <a href="http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/">WinBoard Forum</a> (where our current main developer HGM can be found).</p>
+
+<h3>Reporting Bugs</h3>
+
+<p> If you think you found a bug, please check the <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=xboard">bugtracker</a> for open and already closed bugs. If you found a new bug, please, file a bug-report either via our bug-related email list or in the <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=xboard">bugtracker</a>.
-<h3>Translating Xboard</h3>
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+-<h3>Translating XBoard</h3>
-<p>To translate Xboard's messages into other languages, please see the <a
+<p>To translate XBoard's messages into other languages, please see the <a
href="http://translationproject.org/domain/xboard.html">Translation Project
-page for Xboard</a>. If you have a new translation of the message strings,
+page for XBoard</a>. If you have a new translation of the message strings,
or updates to the existing strings, please have the changes made in this
repository. Only translations from this site will be incorporated into
-Xboard. For more information, see the <a
+XBoard. For more information, see the <a
href="http://translationproject.org/html/welcome.html">Translation
Project welcome page</a>.
+-->
<h3>Maintainer</h3>
-<p>Xboard is currently being maintained by Tim Mann and Arun Persaud. Please
+<p>XBoard is currently being maintained by Tim Mann, Arun Persaud and H.G. Muller. Please
use the mailing lists above for contact.</p>
-<p>Please remember that development of Xboard, and GNU in general, is a
+<p>Please remember that development of XBoard, and GNU in general, is a
volunteer effort, and you also can contribute. For information, please
read <a href="/help/">How to help GNU</a>.</p>
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