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-<h2 class="chapter">9 Authors and contributors</h2>
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-Tim Mann has been responsible for XBoard versions 1.3 and beyond, and
-for WinBoard, a port of XBoard to Microsoft Win32 (Windows NT and
-Windows 95). H.G.Muller is responsible for version 4.3.
+<h2 class="chapter">10 Authors and contributors</h2>
- <p>Mark Williams contributed the initial (WinBoard-only) implementation
-of many new features added to both XBoard and WinBoard in version
-4.1.0, including copy/paste, premove, icsAlarm, autoFlipView, training
-mode, auto raise, and blindfold. Ben Nye contributed X copy/paste
-code for XBoard.
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- <p>Hugh Fisher added animated piece movement to XBoard, and Henrik Gram
-(henrikg@funcom.com) added it to WinBoard. Frank McIngvale added
-click/click moving, the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import,
-and ICS text colorization to XBoard. Jochen Wiedmann ported XBoard to
-the Amiga, creating AmyBoard, and converted the documentation to
-texinfo. Elmar Bartel contributed the new piece bitmaps introduced in
-version 3.2. John Chanak contributed the initial implementation of
-ICS mode. The color scheme and the old 80x80 piece bitmaps were taken
+<p><a name="index-Authors-468"></a><a name="index-Contributors-469"></a>
+Chris Sears and Dan Sears wrote the original XBoard. They were
+responsible for versions 1.0 through 1.2. The color scheme was taken
from Wayne Christopher's <code>XChess</code> program.
- <p>Chris Sears and Dan Sears wrote the original XBoard. They were
-responsible for versions 1.0 through 1.2.
+ <p>Tim Mann was primarily responsible for XBoard versions 1.3 through
+4.2.7, and for WinBoard (a port of XBoard to Microsoft Win32) from its
+inception through version 4.2.7.
- <p>Evan Welsh wrote <code>CMail</code>. Patrick Surry helped in designing,
-testing, and documenting CMail.
+ <p>John Chanak contributed the initial implementation of ICS mode. Evan
+Welsh wrote <code>CMail</code>, and Patrick Surry helped in designing,
+testing, and documenting it. Elmar Bartel contributed the new piece
+bitmaps introduced in version 3.2. Jochen Wiedmann converted the
+documentation to texinfo. Frank McIngvale added click/click moving,
+the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import, and ICS text
+colorization to XBoard. Hugh Fisher added animated piece movement to
+XBoard, and Henrik Gram added it to WinBoard. Mark Williams
+contributed the initial (WinBoard-only) implementation of many new
+features added to both XBoard and WinBoard in version 4.1.0, including
+copy/paste, premove, icsAlarm, autoFlipView, training mode, auto
+raise, and blindfold. Ben Nye contributed X copy/paste code for
+XBoard.
- <p>Allessandro Scotti added many elements to the user interface of WinBoard,
-including the board textures and font-based rendering, the evaluation-graph,
-move-history and engine-output window.
-He was also responsible for adding the UCI support.
+ <p>In a fork from version 4.2.7, Alessandro Scotti added many elements to
+the user interface of WinBoard, including the board textures and
+font-based rendering, the evaluation-graph, move-history and
+engine-output window. He was also responsible for adding the UCI
+support.
- <p>H.G. Muller made WinBoard castling- and e.p.-aware,
-added variant support with adjustable board sizes,
-the crazyhouse holdings, and the fairy pieces.
-In addition he added most of the adjudication options,
-made WinBoard more robust in dealing with buggy and crashing engines,
-and extended time control with a time-odds and node-count-based modes.
-Most of the options that initially wre WinBoard only have now been back-ported to XBoard.
+ <p>H. G. Muller continued this fork of the project, producing version
+4.3. He made WinBoard castling- and e.p.-aware, added variant support
+with adjustable board sizes, the crazyhouse holdings, and the fairy
+pieces. In addition he added most of the adjudication options, made
+WinBoard more robust in dealing with buggy and crashing engines, and
+extended time control with a time-odds and node-count-based modes.
+Most of the options that initially were WinBoard only have now been
+back-ported to XBoard.
<p>Michel van den Bergh provided the code for reading Polyglot opening books.
- <p>Arun Persaud worked with H.G. Muller to combine all the features of the never-released WinBoard 4.2.8
-of the Savannah project (mainly by Daniel Mehrmann),
-and the never-released 4.3.16 into a unified WinBoard 4.4,
-which is now available both from the Savannah web site and the WinBoard forum.
+ <p>Meanwhile, some work continued on the GNU XBoard project maintained at
+savannah.gnu.org, but version 4.2.8 was never released. Daniel
+Mehrmann was responsible for much of this work.
+
+ <p>Most recently, Arun Persaud worked with H. G. Muller to merge all
+the features of the never-released XBoard/WinBoard 4.2.8 of the GNU
+XBoard project and the never-released 4.3.16 from H. G.'s fork into a
+unified XBoard/WinBoard 4.4, which is now available both from the
+savannah.gnu.org web site and the WinBoard forum.
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