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+<p>This document answers some frequently asked questions about the
graphical chess interfaces XBoard and WinBoard.
A hyperlinked version of this FAQ is available on
the Web through the page
-<A HREF=
-"http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html"
->http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html</A>.
-
-<i>This FAQ is in need of revision. Please contact us if you'd like
-to help update it.</i>
-
-<HR>
-<H2>Outline</H2>
-
-<UL>
-<LI><A HREF="#[A0]">[A] Introduction and hot topics</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B0]">[B] XBoard and WinBoard</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[C0]">[C] XBoard and WinBoard, bugs and problems</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[D0]">[D] Crafty and other topics</A></LI>
-</UL>
-
-<HR>
-<H2>Detailed contents</H2>
-
-<UL>
-<LI><A NAME="[A0]" HREF="#[A]">[A] Introduction and hot topics</A></LI>
-<UL>
-<LI><a href="#[A.1]">[A.1] What are XBoard and WinBoard?</a></li>
-<LI><A HREF="#[A.2]">[A.2] Where can I get chess information and chess
- software?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[A.3]">[A.3] What are the current version numbers for
- XBoard and WinBoard?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[A.4]">[A.4] Who is working on this project?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[A.5]">[A.5] How do I report bugs, offer help, etc.?</A></LI>
-<LI><a href="#[A.6]">[A.6] What are the future plans for XBoard and
- WinBoard?</A></LI>
-</UL>
-
-<LI><A NAME="[B0]" HREF="#[B]">[B] XBoard and WinBoard</A></LI>
-<UL>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B.1]">[B.1] What is XBoard?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B.2]">[B.2] Is there an XBoard for Microsoft Windows? What is
- WinBoard? How do I install WinBoard?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B.3]">[B.3] Is there an XBoard for the Amiga? What is
- AmyBoard?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B.4]">[B.4] Is there an XBoard for the Macintosh?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B.5]">[B.5] Does XBoard run on VMS?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B.6]">[B.6] What is cmail?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B.7]">[B.7] How do I build XBoard? Do I have to have
- gcc?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B.8]">[B.8] Can I use XBoard or WinBoard to play a game
- of chess with another human?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B.9]">[B.9] Will WinBoard run on Windows 3.1?
- How about Windows CE (also known as Pocket PC)?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B.10]">[B.10] How do I use XBoard or WinBoard as an external
- viewer for PGN files with my Web browser?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B.11]">[B.11] How do I use WinBoard as an external viewer for
- PGN files with the MS Windows File Manager or Explorer?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B.12]">[B.12] How do I use ICC timestamp or FICS timeseal
- with XBoard?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B.13]">[B.13] How do I use ICC timestamp or FICS timeseal
- with WinBoard?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[B.14]">[B.14] How do I play bughouse with XBoard or WinBoard?
-</A></LI>
-<li><a href="#[B.16]">[B.16]
- What is Zippy? How can I interface a chess program to the Internet
- Chess Servers?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[B.17]">[B.17]
- How can I interface my own chess program to XBoard or WinBoard?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[B.18]">[B.18]
- How can I recompile WinBoard from source?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[B.19]">[B.19]
- How can I use XBoard or WinBoard to talk
- to an Internet Chess Server through a firewall or proxy?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[B.20]">[B.20]
- How can I use XBoard or WinBoard on chess.net with accuclock?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[B.21]">[B.21]
- Can I get Zippy to do one or more ICS commands automatically at the
- start or end of each game?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[B.22]">[B.22]
- How do I print from WinBoard?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[B.23]">[B.23]
- Can I get Zippy to automatically reconnect to ICS when its connection
- breaks?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[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="#[B.25]">[B.25]
- May I use the piece bitmaps from XBoard/WinBoard in my own program?</a></li>
-
-</UL>
-
-<LI><A NAME="[C0]" HREF="#[C]">[C] XBoard and WinBoard, bugs and
- problems</A></LI>
-<UL>
-<LI><A HREF="#[C.1]">[C.1] I can't build XBoard because the
- X11/Xaw/... include files are not found.</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[C.2]">[C.2] Configuring or building XBoard fails due to
- missing header files, missing libraries, or undefined symbols.</a></li>
-<LI><A HREF="#[C.3]">[C.3] I have problems using WinBoard on ICS with a modem.
- I'm not running SLIP or PPP, but just dialing in to an ordinary login account
-("shell account").</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[C.4]">[C.4]
- I have problems using WinBoard on ICS with Windows 95 and SLIP
- or PPP. When trying to start up, it gets the error "Address family
- not supported by protocol family" (or some equally strange message).
-</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[C.5]">[C.5] When I try to run WinBoard, I get the message
- "Failed to start chess program gnuchess on localhost: NO LANGFILE (file
- gnuchess.lan not found)".</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[C.6]">[C.6] I want to use XBoard or WinBoard as an Internet
- Chess Server interface, but the ICS Client option is grayed out on the
- menu.</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[C.7]">[C.7] How do I give command-line options to
- a Windows program like WinBoard?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[C.9]">[C.9]
- When I exit from WinBoard after using it to play against a chess
- program on my machine, the chess program keeps running in the background.
-</A></LI>
-<li><a href="#[C.12]">[C.12]
- Why do my ICS
- opponents often get extra time after they make their moves?
- Why do I sometimes lose time off my clock after I make my move?
-</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[C.13]">[C.13]
- I can't run WinBoard unless I delete the WinBoard.ini file each time!
-</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[C.15]">[C.15]
- I get errors compiling XBoard's parser.c.
-</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[C.16]">[C.16]
- I get an error building WinBoard from source because "flex" is not found.
-</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[C.17]">[C.17]
- XBoard hangs shortly after connecting to an ICS when used with dxterm,
- cmdtool, dtterm, kterm, konsole, or other substitutes for xterm.
-</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[C.18]">[C.18]
- The WinBoard pieces show up in the wrong colors, appear distorted,
- or are not visible at all.
-</a></li>
-<LI><A HREF="#[C.19]">[C.19] XBoard or WinBoard tells me
-"Error: first chess program (...) exited unexpectedly".</A></LI>
-<li><a href="#[C.20]">[C.20]
- XBoard tells me "Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry", or
- "too few colors available; trying monochrome mode", or
- "XPM pieces cannot be used in monochrome mode".
-</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[C.21]">[C.21]
- When I log in to freechess.org, the Enter key doesn't work, and I
- have to use Ctrl+J instead. But when I use WinBoard, Ctrl+J doesn't
- work either, so I'm stuck.
-</a></li>
-<li><a href="#[C.22]">[C.22]
- XBoard says, "Failed to start first chess program gnuchessx
- on localhost: gnuchessx: No such file or directory."
-</a></li>
-</UL>
-
-<LI><A NAME="[D0]" HREF="#[D]">[D] Crafty and other topics</A></LI>
-<UL>
-<LI><A HREF="#[D.1]">[D.1] What is XChess?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[D.2]">[D.2] What is Winsock Chess?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[D.3]">[D.3] What is Crafty?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[D.4]">[D.4] How do I use Crafty with XBoard?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[D.5]">[D.5] How do I use Crafty with WinBoard?</A></LI>
-<LI><A HREF="#[D.6]">[D.6] How do I use GNU Chess 5 with XBoard?</A></LI>
-</UL>
-</UL>
-
-<HR>
-<H2><A NAME="[A]">[A] Introduction and hot topics</A></H2>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[A.1]">[A.1] What are XBoard and WinBoard?</A></H3>
-
-XBoard and WinBoard are graphical user interfaces for chess.
-XBoard runs with the X Window System on Unix systems (including
-GNU/Linux); see topic
-<A HREF="#[B.1]">[B.1]</A>.
-WinBoard runs on true 32-bit Microsoft Windows operating
-systems, such as Windows 95, 98, NT,
-2000, ME, XP, and should continue to work
-on future 32-bit Windows systems. It does
-not work on Windows CE (also known as Pocket PC), nor does it work on
-16-bit Windows systems such as Windows 3.1. See topic
-<A HREF="#[B.2]">[B.2]</A>.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[A.2]">[A.2] Where can I get chess information and chess
-software?</A></H3>
-
-As a shortcut to most things mentioned in this FAQ, try Tim Mann's
-Chess Web page, <A HREF= "http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html"
->http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html</A>. This page page is a good
-place to get the latest released versions of XBoard and WinBoard and
-the most up-to-date version of this FAQ. Also see our Savannah
-project pages at <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/"
->https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/</a>.
-
-<p>If you have other questions about XBoard/WinBoard that aren't answered
-in this FAQ, you can try Aaron Tay's WinBoard and Chess Engines FAQ, at
-<a href="http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/"
->http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/</a>.
-
-<P>For general news and information about chess, try the newsgroup hierarchy
+<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/FAQ.html">
+http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/FAQ.html</a>.</p>
+
+<p><i>This FAQ is in need of revision. Please contact us if you'd like
+to help update it.</i></p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Outline</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#tag-A0">[A] Introduction and hot topics</a></li>
+<li><a href="#tag-B0">[B] XBoard and WinBoard</a></li>
+<li><a href="#tag-C0">[C] XBoard and WinBoard, bugs and problems</a></li>
+<li><a href="#tag-D0">[D] Crafty and other topics</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Detailed contents</h2>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><a name="tag-A0" href="#tag[A">[A] Introduction and hot topics</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A.1">[A.1] What are XBoard and WinBoard?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A.2">[A.2] Where can I get chess information and chess software?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A.3">[A.3] What are the current version numbers for XBoard and WinBoard?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A.4">[A.4] Who is working on this project?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A.5">[A.5] How do I report bugs, offer help, etc.?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A.6">[A.6] What are the future plans for XBoard and WinBoard?</a></li>
+ </ul></li>
+
+ <li><a name="tag-B0" href="#tag[B">[B] XBoard and WinBoard</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.1">[B.1] What is XBoard?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.2">[B.2] Is there an XBoard for Microsoft Windows? What is WinBoard? How do I install WinBoard?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.3">[B.3] Is there an XBoard for the Amiga? What is AmyBoard?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.4">[B.4] Is there an XBoard for the Macintosh?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.5">[B.5] Does XBoard run on VMS?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.6">[B.6] What is cmail?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.7">[B.7] How do I build XBoard? Do I have to have gcc?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.8">[B.8] Can I use XBoard or WinBoard to play a game of chess with another human?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.9">[B.9] Will WinBoard run on Windows 3.1? How about Windows CE (also known as Pocket PC)?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.10">[B.10] How do I use XBoard or WinBoard as an external viewer for PGN files with my Web browser?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.11">[B.11] How do I use WinBoard as an external viewer for PGN files with the MS Windows File Manager or Explorer?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.12">[B.12] How do I use ICC timestamp or FICS timeseal with XBoard?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.13">[B.13] How do I use ICC timestamp or FICS timeseal with WinBoard?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.14">[B.14] How do I play bughouse with XBoard or WinBoard?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.16">[B.16] What is Zippy? How can I interface a chess program to the Internet Chess Servers?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.17">[B.17] How can I interface my own chess program to XBoard or WinBoard?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.18">[B.18] How can I recompile WinBoard from source?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.19">[B.19] How can I use XBoard or WinBoard to talk to an Internet Chess Server through a firewall or proxy?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.20">[B.20] How can I use XBoard or WinBoard on chess.net with accuclock?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.21">[B.21] Can I get Zippy to do one or more ICS commands automatically at the start or end of each game?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B.22">[B.22] How do I print from WinBoard?</a></li>
+ <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>
+ </ul></li>
+
+ <li><a name="tag-C0" href="#tag-C">[C] XBoard and WinBoard, bugs and problems</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.1">[C.1] I can't build XBoard because the X11/Xaw/... include files are not found.</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.2">[C.2] Configuring or building XBoard fails due to missing header files, missing libraries, or undefined symbols.</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.3">[C.3] I have problems using WinBoard on ICS with a modem. I'm not running SLIP or PPP, but just dialing in to an ordinary login account("shell account").</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.4">[C.4] I have problems using WinBoard on ICS with Windows 95 and SLIP or PPP. When trying to start up, it gets the error "Address family not supported by protocol family" (or some equally strange message).</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.5">[C.5] When I try to run WinBoard, I get the message "Failed to start chess program gnuchess on localhost: NO LANGFILE (file gnuchess.lan not found)".</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.6">[C.6] I want to use XBoard or WinBoard as an Internet Chess Server interface, but the ICS Client option is grayed out on the menu.</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.7">[C.7] How do I give command-line options to a Windows program like WinBoard?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.9">[C.9] When I exit from WinBoard after using it to play against a chess program on my machine, the chess program keeps running in the background.</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.12">[C.12] Why do my ICS opponents often get extra time after they make their moves? Why do I sometimes lose time off my clock after I make my move?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.13">[C.13] I can't run WinBoard unless I delete the WinBoard.ini file each time!</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.15">[C.15] I get errors compiling XBoard's parser.c.</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.16">[C.16] I get an error building WinBoard from source because "flex" is not found.</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.17">[C.17] XBoard hangs shortly after connecting to an ICS when used with dxterm, cmdtool, dtterm, kterm, konsole, or other substitutes for xterm.</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.18">[C.18] The WinBoard pieces show up in the wrong colors, appear distorted, or are not visible at all.</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.19">[C.19] XBoard or WinBoard tells me "Error: first chess program (...) exited unexpectedly".</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.20">[C.20] XBoard tells me "Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry", or "too few colors available; trying monochrome mode", or "XPM pieces cannot be used in monochrome mode".</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.21">[C.21] When I log in to freechess.org, the Enter key doesn't work, and I have to use Ctrl+J instead. But when I use WinBoard, Ctrl+J doesn't work either, so I'm stuck.</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C.22">[C.22] XBoard says, "Failed to start first chess program fairymax on localhost: fairymax: No such file or directory."</a></li>
+ </ul></li>
+
+ <li><a name="tag-D0" href="#tag-D">[D] Crafty and other topics</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#tag-D.1">[D.1] What is XChess?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-D.2">[D.2] What is Winsock Chess?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-D.3">[D.3] What is Crafty?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-D.4">[D.4] How do I use Crafty with XBoard?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-D.5">[D.5] How do I use Crafty with WinBoard?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-D.6">[D.6] How do I use GNU Chess with XBoard?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-D.7">[D.7] How do I use GNU Chess with WinBoard?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-D.8">[D.8] What is Fairy-Max?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-D.9">[D.9] What is UCI? What is Polyglot?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-D.10">[D.10] How do I use an UCI engine with XBoard / WinBoard?</a></li>
+ </ul></li>
+</ul>
+
+<hr />
+<h2><a name="tag-A">[A] Introduction and hot topics</a></h2>
+
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-A.1">[A.1] What are XBoard and WinBoard?</a></h3>
+
+<p>XBoard and WinBoard are graphical user interfaces for chess.
