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-<H1>XBoard and WinBoard: Frequently Asked Questions</H1>
-
-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
-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>
-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.
-
-<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.
-
-<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><PRE>
- % ftp ftp.gnu.org
- Connected to ftp.gnu.org
- Name: anonymous
- Password: your-email-address@your-site
- ftp> binary
- 200 Type set to I.
- ftp> cd /pub/gnu/xboard
- ftp> dir
- -rw-r--r-- 1 14910 wheel 1057625 May 20 00:25 xboard-4.2.7.tar.gz
- ftp> get xboard-4.2.7.tar.gz
- 150 BINARY connection for xboard-4.2.7.tar.gz (1057625 bytes).
- 226 Transfer complete.
- ftp> quit
-</PRE>
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[A.3]">[A.3] What are the current version numbers for
-XBoard and WinBoard?</A></H3>
-
-At this writing, the current version numbers are:
-
-<UL>
-<LI>XBoard 4.2.7</LI>
-<LI>WinBoard 4.2.7</LI>
-</UL>
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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.
-
-<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>.
-
-<p>If you are developing a
-chess engine that works with XBoard or WinBoard (or an alternative
-GUI that works with such engines), see the Chess Engines mailing
-list, hosted at
-<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chess-engines"
->http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chess-engines</a>.
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[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.
-
-<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.
-
-<p>Here is a partial list of items that have a nonzero probability of
-happening in finite time.
-
-<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>
-
-<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>
-
-<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>
-
-<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.
-
-</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>
-
-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:
-
-<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).
-
-<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.
-
-<p><strong>Correspondence chess</strong> played by electronic
-mail. The cmail program (topic <A HREF="#[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.
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<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>
-
-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.
-
-<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 also includes the ICC timestamp and FICS
-timeseal programs (topic <A HREF="#[B.12]">[B.12]</A>).
-
-<P>cmail (topic <A HREF="#[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.
-
-<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
-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.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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.
-The distribution includes a port of GNU Chess.
-AmyBoard is free software.
-
-<p>The current version of AmyBoard is 330.5 (based on XBoard 3.3.0).
-No one is currently maintaining it.
-
-<P>System requirements:
-
-<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>
-
-Note: I am not a Mac user and have not tried this myself, so I cannot
-answer questions about it.
-
-<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>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>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.
-
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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
-ports were, because VMS has the X Window system (under the name
-DECwindows) and is now POSIX compliant. If you are working on this,
-send mail to bug-xboard<a name="nospam">@</a>gnu.org to let us know.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.6]">[B.6] What is cmail?</A></H3>
-
-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.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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>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:
-
-<p><PRE>
- gzip -cd xboard-*.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
- cd xboard-*/
- ./configure
- make
- su
- make install
-</PRE>
-
-If you want to install xboard in your personal home directory ($HOME/bin),
-type this:
-
-<p><PRE>
- gzip -cd xboard-*.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
- cd xboard-*/
- ./configure --prefix=$HOME
- make
- make install
-</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
-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.
-
-<P>You don't need to have gcc to build XBoard. Almost any Unix C
-compiler should do.
-
-<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>
-
-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.
-
-<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
-has a fee for registered use, but still allows free unregistered use.
-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.
-
-<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.
-
-<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>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.
-
-<P>See also topic <A HREF="#[D.2]">[D.2]</A>, Winsock Chess.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.9]">[B.9] Will WinBoard run on Windows 3.1?
- How about Windows CE (also known as Pocket PC)?
-</A></H3>
-
-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.
-
-<p>WinBoard does not run on Windows CE (also
-known as Pocket PC). I don't know what would be required to port it.
-
-<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
-on future 32-bit Windows systems.
-
-<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>
-
-1) On Unix systems:
-<P>
-- Add the following line to the file .mime.types in your home directory.
-(Create the file if it doesn't exist already.)
-<PRE>
- application/x-chess-pgn pgn
-</PRE>
-<P>
-- Add the following line to the file .mailcap in your home directory.
-(Create the file if it doesn't exist already.)
-<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.
-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.
-
-<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>
-
-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.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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
-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.
-
-<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:
-
-<p><PRE>
- xboard -ics -icshost 204.178.125.65 -icshelper timestamp
-
- xboard -ics -icshost 164.58.253.13 -icshelper timeseal
-</PRE>
-
-<p>If you have a firewall between your machine and the ICS, see topic
-<A HREF="#[B.19]">[B.19]</A>.
-
-<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
-running Unix, you are out of luck.) Get the appropriate version of
-timestamp or timeseal onto the shell machine via FTP; see the help
-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.
-
-<P>For further information on timestamp and timeseal, see the help
-files on ICC and FICS.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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
-Windows Start submenu that WinBoard installs, WinBoard automatically
-runs timestamp or timeseal if the ICS you chose is known to support it.
-
-<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.
-
-<p>If you have a firewall between your machine and the ICS, see topic
-<A HREF="#[B.19]">[B.19]</A>.
-
-<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
-Unix machine, you are out of luck.) Get the appropriate version of
-timestamp or timeseal onto the shell machine via FTP; see the help
-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.
-
-<P>For further information on timestamp and timeseal, see the help
-files on ICC and FICS.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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 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.
-
-<HR>
-<h3><a name="[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
-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
-amount of additional code within XBoard or WinBoard.
-For documentation, see the file
-zippy.README, included in both distributions or available
-from my chess Web page,
-<A HREF=
-"http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html"
->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.
-
-<p>Using a computer to choose your moves on a chess server is
-considered cheating unless your account is on the computer (C) list.
-Read "help computer" on your favorite server for details on their
-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.
-
-<HR>
-<h3><a name="[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
-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.
-
-<p>For documentation, see the file engine-intf.html, included in both
-distributions or available from my 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"
->http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html</A>.
-
-<p>WinBoard is currently developed using Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0.
-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++.
-
-<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
-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.
-
-<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.
-
-<p>WinBoard is a Win32 application, so you definitely need a compiler
-and tool set that supports Win32. In particular, older versions of
-DJGPP can build only 32-bit MSDOS programs; that is, programs that use
-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.
-
-<p>See also topic <A HREF="#[C.16]">[C.16]</A>.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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>
-
-<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.
-
-<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
-TCP connection, not an HTTP connection. If you can only access the
-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.
-
-<p>A helpful user mailed me the following explanation of how to use
-WinBoard with WinGate:
-<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
-connection to add the User/Host name and my provider service name for
-the DNS, but I had to leave the HOST IP address blank. I have not
-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>If you are using some other non-SOCKS firewall, read the FIREWALLS section
-in your XBoard or WinBoard documentation (man page, info document, or
-Help file). If you can telnet to a chess server in some way, then you
-can almost certainly connect to it with xboard/WinBoard, though in
-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.
-
-<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
-href="http://www.socks.nec.com/">http://www.socks.nec.com/</a> for
-information about SOCKS and socksification. However, if you do this,
-you can't use timestamp or timeseal; what you really need is a
-socksified version of timestamp or timeseal. This is hard because the
-source code for timestamp and timeseal is proprietary; the folks
-running the chess servers don't give it out because that would make it
-too easy to cheat. On some versions of Unix, you may be able to
-socksify a program that you don't have the source code to by running
-it with an appropriate dynamic library; see <a
-href="http://www.socks.nec.com/">http://www.socks.nec.com/</a>. For
-others, you might be able to get a pre-built socksified version from
-the chess server administrators. For timeseal versions, see <a
-href="ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/timeseal/"
->ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/timeseal/</a>. For timestamp
-versions, the directory would be <a
-href="ftp://ftp.chessclub.com/pub/icc/timestamp/"
->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.
-
-<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!
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<p>Instead, use the following workaround. Follow the instructions
-exactly; don't try to skip steps or simplify things.
-
-<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".
-
-<p><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.
-
-<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.
-
-<p><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:
-
-<p><pre>
- "c:\program files\sockscap32\sc32.exe" timestamp
-</pre>
-
-Then select "Run: Minimized" on the same page. Do the same for timeseal.
-
-<p>Another method that can work is to use a .bat file to start both
-timestamp and WinBoard. It would look something like this:
-
-<p><pre>
- REM --
- REM -- icc.bat
- REM -- Start timestamp under SocksCap32 and use WinBoard to connect to it.
- REM -- The string "timestamp" refers to a SocksCap32 profile for timestamp.
- REM -- Do not change it to the filename of the timestamp program!
- REM --
- start /minimized "c:\program files\sockscap32\sc32.exe" timestamp
- cd "c:\program files\winboard"
- winboard /ics /icshost=localhost /icsport=5000
-</pre>
-
-<p>This workaround has a problem if you want to run two copies of
-WinBoard at once, talking to the same chess server twice (for
-bughouse) or to two different chess servers. If you need to do that,
-you will need to run a separate copy of timestamp with <i>a different
-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.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[B.20]">[B.20]
-How can I use XBoard or WinBoard on chess.net with accuclock?
-</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.
-
-<p>I don't know whether chess.net provides versions of accuclock for
-Unix at this time. Ask them.
-
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[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>
-
-<p>By default, Zippy automatically sends the command "gameend" to ICS
-at the end of each game. You can alias this command (using the ICS
-"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.
-
-<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.
-
-<p><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]
- How do I print from WinBoard?
-</a></h3>
-
-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.
-
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[B.23]">[B.23]
- Can I get Zippy to automatically reconnect to ICS when its connection
- breaks?</a></h3>
-
-<p>There isn't a perfect solution to this problem yet, but a pretty
-good one is to write a shell script (for xboard) or .bat script (for
-WinBoard) that automatically restarts the program whenever it exits.
-Use the -xexit flag so that you don't get a popup dialog that must be
-dismissed with the OK button before the program will exit. The gap in
-this solution is that your connection to ICS can sometimes get into a
-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.
-
-<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.
-
-<pre>
-REM --
-REM -- wbrecon.bat
-REM -- Start WinBoard in Zippy mode, and restart it each time it exits.
-REM -- Add or change parameters as needed for your application.
-REM --
-:loop
-start /w winboard /zp /ics /icslogon logon.ini /xexit /xautoraise
-REM -- The next line is to have a short delay setup for 139 seconds.
-REM -- Leave it out if it doesn't work on the version of Windows you use.
-TYPE NUL | CHOICE.COM /N /CY /TY,99 >NUL
-goto loop
-</pre>
-
-<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".
-
-<pre>
-#! /bin/sh
-host="204.178.125.65 -icsport 5000 -telnet -telnetProgram timestamp"
-#host="164.58.253.13 -icsport 5000 -telnet -telnetProgram timeseal"
-out=zippy.out
-fifo=zippy.fifo
-ZIPPYPASSWORD='something'
-export ZIPPYPASSWORD
-ZIPPYPASSWORD2='orother'
-export ZIPPYPASSWORD2
-ZIPPYLINES=`pwd`/all.lines
-export ZIPPYLINES
-ZIPPYGAMEEND='say Yow, that was FUN!
-gameend'
-export ZIPPYGAMEEND
-zippylogon=`pwd`/logon.ini
-DISPLAY=`hostname`:0.0
-export DISPLAY
-mv -f $out ${out}.old
-rm -f $fifo
-mkfifo $fifo
-pid=$$
-( while [ true ] ; do cat -u $fifo ; done ) | \
- ( while [ true ] ; do
- xboard -iconic -ics -icshost $host \
- -zt -zp -xbell -xanimate \
- -xautosave -xquiet -fcp "gnuchessx -h" \
- -icslogon $zippylogon -xexit -autoflag -xautoraise $*
- sleep 600
- done ) > $out 2>&1 &
-</pre>
-
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[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>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.
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[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
-Elmar Bartel. He released them under the <a
-href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public
-License</a>. This means that if your program is also free software
-distributed under the GPL, you can use them freely. If your program
-is distributed under some other license, including commercial,
-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
-heavily. Some versions of Unix don't supply these files, but they are part of
-the standard X distribution, freely available from MIT.
-
-<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.
-
-<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
-header files) via anonymous FTP from the site hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk
-(138.253.42.172), or one of the other official sites---Germany:
-hpux.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de (129.13.200.57), US: hpux.cae.wisc.edu
-(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.
