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-<h2 class="chapter">7 Limitations and known bugs</h2>
+<h2 class="chapter">8 Limitations and known bugs</h2>
-<p><a name="index-Limitations-398"></a><a name="index-Bugs-399"></a>There is no way for two people running copies of XBoard to play
+<p><a name="index-Limitations-600"></a><a name="index-Bugs-601"></a>There is no way for two people running copies of XBoard to play
each other without going through an Internet Chess Server.
<p>Under some circumstances, your ICS password may be echoed when you log on.
the piece you are trying to drop. But this way of dropping pieces should be considered
an obsolete feature, now that pieces can be dropped by dragging them from the holdings
to the board. Anyway, if you would attempt an illegal move when using a chess engine or the ICS,
-WinBoard will accept the error message that comes back, undo the move, and let you try another.
+XBoard will accept the error message that comes back, undo the move, and let you try another.
FEN positions saved by XBoard do include correct information about whether castling or
en passant are legal, and also handle the 50-move counter.
The mate detector does not understand that non-contact mate is not really mate in bughouse.
You can load and edit games that contain piece drops.
The (obsolete) piece menus are not active,
but you can perform piece drops by dragging pieces from the holdings.
-Edit Position mode does not allow you to edit the crazyhouse holdings properly.
-You cannot drag pieces to the holding, and using the popup menu to put pieces
-there does not adapt the holding counts and leads to an inconsistent state.
-Set up crazyhouse positions by loading / pasting a bFEN, from there you can set the holdings.
Fischer Random castling is fully understood.
You can enter castlings by dragging the King on top of your Rook.
You can probably also play Fischer Random successfully on ICS by typing
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