X-Git-Url: http://winboard.nl/cgi-bin?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manual%2Fhtml_node%2FFile-Menu.html;h=f8d2a6b1a6b3b87394938ae19598512b8fd6da83;hb=83a381b2c8098fbaa764bb67216682d0627fb008;hp=39f81574889ae2690823b6743ab680db3abd4a19;hpb=738b5b92598a99945eb699ff67b2328072cfaf20;p=xboard.git diff --git a/manual/html_node/File-Menu.html b/manual/html_node/File-Menu.html index 39f8157..f8d2a6b 100644 --- a/manual/html_node/File-Menu.html +++ b/manual/html_node/File-Menu.html @@ -30,18 +30,18 @@ Up: Menus
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2.1 File Menu

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3.1 File Menu

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New Game
Resets XBoard and the chess engine to the beginning of a new chess +
New Game
Resets XBoard and the chess engine to the beginning of a new chess game. The Ctrl-N key is a keyboard equivalent. In Internet Chess Server mode, clears the current state of XBoard, then resynchronizes with the ICS by sending a refresh command. If you want to stop playing, observing, or examining an ICS game, use an appropriate command from the Action menu, not ‘New Game’. See Action Menu. -
New Shuffle Game
Similar to ‘New Game’, but allows you to specify a particular initial position +
New Shuffle Game
Similar to ‘New Game’, but allows you to specify a particular initial position (according to a standardized numbering system) in chess variants which use randomized opening positions (e.g. Chess960). The selected opening position will persistently be chosen on any following @@ -51,15 +51,24 @@ Using this menu item in variants that normally do not shuffle their opening posi does cause these variants to become shuffle variants until you use the ‘New Shuffle Game’ menu to explicitly switch the randomization off, or select a new variant. -
New Variant
Allows you to select a new chess variant in non-ICS mode. +
New Variant
Allows you to select a new chess variant in non-ICS mode. (In ICS play, the ICS is responsible for deciding which variant will be played, and XBoard adapts automatically.) The shifted Alt+V key is a keyboard equivalent. If you play with an engine, the engine must be able to play the selected variant, or the command will be ignored. XBoard supports all major variants, such as xiangqi, shogi, chess, chess960, Capablanca Chess, shatranj, crazyhouse, bughouse. -(But not every board size has built-in bitmaps for un-orthodox pieces!) -
Load Game
Plays a game from a record file. The Ctrl-O key is a keyboard equivalent. +But not every board size has built-in bitmaps for un-orthodox pieces! +Only sizes bulky (72) and middling (49) have all pieces, +while size petite (33) has most. +These sizes would have to be set at startup through the size +command-line option when you start up XBoard for such variants to be playable. + +

You can overrule the default board format of the selected variant, +(e.g. to play suicide chess on a 6 x 6 board), +in this dialog, but normally you would not do that, +and leave them at '-1', which means 'default'. +

Load Game
Plays a game from a record file. The Ctrl-O key is a keyboard equivalent. A pop-up dialog prompts you for the file name. If the file contains more than one game, a second pop-up dialog displays a list of games (with information drawn from their PGN tags, if @@ -93,19 +102,19 @@ variant FENs appropriately. There is also a heuristic to recognize chess variants from the Event tag, by looking for the strings that the Internet Chess Servers put there when saving variant ("wild") games. -
Load Position
Sets up a position from a position file. A pop-up dialog prompts +
Load Position
Sets up a position from a position file. A pop-up dialog prompts you for the file name. The shifted Ctrl-O key is a keyboard equivalent. If the file contains more than one saved position, and you want to load the Nth one, type the number N after the file name, separated by a space. Position files must be in FEN (Forsythe-Edwards notation), or in the format that the Save Position command writes when oldSaveStyle is turned on. -
Load Next Position
Loads the next position from the last position file you loaded. +
Load Next Position
Loads the next position from the last position file you loaded. The shifted PgDn key is a keyboard equivalent. -
Load Previous Position
Loads the previous position from the last position file you +
Load Previous Position
Loads the previous position from the last position file you loaded. The shifted PgUp key is a keyboard equivalent. Not available if the last position was loaded from a pipe. -
Save Game
Appends a record of the current game to a file. +
Save Game
Appends a record of the current game to a file. The Ctrl-S key is a keyboard equivalent. A pop-up dialog prompts you for the file name. If the game did not begin with @@ -118,15 +127,15 @@ read back by the ‘Load Game’ Notation of the form ‘P@f7’ is accepted for piece-drops in bughouse games; this is a nonstandard extension to PGN. -
Save Position
Appends a diagram of the current position to a file. +
Save Position
Appends a diagram of the current position to a file. The shifted Ctrl+S key is a keyboard equivalent. A pop-up dialog prompts you for the file name. Positions are saved in FEN (Forsythe-Edwards notation) format unless the oldSaveStyle option is true, in which case they are saved in an older, human-readable format that is specific to XBoard. Both formats can be read back by the ‘Load Position’ command. -
Mail Move
Reload CMail Message
See CMail. -
Exit
Exits from XBoard. The Ctrl-Q key is a keyboard equivalent. +
Mail Move
Reload CMail Message
See CMail. +
Exit
Exits from XBoard. The Ctrl-Q key is a keyboard equivalent.