-
-<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:
-
-<p><PRE>
- rm config.cache
- (setenv CFLAGS -I/foo/bar ; configure)
-</PRE>
-<P>
-Also see topic <A HREF="#[C.2]">[C.2]</A>.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[C.2]">[C.2] Configuring or building XBoard fails due to
-missing header files, missing libraries, or undefined symbols.
-</A></H3>
-
-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
-will fail and will tell you to look at this question in the FAQ. Many
-GNU/Linux distributions put the headers and libraries in a separate
-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.
-
-<p>The configure script for XBoard looks for X libraries and header
-files in some common places. Sometimes it fails: If yours are
-installed in an odd place, it may not find them at all. If you have
-more than one version of X installed on your system, it may find the
-"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:
-
-<p><PRE>
- configure --x-includes=/odd/place/include \
- --x-libraries=/odd/place/lib
-</PRE>
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<P>Also see topic <A HREF="#[C.1]">[C.1]</A>.
-
-<HR><H3><A NAME="[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>
-
-Here are solutions to some common problems in this area.
-
-<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).
-
-<P>Run WinBoard with a command line like this (adding more options if desired):
-
-<p><PRE>
- WinBoard /ics /icscom com1
-</PRE>
-
-Use com2, com3, or com4 in place of com1 if your modem is connected to one of
-those ports.
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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>
-
-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."
-
-<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=
-"http://walden.mo.net/~rymabry/95winfaq.html"
->http://walden.mo.net/~rymabry/95winfaq.html (the Win95-L FAQ)</A>.
-
-<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=
-"http://www.trumpet.com.au/wsk/winsock.htm"
->http://www.trumpet.com.au/wsk/winsock.htm</A>
-for more information.
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<HR><H3><A NAME="[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>
-
-<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.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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>
-
-XBoard and WinBoard have three major modes that can't be changed from the
-menus: local chess engine mode,
-ICS mode, and standalone mode.
-
-<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.
-
-<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>.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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><UL>
-<LI>Type the command line into an MS-DOS Prompt box. Example:
-"WinBoard -ics".
-
-<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>
-
-<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>
-
-<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>
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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>
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[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 your or your opponent has netlag, your opponent might appear to
-get extra time, especially if your opponent is using timestamp or
-timeseal. The ICS charges each player who is using timestamp or
-timeseal only for the time between when the player received his
-opponent's move and the time he sent his own move. Thus delays in
-network transmission do not count against either player. But WinBoard
-counts down the display of your opponent's clock on your screen under
-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.
-
-<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
-case, the ICS charges you for the time between when it sent you your
-opponent's move and the time it received your move. Thus delays in
-network transmission count against you. WinBoard stops counting down
-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.
-
-<p>See "help lag" and "help timestamp" or "help timeseal" on your ICS for
-more detailed information.
-
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[C.13]">[C.13]
-I can't run WinBoard unless I delete the WinBoard.ini file each time!
-</a></h3>
-
-<p>Most people don't have this problem, but two or three people using
-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.
-
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[C.15]">[C.15]
-I get errors compiling XBoard's parser.c.
-</a></h3>
-
-<p>The file parser.c is automatically generated from parser.l. The
-copy included with XBoard 4.0.2 was generated by lex on Tru64 Unix and
-has problems compiling and linking on current GNU/Linux versions. The
-copy included with XBoard 4.0.3 was generated by flex on a GNU/Linux
-machine, but it too won't necessarily work on other versions of Unix.
-If you have this problem, you can fix it by deleting parser.c and
-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.
-
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[C.16]">[C.16]
-I get an error building WinBoard from source because "flex" is not found.
-</a></h3>
-
-<p>The file parser.c is automatically generated from parser.l. The
-Makefile included with the WinBoard source kit has a rule for
-generating parser.c using the program "flex", which will fail if you
-don't have flex. However, the source kit also includes a ready-made
-copy of parser.c, so you don't really need flex unless you have made
-changes to parser.l. Check that you still have a copy of parser.c; if
-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.
-
-<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
-<a href="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/"
->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.
-
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[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<a name="nospam">@</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.
-
-<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.
-
-<p>Alternatively, you can disable this feature by commenting out the
-body of DisplayIcsInteractionTitle in xboard.c and recompling xboard.
-
-<hr>
-<h3><a name="[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.
-
-<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
-hardware acceleration features on your display card. To change 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.
-
-<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
-your driver. Go to Windows Start / Settings / Control Panel / System
-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.
-
-<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.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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.
-You can try running XBoard or WinBoard again with the "-debug" flag on
-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.)
-
-<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.
-Make sure that you defined LIBDIR in the gnuchess Makefile, and that
-gnuchess.lang is in that directory. If gnuchess.lang is not there,
-you probably didn't type "make install" in the gnuchess src directory;
-you must do this to install gnuchess.lang (and the gnuchess book). If
-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.
-
-<hr><h3><a name="[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></h3>
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<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
-trying to use it may give you the error "XPM pieces cannot be used in
-monochrome mode". To get around this, either use the -bitmapDirectory
-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".
-
-<hr><h3><a name="[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></h3>
-
-<p>This is a pretty rare problem. It should only arise if you have to
-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.
-
-<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.
-
-<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
-character mode. Then the Enter key will work. First, try "telnet
-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.
-
-<p><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."
-</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>.
-
-<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>
-
-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.
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[D.2]">[D.2] What is Winsock Chess?</A></H3>
-
-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<a name="nospam">@</a>beluga.upe.ac.za.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[D.3]">[D.3] What is Crafty?</A></H3>
-
-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.
-
-<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.
-
-<p>There is a Crafty mailing list.
-To subscribe, send email to
-majordomo<a name="nospam">@</a>cis.uab.edu, with
-"subscribe crafty-list" in the body.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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>.
-
-<p>To use Crafty with XBoard, give the -fcp
-parameter like this:
-
-<p><PRE>
- xboard -fcp "./crafty" -fd <I>crafty_directory</I>
-</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>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.
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[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>.
-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.
-
-<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.
-
-<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.
-
-<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
-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!
-
-<HR>
-<H3><A NAME="[D.6]">[D.6] How do I use GNU Chess 5 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>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:
-
-<p><PRE>
- xboard -fd <I>gnuchess_directory</I> -fcp "./gnuchess xboard"
-</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><HR>
-$Id$<br>
-** End of XBoard/WinBoard FAQ **
-</BODY></HTML>
+<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>\r
+XBoard and WinBoard: Frequently Asked Questions</TITLE></HEAD>\r
+<BODY>\r
+<H1>XBoard and WinBoard: Frequently Asked Questions</H1>\r
+\r
+This document answers some frequently asked questions about the\r
+graphical chess interfaces XBoard and WinBoard.\r
+A hyperlinked version of this FAQ is available on\r
+the Web through the page\r
+<A HREF=\r
+"http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html"\r
+>http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html</A>.\r
+\r
+<i>This FAQ is in need of revision. Please contact us if you'd like\r
+to help update it.</i>\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H2>Outline</H2>\r
+\r
+<UL>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[A0]">[A] Introduction and hot topics</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B0]">[B] XBoard and WinBoard</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[C0]">[C] XBoard and WinBoard, bugs and problems</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[D0]">[D] Crafty and other topics</A></LI>\r
+</UL>\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H2>Detailed contents</H2>\r
+\r
+<UL>\r
+<LI><A NAME="[A0]" HREF="#[A]">[A] Introduction and hot topics</A></LI> \r
+<UL>\r
+<LI><a href="#[A.1]">[A.1] What are XBoard and WinBoard?</a></li>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[A.2]">[A.2] Where can I get chess information and chess\r
+ software?</A></LI> \r
+<LI><A HREF="#[A.3]">[A.3] What are the current version numbers for\r
+ XBoard and WinBoard?</A></LI> \r
+<LI><A HREF="#[A.4]">[A.4] Who is working on this project?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[A.5]">[A.5] How do I report bugs, offer help, etc.?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><a href="#[A.6]">[A.6] What are the future plans for XBoard and\r
+ WinBoard?</A></LI>\r
+</UL>\r
+\r
+<LI><A NAME="[B0]" HREF="#[B]">[B] XBoard and WinBoard</A></LI>\r
+<UL>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B.1]">[B.1] What is XBoard?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B.2]">[B.2] Is there an XBoard for Microsoft Windows? What is\r
+ WinBoard? How do I install WinBoard?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B.3]">[B.3] Is there an XBoard for the Amiga? What is\r
+ AmyBoard?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B.4]">[B.4] Is there an XBoard for the Macintosh?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B.5]">[B.5] Does XBoard run on VMS?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B.6]">[B.6] What is cmail?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B.7]">[B.7] How do I build XBoard? Do I have to have\r
+ gcc?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B.8]">[B.8] Can I use XBoard or WinBoard to play a game\r
+ of chess with another human?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B.9]">[B.9] Will WinBoard run on Windows 3.1? \r
