What is XBoard?
===============
XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System. It can
-serve as a user interface for chess engines such as Fairy-Max,
-Crafty or GNU Chess, for the Internet Chess Server, or for electronic
-mail correspondence chess. It supports all major forms of chess, such
-as international chess, xiangqi and shogi. XBoard can also be used by
+serve as a user interface for chess engines such as Fairy-Max,
+Crafty or GNU Chess, for the Internet Chess Server, or for electronic
+mail correspondence chess. It supports all major forms of chess, such
+as international chess, xiangqi and shogi. XBoard can also be used by
itself as viewer for stored chess games. See the manual page for
further details.
If you improve XBoard, please send a message about your changes, and
we will get in touch with you about merging them in to the main line
of development.
-
1) email gnu (check admin page for gnu) http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Announcements.html#Announcements
2) email chess servers (ICS, FICS) and other web directories
3) email linux distributions/update opensuse (Arun can handle OpenSUSE)
- 4) email info-gnu-chess
+ 4) email info-gnu-chess
- update freshmeat.net (Tim can do this, email him)
- newsgroups add short discription of xboard to news item
1) gnu.chess, info-gnu-chess
2) rec.games.chess.computer
3) comp.os.linux.announce
- 4) WinBoard forum web page (HGM does this one)
-- update git to the next pre-release
+ 4) WinBoard forum web page (HGM does this one)
+- update git to the next pre-release
** Template for emails
Subject: release of XBoard version <...>
-Hello,
+Hello,
A new version of XBoard is available. Here are some details:
Short description:
-XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms,
-including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi Japanese chess)
+XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms,
+including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi Japanese chess)
and Makruk. Many variations of chess are also supported.
Web page:
Windows binaries will be available at:
-http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewforum.php?f=19
+http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewforum.php?f=19
Development at:
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/
-News:
+News:
<list of most important new features>
See the NEWS file in the distribution or git for more details.
* * *
-Unix: To build the Zippy version of xboard, on most systems just do:
+Unix: To build the Zippy version of xboard, on most systems just do:
configure --enable-zippy
make
its sayings file. You can alias this to whatever you like.
If XXX is censoring you, he is automatically removed from your
notify list.
-
+
(3) If a player XXX in your notify list logs off, xboard sends
- the command "farewell XXX" to ICS. You can alias this to
+ the command "farewell XXX" to ICS. You can alias this to
whatever you like. Note that the player is already gone, so
telling him something is futile.
-
+
If zippyTalk is on, colorization in the ICS interaction
window, and the sounds corresponding to colors in that window,
do not work. The reply feature captures the tells, etc.,
partner tells to be relayed to the engine with the ptell
command.
- -zippyMaxGames int
+ -zippyMaxGames int
-zippyReplayTimeout
If zippyMaxGames > 0, Zippy will play at most the given number
of consecutive games against the same opponent. Thereafter,
starts a game between Zippy and the first opponent to respond,
giving Zippy no choice about whether to accept or decline.
- -zippyShortGame int
- If zippyShortGame > 0, Zippy will decline all challenges
+ -zippyShortGame int
+ If zippyShortGame > 0, Zippy will decline all challenges
from an opponent that terminated a game before the given number
of ply (with an explanatory tell) until either someone else has
played or zippyReplayTimeout seconds have elapsed. Do not set
extra sentence to make the saying more than 250 characters long so
that the previous sentence will be true.
^
-The eighth item to know is that when you are testing, you had better have
-several valid sayings in your file; for various reasons, having too few
+The eighth item to know is that when you are testing, you had better have
+several valid sayings in your file; for various reasons, having too few
sayings can cause Zippy to get into an endless loop, or to be very slow.
^
As the ninth and final saying, let me add that you need a caret