+\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
+@c %**start of header
@setfilename xboard.info
+@settitle XBoard
+@c %**end of header
+
+@include version.texi
@ifinfo
@format
can click the left mouse button once on the piece, then once more on
the destination square. To drop a new piece on a square (when
applicable), press the middle or the right mouse button over the
-square and select from the popup menu. In cases where you can drop
+square and select from the pop-up menu. In cases where you can drop
either a white or black piece, use the middle button (or shift+right)
for white and the right button (or shift+middle) for black. When you
are playing a bughouse game on an Internet Chess Server, a list of the
-offboard pieces that each player has available is shown in the window
+off-board pieces that each player has available is shown in the window
title after the player's name; in addition, the piece menus show the
number of pieces available of each type. From version 4.3.14 on, it is
also possible in crazyhouse, bughouse or shogi to dag and drop pieces
@cindex New variant, Menu Item
Allows you to select a new chess variant in non-ICS mode.
(In ICS play, the ICS is responsible for deciding which variant will be played,
-and XBoard adapts autmatically.) If you play with an engine, the engine must
+and XBoard adapts automatically.) If you play with an engine, the engine must
be able to play the selected variant, or the command will be ignored.
XBoard supports all major variants, such as xiangqi, shogi, chess, chess960,
-Capablanca Chess, shatranj, crazyhous, bughouse.
+Capablanca Chess, shatranj, crazyhouse, bughouse.
+(But not every board size has built-in bitmaps for un-orthodox pieces!)
@item Load Game
@cindex Load Game, Menu Item
Plays a game from a record file. The @kbd{g} key is a keyboard equivalent.
-A popup dialog prompts you for the file name. If the file contains more
-than one game, a second popup dialog
+A pop-up dialog prompts you for the file name. If the file contains more
+than one game, a second pop-up dialog
displays a list of games (with information drawn from their PGN tags, if
any), and you can select the one you want. Alternatively, you can load the
Nth game in the file directly, by typing the number @kbd{N} after the
@item Save Game
@cindex Save Game, Menu Item
Appends a record of the current game to a file.
-A popup dialog
+A pop-up dialog
prompts you for the file name. If the game did not begin with
the standard starting position, the game file includes the
starting position used. Games are saved in the PGN (portable
with Load Game.
@item Load Position
@cindex Load Position, Menu Item
-Sets up a position from a position file. A popup dialog prompts
+Sets up a position from a position file. A pop-up dialog prompts
you for the file name. If the file contains more than one saved
position, and you want to load the Nth one, type the number N
after the file name, separated by a space. Position files must
@item Save Position
@cindex Save Game, Menu Item
Appends a diagram of the current position to a file.
-A popup dialog
+A pop-up dialog
prompts you for the file name. Positions are saved in
FEN (Forsythe-Edwards notation) format unless the @code{oldSaveStyle}
option is true, in which case they are saved in an older,
clock to tell XBoard which side moves first.
4. Select Analysis Mode from the Mode Menu to start the analysis.
+
+The analysis function can also be used when observing games on an ICS
+with an engine loaded (zippy mode); the engine then will analyse
+the positions as they occur in the observed game.
@item Analyze File
@cindex Analyze File, Menu Item
This option lets you load a game from a file (PGN, XBoard format, etc.)
-and analyze it. When you select this menu item, a popup window appears
-and asks for a filename to load.
-If the file contains multiple games, another popup appears that lets
+and analyze it. When you select this menu item, a pop-up window appears
+and asks for a file name to load.
+If the file contains multiple games, another pop up appears that lets
you select which game you wish to analyze.
After a game is loaded, use the XBoard arrow buttons to step
forwards/backwards through the game and watch the analysis.
Training mode lets you interactively guess the moves of a game for one
of the players. You guess the next move of the game by playing the
move on the board. If the move played matches the next move of the
-game, the move is accepted and the opponent's response is autoplayed.
+game, the move is accepted and the opponent's response is auto-played.