+ How about Windows CE (also known as Pocket PC)?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B.10]">[B.10] How do I use XBoard or WinBoard as an external\r
+ viewer for PGN files with my Web browser?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B.11]">[B.11] How do I use WinBoard as an external viewer for\r
+ PGN files with the MS Windows File Manager or Explorer?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B.12]">[B.12] How do I use ICC timestamp or FICS timeseal\r
+ with XBoard?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B.13]">[B.13] How do I use ICC timestamp or FICS timeseal\r
+ with WinBoard?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[B.14]">[B.14] How do I play bughouse with XBoard or WinBoard?\r
+</A></LI>\r
+<li><a href="#[B.16]">[B.16]\r
+ What is Zippy? How can I interface a chess program to the Internet \r
+ Chess Servers?</a></li> \r
+<li><a href="#[B.17]">[B.17]\r
+ How can I interface my own chess program to XBoard or WinBoard?</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[B.18]">[B.18]\r
+ How can I recompile WinBoard from source?</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[B.19]">[B.19]\r
+ How can I use XBoard or WinBoard to talk\r
+ to an Internet Chess Server through a firewall or proxy?</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[B.20]">[B.20] \r
+ How can I use XBoard or WinBoard on chess.net with accuclock?</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[B.21]">[B.21]\r
+ Can I get Zippy to do one or more ICS commands automatically at the \r
+ start or end of each game?</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[B.22]">[B.22]\r
+ How do I print from WinBoard?</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[B.23]">[B.23]\r
+ Can I get Zippy to automatically reconnect to ICS when its connection \r
+ breaks?</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[B.24]">[B.24]\r
+ The chess engines are too strong and always beat me. How can I adjust\r
+ the difficulty level to make them weaker?</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[B.25]">[B.25]\r
+ May I use the piece bitmaps from XBoard/WinBoard in my own program?</a></li>\r
+\r
+</UL>\r
+\r
+<LI><A NAME="[C0]" HREF="#[C]">[C] XBoard and WinBoard, bugs and \r
+ problems</A></LI>\r
+<UL>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[C.1]">[C.1] I can't build XBoard because the\r
+ X11/Xaw/... include files are not found.</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[C.2]">[C.2] Configuring or building XBoard fails due to\r
+ missing header files, missing libraries, or undefined symbols.</a></li>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[C.3]">[C.3] I have problems using WinBoard on ICS with a modem.\r
+ I'm not running SLIP or PPP, but just dialing in to an ordinary login account\r
+("shell account").</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[C.4]">[C.4] \r
+ I have problems using WinBoard on ICS with Windows 95 and SLIP\r
+ or PPP. When trying to start up, it gets the error "Address family\r
+ not supported by protocol family" (or some equally strange message).\r
+</A></LI> \r
+<LI><A HREF="#[C.5]">[C.5] When I try to run WinBoard, I get the message\r
+ "Failed to start chess program gnuchess on localhost: NO LANGFILE (file\r
+ gnuchess.lan not found)".</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[C.6]">[C.6] I want to use XBoard or WinBoard as an Internet\r
+ Chess Server interface, but the ICS Client option is grayed out on the\r
+ menu.</A></LI> \r
+<LI><A HREF="#[C.7]">[C.7] How do I give command-line options to\r
+ a Windows program like WinBoard?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[C.9]">[C.9]\r
+ When I exit from WinBoard after using it to play against a chess\r
+ program on my machine, the chess program keeps running in the background.\r
+</A></LI>\r
+<li><a href="#[C.12]">[C.12]\r
+ Why do my ICS \r
+ opponents often get extra time after they make their moves?\r
+ Why do I sometimes lose time off my clock after I make my move?\r
+</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[C.13]">[C.13]\r
+ I can't run WinBoard unless I delete the WinBoard.ini file each time!\r
+</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[C.15]">[C.15]\r
+ I get errors compiling XBoard's parser.c.\r
+</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[C.16]">[C.16]\r
+ I get an error building WinBoard from source because "flex" is not found.\r
+</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[C.17]">[C.17]\r
+ XBoard hangs shortly after connecting to an ICS when used with dxterm,\r
+ cmdtool, dtterm, kterm, konsole, or other substitutes for xterm.\r
+</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[C.18]">[C.18]\r
+ The WinBoard pieces show up in the wrong colors, appear distorted,\r
+ or are not visible at all.\r
+</a></li>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[C.19]">[C.19] XBoard or WinBoard tells me\r
+"Error: first chess program (...) exited unexpectedly".</A></LI> \r
+<li><a href="#[C.20]">[C.20]\r
+ XBoard tells me "Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry", or\r
+ "too few colors available; trying monochrome mode", or\r
+ "XPM pieces cannot be used in monochrome mode".\r
+</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[C.21]">[C.21]\r
+ When I log in to freechess.org, the Enter key doesn't work, and I \r
+ have to use Ctrl+J instead. But when I use WinBoard, Ctrl+J doesn't\r
+ work either, so I'm stuck.\r
+</a></li>\r
+<li><a href="#[C.22]">[C.22]\r
+ XBoard says, "Failed to start first chess program gnuchessx\r
+ on localhost: gnuchessx: No such file or directory." \r
+</a></li>\r
+</UL>\r
+\r
+<LI><A NAME="[D0]" HREF="#[D]">[D] Crafty and other topics</A></LI>\r
+<UL>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[D.1]">[D.1] What is XChess?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[D.2]">[D.2] What is Winsock Chess?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[D.3]">[D.3] What is Crafty?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[D.4]">[D.4] How do I use Crafty with XBoard?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[D.5]">[D.5] How do I use Crafty with WinBoard?</A></LI>\r
+<LI><A HREF="#[D.6]">[D.6] How do I use GNU Chess 5 with XBoard?</A></LI>\r
+</UL>\r
+</UL>\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H2><A NAME="[A]">[A] Introduction and hot topics</A></H2>\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[A.1]">[A.1] What are XBoard and WinBoard?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+XBoard and WinBoard are graphical user interfaces for chess. \r
+XBoard runs with the X Window System on Unix systems (including\r
+GNU/Linux); see topic\r
+<A HREF="#[B.1]">[B.1]</A>.\r
+WinBoard runs on true 32-bit Microsoft Windows operating\r
+systems, such as Windows 95, 98, NT,\r
+2000, ME, XP, and should continue to work\r
+on future 32-bit Windows systems. It does\r
+not work on Windows CE (also known as Pocket PC), nor does it work on\r
+16-bit Windows systems such as Windows 3.1. See topic\r
+<A HREF="#[B.2]">[B.2]</A>.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[A.2]">[A.2] Where can I get chess information and chess \r
+software?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+As a shortcut to most things mentioned in this FAQ, try Tim Mann's\r
+Chess Web page, <A HREF= "http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html"\r
+>http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html</A>. This page page is a good\r
+place to get the latest released versions of XBoard and WinBoard and\r
+the most up-to-date version of this FAQ. Also see our Savannah\r
+project pages at <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/"\r
+>https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/</a>.\r
+\r
+<p>If you have other questions about XBoard/WinBoard that aren't answered\r
+in this FAQ, you can try Aaron Tay's WinBoard and Chess Engines FAQ, at\r
+<a href="http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/"\r
+>http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/</a>.\r
+\r
+<P>For general news and information about chess, try the newsgroup hierarchy\r
+rec.games.chess.*, especially the groups rec.games.chess.misc and\r
+rec.games.chess.computer. Both of the latter groups have very informative\r
+FAQs maintained by Steve Pribut; look for them on the newsgroups or at\r
+<A HREF=\r
+"http://www.clark.net/pub/pribut/chess.html"\r
+>http://www.clark.net/pub/pribut/chess.html</A>.\r
+\r
+<P>Like other GNU software, you can get XBoard, and\r
+WinBoard by anonymous FTP from \r
+<A HREF=\r
+"ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/"\r
+>ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/</A>\r
+and its many mirror sites. Look in the subdirectories xboard, and winboard.\r
+The .tar.gz suffix on the files there indicates they were packed with tar\r
+and compressed with gzip. The .exe or .zip suffixes indicate files that\r
+were packed and compressed with zip.\r
+\r
+<P>For other chess software, try the Internet Chess Library. Use anonymous FTP\r
+to connect to ftp.freechess.org, or go to the Web page\r
+<A HREF=\r
+"http://www.freechess.org/"\r
+>http://www.freechess.org/</A>.\r
+You can get chess software, game\r
+collections, the FAQ file for rec.games.chess, and other chess-related\r
+material there, in the directory pub/chess. The FTP server can\r
+automatically decompress files for you as you download them, useful if you\r
+don't have gzip.\r
+\r
+<P>Here is a sample anonymous ftp session. Some of the ftp server's responses\r
+are abbreviated, but all the commands you must type are included.\r
+\r
+<p><PRE>\r
+ % ftp ftp.gnu.org\r
+ Connected to ftp.gnu.org\r
+ Name: anonymous\r
+ Password: your-email-address@your-site\r
+ ftp> binary\r
+ 200 Type set to I.\r
+ ftp> cd /pub/gnu/xboard\r
+ ftp> dir\r
+ -rw-r--r-- 1 14910 wheel 1057625 May 20 00:25 xboard-4.2.7.tar.gz\r
+ ftp> get xboard-4.2.7.tar.gz\r
+ 150 BINARY connection for xboard-4.2.7.tar.gz (1057625 bytes).\r
+ 226 Transfer complete.\r
+ ftp> quit\r
+</PRE>\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[A.3]">[A.3] What are the current version numbers for \r
+XBoard and WinBoard?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+At this writing, the current version numbers are:\r
+\r
+<UL>\r
+<LI>XBoard 4.2.7</LI>\r
+<LI>WinBoard 4.2.7</LI>\r
+</UL>\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[A.4]">[A.4] Who is working on this project?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+Please see our Savannah project pages at <a\r
+href="https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/"\r
+>https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/</a> for a list of active\r
+developers. Many others occasionally contribute suggestions and\r
+snippets of code, for which we are grateful.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[A.5]">[A.5] How do I report bugs, offer help, etc.?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+<P>Bug reports, suggestions, and offers to help on XBoard\r
+or WinBoard should be sent to\r
+bug-xboard<a name="nospam">@</a>gnu.org.\r
+\r
+<p>Beginner questions and discussion about the program may get faster\r
+answers on the WinBoard Forum at <a\r
+href="http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/"\r
+>http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/</a>. \r
+\r
+<p>If you are developing a\r
+chess engine that works with XBoard or WinBoard (or an alternative\r
+GUI that works with such engines), see the Chess Engines mailing\r
+list, hosted at\r
+<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chess-engines"\r
+>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chess-engines</a>.\r
+\r
+<P>Any time you want to report a possible bug in XBoard or WinBoard,\r
+we need to know exactly what you did, and exactly what error (or\r
+other) messages you got.\r
+\r
+<P>If you are using Unix, run the "script" program, run XBoard with\r
+the -debug flag (if you get as far as running it), do whatever is\r
+necessary to reproduce the problem, type "exit" to the shell, and mail\r
+us the resulting typescript file. We also need to know what\r
+hardware/operating system combination you are using. The command\r
+"uname -a" will usually tell you this; include its output in your\r
+typescript.\r
+\r
+<P>If you are using MS Windows, run WinBoard with the -debug flag, and\r
+send us a copy of the WinBoard.debug file. If you aren't sure how to\r
+add command-line flags to WinBoard, you can hit Ctrl+Alt+F12 to create\r
+a WinBoard.debug file after WinBoard starts, but that is not as good,\r
+because a few messages that would have been printed at the start are\r
+lost.\r
+\r
+<p>Either way, please send us the exact text of the commands you typed\r
+and the output you got, not just your recollection of approximately\r
+what they were. The messages may seem meaningless to you, but they\r
+are very meaningful to us and essential for diagnosing problems.\r
+\r
+<hr>\r
+<h3><a name="[A.6]">[A.6] What are the future plans for XBoard and\r
+ WinBoard?</a></h3>\r
+\r
+<p>Our plans are always in flux. As with most free software projects,\r
