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XBoard is a graphical user interface for 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), +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 +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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    Other information

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

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    Tim's original pages are still available.

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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).

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    Testers needed

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    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>.

    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: 4.4.3

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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.

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    Precompiled versions are available +for openSUSE +and debian-squeeze +(if you know of other distribution that package it, please let us +know).

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    development version

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

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    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).

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    At the moment we have three developer versions:

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    How to build the development version
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    git version
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    After cloning the git-repository, do ./autogen.sh, ./configure and then a make.

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    tar-balls
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    Unpack the tar ball and do ./configure followed by make.

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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 from alpha.gnu.org (also available in a few days, that is mid 2009-07). Keep in mind that these are still beta.

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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 for all branches is available at +the git +repository on Savannah.

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    archive

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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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    Will be added soon.

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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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    We will add links soon for special topics, such as: computer chess, bughouse and other topics.

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    Frequently Asked Question(FAQ)

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    A very active forum is the WinBoard Forum (where our current main developer HGM can be found).

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    Reporting Bug

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    Reporting Bugs and Requesting New Features

    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. - - -

    Maintainer

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    XBoard is currently being maintained by Tim Mann, Arun Persaud and H.G. Muller. Please -use the mailing lists above for contact.

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    Please remember that development of XBoard, and GNU in general, is a volunteer effort, and you also can contribute. For information, please read How to help GNU.