If the move played is incorrect, an error message is displayed. You
can select this mode only while loading a game (that is, after
selecting @samp{Load Game} from the File menu). While XBoard is in
@cindex Stop Examining, Menu Item
Ends your participation in examining a game, by issuing the ICS
unexamine command. ICS mode only.
+@item Adjudicate to White
+@itemx Adjudicate to Black
+@itemx Adjudicate Draw
+@cindex Adjudicate to White, Menu Item
+@cindex Adjudicate to Black, Menu Item
+@cindex Adjudicate Draw, Menu Item
+Terminate an ongoing game in Two-Machines mode (including match mode),
+with as result a win for white, for black, or a draw, respectively.
+The PGN file of the game will accompany the result string
+by the comment "user adjudication".
@end table
@node Step Menu
@cindex Backward, Menu Item
@cindex <, Button
Steps backward through a series of remembered moves.
-The @samp{[<]} button and the @kbd{b} key are equivalents.
+The @samp{[<]} button and the @kbd{b} key are equivalents,
+as is turning the mouse wheel towards you.
In addition, pressing the Control key steps back one move, and releasing
it steps forward again.
@cindex >, Button
Steps forward through a series of remembered moves (undoing the
effect of @samp{Backward}) or forward through a game file. The
-@samp{[>]} button and the @kbd{f} key are equivalents.
+@samp{[>]} button and the @kbd{f} key are equivalents,
+as is turning the mouse wheel away from you.
If you are examining an ICS game, the behavior of Forward
depends on whether XBoard is in Pause mode. If Pause mode is
You can instruct XBoard to detect and terminate the game on checkmate
or stalemate, even if the engines would not do so, to verify engine
result claims (forfeiting engines that make false claims), rather than
-naively following the engine, to declare draw on posititions
+naively following the engine, to declare draw on positions
which can never be won for lack of mating material, (e.g. KBK),
-or which are impossble to win unless the opponent seeks its own demise
+or which are impossible to win unless the opponent seeks its own demise
(e.g. KBKN).
For these adjudications to work, @samp{Test Legality} should be switched on.
-It is also possible to insruct XBoard to enforce a 50-move or 3-fold-repeat
-rule and automtically declare draw (after a user-adjustable number of moves
+It is also possible to instruct XBoard to enforce a 50-move or 3-fold-repeat
+rule and automatically declare draw (after a user-adjustable number of moves
or repeats) even if the engines are prepared to go on.
It is also possible to have XBoard declare draw on games that seem to drag on
-forever, or adjudicate a loss if both engines agree (for 3 cosecutive moves) that one
+forever, or adjudicate a loss if both engines agree (for 3 consecutive moves) that one
of them is behind more than a user-adjustable score threshold.
For the latter adjudication to work, XBoard should be able to properly understand
-the engine's scores. To faclitate the latter, you can inform xboard here if
+the engine's scores. To facilitate the latter, you can inform xboard here if
the engines report scores from the viewpoint of white, or from that of their own color.
@item Engine Settings
-@citem Engine Settings, Menu Item
Pops up a sub-menu where you can set some engine parameters common to most engines,
such as hash-table size, tablebase cache size, maximum number of processors
that SMP engines can use, and where to find the Polyglot adapter needed
-to run UCI engines under XBoard. The feature tht allows setting of these parameters on
+to run UCI engines under XBoard. The feature that allows setting of these parameters on
engines is new since XBoard 4.3.15, so not many WinBoard engines respond
to it yet, but UCI engines should.
It is also possible to specify a GUI opening book here, i.e. an opening
If this option is off, XBoard brings up a dialog
box whenever you move a pawn to the last rank, asking what piece
you want to promote it to. If the option is true, your pawns are
-always promoted to queens. Your opponent can still underpromote.
+always promoted to queens. Your opponent can still under-promote.
@item Animate Dragging
@cindex Animate Dragging, Menu Item
If Animate Dragging is on, while you are dragging a piece with the
If this option is off, when you make an error in moving (such as
attempting an illegal move or moving the wrong color piece), the
error message is displayed in the message area. If the option is
-on, move errors are displayed in small popup windows like other errors.
-You can dismiss an error popup either by clicking its OK button or by
-clicking anywhere on the board, including downclicking to start a move.