+the next release will happen when it happens -- or it may never\r
+happen. This has always been the policy for XBoard/WinBoard.\r
+Releases have never been promised in specific time frames.\r
+\r
+<p>Starting in November 2003, several new developers have joined the\r
+project, and work is now hosted at <a\r
+href="https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/"\r
+>https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/</a>. Lots of work is just\r
+getting underway, but nothing is far along yet.\r
+\r
+<p>Here is a partial list of items that have a nonzero probability of\r
+happening in finite time.\r
+\r
+<ul>\r
+<li>Small bug fixes. Occasionally someone sends us a fix, or reports\r
+a small bug very clearly so that we're able to fix it in a few minutes\r
+work.<p>\r
+\r
+<li>Protocol version 3. The members of the chess engine authors'\r
+mailing list discussed a set of proposed features for the next version\r
+of the XBoard/WinBoard chess engine communication protocol.\r
+Unfortunately, this project has gotten only as far as that discussion\r
+took it; no revisions of the protocol spec or coding have been done\r
+yet. A few simple features are very clearly needed, though, and will\r
+probably appear in time.<p>\r
+\r
+<li>Contributed features. Several people have mailed me code to add\r
+various features. Most of this code is available on the\r
+XBoard/WinBoard extensions page at <a\r
+href="http://www.tim-mann.org/extensions.html"\r
+>http://www.tim-mann.org/extensions.html</a>, but it is not in any\r
+official releases yet. We are in the process of getting folks to\r
+formally assign the copyrights on their contributions to the Free\r
+Software Foundation so that we can include it in official releases in\r
+the future.<p>\r
+\r
+<li>Internationalization. Several people have expressed interest in\r
+internationalizing XBoard/WinBoard, and so hopefully this project will\r
+go forward. Once the internationalization support is in, we will need\r
+more translators. Watch for news on the xboard-devel mailing list on\r
+our Savannah pages.\r
+\r
+</ul>\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H2><A NAME="[B]">[B] XBoard and WinBoard</A></H2>\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.1]">[B.1] What is XBoard?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess. It displays a\r
+chessboard on the screen, accepts moves made with the mouse, and loads\r
+and saves games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). XBoard is free software.\r
+It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:\r
+\r
+<p><strong>Chess engines</strong> that will run on your machine and\r
+play a game against you or help you analyze, such as GNU Chess and\r
+Crafty (topic <A HREF="#[D.3]">[D.3]</A> below).\r
+\r
+<p><strong>Chess servers</strong> on the Internet, where you can\r
+connect to play chess with people from all over the world, watch other\r
+users play, or just hang out and chat.\r
+\r
+<p><strong>Correspondence chess</strong> played by electronic\r
+mail. The cmail program (topic <A HREF="#[B.6]">[B.6]</A> below)\r
+automates the tasks of parsing email from your opponent, playing his\r
+moves out on your board, and mailing your reply move after you've\r
+chosen it.\r
+\r
+<p><strong>The Web</strong> and your own saved games. You can use\r
+XBoard as a helper application to view PGN games in your\r
+Web browser, or to load and save your own PGN files.\r
+\r
+<P>XBoard runs under Unix or Unix-compatible systems. It requires the\r
+X Window System, version X11R4 or later. There are also ports of\r
+XBoard to 32-bit Microsoft Windows and to\r
+the Amiga. See topics <A HREF="#[B.2]">[B.2]</A> and <A\r
+HREF="#[B.3]">[B.3]</A> respectively.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.2]">[B.2] Is there an XBoard for Microsoft Windows? What is WinBoard? How do I install WinBoard?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+WinBoard is a port of XBoard to 32-bit Microsoft Windows systems, such\r
+as Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, and XP. It uses the same back end\r
+chess code as XBoard, but the front end graphics code is a complete\r
+rewrite. WinBoard is free software.\r
+\r
+<P>The WinBoard distribution includes a port of GNU Chess to Win32.\r
+The GNU Chess port is distributed in executable form, with instructions for\r
+rebuilding it from the standard GNU Chess sources (available separately). You\r
+should have at least 16 to 24 MB of memory to run GNU Chess with WinBoard.\r
+\r
+<P>The WinBoard distribution also includes the ICC timestamp and FICS\r
+timeseal programs (topic <A HREF="#[B.12]">[B.12]</A>).\r
+\r
+<P>cmail (topic <A HREF="#[B.6]">[B.6]</A>) has not been ported to\r
+Windows. All the other XBoard functions are included in WinBoard.\r
+The International Email Chess Group web site at <a\r
+href="http://www.iecg.org/" >http://www.iecg.org/</a> recommends\r
+ECTool (<a href="http://www.ectool.nu/" >http://www.ectool.nu/</a>)\r
+for playing correspondence chess under Windows.\r
+\r
+<p>You install WinBoard as follows. Download the WinBoard package to\r
+your PC (see topic <A HREF="#[A.2]">[A.2]</A>). It will be a file\r
+with a name like winboard-4_0_0.exe. Double-click on this file\r
+in the Explorer or File Manager to run it. Follow the on-screen\r
+prompts.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.3]">[B.3] Is there an XBoard for the Amiga? What is AmyBoard?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+AmyBoard is a port of XBoard to the Amiga, by Jochen Wiedmann.\r
+The distribution includes a port of GNU Chess.\r
+AmyBoard is free software.\r
+\r
+<p>The current version of AmyBoard is 330.5 (based on XBoard 3.3.0).\r
+No one is currently maintaining it.\r
+\r
+<P>System requirements:\r
+\r
+<UL>\r
+<LI>An Amiga (obviously :-), running OS 2.04 or later, 2Mb RAM or more.</LI>\r
+<LI>MUI 2.0 or later.</LI>\r
+<LI>Workbench or another screen with no less than 640x400 pixels (adjustable\r
+ with the MUI-Prefs); this restriction is just because we don't have\r
+ bitmaps with less than 40x40 pixels per square. If someone contributes\r
+ bitmaps with 20x20 or 20x25, they will work with any Hires mode.</LI>\r
+</UL>\r
+<P>\r
+If you would like to use an ICS, you need an Internet connection via either\r
+\r
+<UL>\r
+<LI>a telnet-like program, or</LI>\r
+<LI>a terminal program reading from stdin and writing to stdout.</LI>\r
+</UL>\r
+<P>\r
+AmyBoard is available in the Internet Chess Library (topic <A HREF="#[A.2]">[A.2]</A>).\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.4]">[B.4] Is there an XBoard for the Macintosh?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+Note: I am not a Mac user and have not tried this myself, so I cannot \r
+answer questions about it. \r
+ \r
+<p>Because MacOS X has a Unix base, XBoard will compile and run on it. \r
+You do need an X11 (X Window System) server and client libraries. I'm \r
+told that these come standard with MacOS X 10.3 and later. Once you \r
+install the X11 package, XBoard is reported to compile and run without \r
+changes. \r
+ \r
+<p>You can avoid having to compile XBoard (and GNU Chess) yourself by \r
+using the Fink sofware packaging system. See \r
+http://fink.sourceforge.net/ and \r
+http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/ for more info on Fink. \r
+ \r
+<p>There is no version of XBoard or WinBoard that runs with the native\r
+(non-X11) Mac graphical interface, and none that runs on MacOS 9 or\r
+earlier.</p>\r
+\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.5]">[B.5] Does XBoard run on VMS?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+No. This port would probably be a lot easier than the Win32 and Amiga\r
+ports were, because VMS has the X Window system (under the name\r
+DECwindows) and is now POSIX compliant. If you are working on this, \r
+send mail to bug-xboard<a name="nospam">@</a>gnu.org to let us know.\r
+\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.6]">[B.6] What is cmail?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+cmail is a program that helps you play and keep track of electronic mail\r
+correspondence chess games using XBoard. It is distributed with XBoard and\r
+has its own manual page. cmail is free software. It was written by\r
+Even Welsh. cmail has not been ported to Windows; sorry.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.7]">[B.7] How do I build XBoard? Do I need gcc?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+The first step to building XBoard is to get the distribution file. See topic\r
+<A HREF="#[A.2]">[A.2]</A> for places you can ftp the software from.\r
+\r
+<P>Next, decide what directory tree you are going to install XBoard\r
+in. The default is /usr/local, but you probably don't have write\r
+access to that directory unless you are a system administrator. If\r
+you do, type the following to install it there:\r
+\r
+<p><PRE>\r
+ gzip -cd xboard-*.tar.gz | tar -xvf -\r
+ cd xboard-*/\r
+ ./configure\r
+ make\r
+ su\r
+ make install\r
+</PRE>\r
+\r
+If you want to install xboard in your personal home directory ($HOME/bin),\r
+type this:\r
+\r
+<p><PRE>\r
+ gzip -cd xboard-*.tar.gz | tar -xvf -\r
+ cd xboard-*/\r
+ ./configure --prefix=$HOME\r
+ make\r
+ make install\r
+</PRE>\r
+\r
+<P>If the first step above fails because you don't have gzip, see\r
+topic <A HREF="#[A.2]">[A.2]</A>, and ask a local Unix expert if you\r
+need more help. If you have any problems with the last two steps,\r
+read the READ_ME and INSTALL files in the xboard-*/ directory. You\r
+will also find this FAQ there.\r
+\r
+<P>You don't need to have gcc to build XBoard. Almost any Unix C\r
+compiler should do.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.8]">[B.8] Can I use XBoard or WinBoard to play a game\r
+ of chess with another human?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+The only way for two humans on different machines to play chess in\r
+real time using XBoard/WinBoard is to use an Internet Chess Server\r
+as an intermediary. That is, each player runs his own copy of XBoard\r
+or WinBoard, both of them log into an ICS, and they play a game there.\r
+Two copies of XBoard/WinBoard cannot communicate with each other\r
+directly.\r
+\r
+<P>Instructions on how to get started with Internet chess are included\r
+with the XBoard and WinBoard distributions. The network addresses\r
+included in the distribution may not always be current. The oldest\r
+and largest ICS is the Internet Chess Club at chessclub.com, which now\r
+has a fee for registered use, but still allows free unregistered use.\r
+There are also many newer sites with no fees, using the Free Internet\r
+Chess Server implementation (FICS). The most active FICS site is\r
+freechess.org. On these and most other chess servers,\r
+the port number to use is 5000.\r
+\r
+<P>If you don't have network connectivity to any ICS site, you\r
+can run your own server using a version of the FICS code, but this\r
+is not easy. See <a href="http://www.tim-mann.org/ics.html#ownics"\r
+>http://www.tim-mann.org/ics.html#ownics</a> for advice and pointers.\r
+\r
+<P>The cmail program included with XBoard lets you play email postal games with\r
+another human; see topic <A HREF="#[B.6]">[B.6]</A>.\r
+\r
+<P>Two humans can play chess on the same machine using one copy of\r
+XBoard/WinBoard in\r
+Edit Game mode, but the clocks don't run in this mode, so it's of limited\r
+usefulness.\r
+\r
+<P>See also topic <A HREF="#[D.2]">[D.2]</A>, Winsock Chess.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.9]">[B.9] Will WinBoard run on Windows 3.1?\r
+ How about Windows CE (also known as Pocket PC)?\r
+</A></H3>\r
+\r
+WinBoard does not run on Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, etc.,\r
+not even with the Win32s compatibility package. The main problem is\r
+that Win32s does not have threads or real concurrent processes. A\r
+port of WinBoard to Windows 3.1 is possible in theory, but it would be\r
+difficult and messy, and no one is going to do it.\r
+\r
+<p>WinBoard does not run on Windows CE (also\r
+known as Pocket PC). I don't know what would be required to port it.\r
+\r
+<P>WinBoard does run well on full 32-bit versions of Windows, such as\r
+Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, and XP, and should continue to work\r
+on future 32-bit Windows systems.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.10]">[B.10] How do I use XBoard or WinBoard as an external viewer for PGN files\r
+ with my Web browser?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+1) On Unix systems:\r
+<P>\r
+- Add the following line to the file .mime.types in your home directory.\r
+(Create the file if it doesn't exist already.)\r
+<PRE>\r
+ application/x-chess-pgn pgn\r
+</PRE>\r
+<P>\r
+- Add the following line to the file .mailcap in your home directory.\r
+(Create the file if it doesn't exist already.)\r
+<PRE>\r
+ application/x-chess-pgn; xboard -ncp -lgf %s\r
+</PRE>\r
+<P>\r
+- Exit from your Web browser and restart it.\r
+\r
+<P>2) On MS Windows systems:\r
+\r
