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Internet Chess Servers,
electronic mail correspondence chess, or your own collection of saved games.
- <p>This manual documents version 4.4.0j of XBoard.
+ <p>This manual documents version 4.4.3 of XBoard.
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ToStartProc, TrainingProc, TruncateGameProc, and TwoMachinesProc.
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cylinder Pieces wrap around the board edge
knightmate King moves as Knight, and vice versa
super Superchess (shuffle variant with 4 exo-pieces)
+ makruk Thai Chess (shatranj-like, P promotes on 6th rank)
fairy A catchall variant in which all piece types
known to XBoard can participate (8x8)
unknown Catchall for other unknown variants
A value of -1 means the position is randomly generated by XBoard
at the beginning of every game.
Default: -1
-<br><dt>-pieceToSquareTable string<dd><a name="index-pieceToSquareTable_002c-option-369"></a>The characters that are used to represent the piece types XBoard knows in FEN
+<br><dt>-pieceToCharTable string<dd><a name="index-pieceToCharTable_002c-option-369"></a>The characters that are used to represent the piece types XBoard knows in FEN
diagrams and SAN moves. The string argument has to have an even length
(or it will be ignored), as white and black pieces have to be given separately
(in that order). The last letter for each color will be the King.
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If you are missing SOCKS, try http://www.funbureau.com/.
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will be placed there too.
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file name includes the date the game was started.
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and placed its book and other support files.
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the original creator(s) of the pieces.
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arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this
software.
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-1992-2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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the Free Software Foundation instead of in the original English.
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<li><a href="#index-pixmap_002c-option-334">pixmap, option</a>: <a href="#User-interface-options">User interface options</a></li>
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