+ XBoard runs with the X Window System on Unix systems (including
+ GNU/Linux); see topic <a href="#tag-B.1">[B.1]</a>. WinBoard runs
+ on true 32-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, such as Windows
+ 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, and should continue to work on future
+ 32-bit Windows systems. It does not work on Windows CE (also known
+ as Pocket PC), nor does it work on 16-bit Windows systems such as
+ Windows 3.1. See topic <a href="#tag-B.2">[B.2]</a>.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-A.2">[A.2] Where can I get chess information and chess
+ software?</a></h3>
+
+<p>As a shortcut to most things mentioned in this FAQ, try Tim Mann's
+ Chess Web page, <a href= "http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html"
+ >http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html</a>.
+ This page page is currently a very bad place to get the latest released
+ versions of XBoard and WinBoard and the most up-to-date version of this
+ FAQ, though. A better place is the
+ <a href=
+ "http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum">WinBoard forum</a>.
+ Also see our Savannah
+ project pages at <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/"
+ >https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/</a>.</p>
+
+<p>If you have other questions about XBoard/WinBoard that aren't
+ answered in this FAQ, you can try Aaron Tay's WinBoard and Chess
+ Engines FAQ,
+ at<a href="http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/">defunct
+ URL</a>.</p>
+
+<p>For general news and information about chess, try the
+<a href="http://www.talkchess.com/forum">CCC forum</a>
+or the
+ <a href=
+ "http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum">WinBoard forum</a>.
+Anothe possibility is the newsgroup hierarchy
rec.games.chess.*, especially the groups rec.games.chess.misc and
rec.games.chess.computer. Both of the latter groups have very informative
FAQs maintained by Steve Pribut; look for them on the newsgroups or at
-<A HREF=
-"http://www.clark.net/pub/pribut/chess.html"
->http://www.clark.net/pub/pribut/chess.html</A>.
-
-<P>Like other GNU software, you can get XBoard, and
-WinBoard by anonymous FTP from
-<A HREF=
-"ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/"
->ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/</A>
+<a href="http://www.clark.net/pub/pribut/chess.html">defunct URL</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Like other GNU software, you can get XBoard, and WinBoard by anonymous FTP from
+<a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/">ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/</a>
and its many mirror sites. Look in the subdirectories xboard, and winboard.
The .tar.gz suffix on the files there indicates they were packed with tar
and compressed with gzip. The .exe or .zip suffixes indicate files that
-were packed and compressed with zip.
+were packed and compressed with zip.</p>
-<P>For other chess software, try the Internet Chess Library. Use anonymous FTP
-to connect to ftp.freechess.org, or go to the Web page
-<A HREF=
-"http://www.freechess.org/"
->http://www.freechess.org/</A>.
+<p>For other chess software, try the Internet Chess Library. Use
+anonymous FTP to connect to ftp.freechess.org, or go to the Web page
+<a href="http://www.freechess.org/">http://www.freechess.org/</a>.
You can get chess software, game
collections, the FAQ file for rec.games.chess, and other chess-related
material there, in the directory pub/chess. The FTP server can
automatically decompress files for you as you download them, useful if you
-don't have gzip.
+don't have gzip.</p>
-<P>Here is a sample anonymous ftp session. Some of the ftp server's responses
-are abbreviated, but all the commands you must type are included.
+<p>Here is a sample anonymous ftp session. Some of the ftp server's responses
+are abbreviated, but all the commands you must type are included.</p>
-<p><PRE>
+<pre>
% ftp ftp.gnu.org
Connected to ftp.gnu.org
Name: anonymous
150 BINARY connection for xboard-4.2.7.tar.gz (1057625 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> quit
-</PRE>
+</pre>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[A.3]">[A.3] What are the current version numbers for
-XBoard and WinBoard?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-A.3">[A.3] What are the current version numbers for
+XBoard and WinBoard?</a></h3>
-At this writing, the current version numbers are:
+<p>At this writing, the current version numbers are:</p>
-<UL>
-<LI>XBoard 4.2.7</LI>
-<LI>WinBoard 4.2.7</LI>
-</UL>
+<ul>
+<li>XBoard 4.4.0</li>
+<li>WinBoard 4.4.0</li>
+</ul>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[A.4]">[A.4] Who is working on this project?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-A.4">[A.4] Who is working on this project?</a></h3>
-Please see our Savannah project pages at <a
-href="https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/"
->https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/</a> for a list of active
-developers. Many others occasionally contribute suggestions and
-snippets of code, for which we are grateful.
+Please see our Savannah project pages
+at <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/">https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/</a>
+for a list of active developers. Many others occasionally contribute
+suggestions and snippets of code, for which we are grateful.
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[A.5]">[A.5] How do I report bugs, offer help, etc.?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-A.5">[A.5] How do I report bugs, offer help, etc.?</a></h3>
-<P>Bug reports, suggestions, and offers to help on XBoard
-or WinBoard should be sent to
-bug-xboard<a name="nospam">@</a>gnu.org. <i>(Note: as of 4 Nov 2003,
-this mailing list is temporarily broken. You can send mail to
-bug-xboard<a name="nospam">@</a>tim-mann.org instead until it is fixed.)</i>
+<p>Bug reports, suggestions, and offers to help on XBoard
+or WinBoard should be sent to bug-xboard<a name="nospam01">@</a>gnu.org.</p>
<p>Beginner questions and discussion about the program may get faster
answers on the WinBoard Forum at <a
-href="http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/"
->http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/</a>.
+href="http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/"
+>http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/</a>.
+This forum also constains a section dedicated to propose and discuss
+new features for WinBoard / XBoard or WinBoard protocol,
+and reposrt bugs,
+and offers downloads of pre-installed packages of WinBoard
+bundled with other software,
+useful for conducting computer-computer tournaments.</p>
<p>If you are developing a
chess engine that works with XBoard or WinBoard (or an alternative
list, hosted at
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chess-engines"
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chess-engines</a>.
+For better response, join the above-mentioned WinBoard forum,
+or the <a href="http://www.talkchess.com/forum">CCC forum</a>.</p>
-<P>Any time you want to report a possible bug in XBoard or WinBoard,
+
+<p>Any time you want to report a possible bug in XBoard or WinBoard,
we need to know exactly what you did, and exactly what error (or
-other) messages you got.
+other) messages you got.</p>
-<P>If you are using Unix, run the "script" program, run XBoard with
+<p>If you are using Unix, run the "script" program, run XBoard with
the -debug flag (if you get as far as running it), do whatever is
necessary to reproduce the problem, type "exit" to the shell, and mail
us the resulting typescript file. We also need to know what
hardware/operating system combination you are using. The command
"uname -a" will usually tell you this; include its output in your
-typescript.
+typescript.</p>
-<P>If you are using MS Windows, run WinBoard with the -debug flag, and
+<p>If you are using MS Windows, run WinBoard with the -debug flag, and
send us a copy of the WinBoard.debug file. If you aren't sure how to
add command-line flags to WinBoard, you can hit Ctrl+Alt+F12 to create
a WinBoard.debug file after WinBoard starts, but that is not as good,
because a few messages that would have been printed at the start are
-lost.
+lost.</p>
<p>Either way, please send us the exact text of the commands you typed
and the output you got, not just your recollection of approximately
what they were. The messages may seem meaningless to you, but they
-are very meaningful to us and essential for diagnosing problems.
+are very meaningful to us and essential for diagnosing problems.</p>
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[A.6]">[A.6] What are the future plans for XBoard and
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-A.6">[A.6] What are the future plans for XBoard and
WinBoard?</a></h3>
<p>Our plans are always in flux. As with most free software projects,
the next release will happen when it happens -- or it may never
happen. This has always been the policy for XBoard/WinBoard.
-Releases have never been promised in specific time frames.
+Releases have never been promised in specific time frames.</p>
<p>Starting in November 2003, several new developers have joined the
project, and work is now hosted at <a
href="https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/"
>https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/</a>. Lots of work is just
-getting underway, but nothing is far along yet.
+getting underway, but nothing is far along yet.</p>
<p>Here is a partial list of items that have a nonzero probability of
-happening in finite time.
+happening in finite time.</p>
<ul>
<li>Small bug fixes. Occasionally someone sends us a fix, or reports
a small bug very clearly so that we're able to fix it in a few minutes
-work.<p>
+work.</li>
<li>Protocol version 3. The members of the chess engine authors'
mailing list discussed a set of proposed features for the next version
of the XBoard/WinBoard chess engine communication protocol.
-Unfortunately, this project has gotten only as far as that discussion
-took it; no revisions of the protocol spec or coding have been done
-yet. A few simple features are very clearly needed, though, and will
-probably appear in time.<p>
+The WinBoard 4.3 fork has taken the protocol in a different direction,
+though, extending version 2 with new features as they were needed,
+rather than upgrading to a new protocol in a single sweep.
+It does not seem likely that there will be a v3 protocol in the
+foreseeable future.
+</li>
<li>Contributed features. Several people have mailed me code to add
various features. Most of this code is available on the
-XBoard/WinBoard extensions page at <a
-href="http://www.tim-mann.org/extensions.html"
->http://www.tim-mann.org/extensions.html</a>, but it is not in any
-official releases yet. We are in the process of getting folks to
-formally assign the copyrights on their contributions to the Free
-Software Foundation so that we can include it in official releases in
-the future.<p>
+XBoard/WinBoard extensions page
+at <a href="http://www.tim-mann.org/extensions.html">
+http://www.tim-mann.org/extensions.html</a>,
+but it is not in any official releases yet. We are in the process of
+getting folks to formally assign the copyrights on their contributions
+to the Free Software Foundation so that we can include it in official
+releases in the future.</li>
<li>Internationalization. Several people have expressed interest in
-internationalizing XBoard/WinBoard, and so hopefully this project will
-go forward. Once the internationalization support is in, we will need
-more translators. Watch for news on the xboard-devel mailing list on
-our Savannah pages.