+<P>The exact procedure depends on which Web browser you are using.\r
+The current version of WinBoard automatically configures itself as\r
+your PGN viewer for local files, Netscape 4.x and later, and Internet\r
+Explorer. This automatic setup probably works for all other current Web\r
+browsers, too.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.11]">[B.11] How do I use WinBoard as an external viewer\r
+ for PGN files with the MS Windows File Manager or Explorer?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+WinBoard sets this up automatically when you install it, except on old\r
+versions of Windows NT (prior to 4.0). On Windows NT 3.51 or earlier,\r
+go to the File Manager, click on the File menu, select Associate,\r
+enter "pgn" as the extension, and use the Browse button to find your\r
+copy of WinBoard and set up the association.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.12]">[B.12] How do I use ICC timestamp or FICS timeseal\r
+with XBoard?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+First, get the appropriate version of timestamp or timeseal for your\r
+machine from ftp.chessclub.com or ftp.freechess.org.\r
+Second, be sure that you can connect using XBoard <I>without</I>\r
+timestamp/timeseal. Third, be sure that you can connect using\r
+timestamp/timeseal without XBoard. See the help files on ICC and FICS\r
+or ask people online if you have problems.\r
+\r
+<P>If you are in a completely ordinary situation, where your machine\r
+is directly on the Internet and you can connect to ICC or FICS \r
+without timestamp/timeseal using\r
+just the command "xboard -ics" or "xboard -ics -icshost freechess.org",\r
+change that command to one of the following:\r
+\r
+<p><PRE>\r
+ xboard -ics -icshost 204.178.125.65 -icshelper timestamp\r
+\r
+ xboard -ics -icshost 164.58.253.13 -icshelper timeseal\r
+</PRE>\r
+\r
+<p>If you have a firewall between your machine and the ICS, see topic\r
+<A HREF="#[B.19]">[B.19]</A>.\r
+\r
+<P>If you normally have to use the "/icscomm" command line option on\r
+xboard to log into a second machine, and then telnet to ICC or FICS\r
+from there, you are going to have to run the Unix version of timestamp\r
+or timeseal on the second machine. (If the second machine is not\r
+running Unix, you are out of luck.) Get the appropriate version of\r
+timestamp or timeseal onto the shell machine via FTP; see the help\r
+files on ICC and FICS for instructions. Then simply run it when you\r
+would normally run telnet. In this configuration you are not\r
+protected against lag between your PC and the shell machine, or for\r
+lag caused by heavy load on the shell machine itself from other users.\r
+\r
+<P>For further information on timestamp and timeseal, see the help\r
+files on ICC and FICS.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.13]">[B.13] How do I use ICC timestamp or FICS timeseal\r
+with WinBoard?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+<P>If you select an ICS from either the WinBoard Startup dialog or the\r
+Windows Start submenu that WinBoard installs, WinBoard automatically\r
+runs timestamp or timeseal if the ICS you chose is known to support it.\r
+\r
+<P>If you are constructing a WinBoard command line by hand, add the\r
+option "/icshelper timestamp" or "/icshelper timeseal" to the WinBoard\r
+command line to use timestamp or timeseal. Both timestamp.exe and\r
+timeseal.exe are included in the WinBoard distribution. They both\r
+function identically to the Unix versions, as documented in "help\r
+timestamp" on ICC and "help timeseal" on FICS.\r
+\r
+<p>If you have a firewall between your machine and the ICS, see topic\r
+<A HREF="#[B.19]">[B.19]</A>.\r
+\r
+<P>If you normally have to use the "/icscomm" command line option on\r
+WinBoard to log into a shell account, and then telnet to ICC or FICS\r
+from there, you are going to have to run the Unix version of timestamp\r
+or timeseal on the shell machine. (If the shell account is not on a\r
+Unix machine, you are out of luck.) Get the appropriate version of\r
+timestamp or timeseal onto the shell machine via FTP; see the help\r
+files on ICC and FICS for instructions. Then simply run it when you\r
+would normally run telnet. In this configuration you are not protected\r
+against lag between your PC and the shell machine, or for lag caused by\r
+heavy load on the shell machine itself from other users.\r
+\r
+<P>For further information on timestamp and timeseal, see the help\r
+files on ICC and FICS.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.14]">[B.14] How do I play bughouse with XBoard or WinBoard?\r
+</A></H3>\r
+\r
+XBoard and WinBoard have simple but effective bughouse support.\r
+Offboard piece holdings are shown in the board window's banner, and\r
+you drop offboard pieces using the right mouse button. Press it over\r
+the destination square to pop up a menu of pieces.\r
+\r
+<P>XBoard and WinBoard can display only one board at a time, but you\r
+can observe your partner's game by running a second copy of the\r
+program and logging in as a guest. (Unfortunately, this is not\r
+possible if you are using the /icscomm option.) To observe your\r
+partner's games automatically, use the "follow" or "pfollow" ICS\r
+command; see the ICS online help for details.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<h3><a name="[B.16]">[B.16] What is Zippy? How can I interface a \r
+chess program to the Internet Chess Servers?</a></h3>\r
+\r
+Zippy is an interface that lets a compatible chess engine (such as GNU\r
+Chess or Crafty) act as a computer\r
+player on an Internet Chess Server. Zippy is included in both the\r
+XBoard and WinBoard distributions. It is implemented as a small\r
+amount of additional code within XBoard or WinBoard. \r
+For documentation, see the file\r
+zippy.README, included in both distributions or available\r
+from my chess Web page,\r
+<A HREF=\r
+"http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html"\r
+>http://www.tim-mann/chess.html</A>.\r
+The version of zippy.README on my Web page is often more up-to-date\r
+than those in the XBoard/WinBoard distributions.\r
+You'll also find a "biography" of Zippy and pointers to the original\r
+Zippy the Pinhead comic strips on my Web page.\r
+Please read zippy.README carefully before you ask me any questions about Zippy.\r
+\r
+<p>Using a computer to choose your moves on a chess server is\r
+considered cheating unless your account is on the computer (C) list.\r
+Read "help computer" on your favorite server for details on their\r
+policy. Most of the servers have plenty of computers running now, so they\r
+will not be excited about having you run a new one unless you have\r
+written your own chess engine. They don't really need yet another \r
+Crafty or GNU Chess clone.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<h3><a name="[B.17]">[B.17] How can I interface my own chess program\r
+to XBoard or WinBoard?</a></h3>\r
+\r
+This is a non-trivial task. XBoard and WinBoard were not designed\r
+with a clean interface for talking to chess programs; they were\r
+written to work with an existing version of GNU Chess that expects to\r
+be talking to a person. Your program has to emulate GNU Chess's\r
+rather idiosyncratic command structure to work with XBoard and\r
+WinBoard. We are gradually cleaning up, improving, and documenting\r
+the interface as newer versions of XBoard and WinBoard come out,\r
+however.\r
+\r
+<p>For documentation, see the file engine-intf.html, included in both\r
+distributions or available from my chess Web page, <A HREF=\r
+"http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html"\r
+>http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html</A>.\r
+The version of engine-intf.html on my Web page is often more up-to-date\r
+than those in the XBoard/WinBoard distributions.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<h3><a name="[B.18]">[B.18] How can I recompile WinBoard from source?</a></h3>\r
+\r
+The source code for WinBoard is available from the author's Web page,\r
+<A HREF=\r
+"http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html"\r
+>http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html</A>.\r
+\r
+<p>WinBoard is currently developed using Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0.\r
+You can build the program from the MSVC++ GUI by opening the project\r
+file (winboard.dsp) and telling MSVC++ to build the project. You can\r
+also build it from the the command line by using the nmake program\r
+supplied with MSVC++.\r
+\r
+<p>To build WinBoard with the free Cygwin tools, available from <a\r
+href= "http://www.cygwin.com/" >http://www.cygwin.com/</a>), use the\r
+command "make -f cygwin.mak". WinBoard 4.2.5 was successfully\r
+compiled with the net release of Cygwin as downloaded on 20-March-2001\r
+(cygwin1.dll 1.1.8, gcc 2.95.2-6, binutils 20001221-1, flex 2.5.4-1),\r
+but exhibits a command-line parsing bug; see item 511 in the ToDo file\r
+that comes with WinBoard. WinBoard 4.1.0 does not compile with\r
+Cygwin. WinBoard 4.0.7 is known to compile with Cygwin BL20.1.\r
+\r
+<p>To build WinBoard with Borland C++ 4.5, use "borland.mak", supplied\r
+with the WinBoard sources, as the Makefile. Support for Borland C++\r
+was contributed by Don Fong and has not been tested by the author of WinBoard.\r
+\r
+<p>WinBoard is a Win32 application, so you definitely need a compiler\r
+and tool set that supports Win32. In particular, older versions of\r
+DJGPP can build only 32-bit MSDOS programs; that is, programs that use\r
+a DOS extender to get a 32-bit address space and do not make any\r
+Windows calls. The latest versions of DJGPP are said to be able to \r
+build Win32 programs when used with the proper extension package(s),\r
+but this is not known to work with WinBoard. Use Cygwin instead.\r
+\r
+<p>See also topic <A HREF="#[C.16]">[C.16]</A>.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.19]">[B.19] \r
+How can I use XBoard or WinBoard to talk\r
+to an Internet Chess Server through a firewall or proxy?\r
+</A></H3>\r
+\r
+<p>There is no single answer to this question, because there are many\r
+different kinds of firewalls in use. They work in various different\r
+ways and have various different security policies. This answer can\r
+only provide hints.\r
+\r
+<p>Note that you can't access Internet Chess Servers through a Web proxy,\r
+because they are not a Web service. You talk to them through a raw\r
+TCP connection, not an HTTP connection. If you can only access the\r
+Web through a proxy, there may be a firewall that stops you from\r
+making direct TCP connections, but there may also be a way through it.\r
+Read on for hints, and contact your local system administrator if you\r
+need more information about your local configuration.\r
+\r
+<p>A helpful user mailed me the following explanation of how to use\r
+WinBoard with WinGate:\r
+<blockquote>\r
+"I have managed to setup WinBoard though my WinGate proxy. I have the\r
+Office version. What I needed to do was to setup the TCP/IP\r
+connection to add the User/Host name and my provider service name for\r
+the DNS, but I had to leave the HOST IP address blank. I have not\r
+played with all the variations, so it may be just that I have the DNS\r
+lookup enabled."\r
+</blockquote>\r
+I hope this helps, though I don't find it very clear. I don't have\r
+a copy of WinGate myself and can't help if you have questions about it.\r
+\r
+<p>If you are using some other non-SOCKS firewall, read the FIREWALLS section\r
+in your XBoard or WinBoard documentation (man page, info document, or\r
+Help file). If you can telnet to a chess server in some way, then you\r
+can almost certainly connect to it with xboard/WinBoard, though in\r
+some cases you may not be able to run timestamp or timeseal. The\r
+timestamp and timeseal protocols require a clean, 8-bit wide TCP\r
+connection from your machine to the ICS, which some firewalls do not\r
+provide.\r
+\r
+<p>If you have a SOCKS firewall and are using <strong>XBoard</strong>,\r
+you should be able to SOCKSify xboard and use it. See <a\r
+href="http://www.socks.nec.com/">http://www.socks.nec.com/</a> for\r
+information about SOCKS and socksification. However, if you do this,\r
+you can't use timestamp or timeseal; what you really need is a\r
+socksified version of timestamp or timeseal. This is hard because the\r
+source code for timestamp and timeseal is proprietary; the folks\r
+running the chess servers don't give it out because that would make it\r
+too easy to cheat. On some versions of Unix, you may be able to\r
+socksify a program that you don't have the source code to by running\r
+it with an appropriate dynamic library; see <a\r
+href="http://www.socks.nec.com/">http://www.socks.nec.com/</a>. For\r
+others, you might be able to get a pre-built socksified version from\r
+the chess server administrators. For timeseal versions, see <a\r
+href="ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/timeseal/"\r
+>ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/timeseal/</a>. For timestamp\r
+versions, the directory would be <a\r
+href="ftp://ftp.chessclub.com/pub/icc/timestamp/"\r
