X-Git-Url: http://winboard.nl/cgi-bin?a=blobdiff_plain;f=winboard%2Freadme.txt;h=8ebc2ca924ecf27a9b2aa35b2c3da4a4df6a0806;hb=762e18baef5f815cc46019ba3e082bd5ec1980f6;hp=b22e6b44df168e14d8b53ece7a6648d5443d6ae4;hpb=86517e539f33650be656c482020a878fec0723c9;p=xboard.git diff --git a/winboard/readme.txt b/winboard/readme.txt index b22e6b4..8ebc2ca 100644 --- a/winboard/readme.txt +++ b/winboard/readme.txt @@ -1,3 +1,34 @@ + WinBoard 4.3.15m RELEASE NOTES + +Compared to version 4.3.14k described below, this version features + +New command-line options +/rewindIndex=N (for the new auto-increment mode of the loadGameIndex or loadPositionIndex in match mode +/sameColorGames=N (for playing a match where the same player has white all the time) +/egtFormats="..." (for specifying where various end-game tables are installed on the computer) + +New menu items ++ Time-odds factors can be set in the time-control dialog ++ Nr of CPUs for SMP engines can be set in the Options -> UCI dialog ++ Own-Book options can be switched from the Options -> UCI dialog ++ The ScoreIsAbs options can be set from the Options -> Engine dialog ++ New-Variant menu adds Superchess + +General Enhancements: +* WinBoard engines can now also use the Polyglot opening book (implemented as general GUI book) +* New WB-protocol commands memory, cores and egtpath make interactive setting of these parameters + possible on WB engines +* New Polyglot is available that relays the interactive setting of these parameters to UCI engines +* Match mode suports an auto-increment mode, so that all games or positions from a file can be played +* Draw claims with Kings and an arbitrary number of like Bishops (e.g. KBBKB) are accepted + +The source tree in original XBoard 4.2.7 format can now be compiled under Cygwin with the aid +of the cygwin.mak file in the ~/winboard/ subdirectory of the source release. Makefiles for +other compilers are not updated since 4.2.7, as I do not have those compilers. + +Note that this release is a bug-fix for the 4.3.15k release, which had a bug in human-ICS play mode. + + WinBoard 4.3.14k RELEASE NOTES Compared to version 4.3.13 described below, this version features @@ -21,7 +52,7 @@ Bugfixes: * In ICS observing mode game history is now fully accessible * Moves are not fed to engine in zippy mode, when observing a game from a variant unknown to the engine * a problem with loading PGN of FRC games with move disambiguation and initial castling rights was fixed. -* A bug in the clock display that mad previous versions of WinBoard crash for tiny displays is fixed +* A bug in the clock display that made previous versions of WinBoard crash for tiny displays is fixed General enhancements: * variant name displayed in title bar in ICS mode, when not 'normal'