+internationalizing XBoard/WinBoard. Version 4.4 implements
+internationalization in its XBoard branch, and includes (partial)
+Turkish and German translations. For WinBoard a suitable way for
+internationalization still has to be found, as all menu strings there
+are not in the C code, but in a Windows resource file. In any case, we
+will need more translators, to update the existing translations (for
+version 4.2.7) to the current version, and to provide translaions for
+oter languages. Watch for news on the xboard-devel mailing list on
+our Savannah pages.</li>
</ul>
-<HR>
-<H2><A NAME="[B]">[B] XBoard and WinBoard</A></H2>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.1]">[B.1] What is XBoard?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<H2><a name="tag-B">[B] XBoard and WinBoard</a></H2>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.1">[B.1] What is XBoard?</a></h3>
-XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess. It displays a
+<p>XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess. It displays a
chessboard on the screen, accepts moves made with the mouse, and loads
and saves games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). XBoard is free software.
-It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:
+It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:</p>
<p><strong>Chess engines</strong> that will run on your machine and
play a game against you or help you analyze, such as GNU Chess and
-Crafty (topic <A HREF="#[D.3]">[D.3]</A> below).
+Crafty (topic <a href="#tag-D.3">[D.3]</a> below).</p>
<p><strong>Chess servers</strong> on the Internet, where you can
connect to play chess with people from all over the world, watch other
-users play, or just hang out and chat.
+users play, or just hang out and chat.</p>
<p><strong>Correspondence chess</strong> played by electronic
-mail. The cmail program (topic <A HREF="#[B.6]">[B.6]</A> below)
+mail. The cmail program (topic <a href="#tag-B.6">[B.6]</a> below)
automates the tasks of parsing email from your opponent, playing his
moves out on your board, and mailing your reply move after you've
-chosen it.
+chosen it.</p>
<p><strong>The Web</strong> and your own saved games. You can use
XBoard as a helper application to view PGN games in your
-Web browser, or to load and save your own PGN files.
+Web browser, or to load and save your own PGN files.</p>
-<P>XBoard runs under Unix or Unix-compatible systems. It requires the
+<p>XBoard runs under Unix or Unix-compatible systems. It requires the
X Window System, version X11R4 or later. There are also ports of
XBoard to 32-bit Microsoft Windows and to
-the Amiga. See topics <A HREF="#[B.2]">[B.2]</A> and <A
-HREF="#[B.3]">[B.3]</A> respectively.
+the Amiga. See topics <a href="#tag-B.2">[B.2]</a> and <a
+HREF="#tag-B.3">[B.3]</a> respectively.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.2]">[B.2] Is there an XBoard for Microsoft Windows? What is WinBoard? How do I install WinBoard?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.2">[B.2] Is there an XBoard for Microsoft Windows? What is WinBoard? How do I install WinBoard?</a></h3>
-WinBoard is a port of XBoard to 32-bit Microsoft Windows systems, such
+<p>WinBoard is a port of XBoard to 32-bit Microsoft Windows systems, such
as Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, and XP. It uses the same back end
chess code as XBoard, but the front end graphics code is a complete
-rewrite. WinBoard is free software.
+rewrite. WinBoard is free software.</p>
-<P>The WinBoard distribution includes a port of GNU Chess to Win32.
-The GNU Chess port is distributed in executable form, with instructions for
-rebuilding it from the standard GNU Chess sources (available separately). You
-should have at least 16 to 24 MB of memory to run GNU Chess with WinBoard.
+<p>The WinBoard distribution includes a sample Chess engine.</p>
-<P>The WinBoard distribution also includes the ICC timestamp and FICS
-timeseal programs (topic <A HREF="#[B.12]">[B.12]</A>).
+<p>The WinBoard distribution also includes the ICC timestamp and FICS
+timeseal programs (topic <a href="#tag-B.12">[B.12]</a>).</p>
-<P>cmail (topic <A HREF="#[B.6]">[B.6]</A>) has not been ported to
+<p>cmail (topic <a href="#tag-B.6">[B.6]</a>) has not been ported to
Windows. All the other XBoard functions are included in WinBoard.
The International Email Chess Group web site at <a
href="http://www.iecg.org/" >http://www.iecg.org/</a> recommends
ECTool (<a href="http://www.ectool.nu/" >http://www.ectool.nu/</a>)
-for playing correspondence chess under Windows.
+for playing correspondence chess under Windows.</p>
<p>You install WinBoard as follows. Download the WinBoard package to
-your PC (see topic <A HREF="#[A.2]">[A.2]</A>). It will be a file
+your PC (see topic <a href="#tag-A.2">[A.2]</a>). It will be a file
with a name like winboard-4_0_0.exe. Double-click on this file
in the Explorer or File Manager to run it. Follow the on-screen
-prompts.
+prompts.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.3]">[B.3] Is there an XBoard for the Amiga? What is AmyBoard?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.3">[B.3] Is there an XBoard for the Amiga? What is AmyBoard?</a></h3>
-AmyBoard is a port of XBoard to the Amiga, by Jochen Wiedmann.
+<p>AmyBoard is a port of XBoard to the Amiga, by Jochen Wiedmann.
The distribution includes a port of GNU Chess.
-AmyBoard is free software.
+AmyBoard is free software.</p>
<p>The current version of AmyBoard is 330.5 (based on XBoard 3.3.0).
-No one is currently maintaining it.
+No one is currently maintaining it.</p>
-<P>System requirements:
+<p>System requirements:</p>
-<UL>
-<LI>An Amiga (obviously :-), running OS 2.04 or later, 2Mb RAM or more.</LI>
-<LI>MUI 2.0 or later.</LI>
-<LI>Workbench or another screen with no less than 640x400 pixels (adjustable
+<ul>
+<li>An Amiga (obviously :-), running OS 2.04 or later, 2Mb RAM or more.</li>
+<li>MUI 2.0 or later.</li>
+<li>Workbench or another screen with no less than 640x400 pixels (adjustable
with the MUI-Prefs); this restriction is just because we don't have
bitmaps with less than 40x40 pixels per square. If someone contributes
- bitmaps with 20x20 or 20x25, they will work with any Hires mode.</LI>
-</UL>
-<P>
-If you would like to use an ICS, you need an Internet connection via either
-
-<UL>
-<LI>a telnet-like program, or</LI>
-<LI>a terminal program reading from stdin and writing to stdout.</LI>
-</UL>
-<P>
-AmyBoard is available in the Internet Chess Library (topic <A HREF="#[A.2]">[A.2]</A>).
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.4]">[B.4] Is there an XBoard for the Macintosh?</A></H3>
-
-Because MacOS X has a Unix base, XBoard will compile and run on it.
-You do need an X11 (X Window System) server and client libraries.
-These do not come with Mac OS, but both free and commercial versions
-are available. Once you install the X11 package, XBoard is reported
-to compile and run without changes. I am not a Mac user and have not
-tried this myself, so I cannot answer questions about it.
-
-Version 4.2.6 and earlier of XBoard come with an old copy of the
-config.sub utility that does not recognize Mac OS X, so to build
-XBoard, you'll have to tell the configure program what OS you are
-running. Follow the instructions in topic <A HREF="#[B.7]">[B.7]</A>
-of this FAQ, but add the argument <tt>--host=powerpc-apple-bsd</tt> to
-the end of the "configure" command line.
-
-There is no version of XBoard or WinBoard that runs with the native
+ bitmaps with 20x20 or 20x25, they will work with any Hires mode.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>If you would like to use an ICS, you need an Internet connection via either</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>a telnet-like program, or</li>
+<li>a terminal program reading from stdin and writing to stdout.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>AmyBoard is available in the Internet Chess Library (topic <a href="#tag-A.2">[A.2]</a>).</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.4">[B.4] Is there an XBoard for the Macintosh?</a></h3>
+
+<p>Note: I am not a Mac user and have not tried this myself, so I cannot
+answer questions about it. </p>
+
+<p>Because MacOS X has a Unix base, XBoard will compile and run on it.
+You do need an X11 (X Window System) server and client libraries. I'm
+told that these come standard with MacOS X 10.3 and later. Once you
+install the X11 package, XBoard is reported to compile and run without
+changes.</p>
+
+<p>You can avoid having to compile XBoard (and GNU Chess) yourself by
+using the Fink sofware packaging system. See
+http://fink.sourceforge.net/ and
+http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/ for more info on Fink.</p>
+
+<p>There is no version of XBoard or WinBoard that runs with the native
(non-X11) Mac graphical interface, and none that runs on MacOS 9 or
-earlier.
+earlier.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.5]">[B.5] Does XBoard run on VMS?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.5">[B.5] Does XBoard run on VMS?</a></h3>
-No. This port would probably be a lot easier than the Win32 and Amiga
+<p>No. This port would probably be a lot easier than the Win32 and Amiga
ports were, because VMS has the X Window system (under the name
-DECwindows) and is now POSIX compliant. However, I don't know enough
-about VMS to do the port myself, and I don't have time. If you do,
-give it a try! Send mail to me,
-tim<a name="nospam2">@</a>tim-mann.org (Tim Mann), if you're
-working on this.
+DECwindows) and is now POSIX compliant. If you are working on this,
+send mail to bug-xboard<a name="nospam02">@</a>gnu.org to let us know.</p>
+
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.6]">[B.6] What is cmail?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.6">[B.6] What is cmail?</a></h3>
-cmail is a program that helps you play and keep track of electronic mail
+<p>cmail is a program that helps you play and keep track of electronic mail
correspondence chess games using XBoard. It is distributed with XBoard and
has its own manual page. cmail is free software. It was written by
-Even Welsh. cmail has not been ported to Windows; sorry.
+Even Welsh. cmail has not been ported to Windows; sorry.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.7]">[B.7] How do I build XBoard? Do I need gcc?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.7">[B.7] How do I build XBoard? Do I need gcc?</a></h3>
-The first step to building XBoard is to get the distribution file. See topic
-<A HREF="#[A.2]">[A.2]</A> for places you can ftp the software from.
+<p>The first step to building XBoard is to get the distribution file. See topic
+<a href="#tag-A.2">[A.2]</a> for places you can ftp the software from.</p>
-<P>Next, decide what directory tree you are going to install XBoard
+<p>Next, decide what directory tree you are going to install XBoard
in. The default is /usr/local, but you probably don't have write
access to that directory unless you are a system administrator. If
-you do, type the following to install it there:
+you do, type the following to install it there:</p>
-<p><PRE>
+<pre>
gzip -cd xboard-*.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
cd xboard-*/
./configure
make
su
make install
-</PRE>
+</pre>
-If you want to install xboard in your personal home directory ($HOME/bin),
-type this:
+<p>If you want to install xboard in your personal home directory ($HOME/bin),
+type this:</p>
-<p><PRE>
+<pre>
gzip -cd xboard-*.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
cd xboard-*/
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install
-</PRE>
+</pre>
-<P>If the first step above fails because you don't have gzip, see
-topic <A HREF="#[A.2]">[A.2]</A>, and ask a local Unix expert if you
+<p>If the first step above fails because you don't have gzip, see
+topic <a href="#tag-A.2">[A.2]</a>, and ask a local Unix expert if you
need more help. If you have any problems with the last two steps,
read the READ_ME and INSTALL files in the xboard-*/ directory. You
-will also find this FAQ there.
+will also find this FAQ there.</p>
-<P>You don't need to have gcc to build XBoard. Almost any Unix C
-compiler should do.
+<p>You don't need to have gcc to build XBoard. Almost any Unix C
+compiler should do.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.8]">[B.8] Can I use XBoard or WinBoard to play a game
- of chess with another human?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.8">[B.8] Can I use XBoard or WinBoard to play a game
+ of chess with another human?</a></h3>
-The only way for two humans on different machines to play chess in
+<p>The only way for two humans on different machines to play chess in
real time using XBoard/WinBoard is to use an Internet Chess Server
as an intermediary. That is, each player runs his own copy of XBoard
or WinBoard, both of them log into an ICS, and they play a game there.
Two copies of XBoard/WinBoard cannot communicate with each other
-directly.
+directly.</p>
-<P>Instructions on how to get started with Internet chess are included
+<p>Instructions on how to get started with Internet chess are included
with the XBoard and WinBoard distributions. The network addresses
included in the distribution may not always be current. The oldest
and largest ICS is the Internet Chess Club at chessclub.com, which now
There are also many newer sites with no fees, using the Free Internet
Chess Server implementation (FICS). The most active FICS site is
freechess.org. On these and most other chess servers,
-the port number to use is 5000.
