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 +forms, including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess), +shogi (Japanese chess) and Makruk, 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 @@ -49,45 +49,80 @@ System.
The project also includes a port to 32-bit Windows systems called WinBoard.
-Development for Winboard as well as downloading it, reporting bugs -and any other requests can be done at the same places as for -XBoard.
-You can find the download section for Winboard at +the Winboard +Forum.
+ +Development for Winboard, reporting bugs and any other requests can +also be done at the same places as for XBoard (see below).
+ +Our next versions will have some major improvements and we are always looking for people who are willing to test those and give us feedback or new ideas. If you are interested, please send an email to our list at <xboard-devel@gnu.org>.
+ +The current stable version -is: 4.4.0
+is: 4.4.3 +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).
-The bare Winboard binaries can also be found at those locations in -the winboard directory -(http,ftp). -An installer package for Windows together with several engines and -other useful files can be found at -the Winboard -forum.
It can also be found on one of the mirrors of ftp.gnu.org; please use a mirror if possible.
+Precompiled versions are available +for openSUSE +and debian-squeeze +(if you know of other distribution that package it, please let us +know).
+Current unstable -version: see git repository.
+It would be great if people would like to help in the developing process. We can use all kinds of help, from people who just use the software and have a feature request (send them to developer mailing list), to people who can update/check the documentation and especially people who test development versions (send problems to the developer mailing list).
+ +At the moment we have three developer versions:
+ +After cloning the git-repository, do ./autogen.sh, ./configure and then a make.
+ +Unpack the tar ball and do ./configure followed by make.
+For development sources and other information, please see the XBoard project page at savannah.gnu.org.
-A snapshot of the latest source code is available at +
A snapshot of the latest source code for all branches is available at the git repository on Savannah.
+You can also find an archive of old versions on the ftp server.
+Documentation for XBoard is available online, @@ -97,6 +132,7 @@ running info xboard or man xboard, or by looking at /usr/doc/xboard/, /usr/local/doc/xboard/, or similar directories on your system.
+The Chess Engine Communication Protocol can be found here.
A very active forum is the WinBoard Forum (where our current main developer HGM can be found).
-If you think you found a bug, please check the bugtracker for open and already closed bugs. If you found a new bug, please, file a bug-report either via our bug-related email list or in the bugtracker. -