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-<h3 class="section">2.1 File Menu</h3>
+<h3 class="section">3.1 File Menu</h3>
-<p><a name="index-File-Menu-4"></a><a name="index-Menu_002c-File-5"></a>
+<p><a name="index-File-Menu-5"></a><a name="index-Menu_002c-File-6"></a>
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-<dt>New Game<dd><a name="index-New-Game_002c-Menu-Item-6"></a>Resets XBoard and the chess engine to the beginning of a new chess
-game. The <kbd>r</kbd> key is a keyboard equivalent. In Internet Chess
+<dt>New Game<dd><a name="index-New-Game_002c-Menu-Item-7"></a>Resets XBoard and the chess engine to the beginning of a new chess
+game. The <kbd>Ctrl-N</kbd> key is a keyboard equivalent. In Internet Chess
Server mode, clears the current state of XBoard, then
resynchronizes with the ICS by sending a refresh command. If you want to
stop playing, observing, or examining an ICS game, use an
appropriate command from the Action menu, not ‘<samp><span class="samp">New Game</span></samp>’.
See <a href="Action-Menu.html#Action-Menu">Action Menu</a>.
-<br><dt>New Shuffle Game<dd><a name="index-New-Shuffle-Game_002c-Menu-Item-7"></a>Similar to ‘<samp><span class="samp">New Game</span></samp>’, but allows you to specify a particular initial position
+<br><dt>New Shuffle Game<dd><a name="index-New-Shuffle-Game_002c-Menu-Item-8"></a>Similar to ‘<samp><span class="samp">New Game</span></samp>’, but allows you to specify a particular initial position
(according to a standardized numbering system)
in chess variants which use randomized opening positions (e.g. Chess960).
-The selected opening position will persistently be chosen on any following
-New Game command until you use this menu to select another. Selecting
-position number -1 will produce a newly randomized position on any new game.
+You can also press the ‘<samp><span class="samp">Pick Fixed</span></samp>’ button to let XBoard generate
+a random number for you.
+The thus selected opening position will then persistently be chosen on any following
+New Game command until you use this menu to select another.
+Selecting position number -1 (or pushing the ‘<samp><span class="samp">Randomize</span></samp>’ button)
+will produce a newly randomized position on any new game.
Using this menu item in variants that normally do not shuffle their opening position
does cause these variants to become shuffle variants until you use the
‘<samp><span class="samp">New Shuffle Game</span></samp>’ menu to explicitly switch the randomization off,
or select a new variant.
-<br><dt>New Variant<dd><a name="index-New-variant_002c-Menu-Item-8"></a>Allows you to select a new chess variant in non-ICS mode.
+<br><dt>New Variant<dd><a name="index-New-variant_002c-Menu-Item-9"></a>Allows you to select a new chess variant in non-ICS mode.
(In ICS play, the ICS is responsible for deciding which variant will be played,
-and XBoard adapts automatically.) If you play with an engine, the engine must
+and XBoard adapts automatically.) The shifted <kbd>Alt+V</kbd> key is a
+keyboard equivalent. If you play with an engine, the engine must
be able to play the selected variant, or the command will be ignored.
XBoard supports all major variants, such as xiangqi, shogi, chess, chess960,
Capablanca Chess, shatranj, crazyhouse, bughouse.
-(But not every board size has built-in bitmaps for un-orthodox pieces!)
-<br><dt>Load Game<dd><a name="index-Load-Game_002c-Menu-Item-9"></a>Plays a game from a record file. The <kbd>g</kbd> key is a keyboard equivalent.
+But not every board size has built-in bitmaps for un-orthodox pieces!
+Only sizes bulky (72) and middling (49) have all pieces,
+while size petite (33) has most.
+These sizes would have to be set at startup through the <code>size</code>
+command-line option when you start up XBoard for such variants to be playable.
+
+ <p>You can overrule the default board format of the selected variant,
+(e.g. to play suicide chess on a 6 x 6 board),
+in this dialog, but normally you would not do that,
+and leave them at '-1', which means 'default'.