+the port number to use is 5000.</p>
-<P>If you don't have network connectivity to any ICS site, you
+<p>If you don't have network connectivity to any ICS site, you
can run your own server using a version of the FICS code, but this
is not easy. See <a href="http://www.tim-mann.org/ics.html#ownics"
->http://www.tim-mann.org/ics.html#ownics</a> for advice and pointers.
+>http://www.tim-mann.org/ics.html#ownics</a> for advice and pointers.</p>
-<P>The cmail program included with XBoard lets you play email postal games with
-another human; see topic <A HREF="#[B.6]">[B.6]</A>.
+<p>The cmail program included with XBoard lets you play email postal games with
+another human; see topic <a href="#tag-B.6">[B.6]</a>.</p>
-<P>Two humans can play chess on the same machine using one copy of
+<p>Two humans can play chess on the same machine using one copy of
XBoard/WinBoard in
Edit Game mode, but the clocks don't run in this mode, so it's of limited
-usefulness.
+usefulness.</p>
-<P>See also topic <A HREF="#[D.2]">[D.2]</A>, Winsock Chess.
+<p>See also topic <a href="#tag-D.2">[D.2]</a>, Winsock Chess.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.9]">[B.9] Will WinBoard run on Windows 3.1?
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.9">[B.9] Will WinBoard run on Windows 3.1?
How about Windows CE (also known as Pocket PC)?
-</A></H3>
+</a></h3>
-WinBoard does not run on Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, etc.,
+<p>WinBoard does not run on Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, etc.,
not even with the Win32s compatibility package. The main problem is
that Win32s does not have threads or real concurrent processes. A
port of WinBoard to Windows 3.1 is possible in theory, but it would be
-difficult and messy, and no one is going to do it.
+difficult and messy, and no one is going to do it.</p>
<p>WinBoard does not run on Windows CE (also
-known as Pocket PC). I don't know what would be required to port it.
+known as Pocket PC). I don't know what would be required to port it.</p>
-<P>WinBoard does run well on full 32-bit versions of Windows, such as
-Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, and XP, and should continue to work
+<p>WinBoard does run well on full 32-bit versions of Windows, such as
+Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP, and Vista, and should continue to work
on future 32-bit Windows systems.
+To use the help files in Vista, you will need to install the WinHlp32.exe
+from MicroSoft on your Vista system.
+</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.10]">[B.10] How do I use XBoard or WinBoard as an external viewer for PGN files
- with my Web browser?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.10">[B.10] How do I use XBoard or WinBoard as an external viewer for PGN files
+ with my Web browser?</a></h3>
-1) On Unix systems:
-<P>
-- Add the following line to the file .mime.types in your home directory.
+<ol>
+<li> On Unix systems:
+<ul>
+<li> Add the following line to the file .mime.types in your home directory.
(Create the file if it doesn't exist already.)
-<PRE>
+<pre>
application/x-chess-pgn pgn
-</PRE>
-<P>
-- Add the following line to the file .mailcap in your home directory.
+</pre>
+</li>
+<li>
+Add the following line to the file .mailcap in your home directory.
(Create the file if it doesn't exist already.)
-<PRE>
+<pre>
application/x-chess-pgn; xboard -ncp -lgf %s
-</PRE>
-<P>
-- Exit from your Web browser and restart it.
-
-<P>2) On MS Windows systems:
-
-<P>The exact procedure depends on which Web browser you are using.
+</pre>
+</li>
+<li>
+ Exit from your Web browser and restart it.
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li> On MS Windows systems:
+<p>The exact procedure depends on which Web browser you are using.
The current version of WinBoard automatically configures itself as
your PGN viewer for local files, Netscape 4.x and later, and Internet
Explorer. This automatic setup probably works for all other current Web
-browsers, too.
+browsers, too.</p>
+</li>
+</ol>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.11]">[B.11] How do I use WinBoard as an external viewer
- for PGN files with the MS Windows File Manager or Explorer?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.11">[B.11] How do I use WinBoard as an external viewer
+ for PGN files with the MS Windows File Manager or Explorer?</a></h3>
-WinBoard sets this up automatically when you install it, except on old
+<p>WinBoard sets this up automatically when you install it, except on old
versions of Windows NT (prior to 4.0). On Windows NT 3.51 or earlier,
go to the File Manager, click on the File menu, select Associate,
enter "pgn" as the extension, and use the Browse button to find your
-copy of WinBoard and set up the association.
+copy of WinBoard and set up the association.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.12]">[B.12] How do I use ICC timestamp or FICS timeseal
-with XBoard?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.12">[B.12] How do I use ICC timestamp or FICS timeseal
+with XBoard?</a></h3>
-First, get the appropriate version of timestamp or timeseal for your
+<p>First, get the appropriate version of timestamp or timeseal for your
machine from ftp.chessclub.com or ftp.freechess.org.
Second, be sure that you can connect using XBoard <I>without</I>
timestamp/timeseal. Third, be sure that you can connect using
timestamp/timeseal without XBoard. See the help files on ICC and FICS
-or ask people online if you have problems.
+or ask people online if you have problems.</p>
-<P>If you are in a completely ordinary situation, where your machine
+<p>If you are in a completely ordinary situation, where your machine
is directly on the Internet and you can connect to ICC or FICS
without timestamp/timeseal using
just the command "xboard -ics" or "xboard -ics -icshost freechess.org",
-change that command to one of the following:
+change that command to one of the following:</p>
-<p><PRE>
- xboard -ics -icshost 204.178.125.65 -icshelper timestamp
+<pre>
+ xboard -ics -icshost chessclub.com -icshelper timestamp
- xboard -ics -icshost 164.58.253.13 -icshelper timeseal
-</PRE>
+ xboard -ics -icshost freechess.org -icshelper timeseal
+</pre>
<p>If you have a firewall between your machine and the ICS, see topic
-<A HREF="#[B.19]">[B.19]</A>.
+<a href="#tag-B.19">[B.19]</a>.</p>
-<P>If you normally have to use the "/icscomm" command line option on
+<p>If you normally have to use the "/icscomm" command line option on
xboard to log into a second machine, and then telnet to ICC or FICS
from there, you are going to have to run the Unix version of timestamp
or timeseal on the second machine. (If the second machine is not
files on ICC and FICS for instructions. Then simply run it when you
would normally run telnet. In this configuration you are not
protected against lag between your PC and the shell machine, or for
-lag caused by heavy load on the shell machine itself from other users.
+lag caused by heavy load on the shell machine itself from other users.</p>
-<P>For further information on timestamp and timeseal, see the help
-files on ICC and FICS.
+<p>For further information on timestamp and timeseal, see the help
+files on ICC and FICS.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.13]">[B.13] How do I use ICC timestamp or FICS timeseal
-with WinBoard?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.13">[B.13] How do I use ICC timestamp or FICS timeseal
+with WinBoard?</a></h3>
-<P>If you select an ICS from either the WinBoard Startup dialog or the
+<p>If you select an ICS from either the WinBoard Startup dialog or the
Windows Start submenu that WinBoard installs, WinBoard automatically
-runs timestamp or timeseal if the ICS you chose is known to support it.
+runs timestamp or timeseal if the ICS you chose is known to support it.</p>
-<P>If you are constructing a WinBoard command line by hand, add the
+<p>If you are constructing a WinBoard command line by hand, add the
option "/icshelper timestamp" or "/icshelper timeseal" to the WinBoard
command line to use timestamp or timeseal. Both timestamp.exe and
timeseal.exe are included in the WinBoard distribution. They both
function identically to the Unix versions, as documented in "help
-timestamp" on ICC and "help timeseal" on FICS.
+timestamp" on ICC and "help timeseal" on FICS.</p>
<p>If you have a firewall between your machine and the ICS, see topic
-<A HREF="#[B.19]">[B.19]</A>.
+<a href="#tag-B.19">[B.19]</a>.</p>
-<P>If you normally have to use the "/icscomm" command line option on
+<p>If you normally have to use the "/icscomm" command line option on
WinBoard to log into a shell account, and then telnet to ICC or FICS
from there, you are going to have to run the Unix version of timestamp
or timeseal on the shell machine. (If the shell account is not on a
files on ICC and FICS for instructions. Then simply run it when you
would normally run telnet. In this configuration you are not protected
against lag between your PC and the shell machine, or for lag caused by
-heavy load on the shell machine itself from other users.
+heavy load on the shell machine itself from other users.</p>
-<P>For further information on timestamp and timeseal, see the help
-files on ICC and FICS.
+<p>For further information on timestamp and timeseal, see the help
+files on ICC and FICS.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.14]">[B.14] How do I play bughouse with XBoard or WinBoard?
-</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.14">[B.14] How do I play bughouse with XBoard or WinBoard?
+</a></h3>
-XBoard and WinBoard have simple but effective bughouse support.
-Offboard piece holdings are shown in the board window's banner, and
-you drop offboard pieces using the right mouse button. Press it over
-the destination square to pop up a menu of pieces.
+<p>XBoard and WinBoard have full bughouse support.
+Offboard piece holdings are shown next to the board, and
+you drop offboard pieces by dragging them with the mouse
+(holding the left button down) to their drop square,
+or left-click the piece and the drop square, just like when you enter
+any ordinary move.</p>
-<P>XBoard and WinBoard can display only one board at a time, but you
+<p>XBoard and WinBoard can display only one board at a time, but you
can observe your partner's game by running a second copy of the
program and logging in as a guest. (Unfortunately, this is not
possible if you are using the /icscomm option.) To observe your
partner's games automatically, use the "follow" or "pfollow" ICS
-command; see the ICS online help for details.
+command; see the ICS online help for details.</p>
-<HR>
-<h3><a name="[B.16]">[B.16] What is Zippy? How can I interface a
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.16">[B.16] What is Zippy? How can I interface a
chess program to the Internet Chess Servers?</a></h3>
-Zippy is an interface that lets a compatible chess engine (such as GNU
+<p>Zippy is an interface that lets a compatible chess engine (such as GNU
Chess or Crafty) act as a computer
player on an Internet Chess Server. Zippy is included in both the
XBoard and WinBoard distributions. It is implemented as a small
For documentation, see the file
zippy.README, included in both distributions or available
from my chess Web page,
-<A HREF=
+<a href=
"http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html"
->http://www.tim-mann/chess.html</A>.
+>http://www.tim-mann/chess.html</a>.
The version of zippy.README on my Web page is often more up-to-date
than those in the XBoard/WinBoard distributions.
You'll also find a "biography" of Zippy and pointers to the original
Zippy the Pinhead comic strips on my Web page.
-Please read zippy.README carefully before you ask me any questions about Zippy.
+Please read zippy.README carefully before you ask me any questions about Zippy.</p>
<p>Using a computer to choose your moves on a chess server is
considered cheating unless your account is on the computer (C) list.
policy. Most of the servers have plenty of computers running now, so they
will not be excited about having you run a new one unless you have
written your own chess engine. They don't really need yet another
-Crafty or GNU Chess clone.
+Crafty or GNU Chess clone.</p>
-<HR>
-<h3><a name="[B.17]">[B.17] How can I interface my own chess program
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.17">[B.17] How can I interface my own chess program
to XBoard or WinBoard?</a></h3>
-This is a non-trivial task. XBoard and WinBoard were not designed
+<p>This is a non-trivial task. XBoard and WinBoard were not designed
with a clean interface for talking to chess programs; they were
written to work with an existing version of GNU Chess that expects to
be talking to a person. Your program has to emulate GNU Chess's
rather idiosyncratic command structure to work with XBoard and
WinBoard. We are gradually cleaning up, improving, and documenting
the interface as newer versions of XBoard and WinBoard come out,
-however.
+however.</p>
<p>For documentation, see the file engine-intf.html, included in both
-distributions or available from my chess Web page, <A HREF=
+distributions or available from Tim Mann's chess Web page, <a href=
"http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html"
->http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html</A>.
-The version of engine-intf.html on my Web page is often more up-to-date
-than those in the XBoard/WinBoard distributions.
-
-<HR>
-<h3><a name="[B.18]">[B.18] How can I recompile WinBoard from source?</a></h3>
-
-The source code for WinBoard is available from the author's Web page,
-<A HREF=
+>http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html</a>.
