X-Git-Url: http://winboard.nl/cgi-bin?a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.html;h=980decc4923700eeb566a1ec942a8bf6a4502f59;hb=137c89a0c758759a52d19c1606f3f32b7a59f4c3;hp=435a0b2cef4381111e17b533155a1cef4d2472ac;hpb=47632282dad6a3f021237431f49d12f38254e7dd;p=xboard.git diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 435a0b2..980decc 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. -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: 4.5.2a
+is: 4.5.3It can be found on the main GNU ftp server: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ (via http) and @@ -150,12 +131,13 @@ know).
Furthermore we provide two development versions (tagged commits in git):
Updated: -$Date: 2011/06/04 20:10:23 $ +$Date: 2011/09/25 17:50:28 $