X-Git-Url: http://winboard.nl/cgi-bin?a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.html;h=6bfe08bb98d2726e8739297b4a16553035fae5ce;hb=cccc5c689139aa57cd1af3aabcd0c49a26e94edd;hp=226919c68ce863415c81c20f930e5218db74b1e9;hpb=d5ef27eb6e9abda02c2839c9f4c3267b5bb1704e;p=xboard.git diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 226919c..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:

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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 @@ -143,27 +124,29 @@ know).

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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At the Open Build Server we provide packages that can be installed in parallel to the normal xboard version. To do this the programs are renamed to xboardnext (latest from the v4.5.x branch in git) and xboardgit (latest version from the master branch in git). Packages are available for: Debian 6.0, Fedora 14, Fedora 15, Mandriva 2010, Mandriva 2010.1, RedHat RHEL 5, RedHat RHEL 6, opensuse 11.3, opensuse 11.4, opensuse Tumbleweed, opensuse Factory, Ubunut 10.10, Ubuntu 11.04.

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