changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.15

[xboard.git] / winboard / readme.txt

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+                             WinBoard 4.3.15m RELEASE NOTES\r
+\r
+Compared to version 4.3.14k described below, this version features\r
+\r
+New command-line options\r
+/rewindIndex=N (for the new auto-increment mode of the loadGameIndex or loadPositionIndex in match mode\r
+/sameColorGames=N (for playing a match where the same player has white all the time)\r
+/egtFormats="..." (for specifying where various end-game tables are installed on the computer)\r
+\r
+New menu items\r
++ Time-odds factors can be set in the time-control dialog\r
++ Nr of CPUs for SMP engines can be set in the Options -> UCI dialog\r
++ Own-Book options can be switched from the Options -> UCI dialog\r
++ The ScoreIsAbs options can be set from the Options -> Engine dialog\r
++ New-Variant menu adds Superchess\r
+\r
+General Enhancements:\r
+* WinBoard engines can now also use the Polyglot opening book (implemented as general GUI book)\r
+* New WB-protocol commands memory, cores and egtpath make interactive setting of these parameters \r
+  possible on WB engines\r
+* New Polyglot is available that relays the interactive setting of these parameters to UCI engines\r
+* Match mode suports an auto-increment mode, so that all games or positions from a file can be played\r
+* Draw claims with Kings and an arbitrary number of like Bishops (e.g. KBBKB) are accepted\r
+\r
+The source tree in original XBoard 4.2.7 format can now be compiled under Cygwin with the aid\r
+of the cygwin.mak file in the ~/winboard/ subdirectory of the source release. Makefiles for \r
+other compilers are not updated since 4.2.7, as I do not have those compilers.\r
+\r
+Note that this release is a bug-fix for the 4.3.15k release, which had a bug in human-ICS play mode.\r
+\r
+\r
                              WinBoard 4.3.14k RELEASE NOTES\r
 \r
 Compared to version 4.3.13 described below, this version features\r
@@ -21,7 +52,7 @@ Bugfixes:
 * In ICS observing mode game history is now fully accessible \r
 * Moves are not fed to engine in zippy mode, when observing a game from a variant unknown to the engine \r
 * a problem with loading PGN of FRC games with move disambiguation and initial castling rights was fixed.\r
-* A bug in the clock display that mad previous versions of WinBoard crash for tiny displays is fixed\r
+* A bug in the clock display that made previous versions of WinBoard crash for tiny displays is fixed\r
 \r
 General enhancements: \r
 * variant name displayed in title bar in ICS mode, when not 'normal' \r