+The version of engine-intf.html on Tim's Web page might totally obsolete,
+though.
+To know how the current WinBoard or XBoard version communicate with their
+engines, use the documentation in the XBoard/WinBoard distributions,
+or on the <a href=
+"http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/WinBoard/engine-intf.html"
+>WinBoard forum</a>.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.18">[B.18] How can I recompile WinBoard from source?</a></h3>
+
+<p>The source code for WinBoard is available from the author's Web page,
+<a href=
"http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html"
->http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html</A>.
+>http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html</a>.</p>
-<p>WinBoard is currently developed using Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0.
-You can build the program from the MSVC++ GUI by opening the project
+<p>WinBoard is currently developed using gcc under Cygwin.
+To build WinBoard with the free Cygwin tools, available from <a
+href= "http://www.cygwin.com/" >http://www.cygwin.com/</a>), use the
+command "make -f makefile.gcc" from the winboard directory of the
+source distribution.</p>
+<p>You can build the program from the MSVC++ GUI by opening the project
file (winboard.dsp) and telling MSVC++ to build the project. You can
also build it from the the command line by using the nmake program
supplied with MSVC++.
+The makefile for MSVC is makefile.ms in the winboard directory.</p>
-<p>To build WinBoard with the free Cygwin tools, available from <a
-href= "http://www.cygwin.com/" >http://www.cygwin.com/</a>), use the
-command "make -f cygwin.mak". WinBoard 4.2.5 was successfully
+<p>WinBoard 4.2.5 was successfully
compiled with the net release of Cygwin as downloaded on 20-March-2001
(cygwin1.dll 1.1.8, gcc 2.95.2-6, binutils 20001221-1, flex 2.5.4-1),
but exhibits a command-line parsing bug; see item 511 in the ToDo file
that comes with WinBoard. WinBoard 4.1.0 does not compile with
-Cygwin. WinBoard 4.0.7 is known to compile with Cygwin BL20.1.
+Cygwin. WinBoard 4.0.7 is known to compile with Cygwin BL20.1.</p>
<p>To build WinBoard with Borland C++ 4.5, use "borland.mak", supplied
with the WinBoard sources, as the Makefile. Support for Borland C++
-was contributed by Don Fong and has not been tested by the author of WinBoard.
+was contributed by Don Fong and has not been tested by the author of WinBoard.</p>
<p>WinBoard is a Win32 application, so you definitely need a compiler
and tool set that supports Win32. In particular, older versions of
a DOS extender to get a 32-bit address space and do not make any
Windows calls. The latest versions of DJGPP are said to be able to
build Win32 programs when used with the proper extension package(s),
-but this is not known to work with WinBoard. Use Cygwin instead.
+but this is not known to work with WinBoard. Use Cygwin instead.</p>
-<p>See also topic <A HREF="#[C.16]">[C.16]</A>.
+<p>See also topic <a href="#tag-C.16">[C.16]</a>.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.19]">[B.19]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.19">[B.19]
How can I use XBoard or WinBoard to talk
to an Internet Chess Server through a firewall or proxy?
-</A></H3>
+</a></h3>
<p>There is no single answer to this question, because there are many
different kinds of firewalls in use. They work in various different
ways and have various different security policies. This answer can
-only provide hints.
+only provide hints.</p>
<p>Note that you can't access Internet Chess Servers through a Web proxy,
because they are not a Web service. You talk to them through a raw
Web through a proxy, there may be a firewall that stops you from
making direct TCP connections, but there may also be a way through it.
Read on for hints, and contact your local system administrator if you
-need more information about your local configuration.
+need more information about your local configuration.</p>
<p>A helpful user mailed me the following explanation of how to use
-WinBoard with WinGate:
+WinBoard with WinGate:</p>
<blockquote>
"I have managed to setup WinBoard though my WinGate proxy. I have the
Office version. What I needed to do was to setup the TCP/IP
played with all the variations, so it may be just that I have the DNS
lookup enabled."
</blockquote>
-I hope this helps, though I don't find it very clear. I don't have
-a copy of WinGate myself and can't help if you have questions about it.
+<p>I hope this helps, though I don't find it very clear. I don't have
+a copy of WinGate myself and can't help if you have questions about it.</p>
<p>If you are using some other non-SOCKS firewall, read the FIREWALLS section
in your XBoard or WinBoard documentation (man page, info document, or
some cases you may not be able to run timestamp or timeseal. The
timestamp and timeseal protocols require a clean, 8-bit wide TCP
connection from your machine to the ICS, which some firewalls do not
-provide.
+provide.</p>
<p>If you have a SOCKS firewall and are using <strong>XBoard</strong>,
you should be able to SOCKSify xboard and use it. See <a
>ftp://ftp.chessclub.com/pub/icc/timestamp/</a>, but at this writing
there don't seem to be any socksified timestamps there. Once you have
a socksified timestamp or timeseal, simply run it with a normal,
-non-socksified xboard in place of the standard timestamp or timeseal.
+non-socksified xboard in place of the standard timestamp or timeseal.</p>
<p>If you have a SOCKS firewall and you are using
<strong>WinBoard</strong>, we now know how to make this configuration
-work, complete with timestamp or timeseal!
+work, complete with timestamp or timeseal!</p>
<p>Start by getting SocksCap32. This software is freely available
from <a href="http://www.socks.nec.com/">http://www.socks.nec.com/</a>.
Install it on your machine, read the documentation, and learn to use
-it. You may find it useful with many other programs besides WinBoard.
+it. You may find it useful with many other programs besides WinBoard.</p>
<p>Next, <strong>don't</strong> socksify WinBoard. Socksifying
WinBoard itself doesn't let you use it with timestamp or timeseal.
For some reason I don't understand -- something strange that
SocksCap32 does -- the socksified WinBoard runs but does nothing, and
-timestamp/timeseal runs all by itself in its own window.
+timestamp/timeseal runs all by itself in its own window.</p>
<p>Instead, use the following workaround. Follow the instructions
-exactly; don't try to skip steps or simplify things.
+exactly; don't try to skip steps or simplify things.</p>
<p>First, make SocksCap32 application profiles for timestamp and
timeseal. Use the following command lines in the SocksCap32
profiles. Name the first profile "timestamp" and the second
-"timeseal".
+"timeseal".</p>
-<p><pre>
+<pre>
"c:\program files\winboard\timestamp.exe" chessclub.com 5000 -p 5000
"c:\program files\winboard\timeseal.exe" freechess.org 5000 -p 5000
</pre>
<p>Second, run timestamp or timeseal by itself, socksified, using its
profile. This will open an unneeded, black window that will not
respond to typing. Minimize it to the task bar and ignore it. It will
-go away when you exit from WinBoard.
+go away when you exit from WinBoard.</p>
<p>Next, run WinBoard using the following command line. Make a shortcut
or type this command into an MS-DOS Prompt box. Don't run WinBoard
-itself socksified, just run it directly.
+itself socksified, just run it directly.</p>
-<p><pre>
+<pre>
"c:\program files\winboard.exe" /ics /icshost=localhost /icsport=5000
</pre>
<p>After you get this working, you can try getting the timestamp window to
auto-minimize by starting it from a shortcut instead of from the
SocksCap32 control window. As it says in the SocksCap32 help file, put
-the following in the Target field of a shortcut's Properties page:
+the following in the Target field of a shortcut's Properties page:</p>
-<p><pre>
+<pre>
"c:\program files\sockscap32\sc32.exe" timestamp
</pre>
-Then select "Run: Minimized" on the same page. Do the same for timeseal.
+<p>Then select "Run: Minimized" on the same page. Do the same for timeseal.</p>
<p>Another method that can work is to use a .bat file to start both
-timestamp and WinBoard. It would look something like this:
+timestamp and WinBoard. It would look something like this:</p>
-<p><pre>
+<pre>
REM --
REM -- icc.bat
REM -- Start timestamp under SocksCap32 and use WinBoard to connect to it.
port number</i> for each connection. You'll need to make a second set of
profile entries with a different value after the -p flag (say, 5001)
and you'll need to change the WinBoard command line /icsport=5000 for
-the second WinBoard to match.
+the second WinBoard to match.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.20]">[B.20]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.20">[B.20]
How can I use XBoard or WinBoard on chess.net with accuclock?
-</A></H3>
+</a></h3>
<p>I believe chess.net provides a Win32 command-line version of
accuclock that will work with WinBoard. Please see the documentation
-on the chess.net server itself; don't ask the author of WinBoard.
+on the chess.net server itself; don't ask the author of WinBoard.</p>
<p>I don't know whether chess.net provides versions of accuclock for
-Unix at this time. Ask them.
+Unix at this time. Ask them.</p>
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[B.21]">[B.21]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.21">[B.21]
Can I get Zippy to do one or more ICS commands automatically at the
start or end of each game?</a></h3>
"alias" feature) to anything you want. On ICC, you can use the
"multi" feature to alias gameend to several commands, but other
servers don't have that feature. Zippy doesn't send anything at the
-start of the game by default.
+start of the game by default.</p>
<p>You can get Zippy to send one or more commands of your choosing, at
the start and/or end of each game, by using the -zippyGameStart and
-zippyGameEnd command line options, newly added in version 4.0.3.
Both xboard and WinBoard have (somewhat obscure) ways of getting
newlines into this option to send several commands. Here is an
-example of one way to do it for each.
+example of one way to do it for each.</p>
-<p><pre>
+<pre>
xboard -ics -zp -xrm '*zippyGameStart: say hi\nsay prepare to die\n'
WinBoard /ics /zp /zippyGameEnd='say thanks\nseek 5 0\nseek 2 12\n'
</pre>
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[B.22]">[B.22]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.22">[B.22]
How do I print from WinBoard?
</a></h3>
-WinBoard does not have built-in printing functionality.
+<p>WinBoard does not have built-in printing functionality.
If you want to print a picture of the board, press Alt+PrintScrn, run the
standard Windows application Paintbrush, select Paste, and print from there.
If you want to print a list of moves, save your game as a PGN file,
then open the PGN file with Notepad or any other plain text editor and
-print it from there.
+print it from there.</p>
+
+<p>WinBoard 4.4 has a menu item "Save Diagram..." in the file menu,
+which saves the board part of the display as a Windows .bmp file,
+but only if the board size is not too big.</p>
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[B.23]">[B.23]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.23">[B.23]
Can I get Zippy to automatically reconnect to ICS when its connection
breaks?</a></h3>
state where the program does not notice that the connection is broken
until the next time it tries to send a command. Perhaps some future
version of xboard/WinBoard will have an option to send a harmless
-command every five minutes or so.
+command every five minutes or so.</p>
<p>Anyway, here is a sample Windows .bat file that restarts WinBoard each
time it exits. Thanks to Jason Williamson. It assumes that you have put
-your computer account's name and password in a file named logon.ini.
+your computer account's name and password in a file named logon.ini.</p>
<pre>
REM --
<p>Here is a Unix shell script to do the same thing for xboard.
It's a bit more elaborate. It is based on the script I use for the
original Zippy. It logs all ICS output to a file named zippy.out,
-and it lets you type commands to Zippy by running "cat > zippy.fifo".
+and it lets you type commands to Zippy by running "cat > zippy.fifo".</p>
<pre>
#! /bin/sh
done ) > $out 2>&1 &
</pre>
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[B.24]">[B.24]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="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></h3>
-<p>The simplest way to get that effect is to make sure the
-XBoard/WinBoard Auto Flag option is off, set a very fast time control
-so that the chess engine can't think for long, but take as much time
-over your own moves as you want. Also feel free to use Retract Move if
-you make a blunder.
+<p>The best way is to get a weaker chess engine.
+On the <a href="http://www.open-aurec.com/chesswar">ChessWar</a> website
+you will find a rating list of virtually all engines that are able to
+play under XBoard/WinBoard, from super-humanly strong to ridculously weak.
+Most of them can be downloaded for free from the internet.</p>
+
+<p>A way to get that effect is to limit the time the engine can use for
+deciding on its move. The time-odds options or menu items in the
+time-control dialog) can be used to this end. This is only of limited
+help, as engines do not weeken that much at faster time-control,
+and there is a practical limit to how fast you can order the engine
+to go. Also feel free to use Retract Move if
+you make a blunder. </p>
<p>Many chess coaches will let you switch sides after
they get a stronger position so that you can get experience playing
positions where you are winning. You can try this with XBoard/WinBoard
by using the Machine White or Machine Black menu command to make the
-machine take over your position.
