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 +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 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:
@@ -50,22 +50,61 @@ System.The project also includes a port to 32-bit Windows systems called WinBoard.
-You can find the download section for Winboard at +
You can find the download section for the stable version of Winboard at the Winboard -Forum.
+Forum or try the link to a beta-version in the download section.Development for Winboard, reporting bugs and any other requests can also be done at the same places as for XBoard (see below).
-Our next versions will have some major improvements and we are always looking for people who are willing to test those and give us feedback or new ideas. If you are interested, please send an email to our list at <xboard-devel@gnu.org>.
+A summary of What's new for the latest, older and upcoming releases.
-We can always need more people to help out with XBoard/Winboard. Have a look at the following list in case you are interested:
+ +We added support for different languages to XBoard and need people to translate it. The translation is handled by the translation project. You can check on the current status and how to join the translation project.
+ +We are always looking for people who are willing to test the latest new features and give us feedback or new ideas. If you are interested, please send an email to our list at <xboard-devel@gnu.org> or just try out the program and reports bugs either to the email list or to the bug-tracker (see below for links).
+ +We are also working on merging Winboard and XBoard back into one version using a cross platform GTK-front end. This will help us clean up the code and make things like internationalization easier. We made some progress, if you know want to help out there are still lots of things waiting to be done. Email the mailing list for more information.
+ +A sort of match mode where one engine automatically does a number of 'games', +(using a position file filled with EPDs as starting positions), +except that each 'game' lasts only for one move, and the 'result' is then computed +by XBoard depending on if this move was the correct solution specified in the EPD.
+ +Implement a slave mode where XBoard forks itself, connecting a pipe between +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.
+ +The documentation could need some updates. In our effort to merge +Winboard and XBoard back together, we also want to merge the RTF file +back into the XBoard texinfo file. This will take some effort though, +since the two versions still differ in several areas and this would +need to be highlighted. The benefit would be though that we could +prepare a much better and up to date Windows documentation. +
+ +The content of the webpage could be updated with screenshots from +the latest version. We also have a new tutorial that could be +integrated. The webpage should also be integrated with git, so that +all developers have access to it.
+ +The current stable version -is: 4.4.3
+The current stable version is: 4.5.3a
It can be found on the main GNU ftp server: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ (via http) and @@ -86,30 +125,29 @@ 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 @@ -265,7 +303,7 @@ 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 @@ -273,7 +311,7 @@ notice, and the copyright notice, are preserved.
Updated: -$Date$ +$Date: 2011/10/01 22:28:59 $