+>ftp://ftp.chessclub.com/pub/icc/timestamp/</a>, but at this writing\r
+there don't seem to be any socksified timestamps there. Once you have\r
+a socksified timestamp or timeseal, simply run it with a normal,\r
+non-socksified xboard in place of the standard timestamp or timeseal.\r
+\r
+<p>If you have a SOCKS firewall and you are using\r
+<strong>WinBoard</strong>, we now know how to make this configuration\r
+work, complete with timestamp or timeseal!\r
+\r
+<p>Start by getting SocksCap32. This software is freely available\r
+from <a href="http://www.socks.nec.com/">http://www.socks.nec.com/</a>.\r
+Install it on your machine, read the documentation, and learn to use\r
+it. You may find it useful with many other programs besides WinBoard.\r
+\r
+<p>Next, <strong>don't</strong> socksify WinBoard. Socksifying\r
+WinBoard itself doesn't let you use it with timestamp or timeseal.\r
+For some reason I don't understand -- something strange that\r
+SocksCap32 does -- the socksified WinBoard runs but does nothing, and\r
+timestamp/timeseal runs all by itself in its own window.\r
+\r
+<p>Instead, use the following workaround. Follow the instructions\r
+exactly; don't try to skip steps or simplify things.\r
+\r
+<p>First, make SocksCap32 application profiles for timestamp and\r
+timeseal. Use the following command lines in the SocksCap32\r
+profiles. Name the first profile "timestamp" and the second\r
+"timeseal".\r
+\r
+<p><pre>\r
+ "c:\program files\winboard\timestamp.exe" chessclub.com 5000 -p 5000\r
+ "c:\program files\winboard\timeseal.exe" freechess.org 5000 -p 5000\r
+</pre>\r
+\r
+<p>Second, run timestamp or timeseal by itself, socksified, using its\r
+profile. This will open an unneeded, black window that will not\r
+respond to typing. Minimize it to the task bar and ignore it. It will\r
+go away when you exit from WinBoard.\r
+ \r
+<p>Next, run WinBoard using the following command line. Make a shortcut\r
+or type this command into an MS-DOS Prompt box. Don't run WinBoard\r
+itself socksified, just run it directly.\r
+\r
+<p><pre>\r
+ "c:\program files\winboard.exe" /ics /icshost=localhost /icsport=5000\r
+</pre>\r
+\r
+<p>After you get this working, you can try getting the timestamp window to\r
+auto-minimize by starting it from a shortcut instead of from the\r
+SocksCap32 control window. As it says in the SocksCap32 help file, put\r
+the following in the Target field of a shortcut's Properties page:\r
+\r
+<p><pre>\r
+ "c:\program files\sockscap32\sc32.exe" timestamp\r
+</pre>\r
+\r
+Then select "Run: Minimized" on the same page. Do the same for timeseal.\r
+\r
+<p>Another method that can work is to use a .bat file to start both\r
+timestamp and WinBoard. It would look something like this:\r
+\r
+<p><pre>\r
+ REM --\r
+ REM -- icc.bat\r
+ REM -- Start timestamp under SocksCap32 and use WinBoard to connect to it.\r
+ REM -- The string "timestamp" refers to a SocksCap32 profile for timestamp.\r
+ REM -- Do not change it to the filename of the timestamp program!\r
+ REM --\r
+ start /minimized "c:\program files\sockscap32\sc32.exe" timestamp\r
+ cd "c:\program files\winboard"\r
+ winboard /ics /icshost=localhost /icsport=5000\r
+</pre>\r
+\r
+<p>This workaround has a problem if you want to run two copies of\r
+WinBoard at once, talking to the same chess server twice (for\r
+bughouse) or to two different chess servers. If you need to do that,\r
+you will need to run a separate copy of timestamp with <i>a different\r
+port number</i> for each connection. You'll need to make a second set of\r
+profile entries with a different value after the -p flag (say, 5001)\r
+and you'll need to change the WinBoard command line /icsport=5000 for\r
+the second WinBoard to match.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[B.20]">[B.20] \r
+How can I use XBoard or WinBoard on chess.net with accuclock?\r
+</A></H3>\r
+\r
+<p>I believe chess.net provides a Win32 command-line version of\r
+accuclock that will work with WinBoard. Please see the documentation\r
+on the chess.net server itself; don't ask the author of WinBoard.\r
+\r
+<p>I don't know whether chess.net provides versions of accuclock for\r
+Unix at this time. Ask them.\r
+\r
+<hr>\r
+<h3><a name="[B.21]">[B.21]\r
+ Can I get Zippy to do one or more ICS commands automatically at the \r
+ start or end of each game?</a></h3>\r
+\r
+<p>By default, Zippy automatically sends the command "gameend" to ICS\r
+at the end of each game. You can alias this command (using the ICS\r
+"alias" feature) to anything you want. On ICC, you can use the\r
+"multi" feature to alias gameend to several commands, but other\r
+servers don't have that feature. Zippy doesn't send anything at the\r
+start of the game by default.\r
+\r
+<p>You can get Zippy to send one or more commands of your choosing, at\r
+the start and/or end of each game, by using the -zippyGameStart and\r
+-zippyGameEnd command line options, newly added in version 4.0.3.\r
+Both xboard and WinBoard have (somewhat obscure) ways of getting\r
+newlines into this option to send several commands. Here is an\r
+example of one way to do it for each.\r
+\r
+<p><pre>\r
+ xboard -ics -zp -xrm '*zippyGameStart: say hi\nsay prepare to die\n'\r
+\r
+ WinBoard /ics /zp /zippyGameEnd='say thanks\nseek 5 0\nseek 2 12\n'\r
+</pre>\r
+\r
+<hr>\r
+<h3><a name="[B.22]">[B.22]\r
+ How do I print from WinBoard?\r
+</a></h3>\r
+\r
+WinBoard does not have built-in printing functionality.\r
+If you want to print a picture of the board, press Alt+PrintScrn, run the\r
+standard Windows application Paintbrush, select Paste, and print from there.\r
+If you want to print a list of moves, save your game as a PGN file,\r
+then open the PGN file with Notepad or any other plain text editor and\r
+print it from there.\r
+\r
+<hr>\r
+<h3><a name="[B.23]">[B.23]\r
+ Can I get Zippy to automatically reconnect to ICS when its connection \r
+ breaks?</a></h3>\r
+\r
+<p>There isn't a perfect solution to this problem yet, but a pretty\r
+good one is to write a shell script (for xboard) or .bat script (for\r
+WinBoard) that automatically restarts the program whenever it exits.\r
+Use the -xexit flag so that you don't get a popup dialog that must be\r
+dismissed with the OK button before the program will exit. The gap in\r
+this solution is that your connection to ICS can sometimes get into a\r
+state where the program does not notice that the connection is broken\r
+until the next time it tries to send a command. Perhaps some future\r
+version of xboard/WinBoard will have an option to send a harmless\r
+command every five minutes or so.\r
+\r
+<p>Anyway, here is a sample Windows .bat file that restarts WinBoard each\r
+time it exits. Thanks to Jason Williamson. It assumes that you have put\r
+your computer account's name and password in a file named logon.ini.\r
+\r
+<pre>\r
+REM --\r
+REM -- wbrecon.bat\r
+REM -- Start WinBoard in Zippy mode, and restart it each time it exits.\r
+REM -- Add or change parameters as needed for your application.\r
+REM --\r
+:loop\r
+start /w winboard /zp /ics /icslogon logon.ini /xexit /xautoraise\r
+REM -- The next line is to have a short delay setup for 139 seconds.\r
+REM -- Leave it out if it doesn't work on the version of Windows you use.\r
+TYPE NUL | CHOICE.COM /N /CY /TY,99 >NUL\r
+goto loop\r
+</pre>\r
+\r
+<p>Here is a Unix shell script to do the same thing for xboard.\r
+It's a bit more elaborate. It is based on the script I use for the\r
+original Zippy. It logs all ICS output to a file named zippy.out,\r
+and it lets you type commands to Zippy by running "cat > zippy.fifo".\r
+\r
+<pre>\r
+#! /bin/sh\r
+host="204.178.125.65 -icsport 5000 -telnet -telnetProgram timestamp"\r
+#host="164.58.253.13 -icsport 5000 -telnet -telnetProgram timeseal"\r
+out=zippy.out\r
+fifo=zippy.fifo\r
+ZIPPYPASSWORD='something'\r
+export ZIPPYPASSWORD\r
+ZIPPYPASSWORD2='orother'\r
+export ZIPPYPASSWORD2\r
+ZIPPYLINES=`pwd`/all.lines\r
+export ZIPPYLINES\r
+ZIPPYGAMEEND='say Yow, that was FUN!\r
+gameend'\r
+export ZIPPYGAMEEND\r
+zippylogon=`pwd`/logon.ini\r
+DISPLAY=`hostname`:0.0\r
+export DISPLAY\r
+mv -f $out ${out}.old\r
+rm -f $fifo\r
+mkfifo $fifo\r
+pid=$$\r
+( while [ true ] ; do cat -u $fifo ; done ) | \\r
+ ( while [ true ] ; do\r
+ xboard -iconic -ics -icshost $host \\r
+ -zt -zp -xbell -xanimate \\r
+ -xautosave -xquiet -fcp "gnuchessx -h" \\r
+ -icslogon $zippylogon -xexit -autoflag -xautoraise $*\r
+ sleep 600\r
+ done ) > $out 2>&1 &\r
+</pre>\r
+\r
+<hr>\r
+<h3><a name="[B.24]">[B.24]\r
+ The chess engines are too strong and always beat me. How can I adjust\r
+ the difficulty level to make them weaker?</a></h3>\r
+\r
+<p>The simplest way to get that effect is to make sure the\r
+XBoard/WinBoard Auto Flag option is off, set a very fast time control\r
+so that the chess engine can't think for long, but take as much time\r
+over your own moves as you want. Also feel free to use Retract Move if\r
+you make a blunder. \r
+\r
+<p>Many chess coaches will let you switch sides after\r
+they get a stronger position so that you can get experience playing\r
+positions where you are winning. You can try this with XBoard/WinBoard\r
+by using the Machine White or Machine Black menu command to make the\r
+machine take over your position.\r
+\r
+<p>The -depth command-line option to XBoard/WinBoard can also be used to\r
+weaken the engine (see the man page or Help file). It's a bit of a\r
+nuisance to set command line options in Windows, but see topic <A\r
+HREF="#[C.7]">[C.7]</A> for instructions.\r
+\r
+<p>Other ways of weakening engines are engine-specific. Many of them\r
+let you adjust various parameters, and if you choose bad settings, the\r
+engine will play more poorly. Consult whatever documentation came with\r
+the engine you are using.\r
+\r
+<hr>\r
+<h3><a name="[B.25]">[B.25]\r
+ May I use the piece bitmaps from XBoard/WinBoard in my own program?</a></h3>\r
+\r
+<p>The piece bitmaps used in XBoard and WinBoard were designed by\r
+Elmar Bartel. He released them under the <a\r
+href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public\r
+License</a>. This means that if your program is also free software\r
+distributed under the GPL, you can use them freely. If your program\r
+is distributed under some other license, including commercial,\r
+shareware, or non-GPL freeware, then you cannot use the bitmaps unless\r
+you obtain special permission from Elmar. See the file README.bitmaps\r
+that comes with the XBoard and WinBoard source code for more\r
+information and an email address you can write to.\r
+\r
+<HR><H2><A NAME="[C]">[C] XBoard and WinBoard, bugs and problems</A></H2>\r
+\r
+<HR><H3><A NAME="[C.1]">[C.1] I can't build XBoard\r
+because the X11/Xaw/... include files are not found.</A></H3>\r
+\r
+These are the header files for the Athena Widgets library, which XBoard uses\r
+heavily. Some versions of Unix don't supply these files, but they are part of\r
+the standard X distribution, freely available from MIT. \r
+\r
+<P>For general information on getting missing X sources, see the FAQ on\r
+comp.windows.x. Note that you may be missing only the header files, or you\r
+may be missing the libraries themselves too.\r
+\r
+<P>HP-UX users are missing only the header files. You can get them by\r
+anonymous FTP as follows. (But first check with your system\r
+administrator to see if someone else at your site has already done\r
+this.) Get the archive file /hpux9/X11R5/Core/Xaw-5.00.tar.gz (Xaw\r
+header files) via anonymous FTP from the site hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk\r
+(138.253.42.172), or one of the other official sites---Germany:\r
+hpux.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de (129.13.200.57), US: hpux.cae.wisc.edu\r
+(144.92.4.15), France: hpux.cict.fr (192.70.79.53) or Netherlands:\r
+hpux.ced.tudelft.nl (130.161.140.100). Unpack the archive using gzip\r
+and follow the instructions in its README and/or HPUX.Install files.\r
+Thanks to Richard Lloyd for this information.\r
+\r
+<P>If you have the Xaw header files installed in a different place\r
+than the other X11 headers, you may need to configure XBoard with an\r
+extra flag to help it find them. For example, if yours are in\r
+/foo/bar/X11/Xaw, try this:\r
+\r
+<p><PRE>\r
+ rm config.cache\r
+ (setenv CFLAGS -I/foo/bar ; configure)\r
+</PRE>\r
+<P>\r
+Also see topic <A HREF="#[C.2]">[C.2]</A>.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[C.2]">[C.2] Configuring or building XBoard fails due to\r
+missing header files, missing libraries, or undefined symbols.\r
+</A></H3>\r
+\r
+Perhaps you have the X server and client programs installed on your\r
+machine, but not the X header files and link-time libraries. If so,\r
+you can run existing X programs, but you cannot compile a new X\r
+program from source code. In this case the XBoard configure script\r
+will fail and will tell you to look at this question in the FAQ. Many\r
+GNU/Linux distributions put the headers and libraries in a separate\r
+package, which you might not have installed. If you are using RedHat,\r
+install the XFree86-devel package. If you are using some other\r
