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What is XBoard?\r
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XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System. It can\r
we will get in touch with you about merging them in to the main line\r
of development.\r
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-Version 4.3.14\r
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-This relaese was not made by the GNU xboard team, but by H.G.Muller.\r
-It mainly contains developments on WinBoard. Nevertheless, an attempt\r
-has been started to back-port the enormous number of improvements that\r
-have been made to WinBoard since the Linux and Windows developments branched\r
-to xboard. This is reflected by the source tree now having the same format\r
-as that of xboard 4.2.7, including all the xboard sources. \r
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-An enormous amount of work still has to be done to make the xboard version\r
-fully equivalent to WinBoard, especially on user-interface side. As a modest\r
-beginning, the xboard source files have been patched to allow their compilation\r
-with the newer back-end files from WinBoard. To this end, the number of piece\r
-types in xboard has been increased from 6 to 22, and the WinBoard bitmaps\r
-have been converted to xboard source format (.bm) and are included in the\r
-xboard bitmaps directory. Other quick patches include the coloring of the\r
-board squares (for xiangqi and holdings), and some code in the user-move\r
-handling to suppress all moves into or out of the area between board and\r
-holdings in crazyhouse, and the treatment of king-captures-own-piece\r
-as a possibly valid move (for FRC castling). This should make it possible \r
-to run xboard with the new back-end files without too much inconvenience.\r
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-New xboard command-line options have been added to make the added back-end \r
-features available. The include the new variants (as argument of the old\r
--variant option), -boardWidth, -boardHeight and -holdingsSize. Be sure\r
-to call xboard with "-boardSize middling" or "-boardSize bulky" if you\r
-want to play with fairy pieces, or xboard might crash due to unavailability\r
-of bitmaps. Other added xboard options are:\r
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-ADJUDICATION OPTIONS:\r
--checkMates\r
--testClaims\r
--materialDraws\r
--trivialDraws\r
--ruleMoves\r
--repeatsToDraw\r
--adjudicateLossThreshold\r
--firstScoreAbsolute\r
--secondScoreAbsolute\r
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-TIME-CONTROL OPTIONS\r
--firstTimeOdds\r
--secondTimeOdds\r
--timeOddsMode\r
--firstNPS\r
--secondNPS\r
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-GENERAL OPTIONS\r
--matchPause\r
--engineDebugOutput\r
--userName\r
--pgnExtendedInfo\r
--pgnEventHeader\r
--hideThinkingFromHuman\r
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-This is all completely untested, but as the options merely switch on well-tested\r
-code in the back-end, there should not be too many problems with them.\r
-Bugs can be reported in the WinBoard forum.
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