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. -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.
- -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.
- -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.
-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.
The current stable version -is: 4.5.0
+is: 4.5.3It can be found on the main GNU ftp server: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ (via http) and @@ -143,29 +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).
-At the moment we have three developer versions:
+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.
+ +Windows builds of development version can be found at HGM's web page. + +
Furthermore we provide two development versions (tagged commits in git):
After cloning the git-repository, do ./autogen.sh, ./configure and then a make.
+After cloning the git-repository, run ./autogen.sh, ./configure and then make and make install.
Unpack the tar ball and do ./configure followed by make.
+Unpack the tar ball and do ./configure followed by make and make install.
For development sources and other information, please see @@ -321,7 +302,7 @@ href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README for information on coordinating and submitting translations of this article.
-Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright © 2009,2010,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this @@ -329,7 +310,7 @@ notice, and the copyright notice, are preserved.
Updated: -$Date$ +$Date: 2011/09/25 18:18:16 $