+<br><dt>Load Game<dd><a name="index-Load-Game_002c-Menu-Item-10"></a>Plays a game from a record file. The <kbd>Ctrl-O</kbd> key is a keyboard equivalent.
A pop-up dialog prompts you for the file name. If the file contains more
than one game, a second pop-up dialog
displays a list of games (with information drawn from their PGN tags, if
enclosed in parentheses, square brackets, or curly braces is assumed to
be commentary and is displayed in a pop-up window. Any other
text in the file is ignored. PGN variations (enclosed in
-parentheses) are treated as comments; XBoard is not able to walk
-variation trees.
+parentheses) also are treated as comments;
+however, if you rights-click them in the comment window,
+XBoard will shelve the current line, and load the the selected variation,
+so you can step through it.
+You can later revert to the previous line with the ‘<samp><span class="samp">Revert</span></samp>’ command.
+This way you can walk quite complex varation trees with XBoard.
The nonstandard PGN tag [Variant "varname"] functions similarly to
the -variant command-line option (see below), allowing games in certain chess
-variants to be loaded. There is also a heuristic to
+variants to be loaded.
+Note that it must appear before any FEN tag for XBoard to recognize
+variant FENs appropriately.
+There is also a heuristic to
recognize chess variants from the Event tag, by looking for the strings
that the Internet Chess Servers put there when saving variant ("wild") games.
-<br><dt>Load Next Game<dd><a name="index-Load-Next-Game_002c-Menu-Item-10"></a>Loads the next game from the last game record file you loaded.
-The shifted <kbd>N</kbd> key is a keyboard equivalent.
-<br><dt>Load Previous Game<dd><a name="index-Load-Previous-Game_002c-Menu-Item-11"></a>Loads the previous game from the last game record file you
-loaded. The shifted <kbd>P</kbd> key is a keyboard equivalent.
-Not available if the last game was loaded from a pipe.
-<br><dt>Reload Same Game<dd><a name="index-Reload-Same-Game_002c-Menu-Item-12"></a>Reloads the last game you loaded.
-Not available if the last game was loaded from a pipe.
-<br><dt>Save Game<dd><a name="index-Save-Game_002c-Menu-Item-13"></a>Appends a record of the current game to a file.
+<br><dt>Load Position<dd><a name="index-Load-Position_002c-Menu-Item-11"></a>Sets up a position from a position file. A pop-up dialog prompts
+you for the file name. The shifted <kbd>Ctrl-O</kbd> key is a keyboard
+equivalent. If the file contains more than one saved
+position, and you want to load the Nth one, type the number N
+after the file name, separated by a space. Position files must
+be in FEN (Forsythe-Edwards notation), or in the format that the
+Save Position command writes when oldSaveStyle is turned on.
+<br><dt>Load Next Position<dd><a name="index-Load-Next-Position_002c-Menu-Item-12"></a>Loads the next position from the last position file you loaded.
+The shifted <kbd>PgDn</kbd> key is a keyboard equivalent.
+<br><dt>Load Previous Position<dd><a name="index-Load-Previous-Position_002c-Menu-Item-13"></a>Loads the previous position from the last position file you
+loaded. The shifted <kbd>PgUp</kbd> key is a keyboard equivalent.
+Not available if the last position was loaded from a pipe.
+<br><dt>Save Game<dd><a name="index-Save-Game_002c-Menu-Item-14"></a>Appends a record of the current game to a file.
+The <kbd>Ctrl-S</kbd> key is a keyboard equivalent.
A pop-up dialog
prompts you for the file name. If the game did not begin with
the standard starting position, the game file includes the
Notation of the form ‘<samp><span class="samp">P@f7</span></samp>’
is accepted for piece-drops in bughouse games;
this is a nonstandard extension to PGN.
-<br><dt>Copy Game<dd><a name="index-Copy-Game_002c-Menu-Item-14"></a>Copies a record of the current game to an internal clipboard in PGN
-format and sets the X selection to the game text. The game can be
-pasted to another application (such as a text editor or another copy
-of XBoard) using that application's paste command. In many X
-applications, such as xterm and emacs, the middle mouse button can be
-used for pasting; in XBoard, you must use the Paste Game command.