+kind of Unix, ask your system administrator where to find the X header\r
+files and link-time libraries. If this is not your problem, read on.\r
+\r
+<p>The configure script for XBoard looks for X libraries and header\r
+files in some common places. Sometimes it fails: If yours are\r
+installed in an odd place, it may not find them at all. If you have\r
+more than one version of X installed on your system, it may find the\r
+"wrong" one, or occasionally it may find libraries from one version\r
+and incompatible header files from another. You can work around these\r
+problems by telling the configure script where the files are. For\r
+example:\r
+\r
+<p><PRE>\r
+ configure --x-includes=/odd/place/include \\r
+ --x-libraries=/odd/place/lib\r
+</PRE>\r
+\r
+<P>The directory named in the argument to --x-includes must have a\r
+subdirectory "X11" that contains the actual .h files. That is, if\r
+your X.h file has full pathname /odd/place/X11R6/include/X11/X.h, then\r
+you must give the argument --x-includes=/odd/place/X11R6/include.\r
+\r
+<P>Some linkers have bugs that cause bogus error messages when you try\r
+to link X programs. The configure script includes a workaround for a\r
+bug of this kind that exists in some SunOS 4.x.x installations. See\r
+the FAQ on comp.windows.x for more information about problems of this\r
+kind.\r
+\r
+<P>If all else fails, check whether anyone else at your site has been able to\r
+compile any X programs on your system. Your X installation might be buggy.\r
+If so, the system administrator at your site might know how to fix or work\r
+around the problem.\r
+\r
+<P>Also see topic <A HREF="#[C.1]">[C.1]</A>.\r
+\r
+<HR><H3><A NAME="[C.3]">[C.3] I have problems using WinBoard on ICS\r
+with a modem. I'm not running SLIP or PPP, but just dialing in to an\r
+ordinary login account ("shell account").</A></H3>\r
+\r
+Here are solutions to some common problems in this area.\r
+\r
+<P>Some people want to connect to ICS through HyperTerminal or some other\r
+terminal program first, then run WinBoard. This is not how it works.\r
+WinBoard wants to talk directly with your modem, acting as a terminal program\r
+itself. Start out with the modem "on hook" (not making a call).\r
+\r
+<P>Run WinBoard with a command line like this (adding more options if desired):\r
+\r
+<p><PRE>\r
+ WinBoard /ics /icscom com1\r
+</PRE>\r
+\r
+Use com2, com3, or com4 in place of com1 if your modem is connected to one of\r
+those ports.\r
+\r
+<P>After you start WinBoard, you may need to change some of the options in the\r
+Communications dialog (on the Options menu). The dialog has the usual options\r
+for talking to modems: bits per second, bits per byte, parity, number of stop\r
+bits. You will probably want to use Save Settings Now when you're done.\r
+\r
+<P>Next, type dialing commands to your modem in the text window that WinBoard\r
+creates. You may need to turn off Local Line Editing on the Options menu\r
+while you are typing commands to your modem. Turn it back on when you're\r
+done. See the WinBoard Help file for instructions if you see your typing\r
+echoed an extra time after you hit Enter.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[C.4]">[C.4]\r
+I have problems using WinBoard on ICS with Windows 95 and SLIP\r
+or PPP. When trying to start up, it gets the error "Address family\r
+not supported by protocol family" (or some equally strange message).\r
+</A></H3>\r
+\r
+WinBoard is a 32-bit application, but some Winsock (TCP/IP) implementations\r
+support only 16-bit applications. You get a strange looking error message\r
+if you try to use a 32-bit application because\r
+there is no standard Winsock error code number\r
+for "32-bit application not supported."\r
+\r
+<P>Microsoft TCP/IP works with both 16-bit and\r
+32-bit applications, supports SLIP, PPP, Ethernet, etc., and is included\r
+with Windows 95 and later Windows systems.\r
+If possible, I recommend that you uninstall\r
+whatever Winsock you are using and install Microsoft TCP/IP instead.\r
+For more information, see\r
+<A HREF=\r
+"http://walden.mo.net/~rymabry/95winfaq.html"\r
+>http://walden.mo.net/~rymabry/95winfaq.html (the Win95-L FAQ)</A>.\r
+\r
+<P>Trumpet Winsock 2.1 (and earlier) supports only 16-bit\r
+applications, and hence does not work with WinBoard. But there is a\r
+beta-test release available that does support 32-bit applications. \r
+I have not tried it with WinBoard, but it \r
+should work. See Trumpet's Web page\r
+<A HREF=\r
+"http://www.trumpet.com.au/wsk/winsock.htm"\r
+>http://www.trumpet.com.au/wsk/winsock.htm</A>\r
+for more information.\r
+\r
+<P>The 16-bit versions of America On-Line's software do not support\r
+32-bit Winsock applications. Get the 32-bit version. At one time the\r
+32-bit version was called "AOL for Windows 95," but I imagine that has\r
+changed. Hopefully the current versions are all 32-bit.\r
+\r
+<P>A few versions of Winsock may have bugs that prevent\r
+Windows timestamp/timeseal from working with them. I'm not sure if\r
+such bugs exist in any versions that actually have 32-bit support,\r
+so this point might be moot. Again, Microsoft TCP/IP is known to work.\r
+\r
+<HR><H3><A NAME="[C.5]">[C.5] When I try to run WinBoard, I get the\r
+message "Failed to start chess program gnuchess on localhost: NO\r
+LANGFILE (file gnuchess.lan not found)".</A></H3>\r
+\r
+<p>This message means that WinBoard is trying to run GNU Chess, but\r
+GNU Chess cannot find a file that it needs, named gnuchess.lan.\r
+If you see it, you've probably customized WinBoard's /fcp, /fd, /scp,\r
+and/or /sd options and made a mistake in the process. Review what\r
+you did, and see the WinBoard help file.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[C.6]">[C.6] I want to use XBoard or WinBoard as an Internet\r
+Chess Server interface, but the ICS Client option is grayed out on the\r
+menu.</A></H3> \r
+\r
+XBoard and WinBoard have three major modes that can't be changed from the\r
+menus: local chess engine mode,\r
+ICS mode, and standalone mode.\r
+\r
+<p>With XBoard, you have to set the mode using command-line options.\r
+Local chess engine mode is the default, -ics selects ICS mode, and\r
+-ncp ("no chess program") selects standalone mode.\r
+\r
+<p>With WinBoard, if you don't set the mode using command-line\r
+options, you get a dialog box asking which mode you want. To bypass\r
+the dialog box, use -cp ("chess program") for local chess engine mode,\r
+or -ics or -ncp as with XBoard. Also see topic <A HREF="#[C.7]">[C.7]</A>.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[C.7]">[C.7] How do I give command-line options to\r
+a Windows program like WinBoard?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+<P>There are many ways; pick your favorite:\r
+\r
+<P><UL>\r
+<LI>Type the command line into an MS-DOS Prompt box. Example:\r
+"WinBoard -ics".\r
+\r
+<LI>Make a Windows shortcut for WinBoard. You can do this by\r
+right-dragging WinBoard.exe to the desktop and selecting "Create\r
+Shortcut(s) Here" from the menu that appears. Right-click on the\r
+shortcut, select Properties, and click the Shortcut tab. The\r
+command-line text box is labelled "Target" instead of "Command line"\r
+just to confuse you. Edit the text in this box, adding the command\r
+line options to the end.</LI>\r
+\r
+<LI>Choose Run from the Start menu, or File / Run from the Program\r
+Manager or File Manager, and type the command line into the dialog you\r
+get. You may have to give WinBoard's full drivespec and filename if\r
+it is not in a directory on your search path.</LI>\r
+\r
+<LI>Make a Program Manager icon for WinBoard. You can do this by\r
+dragging WinBoard.exe from the File Manager into the Program Manager,\r
+or by using File / New in the Program Manager. Select the icon and\r
+choose File / Properties. Edit the Command Line text box to add the\r
+command-line options to the end.</LI>\r
+</UL>\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[C.9]">[C.9]\r
+When I exit from WinBoard after using it to play against a chess\r
+program on my machine, the chess program keeps running in the background.\r
+</A></H3>\r
+\r
+<p>Be sure you have the current versions of WinBoard and the chess\r
+engine you are using. WinBoard 3.4.1 and earlier had a bug that\r
+caused this problem to occur with all chess engines. A buggy chess\r
+engine that does not respond to the "quit" command will also cause\r
+this.\r
+\r
+<p>If you still see this problem, you can stop the rogue chess engine\r
+by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del, selecting the chess engine process from the\r
+menu, and pressing the End Task button.\r
+\r
+<hr>\r
+<h3><a name="[C.12]">[C.12]\r
+Why do my ICS \r
+opponents often get extra time after they make their moves?\r
+Why do I sometimes lose time off my clock after I make my move?\r
+</a></h3>\r
+\r
+If you are playing with the ICS incremental clock, both you and your\r
+opponent get a set amount of extra time after each move.\r
+\r
+<p>If your or your opponent has netlag, your opponent might appear to\r
+get extra time, especially if your opponent is using timestamp or\r
+timeseal. The ICS charges each player who is using timestamp or\r
+timeseal only for the time between when the player received his\r
+opponent's move and the time he sent his own move. Thus delays in\r
+network transmission do not count against either player. But WinBoard\r
+counts down the display of your opponent's clock on your screen under\r
+the assumption that there is no netlag. When his move comes in, if\r
+there was netlag, the ICS may not have really charged him for that\r
+much time, and WinBoard corrects the clock to what the ICS says it\r
+should read.\r
+\r
+<p>If you are not using timestamp or timeseal, you may appear to lose\r
+time off your clock at some point after you make your move. In this\r
+case, the ICS charges you for the time between when it sent you your\r
+opponent's move and the time it received your move. Thus delays in\r
+network transmission count against you. WinBoard stops counting down\r
+the display of your clock on your screen (and starts your opponent's)\r
+when you make your move. When the ICS echoes your move back to you, it\r
+may have charged you for more time than that, and WinBoard corrects\r
+the clocks to what the ICS says they should read.\r
+\r
+<p>See "help lag" and "help timestamp" or "help timeseal" on your ICS for\r
+more detailed information.\r
+\r
+<hr>\r
+<h3><a name="[C.13]">[C.13]\r
+I can't run WinBoard unless I delete the WinBoard.ini file each time!\r
+</a></h3>\r
+\r
+<p>Most people don't have this problem, but two or three people using\r
+Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3 or 4 have reported it. I have no\r
+idea what causes this problem. Contrary to what was reported in a\r
+previous version of this FAQ, reinstalling the service pack after\r
+installing WinBoard does not seem to solve the problem.\r
+\r
+<hr>\r
+<h3><a name="[C.15]">[C.15]\r
+I get errors compiling XBoard's parser.c.\r
+</a></h3>\r
+\r
+<p>The file parser.c is automatically generated from parser.l. The\r
+copy included with XBoard 4.0.2 was generated by lex on Tru64 Unix and\r
+has problems compiling and linking on current GNU/Linux versions. The\r
+copy included with XBoard 4.0.3 was generated by flex on a GNU/Linux\r
+machine, but it too won't necessarily work on other versions of Unix.\r
+If you have this problem, you can fix it by deleting parser.c and\r
+letting the Makefile re-create it from parser.l. This will work if\r
+you have either lex or flex on your system. Flex is available in all\r
+GNU/Linux distributions and can be obtained at no charge from the Free\r
+Software Foundation, www.fsf.org.\r
+\r
+<hr>\r
+<h3><a name="[C.16]">[C.16]\r
+I get an error building WinBoard from source because "flex" is not found.\r
+</a></h3>\r
+\r
+<p>The file parser.c is automatically generated from parser.l. The\r
+Makefile included with the WinBoard source kit has a rule for\r
+generating parser.c using the program "flex", which will fail if you\r
+don't have flex. However, the source kit also includes a ready-made\r
+copy of parser.c, so you don't really need flex unless you have made\r
+changes to parser.l. Check that you still have a copy of parser.c; if\r
+you don't, unpack the WinBoard source zip file again to get one.\r
+Either set the last-modified time of parser.c to be later than that of\r
+parser.l, delete parser.l, or comment out the Makefile rule for\r
+building parser.c from parser.l, and then try building WinBoard again.\r
+\r
+<p>If you do want to change parser.l and rebuild parser.c, you can get\r
+flex as part of the free Cygwin kit from \r
+<a href="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/"\r
+>http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/</a>. You can\r
+probably also get flex for Windows by itself from various other places\r
+around the Internet. It is free software distributed by the Free\r
+Software Foundation, www.fsf.org.\r
+\r
+<hr>\r
+<h3><a name="[C.17]">[C.17]\r
+ XBoard hangs shortly after connecting to an ICS when used with dxterm,\r