+machine take over your position.</p>
<p>The -depth command-line option to XBoard/WinBoard can also be used to
weaken the engine (see the man page or Help file). It's a bit of a
-nuisance to set command line options in Windows, but see topic <A
-HREF="#[C.7]">[C.7]</A> for instructions.
+nuisance to set command line options in Windows, but see topic <a
+href="#tag-C.7">[C.7]</a> for instructions.</p>
<p>Other ways of weakening engines are engine-specific. Many of them
let you adjust various parameters, and if you choose bad settings, the
engine will play more poorly. Consult whatever documentation came with
-the engine you are using.
+the engine you are using.</p>
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[B.25]">[B.25]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-B.25">[B.25]
May I use the piece bitmaps from XBoard/WinBoard in my own program?</a></h3>
<p>The piece bitmaps used in XBoard and WinBoard were designed by
shareware, or non-GPL freeware, then you cannot use the bitmaps unless
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.
-
-<HR><H2><A NAME="[C]">[C] XBoard and WinBoard, bugs and problems</A></H2>
-
-<HR><H3><A NAME="[C.1]">[C.1] I can't build XBoard
-because the X11/Xaw/... include files are not found.</A></H3>
-
-These are the header files for the Athena Widgets library, which XBoard uses
+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>
+
+<hr /><h3><a name="tag-C.1">[C.1] I can't build XBoard
+because the X11/Xaw/... include files are not found.</a></h3>
+
+<p>These are the header files for the Athena Widgets library, which XBoard uses
heavily. Some versions of Unix don't supply these files, but they are part of
-the standard X distribution, freely available from MIT.
+the standard X distribution, freely available from MIT. </p>
-<P>For general information on getting missing X sources, see the FAQ on
+<p>For general information on getting missing X sources, see the FAQ on
comp.windows.x. Note that you may be missing only the header files, or you
-may be missing the libraries themselves too.
+may be missing the libraries themselves too.</p>
-<P>HP-UX users are missing only the header files. You can get them by
+<p>HP-UX users are missing only the header files. You can get them by
anonymous FTP as follows. (But first check with your system
administrator to see if someone else at your site has already done
this.) Get the archive file /hpux9/X11R5/Core/Xaw-5.00.tar.gz (Xaw
(144.92.4.15), France: hpux.cict.fr (192.70.79.53) or Netherlands:
hpux.ced.tudelft.nl (130.161.140.100). Unpack the archive using gzip
and follow the instructions in its README and/or HPUX.Install files.
-Thanks to Richard Lloyd for this information.
+Thanks to Richard Lloyd for this information.</p>
-<P>If you have the Xaw header files installed in a different place
+<p>If you have the Xaw header files installed in a different place
than the other X11 headers, you may need to configure XBoard with an
extra flag to help it find them. For example, if yours are in
-/foo/bar/X11/Xaw, try this:
+/foo/bar/X11/Xaw, try this:</p>
-<p><PRE>
+<pre>
rm config.cache
(setenv CFLAGS -I/foo/bar ; configure)
-</PRE>
-<P>
-Also see topic <A HREF="#[C.2]">[C.2]</A>.
+</pre>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[C.2]">[C.2] Configuring or building XBoard fails due to
+<p>Also see topic <a href="#tag-C.2">[C.2]</a>.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-C.2">[C.2] Configuring or building XBoard fails due to
missing header files, missing libraries, or undefined symbols.
-</A></H3>
+</a></h3>
-Perhaps you have the X server and client programs installed on your
+<p>Perhaps you have the X server and client programs installed on your
machine, but not the X header files and link-time libraries. If so,
you can run existing X programs, but you cannot compile a new X
program from source code. In this case the XBoard configure script
package, which you might not have installed. If you are using RedHat,
install the XFree86-devel package. If you are using some other
kind of Unix, ask your system administrator where to find the X header
-files and link-time libraries. If this is not your problem, read on.
+files and link-time libraries. If this is not your problem, read on.</p>
<p>The configure script for XBoard looks for X libraries and header
files in some common places. Sometimes it fails: If yours are
"wrong" one, or occasionally it may find libraries from one version
and incompatible header files from another. You can work around these
problems by telling the configure script where the files are. For
-example:
+example:</p>
-<p><PRE>
+<pre>
configure --x-includes=/odd/place/include \
--x-libraries=/odd/place/lib
-</PRE>
+</pre>
-<P>The directory named in the argument to --x-includes must have a
+<p>The directory named in the argument to --x-includes must have a
subdirectory "X11" that contains the actual .h files. That is, if
your X.h file has full pathname /odd/place/X11R6/include/X11/X.h, then
-you must give the argument --x-includes=/odd/place/X11R6/include.
+you must give the argument --x-includes=/odd/place/X11R6/include.</p>
-<P>Some linkers have bugs that cause bogus error messages when you try
+<p>Some linkers have bugs that cause bogus error messages when you try
to link X programs. The configure script includes a workaround for a
bug of this kind that exists in some SunOS 4.x.x installations. See
the FAQ on comp.windows.x for more information about problems of this
-kind.
+kind.</p>
-<P>If all else fails, check whether anyone else at your site has been able to
+<p>If all else fails, check whether anyone else at your site has been able to
compile any X programs on your system. Your X installation might be buggy.
If so, the system administrator at your site might know how to fix or work
-around the problem.
+around the problem.</p>
-<P>Also see topic <A HREF="#[C.1]">[C.1]</A>.
+<p>Also see topic <a href="#tag-C.1">[C.1]</a>.</p>
-<HR><H3><A NAME="[C.3]">[C.3] I have problems using WinBoard on ICS
+<hr /><h3><a name="tag-C.3">[C.3] I have problems using WinBoard on ICS
with a modem. I'm not running SLIP or PPP, but just dialing in to an
-ordinary login account ("shell account").</A></H3>
+ordinary login account ("shell account").</a></h3>
-Here are solutions to some common problems in this area.
+<p>Here are solutions to some common problems in this area.</p>
-<P>Some people want to connect to ICS through HyperTerminal or some other
+<p>Some people want to connect to ICS through HyperTerminal or some other
terminal program first, then run WinBoard. This is not how it works.
WinBoard wants to talk directly with your modem, acting as a terminal program
-itself. Start out with the modem "on hook" (not making a call).
+itself. Start out with the modem "on hook" (not making a call).</p>
-<P>Run WinBoard with a command line like this (adding more options if desired):
+<p>Run WinBoard with a command line like this (adding more options if desired):</p>
-<p><PRE>
+<pre>
WinBoard /ics /icscom com1
-</PRE>
+</pre>
-Use com2, com3, or com4 in place of com1 if your modem is connected to one of
-those ports.
+<p>Use com2, com3, or com4 in place of com1 if your modem is connected to one of those ports.</p>
-<P>After you start WinBoard, you may need to change some of the options in the
+<p>After you start WinBoard, you may need to change some of the options in the
Communications dialog (on the Options menu). The dialog has the usual options
for talking to modems: bits per second, bits per byte, parity, number of stop
-bits. You will probably want to use Save Settings Now when you're done.
+bits. You will probably want to use Save Settings Now when you're done.</p>
-<P>Next, type dialing commands to your modem in the text window that WinBoard
+<p>Next, type dialing commands to your modem in the text window that WinBoard
creates. You may need to turn off Local Line Editing on the Options menu
while you are typing commands to your modem. Turn it back on when you're
done. See the WinBoard Help file for instructions if you see your typing
-echoed an extra time after you hit Enter.
+echoed an extra time after you hit Enter.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[C.4]">[C.4]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-C.4">[C.4]
I have problems using WinBoard on ICS with Windows 95 and SLIP
or PPP. When trying to start up, it gets the error "Address family
not supported by protocol family" (or some equally strange message).
-</A></H3>
+</a></h3>
-WinBoard is a 32-bit application, but some Winsock (TCP/IP) implementations
+<p>WinBoard is a 32-bit application, but some Winsock (TCP/IP) implementations
support only 16-bit applications. You get a strange looking error message
if you try to use a 32-bit application because
there is no standard Winsock error code number
-for "32-bit application not supported."
+for "32-bit application not supported."</p>
-<P>Microsoft TCP/IP works with both 16-bit and
+<p>Microsoft TCP/IP works with both 16-bit and
32-bit applications, supports SLIP, PPP, Ethernet, etc., and is included
with Windows 95 and later Windows systems.
If possible, I recommend that you uninstall
whatever Winsock you are using and install Microsoft TCP/IP instead.
For more information, see
-<A HREF=
+<a href=
"http://walden.mo.net/~rymabry/95winfaq.html"
->http://walden.mo.net/~rymabry/95winfaq.html (the Win95-L FAQ)</A>.
+>http://walden.mo.net/~rymabry/95winfaq.html (the Win95-L FAQ)</a>.</p>
-<P>Trumpet Winsock 2.1 (and earlier) supports only 16-bit
+<p>Trumpet Winsock 2.1 (and earlier) supports only 16-bit
applications, and hence does not work with WinBoard. But there is a
beta-test release available that does support 32-bit applications.
I have not tried it with WinBoard, but it
should work. See Trumpet's Web page
-<A HREF=
+<a href=
"http://www.trumpet.com.au/wsk/winsock.htm"
->http://www.trumpet.com.au/wsk/winsock.htm</A>
-for more information.
+>http://www.trumpet.com.au/wsk/winsock.htm</a>
+for more information.</p>
-<P>The 16-bit versions of America On-Line's software do not support
+<p>The 16-bit versions of America On-Line's software do not support
32-bit Winsock applications. Get the 32-bit version. At one time the
32-bit version was called "AOL for Windows 95," but I imagine that has
-changed. Hopefully the current versions are all 32-bit.
+changed. Hopefully the current versions are all 32-bit.</p>
-<P>A few versions of Winsock may have bugs that prevent
+<p>A few versions of Winsock may have bugs that prevent
Windows timestamp/timeseal from working with them. I'm not sure if
such bugs exist in any versions that actually have 32-bit support,
-so this point might be moot. Again, Microsoft TCP/IP is known to work.
+so this point might be moot. Again, Microsoft TCP/IP is known to work.</p>
-<HR><H3><A NAME="[C.5]">[C.5] When I try to run WinBoard, I get the
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-C.5">[C.5] When I try to run WinBoard, I get the
message "Failed to start chess program gnuchess on localhost: NO
-LANGFILE (file gnuchess.lan not found)".</A></H3>
+LANGFILE (file gnuchess.lan not found)".</a></h3>
<p>This message means that WinBoard is trying to run GNU Chess, but
GNU Chess cannot find a file that it needs, named gnuchess.lan.
If you see it, you've probably customized WinBoard's /fcp, /fd, /scp,
and/or /sd options and made a mistake in the process. Review what
-you did, and see the WinBoard help file.
+you did, and see the WinBoard help file.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[C.6]">[C.6] I want to use XBoard or WinBoard as an Internet
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-C.6">[C.6] I want to use XBoard or WinBoard as an Internet
Chess Server interface, but the ICS Client option is grayed out on the
-menu.</A></H3>
+menu.</a></h3>
-XBoard and WinBoard have three major modes that can't be changed from the
+<p>XBoard and WinBoard have three major modes that can't be changed from the
menus: local chess engine mode,
-ICS mode, and standalone mode.
+ICS mode, and standalone mode.</p>
<p>With XBoard, you have to set the mode using command-line options.
Local chess engine mode is the default, -ics selects ICS mode, and
--ncp ("no chess program") selects standalone mode.
+-ncp ("no chess program") selects standalone mode.</p>
<p>With WinBoard, if you don't set the mode using command-line
options, you get a dialog box asking which mode you want. To bypass
the dialog box, use -cp ("chess program") for local chess engine mode,
-or -ics or -ncp as with XBoard. Also see topic <A HREF="#[C.7]">[C.7]</A>.
+or -ics or -ncp as with XBoard. Also see topic <a href="#tag-C.7">[C.7]</a>.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[C.7]">[C.7] How do I give command-line options to
-a Windows program like WinBoard?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-C.7">[C.7] How do I give command-line options to
+a Windows program like WinBoard?</a></h3>
-<P>There are many ways; pick your favorite:
+<p>There are many ways; pick your favorite:</p>
-<P><UL>
-<LI>Type the command line into an MS-DOS Prompt box. Example:
-"WinBoard -ics".