-<br><dt>Paste Game<dd><a name="index-Paste-Game_002c-Menu-Item-15"></a>Interprets the current X selection as a game record and loads it, as
-with Load Game.
-<br><dt>Load Position<dd><a name="index-Load-Position_002c-Menu-Item-16"></a>Sets up a position from a position file. A pop-up dialog prompts
-you for the file name. If the file contains more than one saved
-position, and you want to load the Nth one, type the number N
-after the file name, separated by a space. Position files must
-be in FEN (Forsythe-Edwards notation), or in the format that the
-Save Position command writes when oldSaveStyle is turned on.
-<br><dt>Load Next Position<dd><a name="index-Load-Next-Position_002c-Menu-Item-17"></a>Loads the next position from the last position file you loaded.
-<br><dt>Load Previous Position<dd><a name="index-Load-Previous-Position_002c-Menu-Item-18"></a>Loads the previous position from the last position file you
-loaded. Not available if the last position was loaded from a pipe.
-<br><dt>Reload Same Position<dd><a name="index-Reload-Same-Position_002c-Menu-Item-19"></a>Reloads the last position you loaded.
-Not available if the last position was loaded from a pipe.
-<br><dt>Save Position<dd><a name="index-Save-Game_002c-Menu-Item-20"></a>Appends a diagram of the current position to a file.
-A pop-up dialog
-prompts you for the file name. Positions are saved in
+<br><dt>Save Position<dd><a name="index-Save-Position_002c-Menu-Item-15"></a>Appends a diagram of the current position to a file.
+The shifted <kbd>Ctrl+S</kbd> key is a keyboard equivalent.
+A pop-up dialog prompts you for the file name. Positions are saved in
FEN (Forsythe-Edwards notation) format unless the <code>oldSaveStyle</code>
option is true, in which case they are saved in an older,
human-readable format that is specific to XBoard. Both formats
can be read back by the ‘<samp><span class="samp">Load Position</span></samp>’ command.
-<br><dt>Copy Position<dd><a name="index-Copy-Position_002c-Menu-Item-21"></a>Copies the current position to an internal clipboard in FEN format and
-sets the X selection to the position text. The position can be pasted
-to another application (such as a text editor or another copy of
-XBoard) using that application's paste command. In many X
-applications, such as xterm and emacs, the middle mouse button can be
-used for pasting; in XBoard, you must use the Paste Position command.
-<br><dt>Paste Position<dd><a name="index-Paste-Position_002c-Menu-Item-22"></a>Interprets the current X selection as a FEN position and loads it, as
-with Load Position.
-<br><dt>Mail Move<dt>Reload CMail Message<dd><a name="index-Mail-Move_002c-Menu-Item-23"></a><a name="index-Reload-CMail-Message_002c-Menu-Item-24"></a>See <a href="CMail.html#CMail">CMail</a>.
-<br><dt>Exit<dd><a name="index-Exit_002c-Menu-Item-25"></a>Exits from XBoard. The shifted <kbd>Q</kbd> key is a keyboard equivalent.
+<br><dt>Save Games as Book<dd><a name="index-Save-Games-as-Book_002c-Menu-Item-16"></a>Creates an opening book from the currently loaded game file.
+The book will be saved on the file specified in the ‘<samp><span class="samp">Common Engine</span></samp>’
+options dialog.
+The value of ‘<samp><span class="samp">Book Depth</span></samp>’ specified in that same dialog will
+be used to determine how many moves of each game will be added to
+the internal book buffer.
+This command can take a long time to process,
+and the size of the buffer is currently limited.
+At the end the buffer will be saved as a Polyglot book,
+but the buffer will ot be cleared,
+so that you can continue adding games from other game files.
+<br><dt>Mail Move<dt>Reload CMail Message<dd><a name="index-Mail-Move_002c-Menu-Item-17"></a><a name="index-Reload-CMail-Message_002c-Menu-Item-18"></a>See <a href="CMail.html#CMail">CMail</a>.
+<br><dt>Exit<dd><a name="index-Exit_002c-Menu-Item-19"></a>Exits from XBoard. The <kbd>Ctrl-Q</kbd> key is a keyboard equivalent.
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