+on, move errors are displayed in small pop-up windows like other errors.
+You can dismiss an error pop-up either by clicking its OK button or by
+clicking anywhere on the board, including down-clicking to start a move.
@item Premove
@cindex Premove, Menu Item
If this option is on while playing a game on an ICS, you can register
You can add or remove shortcut keys using the X resources
@code{form.translations}. Here is an example of what would go in your
-@file{.Xdefaults} file:
+@file{.Xresources} file:
@example
XBoard*form.translations: \
This section documents the command-line options to XBoard. You can
set these options in two ways: by typing them on the shell command
line you use to start XBoard, or by setting them as X resources
-(typically in your @file{.Xdefaults} file). Many of the options
+(typically in your @file{.Xresources} file). Many of the options
cannot be changed while XBoard is running; others set the initial
state of items that can be changed with the @ref{Options} menu.
interchangeably.
Each option corresponds to an X resource with the same name, so
-if you like, you can set options in your @file{.Xdefaults} file
+if you like, you can set options in your @file{.Xresources} file
or in a file named @file{XBoard} in your home directory.
For options that have two names, the longer one is the name of
the corresponding X resource; the short name is not recognized.
@menu
* Chess engine options:: Controlling the chess engine.
-* WB + UCI Engine Settings:: Setting some very common engine parameters
+* UCI + WB Engine Settings:: Setting some very common engine parameters
* ICS options:: Connecting to and using ICS.
* Load and Save options:: Input/output options.
* User interface options:: Look and feel options.
-* Adjudication options:: Control adjudcation of engine-engine games.
+* Adjudication Options:: Control adjudication of engine-engine games.
* Other options:: Miscellaneous.
@end menu
If mode=0, both play with reduced time. Default: 0.
@item -hideThinkingFromHuman true/false
Controls the Hide Thinking option. @xref{Options Menu}. Default: true.
-(Relaces the Show-Thinking option of older xboard versions.)
+(Replaces the Show-Thinking option of older xboard versions.)
@item -thinking/-xthinking or -showThinking true/false
@cindex thinking, option
@cindex showThinking, option
@cindex ponderNextMove, option
Sets the Ponder Next Move menu option. @xref{Options Menu}. Default: true.
@item -smpCores number
-@citem smpCores, option
-Specifies the maxmum nmber of CPUs an SMP engine is allowed to use.
+Specifies the maximum number of CPUs an SMP engine is allowed to use.
Only works for engines that support the WinBoard-protocol cores feature.
@item -mg or -matchGames n
@cindex mg, option
Setting @code{matchMode} to true is equivalent to setting
@code{matchGames} to 1.
@item -sameColorGames n
-@cinex sameColorGames, option
+@cindex sameColorGames, option
Automatically runs an n-game match between two chess engines,
without alternating colors.
Otherwise the same applies as for the @samp{-matchGames} option,
type in real newline characters, including one at the very end.
In most shells you can do this by
entering a @samp{\} character followed by a newline. It is easier to set
-the option from your @file{.Xdefaults} file; in that case you can
+the option from your @file{.Xresources} file; in that case you can
include the character sequence @samp{\n} in the string, and it will
be converted to a newline.
If this option is set, the score reported by the engine is taken to be
that in favor of white, even when the engine plays black.
Important when XBoard uses the score for adjudications, or in PGN reporting.
+@item -niceEngines priority
+@cindex niceEngines, option
+This option allows you to lower the priority of the engine processes,
+so that the generally insatiable hunger for CPU time of chess engines does not interfere so much
+with smooth operation of WinBoard (or the rest of your system).
+Negative values could increase the engine priority, which is not recommended.
+@item -firstOptions string
+@itemx -secondOptions string
+@cindex firstOptions, option
+@cindex secondOptions, option
+The given string is a comma-separated list of (option name=option value) pairs,
+like the following example: "style=Karpov,blunder rate=0".
+If the options announced by the engine at startup through the feature commands of WinBoard protocol
+matches one of the option names (i.e. "style" or "blunder rate"),
+it would be set to the given value (i.e. "Karpov" or 0)
+through a corresponding option command to the engine.