+<ul>
+<li>Type the command line into an MS-DOS Prompt box. Example:
+"WinBoard -ics".</li>
-<LI>Make a Windows shortcut for WinBoard. You can do this by
+<li>Make a Windows shortcut for WinBoard. You can do this by
right-dragging WinBoard.exe to the desktop and selecting "Create
Shortcut(s) Here" from the menu that appears. Right-click on the
shortcut, select Properties, and click the Shortcut tab. The
command-line text box is labelled "Target" instead of "Command line"
just to confuse you. Edit the text in this box, adding the command
-line options to the end.</LI>
+line options to the end.</li>
-<LI>Choose Run from the Start menu, or File / Run from the Program
+<li>Choose Run from the Start menu, or File / Run from the Program
Manager or File Manager, and type the command line into the dialog you
get. You may have to give WinBoard's full drivespec and filename if
-it is not in a directory on your search path.</LI>
+it is not in a directory on your search path.</li>
-<LI>Make a Program Manager icon for WinBoard. You can do this by
+<li>Make a Program Manager icon for WinBoard. You can do this by
dragging WinBoard.exe from the File Manager into the Program Manager,
or by using File / New in the Program Manager. Select the icon and
choose File / Properties. Edit the Command Line text box to add the
-command-line options to the end.</LI>
-</UL>
+command-line options to the end.</li>
+</ul>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[C.9]">[C.9]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-C.9">[C.9]
When I exit from WinBoard after using it to play against a chess
program on my machine, the chess program keeps running in the background.
-</A></H3>
+</a></h3>
<p>Be sure you have the current versions of WinBoard and the chess
engine you are using. WinBoard 3.4.1 and earlier had a bug that
caused this problem to occur with all chess engines. A buggy chess
engine that does not respond to the "quit" command will also cause
-this.
+this.</p>
<p>If you still see this problem, you can stop the rogue chess engine
by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del, selecting the chess engine process from the
-menu, and pressing the End Task button.
+menu, and pressing the End Task button.</p>
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[C.12]">[C.12]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-C.12">[C.12]
Why do my ICS
opponents often get extra time after they make their moves?
Why do I sometimes lose time off my clock after I make my move?
</a></h3>
-If you are playing with the ICS incremental clock, both you and your
-opponent get a set amount of extra time after each move.
+<p>If you are playing with the ICS incremental clock, both you and your
+opponent get a set amount of extra time after each move.</p>
<p>If your or your opponent has netlag, your opponent might appear to
get extra time, especially if your opponent is using timestamp or
the assumption that there is no netlag. When his move comes in, if
there was netlag, the ICS may not have really charged him for that
much time, and WinBoard corrects the clock to what the ICS says it
-should read.
+should read.</p>
<p>If you are not using timestamp or timeseal, you may appear to lose
time off your clock at some point after you make your move. In this
the display of your clock on your screen (and starts your opponent's)
when you make your move. When the ICS echoes your move back to you, it
may have charged you for more time than that, and WinBoard corrects
-the clocks to what the ICS says they should read.
+the clocks to what the ICS says they should read.</p>
<p>See "help lag" and "help timestamp" or "help timeseal" on your ICS for
-more detailed information.
+more detailed information.</p>
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[C.13]">[C.13]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-C.13">[C.13]
I can't run WinBoard unless I delete the WinBoard.ini file each time!
</a></h3>
Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3 or 4 have reported it. I have no
idea what causes this problem. Contrary to what was reported in a
previous version of this FAQ, reinstalling the service pack after
-installing WinBoard does not seem to solve the problem.
+installing WinBoard does not seem to solve the problem.</p>
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[C.15]">[C.15]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-C.15">[C.15]
I get errors compiling XBoard's parser.c.
</a></h3>
letting the Makefile re-create it from parser.l. This will work if
you have either lex or flex on your system. Flex is available in all
GNU/Linux distributions and can be obtained at no charge from the Free
-Software Foundation, www.fsf.org.
+Software Foundation, www.fsf.org.</p>
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[C.16]">[C.16]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-C.16">[C.16]
I get an error building WinBoard from source because "flex" is not found.
</a></h3>
you don't, unpack the WinBoard source zip file again to get one.
Either set the last-modified time of parser.c to be later than that of
parser.l, delete parser.l, or comment out the Makefile rule for
-building parser.c from parser.l, and then try building WinBoard again.
+building parser.c from parser.l, and then try building WinBoard again.</p>
<p>If you do want to change parser.l and rebuild parser.c, you can get
flex as part of the free Cygwin kit from
>http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/</a>. You can
probably also get flex for Windows by itself from various other places
around the Internet. It is free software distributed by the Free
-Software Foundation, www.fsf.org.
+Software Foundation, www.fsf.org.</p>
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[C.17]">[C.17]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-C.17">[C.17]
XBoard hangs shortly after connecting to an ICS when used with dxterm,
cmdtool, dtterm, kterm, konsole, or other substitutes for xterm.
</a></h3>
<p>After connecting to a chess server, XBoard 4.0.2 and later sends an
escape sequence to its terminal that is meant to display your handle
-and the ICS host name (for example, "user@chessclub.com") in the
+and the ICS host name (for example,
+"user<a name="nospam03">@</a>chessclub.com") in the
terminal's banner and icon. It seems that several of the alternative
X terminal programs have a bug that makes them hang when sent this
-escape sequence.
+escape sequence.</p>
<p>You can work
around the problem by using xterm, nxterm, rxvt, aterm, xiterm, or
gnome-terminal, all of which seem to work fine. In fact, current
versions of kterm and konsole seem to work fine too, so if you are
having problems with one of them, be sure you are not running an
-outdated version.
+outdated version. </p>
<p>Alternatively, you can disable this feature by commenting out the
-body of DisplayIcsInteractionTitle in xboard.c and recompling xboard.
+body of DisplayIcsInteractionTitle in xboard.c and recompling xboard.</p>
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[C.18]">[C.18]
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-C.18">[C.18]
The WinBoard pieces show up in the wrong colors, appear distorted,
or are not visible at all.
</a></h3>
<p>This can happen if you have a bug in your Windows display driver.
Check with the manufacturer of your display card, the manufacturer of
your computer, or Microsoft to see if there is an updated driver
-available. You can usually download updated drivers from the Web.
+available. You can usually download updated drivers from the Web.</p>
<p>If you can't find an updated driver, you can try running Windows
using a different number of colors and/or disabling some of the
number of colors, go to Windows Start / Settings / Control Panel /
Display / Settings / Color Palette. To disable hardware acceleration
features, go to Windows Start / Settings / Control Panel / Display /
-Settings / Advanced Properties / Performance / Hardware Acceleration.
+Settings / Advanced Properties / Performance / Hardware Acceleration.</p>
<p>It's also possible that Windows has the right driver for your
hardware already but you are not using it. It may help to reinstall
and delete your display card (maybe even your monitor too), then
reboot. Windows should automatically re-detect your card and monitor
and re-install the drivers; if it doesn't, run Start / Settings /
-Control Panel / Add New Hardware to force it to.
+Control Panel / Add New Hardware to force it to.</p>
<p>If all else fails, try Monochrome mode. On WinBoard's menus, go
to Options / Color and check Monochrome. WinBoard will display in black
-and white.
+and white.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[C.19]">[C.19] XBoard or WinBoard tells me "Error: first chess
- program (...) exited unexpectedly".</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-C.19">[C.19] XBoard or WinBoard tells me "Error: first chess
+ program (...) exited unexpectedly".</a></h3>
<p>This message means that your chess engine crashed, probably due to
a bug in the engine, or because you have it configured incorrectly.
the command line. This will print out all the messages received from
the chess engine. (With WinBoard, the messages go into a file called
WinBoard.debug; with XBoard, they go to the xterm that you started
-XBoard from.)
+XBoard from.)</p>
-<P>If you are using GNU Chess and you see this problem as soon as it
+<p>If you are using GNU Chess and you see this problem as soon as it
starts up, most likely GNU Chess is exiting with an error message. If
you see the message "NO LANGFILE", it means that you did not install
GNU Chess correctly, and it is unable to find the file gnuchess.lang.
you defined LIBDIR to something that is not an absolute pathname (that
is, to something that does not start with a "/"), GNU Chess will work
only if you run it from the GNU Chess "src" directory where you built
-it.
+it.</p>
-<hr><h3><a name="[C.20]">[C.20]
+<hr /><h3><a name="tag-C.20">[C.20]
XBoard tells me "Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry", or
"too few colors available; trying monochrome mode", or
"XPM pieces cannot be used in monochrome mode".
<p>You are running your X server with 8-bit color depth, and you are running
some program that has used up all 256 of your colors. Netscape tends
to do this, or maybe you have a background image that uses up all of
-your colors.
+your colors.</p>
<p>If you have a modern machine, you probably have enough display
memory to run your X server with 16-, 24-, or 32-bit color depth. If
you're using "startx" to start the X server, try giving the command as
"<tt>startx -- -bpp 24</tt>" (or 16, or 32). On newer X servers you
may have to use -depth instead of -bpp. Further details on
-configuring your X server are beyond the scope of this FAQ.
+configuring your X server are beyond the scope of this FAQ.</p>
<p>If you must run in 8-bit mode, try the following:
Avoid background images that use up all your colors. If you
run Netscape, try starting it up with the <tt>-install</tt> command-line
option; this gives Netscape its own private colormap that X will
-switch to when Netscape has the keyboard focus.
+switch to when Netscape has the keyboard focus. </p>
-<P>If all else fails, another possibility is to run xboard in
+<p>If all else fails, another possibility is to run xboard in
monochrome (black and white) mode by giving it the <tt>-mono</tt>
command-line option. XBoard will try this by itself in some cases.
Monochrome mode works only with bitmap pieces, not pixmap pieces, so
command line option to point XBoard to the directory containing the
bitmap pieces included with the XBoard source code, or rebuild XBoard
with pixmap support disabled, using "./configure --disable-xpm ; make
-clean ; make".
+clean ; make".</p>
-<hr><h3><a name="[C.21]">[C.21]
+<hr /><h3><a name="tag-C.21">[C.21]
When I log in to freechess.org, the Enter key doesn't work, and I
have to use Ctrl+J instead. But when I use WinBoard, Ctrl+J doesn't
work either, so I'm stuck.
reach freechess.org by telnetting (or connecting with WinBoard
/icsport=23) from a Windows PC to a Unix box, and then telnetting from
there to freechess.org. The Enter key should always work when
-connecting directly from your PC to freechess.org.
+connecting directly from your PC to freechess.org.</p>
<p>The best way to get around the problem is to run timeseal on the
intermediate Unix box instead of telnet. Get the appropriate version
of timeseal for your box from ftp.freechess.org and follow the
-directions in the help files on FICS.
+directions in the help files on FICS.</p>
<p>If you can't run timeseal for some reason, there are some things
you can do to make telnet stay in line mode instead of going to
freechess.org 5000" instead of "telnet freechess.org."
If that still doesn't work, then when the Enter key stops working,
type the following. Here <tt><</tt> and <tt>></tt> surround the
-names of keys.
+names of keys.</p>
-<p><pre>
+<pre>
<Ctrl+S><Ctrl+]>mode line<Enter>
</pre>
-<hr><h3><a name="[C.22]">[C.22]
- XBoard says, "Failed to start first chess program gnuchessx
- on localhost: gnuchessx: No such file or directory."
+<hr /><h3><a name="tag-C.22">[C.22]
+ XBoard says, "Failed to start first chess program fairymax
+ on localhost: fairymax: No such file or directory."
</a></h3>
-<p>XBoard is looking for GNU Chess 4.0. If you didn't want to use
-XBoard with GNU Chess, please see topic <A HREF="#[C.6]">[C.6]</A>.
-If you did want to use GNU Chess 4.0, be sure you have it installed and
-that it is on your $PATH. If you wanted to use GNU Chess 5 instead,
-see topic <A HREF="#[D.6]">[D.6]</A>.
+<p>XBoard is looking for the Fairy-Max chess engine.
+If you didn't want to use XBoard with Fairy-Max, please see topic
+<a href="#tag-C.6">[C.6]</a>.
