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XBoard

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XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess. It displays a chessboard on the screen, accept moves made with the mouse, and load and save games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:

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:

-Chess engines that will run on your machine and play a game against you or help you analyze, such as GNU Chess, Crafty, or many others.
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.
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.

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

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.

Winboard

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.

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

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).

Downloading XBoard

Xboard 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; +

stable version

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The current stable version +is: 4.4.2

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

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

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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A snapshot of the 4.4.3 branch: + This will become the next stable version. 4.4.3.20100220. A precompiled version is available for openSUSE. + +
A snapshot of the master branch: master-20100221.
+ The master branch at this moment also includes changes that will go in future version, but not necessary in the next release. Since this includes lots of changes, chances for major bugs are higher. A precompiled version is available for openSUSE and debian. + +
A snapshot of the gtk branch: gtk-20100206.
+ In the gtk branch we are working on merging Winboard and Xboard back together using a gtk-frontend. This code doesn't work 100% yet, it will crash quite often, but you can almost play normal games against a machine already. A precompiled version is available for openSUSE.

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How to build the development version

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git version

After cloning the git-repository, do ./autogen.sh, ./configure and then a make.

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tar-balls

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.

A snapshot of the latest source code for all branches is available at +the git +repository on Savannah.

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Documentation

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.

The Chess Engine Communication Protocol can be found here.

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Screenshots

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

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Frequently Asked Question(FAQ)

Mailing Lists

If you have any questions, please check out our FAQ.

Xboard has two mailing lists: + +

Mailing Lists and Discussion Forums

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mailing lists

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XBoard has two mailing lists: <bug-xboard@gnu.org> and <xboard-devel@gnu.org>.

The main discussion list is -<bug-xboard@gnu.org>, -and is used to discuss most aspects of Xboard, including development and -enhancement requests, as well as bug reports.

+<xboard-devel@gnu.org>, +and is used to discuss most aspects of XBoard, including development +and enhancement requests. Please send bug reports +to <bug-xboard@gnu.org>.

Announcements about Xboard and most other GNU software are made on +

Announcements about XBoard and most other GNU software are made on <info-gnu@gnu.org>.

To subscribe to these or any GNU mailing lists, please send an empty @@ -83,25 +205,28 @@ Or you can use the mailing list web interface.

discussion forums

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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

Translating Xboard

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. -

To translate Xboard's messages into other languages, please see the Translating XBoard + +

To translate XBoard's messages into other languages, please see the Translation Project -page for Xboard. If you have a new translation of the message strings, +page for XBoard. If you have a new translation of the message strings, or updates to the existing strings, please have the changes made in this repository. Only translations from this site will be incorporated into -Xboard. For more information, see the Translation Project welcome page. +--> - -

Maintainer

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Xboard is currently being maintained by Tim Mann and Arun Persaud. Please -use the mailing lists above for contact.

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Please remember that development of Xboard, and GNU in general, is a +

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.