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

Winboard

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

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Development for Winboard as well as downloading it, reporting bugs and any other requests can be done at the same places as for XBoard.

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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).

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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>.

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Downloading XBoard/Winboard

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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).

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The Winboard binaries can also be found at those locations in the winboard directory (http,ftp)

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It can also be found on one of the mirrors of -ftp.gnu.org; +

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

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Popular stable forks (will be merged back in the next release)

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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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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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development version

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

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

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

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

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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] @@ -93,9 +149,11 @@ or man xboard, or by looking at /usr/doc/xboard/,
  • XBoard/Winboard
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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 Bugs

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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. -