+ cmdtool, dtterm, kterm, konsole, or other substitutes for xterm.\r
+</a></h3>\r
+\r
+<p>After connecting to a chess server, XBoard 4.0.2 and later sends an\r
+escape sequence to its terminal that is meant to display your handle\r
+and the ICS host name (for example, \r
+"user<a name="nospam">@</a>chessclub.com") in the\r
+terminal's banner and icon. It seems that several of the alternative\r
+X terminal programs have a bug that makes them hang when sent this\r
+escape sequence.\r
+\r
+<p>You can work\r
+around the problem by using xterm, nxterm, rxvt, aterm, xiterm, or\r
+gnome-terminal, all of which seem to work fine. In fact, current\r
+versions of kterm and konsole seem to work fine too, so if you are\r
+having problems with one of them, be sure you are not running an\r
+outdated version. \r
+\r
+<p>Alternatively, you can disable this feature by commenting out the\r
+body of DisplayIcsInteractionTitle in xboard.c and recompling xboard.\r
+\r
+<hr>\r
+<h3><a name="[C.18]">[C.18]\r
+ The WinBoard pieces show up in the wrong colors, appear distorted,\r
+ or are not visible at all.\r
+</a></h3>\r
+\r
+<p>This can happen if you have a bug in your Windows display driver.\r
+Check with the manufacturer of your display card, the manufacturer of\r
+your computer, or Microsoft to see if there is an updated driver\r
+available. You can usually download updated drivers from the Web.\r
+\r
+<p>If you can't find an updated driver, you can try running Windows\r
+using a different number of colors and/or disabling some of the\r
+hardware acceleration features on your display card. To change the\r
+number of colors, go to Windows Start / Settings / Control Panel /\r
+Display / Settings / Color Palette. To disable hardware acceleration\r
+features, go to Windows Start / Settings / Control Panel / Display /\r
+Settings / Advanced Properties / Performance / Hardware Acceleration.\r
+\r
+<p>It's also possible that Windows has the right driver for your\r
+hardware already but you are not using it. It may help to reinstall\r
+your driver. Go to Windows Start / Settings / Control Panel / System\r
+and delete your display card (maybe even your monitor too), then\r
+reboot. Windows should automatically re-detect your card and monitor\r
+and re-install the drivers; if it doesn't, run Start / Settings /\r
+Control Panel / Add New Hardware to force it to.\r
+\r
+<p>If all else fails, try Monochrome mode. On WinBoard's menus, go\r
+to Options / Color and check Monochrome. WinBoard will display in black\r
+and white.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[C.19]">[C.19] XBoard or WinBoard tells me "Error: first chess\r
+ program (...) exited unexpectedly".</A></H3>\r
+\r
+<p>This message means that your chess engine crashed, probably due to\r
+a bug in the engine, or because you have it configured incorrectly.\r
+You can try running XBoard or WinBoard again with the "-debug" flag on\r
+the command line. This will print out all the messages received from\r
+the chess engine. (With WinBoard, the messages go into a file called\r
+WinBoard.debug; with XBoard, they go to the xterm that you started\r
+XBoard from.)\r
+\r
+<P>If you are using GNU Chess and you see this problem as soon as it\r
+starts up, most likely GNU Chess is exiting with an error message. If\r
+you see the message "NO LANGFILE", it means that you did not install\r
+GNU Chess correctly, and it is unable to find the file gnuchess.lang.\r
+Make sure that you defined LIBDIR in the gnuchess Makefile, and that\r
+gnuchess.lang is in that directory. If gnuchess.lang is not there,\r
+you probably didn't type "make install" in the gnuchess src directory;\r
+you must do this to install gnuchess.lang (and the gnuchess book). If\r
+you defined LIBDIR to something that is not an absolute pathname (that\r
+is, to something that does not start with a "/"), GNU Chess will work\r
+only if you run it from the GNU Chess "src" directory where you built\r
+it.\r
+\r
+<hr><h3><a name="[C.20]">[C.20]\r
+ XBoard tells me "Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry", or\r
+ "too few colors available; trying monochrome mode", or\r
+ "XPM pieces cannot be used in monochrome mode".\r
+</a></h3>\r
+\r
+<p>You are running your X server with 8-bit color depth, and you are running\r
+some program that has used up all 256 of your colors. Netscape tends\r
+to do this, or maybe you have a background image that uses up all of\r
+your colors.\r
+\r
+<p>If you have a modern machine, you probably have enough display\r
+memory to run your X server with 16-, 24-, or 32-bit color depth. If\r
+you're using "startx" to start the X server, try giving the command as\r
+"<tt>startx -- -bpp 24</tt>" (or 16, or 32). On newer X servers you\r
+may have to use -depth instead of -bpp. Further details on\r
+configuring your X server are beyond the scope of this FAQ.\r
+\r
+<p>If you must run in 8-bit mode, try the following:\r
+Avoid background images that use up all your colors. If you\r
+run Netscape, try starting it up with the <tt>-install</tt> command-line\r
+option; this gives Netscape its own private colormap that X will\r
+switch to when Netscape has the keyboard focus. \r
+\r
+<P>If all else fails, another possibility is to run xboard in\r
+monochrome (black and white) mode by giving it the <tt>-mono</tt>\r
+command-line option. XBoard will try this by itself in some cases.\r
+Monochrome mode works only with bitmap pieces, not pixmap pieces, so\r
+trying to use it may give you the error "XPM pieces cannot be used in\r
+monochrome mode". To get around this, either use the -bitmapDirectory\r
+command line option to point XBoard to the directory containing the\r
+bitmap pieces included with the XBoard source code, or rebuild XBoard\r
+with pixmap support disabled, using "./configure --disable-xpm ; make\r
+clean ; make".\r
+\r
+<hr><h3><a name="[C.21]">[C.21]\r
+ When I log in to freechess.org, the Enter key doesn't work, and I \r
+ have to use Ctrl+J instead. But when I use WinBoard, Ctrl+J doesn't\r
+ work either, so I'm stuck.\r
+</a></h3>\r
+\r
+<p>This is a pretty rare problem. It should only arise if you have to\r
+reach freechess.org by telnetting (or connecting with WinBoard\r
+/icsport=23) from a Windows PC to a Unix box, and then telnetting from\r
+there to freechess.org. The Enter key should always work when\r
+connecting directly from your PC to freechess.org.\r
+\r
+<p>The best way to get around the problem is to run timeseal on the\r
+intermediate Unix box instead of telnet. Get the appropriate version\r
+of timeseal for your box from ftp.freechess.org and follow the\r
+directions in the help files on FICS.\r
+\r
+<p>If you can't run timeseal for some reason, there are some things\r
+you can do to make telnet stay in line mode instead of going to\r
+character mode. Then the Enter key will work. First, try "telnet\r
+freechess.org 5000" instead of "telnet freechess.org."\r
+If that still doesn't work, then when the Enter key stops working,\r
+type the following. Here <tt><</tt> and <tt>></tt> surround the\r
+names of keys.\r
+\r
+<p><pre>\r
+ <Ctrl+S><Ctrl+]>mode line<Enter>\r
+</pre>\r
+\r
+<hr><h3><a name="[C.22]">[C.22]\r
+ XBoard says, "Failed to start first chess program gnuchessx\r
+ on localhost: gnuchessx: No such file or directory."\r
+</a></h3>\r
+\r
+<p>XBoard is looking for GNU Chess 4.0. If you didn't want to use\r
+XBoard with GNU Chess, please see topic <A HREF="#[C.6]">[C.6]</A>.\r
+If you did want to use GNU Chess 4.0, be sure you have it installed and\r
+that it is on your $PATH. If you wanted to use GNU Chess 5 instead,\r
+see topic <A HREF="#[D.6]">[D.6]</A>.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H2><A NAME="[D]">[D] Crafty and other topics</A></H2>\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[D.1]">[D.1] What is XChess?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+XChess is an older chessboard program that is no longer supported. XChess was\r
+written for X version 10, and you may or may not be able to build and run it\r
+on an X11 system.\r
+\r
+<P>XChess has only one significant feature that is not present in XBoard: Two\r
+humans can play chess using XChess on different machines, without using the\r
+Internet Chess Server as an intermediary. This feature is of interest only if\r
+you don't have network connectivity to the Internet Chess Server.\r
+\r
+<P>Note: There actually have been several different programs called "XChess" in\r
+circulation at various times. The above describes one that was associated\r
+with GNU Chess.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[D.2]">[D.2] What is Winsock Chess?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+Winsock Chess is a program that lets two people play chess across a\r
+network. It runs only under Microsoft Windows. Some of the code in\r
+Winsock Chess is derived from GNU Chess, but it is not maintained by\r
+the GNU Chess team. You can get a copy from the Internet Chess\r
+Library; see topic <A HREF="#[A.2]">[A.2]</A>. For more information,\r
+contact its author, Donald Munro, \r
+ccahdm<a name="nospam">@</a>beluga.upe.ac.za.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[D.3]">[D.3] What is Crafty?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+Crafty is a freely-available chess program written by Bob Hyatt. \r
+Bob is the main author of the well-known chess program Cray\r
+Blitz. Crafty is a very strong program, its code is available, commented\r
+and fairly readable, and its author is actively working on improvements.\r
+\r
+<p>You can download Crafty from <a\r
+href="ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/"\r
+>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/</a>. Start by getting the <a\r
+href="ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/read.me" >read.me</a> file and\r
+reading it. Among other things, this file contains instructions on\r
+how to install Crafty as a command-line application on your machine.\r
+\r
+<p>There is a Crafty mailing list.\r
+To subscribe, send email to \r
+majordomo<a name="nospam">@</a>cis.uab.edu, with \r
+"subscribe crafty-list" in the body.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[D.4]">[D.4] How do I use Crafty with XBoard?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+<p>First, you need to get Crafty and install it as a command-line\r
+application on your machine. See topic <A HREF="#[D.3]">[D.3]</A>.\r
+\r
+<p>To use Crafty with XBoard, give the -fcp\r
+parameter like this:\r
+\r
+<p><PRE>\r
+ xboard -fcp "./crafty" -fd <I>crafty_directory</I>\r
+</PRE>\r
+\r
+Here <I>crafty_directory</I> is the directory where you installed Crafty.\r
+You can add more xboard options at the end of the command line.\r
+\r
+<p>Crafty 15.14 or later is required to work properly with XBoard\r
+4.0.0 or later. We generally recommend using the latest versions of\r
+both XBoard and Crafty.\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[D.5]">[D.5] How do I use Crafty with WinBoard?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+<p>First, you need to get Crafty and install it as a command-line\r
+application on your machine. See topic <A HREF="#[D.3]">[D.3]</A>.\r
+It is best to use the latest version of Crafty with the latest version\r
+of WinBoard to make sure all features are compatible and function\r
+correctly. You can install Crafty in any directory you like.\r
+\r
+<p>You also need to get WinBoard and install it in the normal way\r
+using its built-in installer. You can do that either before or after\r
+you install Crafty.\r
+\r
+<p>After both Crafty and WinBoard are installed separately, follow the\r
+directions in the WinBoard Help file (included with WinBoard) for\r
+connecting new chess engines to WinBoard.\r
+\r
+<p>If you want to have Crafty act as an automated computer player on a\r
+chess server, see topic <A HREF="#[B.16]">[B.16]</A>. Before you try\r
+to get that working, be sure you can play against Crafty locally,\r
+first without WinBoard, then with it. Also be sure you can use\r
+WinBoard to play on the chess server yourself, without having Crafty\r
+connected to it. You have to crawl before you can walk!\r
+\r
+<HR>\r
+<H3><A NAME="[D.6]">[D.6] How do I use GNU Chess 5 with XBoard?</A></H3>\r
+\r
+<p>By default, XBoard still tries to use GNU Chess 4 by running the\r
+command "gnuchessx". That's why if you don't have GNU Chess 4, you\r
+get the error message "Failed to start first chess program gnuchessx\r
+on localhost: gnuchessx: No such file or directory."\r
+\r
+<p>If you have GNU Chess 5, the command should be "gnuchess xboard"\r
+instead. To make XBoard use this command, give the -fcp parameter\r
+like this:\r
+\r
+<p><PRE>\r
+ xboard -fd <I>gnuchess_directory</I> -fcp "./gnuchess xboard" \r
+</PRE>\r
+\r
+Here <I>gnuchess_directory</I> is the directory where you installed\r
+GNU Chess 5 and its book. You can add more xboard options at the\r
+end of the command line.\r
+\r
+<p><HR>\r
+$Id: FAQ.html,v 2.2 2003/11/28 09:35:21 mann Exp $<br>\r
+** End of XBoard/WinBoard FAQ **\r
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