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XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms, including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi Japanese chess), in addition to many minor variants such as Losers Chess, Crazyhouse, Chess960 and Capabanca Chess. It displays a chessboard on the screen, accepts moves made with the mouse, and loads and saves games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:

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XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major +forms, including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess) and +shogi (Japanese chess), in addition to many minor variants such as +Losers Chess, Crazyhouse, Chess960 and Capabanca Chess. It displays a +chessboard on the screen, accepts moves made with the mouse, and loads +and saves games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). It serves as a +front-end for many different chess services, including:

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XBoard runs on Unix and Unix-like systems that use the X Window +System.

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  • Chess servers on the Internet, where you can connect to play chess with people from all over the world, watch other users play, or just hang out and chat.
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    Winboard

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  • 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.
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    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.

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    The project also includes a port to 32-bit Windows systems called +WinBoard.

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    You can find the download section for Winboard at +the Winboard +Forum.

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    Development for Winboard, reporting bugs and any other requests can +also be done at the same places as for XBoard (see below).

    Downloading XBoard

    stable version

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    The current stable version is 4.2.7

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    The current stable version +is: 4.4.0

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    It can be found on the main GNU ftp server: -http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ -(via http) and -ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ -(via ftp). -It can also be found on one of the mirrors of -ftp.gnu.org; +http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ (via http) and +ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ (via ftp).

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    It can also be found on one of the mirrors +of ftp.gnu.org; please use a mirror if possible.

    development version

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    Current unstable version: 4.4.0.beta1 (2009-07-15)

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    Current unstable version: is: 4.4.1.20091022.

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    For development sources and other information, please see +the XBoard project +page at savannah.gnu.org.

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    A snapshot of the latest source code is available at +the git +repository on Savannah.

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    For development sources and other information, please see the XBoard project page at savannah.gnu.org.

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    archive

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    At the moment we are working hard on version 4.4.0, which should be out soon (that is summer 2009)

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    A snapshot of the latest source code is available at the git repository on Savannah.

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    We also have test-packages available for debian (link will be available in the next few days, that is mid of 2009-07) and opensuse (rpm). Furthermore you can get a .tar.gz and a Windows executable from alpha.gnu.org/gnu/xboard. Keep in mind that these are still beta.

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    You can also find an archive of old versions on the ftp server.

    Documentation

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    Documentation for XBoard is available online, as -is documentation for most GNU software. You may -also find more information about XBoard by running info xboard -or man xboard, or by looking at /usr/doc/xboard/, +

    Documentation for XBoard is available online, +as is documentation for most GNU software. You +may also find more information about XBoard by +running info xboard or man xboard, or by +looking at /usr/doc/xboard/, /usr/local/doc/xboard/, or similar directories on your system.

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    The Chess Engine Communication Protocol can be found here.

    Screenshots

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    These are screenshots taken from the development version 4.4.0

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    These are screenshots taken from version 4.4.0 (click to enlarge).

    + [screenshot normal game] + [screenshot bughouse game] + [screenshot bughouse game] + [screenshot bughouse game] + [screenshot bughouse game]

    Links

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  • XBoard/Winboard
  • Incomplete list of computer engines that work with XBoard
  • Chess server you can connect to using XBoard