+If you did want to use Fairy-Max, be sure you have it installed and
+that it is on your $PATH. If you wanted to use GNU Chess instead,
+see topic <a href="#tag-D.6">[D.6]</a>.</p>
-<HR>
-<H2><A NAME="[D]">[D] Crafty and other topics</A></H2>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[D.1]">[D.1] What is XChess?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h2><a name="tag-D">[D] Crafty and other topics</a></h2>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-D.1">[D.1] What is XChess?</a></h3>
-XChess is an older chessboard program that is no longer supported. XChess was
+<p>XChess is an older chessboard program that is no longer supported. XChess was
written for X version 10, and you may or may not be able to build and run it
-on an X11 system.
+on an X11 system.</p>
-<P>XChess has only one significant feature that is not present in XBoard: Two
+<p>XChess has only one significant feature that is not present in XBoard: Two
humans can play chess using XChess on different machines, without using the
Internet Chess Server as an intermediary. This feature is of interest only if
-you don't have network connectivity to the Internet Chess Server.
+you don't have network connectivity to the Internet Chess Server.</p>
-<P>Note: There actually have been several different programs called "XChess" in
+<p>Note: There actually have been several different programs called "XChess" in
circulation at various times. The above describes one that was associated
-with GNU Chess.
+with GNU Chess.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[D.2]">[D.2] What is Winsock Chess?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-D.2">[D.2] What is Winsock Chess?</a></h3>
-Winsock Chess is a program that lets two people play chess across a
+<p>Winsock Chess is a program that lets two people play chess across a
network. It runs only under Microsoft Windows. Some of the code in
Winsock Chess is derived from GNU Chess, but it is not maintained by
the GNU Chess team. You can get a copy from the Internet Chess
-Library; see topic <A HREF="#[A.2]">[A.2]</A>. For more information,
-contact its author, Donald Munro, ccahdm@beluga.upe.ac.za.
+Library; see topic <a href="#tag-A.2">[A.2]</a>. For more information,
+contact its author, Donald Munro,
+ccahdm<a name="nospam04">@</a>beluga.upe.ac.za.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[D.3]">[D.3] What is Crafty?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-D.3">[D.3] What is Crafty?</a></h3>
-Crafty is a freely-available chess program written by Bob Hyatt.
+<p>Crafty is a freely-available chess program written by Bob Hyatt.
Bob is the main author of the well-known chess program Cray
Blitz. Crafty is a very strong program, its code is available, commented
-and fairly readable, and its author is actively working on improvements.
+and fairly readable, and its author is actively working on improvements.</p>
<p>You can download Crafty from <a
href="ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/"
>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/</a>. Start by getting the <a
href="ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/read.me" >read.me</a> file and
reading it. Among other things, this file contains instructions on
-how to install Crafty as a command-line application on your machine.
+how to install Crafty as a command-line application on your machine.</p>
<p>There is a Crafty mailing list.
-To subscribe, send email to majordomo@cis.uab.edu, with
-"subscribe crafty-list" in the body.
+To subscribe, send email to
+majordomo<a name="nospam05">@</a>cis.uab.edu, with
+"subscribe crafty-list" in the body.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[D.4]">[D.4] How do I use Crafty with XBoard?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-D.4">[D.4] How do I use Crafty with XBoard?</a></h3>
<p>First, you need to get Crafty and install it as a command-line
-application on your machine. See topic <A HREF="#[D.3]">[D.3]</A>.
+application on your machine. See topic <a href="#tag-D.3">[D.3]</a>.</p>
<p>To use Crafty with XBoard, give the -fcp
-parameter like this:
+parameter like this:</p>
-<p><PRE>
+<pre>
xboard -fcp "./crafty" -fd <I>crafty_directory</I>
-</PRE>
+</pre>
-Here <I>crafty_directory</I> is the directory where you installed Crafty.
-You can add more xboard options at the end of the command line.
+<p>Here <I>crafty_directory</I> is the directory where you installed Crafty.
+You can add more xboard options at the end of the command line.</p>
<p>Crafty 15.14 or later is required to work properly with XBoard
4.0.0 or later. We generally recommend using the latest versions of
-both XBoard and Crafty.
+both XBoard and Crafty.</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[D.5]">[D.5] How do I use Crafty with WinBoard?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-D.5">[D.5] How do I use Crafty with WinBoard?</a></h3>
<p>First, you need to get Crafty and install it as a command-line
-application on your machine. See topic <A HREF="#[D.3]">[D.3]</A>.
+application on your machine. See topic <a href="#tag-D.3">[D.3]</a>.
It is best to use the latest version of Crafty with the latest version
of WinBoard to make sure all features are compatible and function
-correctly. You can install Crafty in any directory you like.
+correctly. You can install Crafty in any directory you like.</p>
<p>You also need to get WinBoard and install it in the normal way
using its built-in installer. You can do that either before or after
-you install Crafty.
+you install Crafty.</p>
<p>After both Crafty and WinBoard are installed separately, follow the
directions in the WinBoard Help file (included with WinBoard) for
-connecting new chess engines to WinBoard.
+connecting new chess engines to WinBoard.</p>
<p>If you want to have Crafty act as an automated computer player on a
-chess server, see topic <A HREF="#[B.16]">[B.16]</A>. Before you try
+chess server, see topic <a href="#tag-B.16">[B.16]</a>. Before you try
to get that working, be sure you can play against Crafty locally,
first without WinBoard, then with it. Also be sure you can use
WinBoard to play on the chess server yourself, without having Crafty
-connected to it. You have to crawl before you can walk!
+connected to it. You have to crawl before you can walk!</p>
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[D.6]">[D.6] How do I use GNU Chess 5 with XBoard?</A></H3>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-D.6">[D.6] How do I use GNU Chess with XBoard?</a></h3>
-<p>By default, XBoard still tries to use GNU Chess 4 by running the
-command "gnuchessx". That's why if you don't have GNU Chess 4, you
-get the error message "Failed to start first chess program gnuchessx
-on localhost: gnuchessx: No such file or directory."
+<p>By default, XBoard tries to use Fairy-Max by running the
+command "fairymax". That's why if you don't have Fairy-Max, you
+get the error message "Failed to start first chess program fairymax
+on localhost: fairymax: No such file or directory."</p>
<p>If you have GNU Chess 5, the command should be "gnuchess xboard"
instead. To make XBoard use this command, give the -fcp parameter
-like this:
+like this:</p>
-<p><PRE>
+<pre>
+ xboard -fcp "gnuchess xboard"
+</pre>
+
+If you instaled GNU Chess as a package, the operating system usually
+knows where to find it, and GNU Chess knwos where to find its data
+files, such as the opening book.
+If GNU Chess is installed in a non-compliant way, e.g. together
+with its book file in a user directory, you must use:
+
+<pre>
xboard -fd <I>gnuchess_directory</I> -fcp "./gnuchess xboard"
-</PRE>
+</pre>
+
+<p>Here <I>gnuchess_directory</I> is the directory where you installed
+GNU Chess 5 and its book.
+In all cases you can add more xboard options at the end of the command
+line.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to use GNU Chess 4, the command should be "gnuchessx"
+instead. To make XBoard use this command, give the -fcp parameter
+like this:</p>
+
+<pre>
+ xboard -fcp "gnuchessx"
+</pre>
-Here <I>gnuchess_directory</I> is the directory where you installed
-GNU Chess 5 and its book. You can add more xboard options at the
-end of the command line.
+<p>The same applies for non-compliant installs as for GNU Chess 5:
+the install directory has to be given with the -fd argument. </p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-D.7">[D.7] How do I use GNU Chess with WinBoard?</a></h3>
+
+<p>Well, why would you want to? If you want a strong free engine,
+use Crafty, Glaurung, Fruit or Toga.
+If you wnt an engine that plays many variants, use Fairy-Max,
+Pulsar or Sjeng.
+But the procedure to install and run those is not any different than
+for GNU Chess.
+</p>
+<p>If you want to use a WinBoard-compatible chess engine that is not
+automatically installed with the download,
+you will have to download it yourself.
+Most chess engines are downloaded as a compressed archive (e.g. a .zip file),
+and on downloadig it, the decompression software on your Windows system
+is automatically invoked when you seected "Open" in the download dialog.
+You can then click "extract all files", and you are prompted for a place
+to put the unpacked stuff.
+The place it proposes is usually no good, so browse to the folder
+in which you installed the winBoard download
+(where you see the Fairy-Max and WinBoard folders).
+</p><p>
+When the archiv contained a single folder, (with files in it),
+unpack it there.
+If the archive contained a lot of small files, first create a folder,
+and browse there, before you unpack.
+(To get all the files in a single place, not mixed with others,
+so you can easily delete it again.)
+Say you unpacked in a folder named "NewEngine", which now sits
+next to your "WinBoard" folder amongst the chess files on your system.
+Say there is a file "Engine.exe" in this "NewEngine" folder.
+</p><p>
+Then to run the engine with WinBoard,
+you have to enter the command:
+</p>
+<pre>
+ winboard /fcp="Engine.exe" /fd="..\NewEngine"
+</pre>
+<p>
+Sometimes engines need parameters on their command line,
+e.g. to set the hash-table size, or tell them they have to
+deal with WinBoard.
+These should then go within the quotes around the Engine.exe file name,
+directly behind it, and separated from it (and each other) by spaces.
+See any README files that come with the engine to learn how
+exactly the engine has to be invoked.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-D.8">[D.8] What is Fairy-Max?</a></h3>
+
+<p>Fairy-Max is a chess engine that plays chess at a level where
+you don't need to be a super GM to still have a chance to beat it.
+Apart from normal chess it plays many variants as well,
+such as Capablanca or Gothic Chess, Knightmate, etc.
+Dedicated versions of it are available to play Shatranj and Xiangqi
+(Chinese Chess).
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-D.9">[D.9] What is UCI? What is Polyglot?</a></h3>
+
+<p>UCI, or Universal Chess Interface, is a standard for communication
+between chess engines and its Graphical User Interface, that was
+created as an alternative to the way XBoard / WinBoard does it.
+(The latter way having become known as
+"<a href="#tag-B.17">WinBoard protocol</a>").
+XBoard / WinBoard do not understand a word of UCI,
+so UCI engines cannnot be run directly as engine under them.
+</p><p>
+Polyglot is an adapter that translates WB protocol to UCI.
+It bhaves like it is a WB engine, but, without XBoard / WinBoard
+knowing about this, it consults an UCI engine for getting the moves.
+With the aid of Polyglot, any UCI engine can be run under WinBoard.
+Polyglot is available as a Debian package for Linux, and is included
+in the WinBoard installation.
+Polyglot is open source software released under the GPL.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3><a name="tag-D.10">[D.10] How can I run a UCI engine under XBoard / WinBoard?</a></h3>
+
+<p>First you have to download and install the UCI engine.
+This is similar to installing WinBoard engines,
+see <a href="#tag-D.7">D.7</a>.
+Furthermore, you have to make sure that
+<a href="#tag-D.9">Polyglot</a> is nstalled on
+your system, in a place where XBoard / WinBoard can find it.
+There are then two ways to run the UCI engine:
+</p><p>
+In the first method, the only thing you have to do is add an extra
+option to the command that invokes XBoard / WinBoard,
+to tell it that the engine is UCI:
+</p>
+<pre>
+ xboard -fcp "fruit" -fUCI
-<p><HR>
-$Id: FAQ.html,v 2.2 2003/11/28 09:35:21 mann Exp $<br>
+ winboard /fcp="Fruit_21.exe" /fd="..\Fruit" /fUCI
+</pre>
+<p>
+The second method is more complicated, but also more versatile.
+UCI engines accept many settings from their GUI than XBoard / WinBoard
+usually send to a WB engine.
+Polyglot can provide such settings from a file dedicated to that engine,
+usully referred to as a "polyglot.ini" file (although the actual name
+can be different.)
+If the engine you downloaded comes with a polyglot.ini file for it,
+you can force Polyglot to use this file with engine settings
+by invoking it explicitly from XBoard / WinBoard:
+</p>
+<pre>
+ xboard -fcp "polyglot INIFILE"
+
+ winboard /fcp="polyglot INIFILE" /fd="POLYGLOTDIR"
+</pre>
+<p>
+INIFILE is the name of the polyglot.ini file (possibly a path name,
+such as "PG\fruit.ini", while POLYGLOTDIR should be the directory
+(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>
+<hr />
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