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<h1>XBoard and WinBoard: Frequently Asked Questions</h1>
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<li><a href="#tag-B.23">[B.23] Can I get Zippy to automatically reconnect to ICS when its connection breaks?</a></li>
<li><a href="#tag-B.24">[B.24] The chess engines are too strong and always beat me. How can I adjust the difficulty level to make them weaker?</a></li>
<li><a href="#tag-B.25">[B.25] May I use the piece bitmaps from XBoard/WinBoard in my own program?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.26">[B.26] How can I get rid of these silly logos that this new WinBoard displays above the board?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.27">[B.27] How can I install logos for other engines, Internet Chess Servers or Human users?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.28">[B.28] Is there readline support for XBoard?</a></li>
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<li><a name="tag-C0" href="#tag-C">[C] XBoard and WinBoard, bugs and problems</a>
you obtain special permission from Elmar. See the file README.bitmaps
that comes with the XBoard and WinBoard source code for more
information and an email address you can write to.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.26">[B.26]
+ How can I get rid of these silly logos that this new WinBoard displays above the board?</a></h3>
+
+<p>WinBoard 4.4.0 has an option /autoLogo, which makes is search for bitmap files to display as logo,
+in the engine directory or in the folder "logos".
+If you see logos without having asked for them, the settings in your winboard.ini file probably contains the line</p>
+<pre>/autoLogo=true</pre>
+<p>Just change that to /autoLogo=false.
+You can also achieve that by starting WinBoard through the startup dialog (from the start menu),
+and then tick "additional options" at the bottom,
+and type /autoLogo=false in the edit field, before pressing OK.
+If you then later select "Save Settings Now" from the Option menu,
+or when "Save Settings on Exit" is on, and you close WinBoard,
+this will automatically end up in your settings field.
+</p><p>
+When /autoLogo=false, logos will only be displayed if you explicitly ask for them,
+by running WinBoard with the option /firstLogo=FILENAME.bmp or /secondLogo=FILENAME.bmp.
+(Which will not be stored in the winboard.ini,
+but might of course be hidden somewhere in a settings file mentioned on the command line as @SETTINGSFILE.ini.)
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.27">[B.27]
+ How can I install logos for other engines, Internet Chess Servers or Human users?</a></h3>
+
+<p>With the option /autoLogo=true, (which is remembered in your settings file),
+WinBoard automatically looks into the engine folder
+(specified by the /fd="..." or /sd="..." option), for a file called "logo.bmp".
+If it is found, it is used as a logo for the engine when it plays.
+So all you have to do is put a logo.bmp file there.
+Popular logo formats are 100x50 and 130x65; many engine logos are available from
+<a href="http://www.geocities.com/davedahlem/my_logos.html">David Dahlem</a> or
+<a href="http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discussion-board/viewtopic.php?t=545&f=7">Graham Banks</a>
+</p><p>
+It is possible to overrule the /autoLogo by explicitly using a /firstLogo="FILENAME.bmp"
+or /secondLogo="FILENAME.bmp" with the engine on the engine line in the startup dialog.
+This is useful for engines that run with an adapter like Polyglot,
+when you have only one polyglot on your system, used by many engines.
+E.g. for Fruit the engine line to be typed in or selected from the combo box is
+<pre>
+"polyglot fruit.ini" /firstLogo="D:\Engines\Fruit\logo.bmp" /fd="D:\Engines\Polyglot"
+</pre>
+This prevents WinBoard looking for the logo in the Polyglot folder.
+</p>
+For Internet Chess Servers and Human users the logos should be in the "logos"
+sub-folder of the folder where WinBoard is installed.
+With /autoLogo=true, WinBoard would look for a logo file in that folder with
+the same name as the ICS, suffixed with .bmp (e.g. freechess.org.bmp)
+or the Human username
+(specified by the /userName="..." option or taken from the system),
+suffixed by .bmp, e.g. administrator.bmp)
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.28">[B.28] Is there readline/history support for the input in XBoard/Winboard? </a></h3>
+
+<p>There is a special ICS input box that has history support which is
+the standard in Winboard and can be used in XBoard too.</p>
+<p>Another good tip from Michel van der Bergh is to use the rlwarp
+program together with XBoard which gives you full readline support.
+Just run "rlwrap xboard" instead of just "xboard". The rlwarp program
+should be available for most linux distributions or can be downloaded
+at:
+<a href="http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/">http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/</a>.
+</p>
<hr /><h2><a name="tag-C">[C] XBoard and WinBoard, bugs and problems</a></h2>
(path) name were the Polyglot executable is located.
The directory and name of the actual engine are described in the
polygot.ini file, and XBoard / WinBoard need not be aware of them.
+</p><p>
+If you don't have a polyglot.ini file for the engine, you would
+have to make one.
+How to do that is beyond the scope of this FAQ.
+Refer to the Polyglot documentation for this,
+or use method 1.
</p>
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to the Polyglot documentation for this, or use method 1.
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