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@@ -115,11 +115,11 @@ To move a piece, you can drag it with the left mouse button, or you
can click the left mouse button once on the piece, then once more on
the destination square. To drop a new piece on a square (when
applicable), press the middle or the right mouse button over the
-square and select from the popup menu. In cases where you can drop
+square and select from the pop-up menu. In cases where you can drop
either a white or black piece, use the middle button (or shift+right)
for white and the right button (or shift+middle) for black. When you
are playing a bughouse game on an Internet Chess Server, a list of the
-offboard pieces that each player has available is shown in the window
+off-board pieces that each player has available is shown in the window
title after the player's name; in addition, the piece menus show the
number of pieces available of each type. From version 4.3.14 on, it is
also possible in crazyhouse, bughouse or shogi to dag and drop pieces
@@ -174,13 +174,14 @@ does cause these variants to become shuffle variants until you use the
or select a new variant.
oldSaveStyle
option is true, in which case they are saved in an older,
@@ -298,9 +299,9 @@ clock to tell XBoard which side moves first.
with an engine loaded (zippy mode); the engine then will analyse
the positions as they occur in the observed game.
In most modes, Back to Start only lets you look back at old
@@ -530,7 +535,7 @@ is off, ‘Back to Start’ issue
command, which backs up everyone's view of the game to the start and
allows you to make different moves. If Pause mode is on, ‘Back
to Start’ only backs up your local view.
-
If you are examining an ICS game, the behavior of ‘Forward to
@@ -540,21 +545,17 @@ command, which moves everyone's view of the game forward to the end of
the current line. If Pause mode is on, ‘Forward to End’ only moves
your local view forward, and it will not go past the position
that the game was in when you paused.
-
usePolyglotBook
option is set to true,
@@ -1200,7 +1201,7 @@ See Firewalls.
the given character I/O device instead of opening a TCP connection.
Use this option if your system does not have any kind of
Internet connection itself (not even a SLIP or PPP connection),
-but you do have dialup access (or a hardwired terminal line) to
+but you do have dial-up access (or a hardwired terminal line) to
an Internet service provider from which you can telnet to the ICS.
The support for this option in XBoard is minimal. You need to
@@ -1623,9 +1624,9 @@ if both engines agree for a duration of 6 consecutive ply that the score
is below the given score threshold for that engine. Make sure the score
is interpreted properly by XBoard,
using -firstScoreAbs
and -secondScoreAbs
if needed.
-Default: 0 (no adjudiction)
+Default: 0 (no adjudication)
NOT ALL BOARDSIZES PROVIDE A COMPLETE SET OF BUILT-IN BITMAPS FOR ALL
+UN-ORTHODOX PIECES, though. Only in boardSize
middling and bulky
+all 22 piece types are provided, while -boardSize petite has most
+of them. Archbishop, Chancellor and Amazon are supported in every
+size from petite to bulky. Kings or Amazons are substituted for
+missing bitmaps. You can still play variants needing un-orthodox
+pieces in other board sizes providing your own bitmaps through the
+bitmapDirectory
or pixmapDirectory
options.
+
In the shuffle variants, XBoard now does shuffle the pieces, although
you can still do it by hand using Edit Position. Some variants are
supported only in ICS mode, including bughouse, and
-kriegspiel. The winning/drawing conditions in crazyhouse (offboard
-interposition on mate), losers, suicide, giveaway, atomic, and 3check
-are not fully understood.
+kriegspiel. The winning/drawing conditions in crazyhouse (off-board
+interposition on mate) are not fully understood, but losers, suicide,
+giveaway, atomic, and 3check should be OK.
Berolina and cylinder chess can only be played with legality testing off.
In crazyhouse, XBoard now does keep
-track of offboard pieces. In shatranj it does implement the baring
+track of off-board pieces. In shatranj it does implement the baring
rule when mate detection is switched on.
remoteShell
. The default is your local user name.
Evan Welsh wrote CMail
. Patrick Surry helped in designing,
testing, and documenting CMail.
-
Allessandro Scotti added many elements to the user interface of WinBoard, +
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. @@ -2180,7 +2190,7 @@ 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. +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. @@ -2455,13 +2465,13 @@ Up: Other programs
Fairy-Max is a derivative from the World's smallest Chess program micro-Max, +
Fairy-Max is a derivative from the once World's smallest Chess program micro-Max, which measures only about 100 lines of source code. The main difference with micro-Max is that Fairy-Max loads its move-generator tables from a file, so that the rules for piece movement can be easily configured to implement unorthodox pieces. -Fairy-Max can therefore play a lage number of variants, normal Chess being one of those. -In addition it plas Knightmate, Capablanca and Gothic Chess, Shatranj, Courier Chess, +Fairy-Max can therefore play a large number of variants, normal Chess being one of those. +In addition it plays Knightmate, Capablanca and Gothic Chess, Shatranj, Courier Chess, Cylinder chess, Berolina Chess, while the user can easily define new variants. It can be obtained from: @@ -3334,10 +3344,10 @@ Up: Top