X-Git-Url: http://winboard.nl/cgi-bin?a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.html;h=6bfe08bb98d2726e8739297b4a16553035fae5ce;hb=cccc5c689139aa57cd1af3aabcd0c49a26e94edd;hp=1ac5e081ea511baef6e6c53799f480a82577ede1;hpb=e817d4ee20de911503a5d725a05519f2117d10f9;p=xboard.git diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 1ac5e08..6bfe08b 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@

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 +Losers Chess, Crazyhouse, Chess960 and Capablanca 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:

@@ -83,25 +83,6 @@ what normally would be the ICS socket of the child, and a new output channel of the parent, so that the parent can forward board and move lists belonging to a specific game to the slave dedicated to display it.

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Allow run-time loading / unloading of engines

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A tricky issue, because in the current code initializing the engine is intertwined -with initializing XBoard. And the whole idea is to be able to switch engine without -losing your current settings or indeed your current game. So it will require some -good thought about which options need to be reset (like -fd, for sure), and which -should be kept.

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Implement a tournament manager in XBoard

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Currently XBoard supports only two-player matches. If run-time changing of the -engine becomes possible, it wold be nice if people could also perform automatic -round-robins or gauntlets between a group of engines.

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Processing of engine PVs before display

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Currently XBoard just displays what the engine prints for PV in its thinking output -literally. Which often means long algebraic. It would be nice if the user can choose -the display format, so it can be SAN or even some other format (e.g. descriptive -notation or some specific Xangqi or Shogi format), possibly through invoking an -external processor.

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Update the documentation

The documentation could need some updates. In our effort to merge Winboard and XBoard back together, we also want to merge the RTF file @@ -122,7 +103,7 @@ all developers have access to it.

stable version

The current stable version -is: 4.5.2a

+is: 4.5.3

It can be found on the main GNU ftp server: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ (via http) and @@ -154,7 +135,7 @@ know).

This will become version 4.5.3. Debian packages of these tar-balls are available.
  • A snapshot of the master branch: master-20110822 .
    -The master branch includes the development for v4.5.x and also has some more experimental features that need more testing and/or debugging. Precompiled packaged versions are available for debian and Windows. More current versions from the master branch can be downloaded via git or from the Open Build Server (see above). +The master branch includes the development for v4.5.x and also has some more experimental features that need more testing and/or debugging. Precompiled packaged versions are available for debian and Windows. More current versions from the master branch can be downloaded via git or from the Open Build Server (see above).
  • New GTK branch in git (no developer release available yet).
    • @@ -329,7 +310,7 @@ notice, and the copyright notice, are preserved.

    Updated: -$Date: 2011/08/23 05:53:44 $ +$Date: 2011/09/25 18:18:16 $