<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.beta1</a> (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
<li> XBoard/Winboard
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html">Tim's original pages</a> are still available.</li>
- <li> Polyglot can be found <a href="http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/polyglot-release/">here</a>.</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
<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