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-Tim Mann has been responsible for XBoard versions 1.3 and beyond, and -for WinBoard, a port of XBoard to Microsoft Win32 (Windows NT and -Windows 95). H.G.Muller is responsible for version 4.3. - -
Mark Williams contributed the initial (WinBoard-only) implementation -of many new features added to both XBoard and WinBoard in version -4.1.0, including copy/paste, premove, icsAlarm, autoFlipView, training -mode, auto raise, and blindfold. Ben Nye contributed X copy/paste -code for XBoard. - -
Hugh Fisher added animated piece movement to XBoard, and Henrik Gram -(henrikg@funcom.com) added it to WinBoard. Frank McIngvale added -click/click moving, the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import, -and ICS text colorization to XBoard. Jochen Wiedmann ported XBoard to -the Amiga, creating AmyBoard, and converted the documentation to -texinfo. Elmar Bartel contributed the new piece bitmaps introduced in -version 3.2. John Chanak contributed the initial implementation of -ICS mode. The color scheme and the old 80x80 piece bitmaps were taken +
+Chris Sears and Dan Sears wrote the original XBoard. They were
+responsible for versions 1.0 through 1.2. The color scheme was taken
from Wayne Christopher's XChess program.
-
Chris Sears and Dan Sears wrote the original XBoard. They were -responsible for versions 1.0 through 1.2. +
Tim Mann was primarily responsible for XBoard versions 1.3 through +4.2.7, and for WinBoard (a port of XBoard to Microsoft Win32) from its +inception through version 4.2.7. -
Evan Welsh wrote CMail. Patrick Surry helped in designing,
-testing, and documenting CMail.
+
John Chanak contributed the initial implementation of ICS mode. Evan
+Welsh wrote CMail, and Patrick Surry helped in designing,
+testing, and documenting it. Elmar Bartel contributed the new piece
+bitmaps introduced in version 3.2. Jochen Wiedmann converted the
+documentation to texinfo. Frank McIngvale added click/click moving,
+the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import, and ICS text
+colorization to XBoard. Hugh Fisher added animated piece movement to
+XBoard, and Henrik Gram added it to WinBoard. Mark Williams
+contributed the initial (WinBoard-only) implementation of many new
+features added to both XBoard and WinBoard in version 4.1.0, including
+copy/paste, premove, icsAlarm, autoFlipView, training mode, auto
+raise, and blindfold. Ben Nye contributed X copy/paste code for
+XBoard.
-
Allessandro Scotti added many elements to the user interface of WinBoard, -including the board textures and font-based rendering, the evaluation-graph, -move-history and engine-output window. -He was also responsible for adding the UCI support. +
In a fork from version 4.2.7, Alessandro Scotti added many elements to +the user interface of WinBoard, including the board textures and +font-based rendering, the evaluation-graph, move-history and +engine-output window. He was also responsible for adding the UCI +support. -
H.G. Muller made WinBoard castling- and e.p.-aware, -added variant support with adjustable board sizes, -the crazyhouse holdings, and the fairy pieces. -In addition he added most of the adjudication options, -made WinBoard more robust in dealing with buggy and crashing engines, -and extended time control with a time-odds and node-count-based modes. -Most of the options that initially wre WinBoard only have now been back-ported to XBoard. +
H. G. Muller continued this fork of the project, producing version +4.3. He made WinBoard castling- and e.p.-aware, added variant support +with adjustable board sizes, the crazyhouse holdings, and the fairy +pieces. In addition he added most of the adjudication options, made +WinBoard more robust in dealing with buggy and crashing engines, and +extended time control with a time-odds and node-count-based modes. +Most of the options that initially were WinBoard only have now been +back-ported to XBoard.
Michel van den Bergh provided the code for reading Polyglot opening books. -
Arun Persaud worked with H.G. Muller to combine all the features of the never-released WinBoard 4.2.8 -of the Savannah project (mainly by Daniel Mehrmann), -and the never-released 4.3.16 into a unified WinBoard 4.4, -which is now available both from the Savannah web site and the WinBoard forum. +
Meanwhile, some work continued on the GNU XBoard project maintained at +savannah.gnu.org, but version 4.2.8 was never released. Daniel +Mehrmann was responsible for much of this work. + +
Most recently, Arun Persaud worked with H. G. Muller to merge all +the features of the never-released XBoard/WinBoard 4.2.8 of the GNU +XBoard project and the never-released 4.3.16 from H. G.'s fork into a +unified XBoard/WinBoard 4.4, which is now available both from the +savannah.gnu.org web site and the WinBoard forum.