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-<p>XBoard is a graphical user interface for 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>
</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>
<h4>stable version</h4>
-<p>XBoard can be found on the main GNU ftp server:
+<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>
<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">savannah.gnu.org</a>.</p>
-<p>A snapshot of the latest source code will be made available soon.</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>
<h3>Screenshots</h3>
-Will be added soon.
-
+<p>These are screenshots taken from the development version 4.4.0</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>
-We will add links soon for special topics, such as: computer chess, bughouse and other topics.
+<ul>
+ <li> XBoard/Winboard
+ <ul>
+ <li> <a href="http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html">Tim's original pages</a> are still available.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li> Incomplete list of computer engines that work with XBoard
+ <ul>
+ <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>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li> Chess server you can connect to using XBoard
+ <ul>
+ <li> <a href="http://www.freechess.org"> Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) </a></li>
+ <li> <a href="http://www.chessclub.com/"> The Internet Chess Club </a> </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li> Other interfaces
+ <ul>
+ <li> <a href="http://www.bergo.eng.br/eboard/">eboard</a> </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+</ul>
<h3>Frequently Asked Question(FAQ)</h3>
-<p>
-If you have any questions, please check out our <a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a>.
-</p>
+
+<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>discussion forums</h4>
-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>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 Bug</h3>
+<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>.
Project welcome page</a>.
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-
-<h3>Maintainer</h3>
-
-<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
volunteer effort, and you also can contribute. For information, please
read <a href="/help/">How to help GNU</a>.</p>
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