+This provided that the type of the value (text or numeric) matches as well.
+@item -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN string
+@itemx -secondNeedsNoncompliantFEN string
+@cindex firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN, option
+@cindex secondNeedsNoncompliantFEN, option
+The castling rights and e.p. fields of the FEN sent to the mentioned engine
+with the setboard command will be replaced by the given string. This can for
+instance be used to run engines that do not understand Chess960 FENs in
+variant fischerandom, to make them at least understand the opening position,
+through setting the string to "KQkq -". (Note you also have to give the e.p. field!)
+Other possible applications are to provide work-arounds for engines that want to see
+castling and e.p. fields in variants that do not have castling or e.p.
+(shatranj, courier, xiangqi, shogi) so that WinBoard would normally omit them
+(string = "- -"), or to add variant-specific fields that are not yet supported by WinBoard
+(e.g. to indicate the number of checks in 3check).
@end table
-
-
@node UCI + WB Engine Settings
+@section UCI + WB Engine Settings
@cindex Engine Settings
@cindex Settings, Engine
@table @asis
Indicates if the mentioned engine executable file is an UCI engine,
and should be run with the aid of the Polyglot adapter rather than directly.
Xboard will then pass the other UCI options and engine name to Polyglot
-through a .ini temporary file ceated for the purpose.
+through a .ini temporary file created for the purpose.
@item -PolyglotDir filename
@cindex PolyglotDir, option
Gives the name of the directory in which the Polyglot adapter for UCI engines expects its files.
Default: "/usr/local/share/polyglot".
@item -usePolyglotBook true/false
@cindex usePolyglotBook, option
-Specifies if the Polygot book should be used.
+Specifies if the Polyglot book should be used.
@item -PolyglotBook filename
@cindex PolyglotBook, option
Gives the filename of the opening book that Polyglot should use.
is set to false.
The engine will be kept in force mode as long as the current position is in book,
and XBoard will select the book moves for it. Default "".
-@item -fNoOwnBookUCI or -firstHasOwnBookUCI true/false
-@itemx -sNoOwnBookUCI or -secondHasOwnBookUCI true/false
+@item -fNoOwnBookUCI or -firstXBook or -firstHasOwnBookUCI true/false
+@itemx -sNoOwnBookUCI or -secondXBook or -secondHasOwnBookUCI true/false
@cindex fNoOwnBookUCI, option
@cindex sNoOwnBookUCI, option
@cindex firstHasOwnBookUCI, option
@cindex secondHasOwnBookUCI, option
+@cindex firstXBook, option
+@cindex secondXBook, option
Indicates if the mentioned engine has its own opening book it should play from,
rather than using the external book through XBoard. Default: false.
@item -defaultHashSize n
@end table
@node ICS options
-@section Internet Chess Server Options
+@section ICS options
@cindex ICS options
@cindex Options, ICS
@table @asis
the given character I/O device instead of opening a TCP connection.
Use this option if your system does not have any kind of
Internet connection itself (not even a SLIP or PPP connection),
-but you do have dialup access (or a hardwired terminal line) to
+but you do have dial-up access (or a hardwired terminal line) to
an Internet service provider from which you can telnet to the ICS.
The support for this option in XBoard is minimal. You need to
@cindex autoObserve, option
Sets the Auto Observe menu option. @xref{Options Menu}. Default: false.
@item -autoKibitz
-@cindex autoKibitz, option`
+@cindex autoKibitz, option
Enables kibitzing of the engines last thinking output (depth, score, time, speed, PV)
before it moved
to the ICS, in zippy mode. The option @code{showThinking} must be switched on for
this option to work.
+Also diverts similar kibitz information of an opponent engine that is playing you
+through the ICS to the engine-output window, as if the engine was playing locally.
@item -moves/-xmoves or -getMoveList true/false
@cindex moves, option
@cindex getMoveList, option
Sets the ICS Alarm menu option. @xref{Options Menu}. Default: true.
@item -icsAlarmTime ms
@cindex icsAlarmTime, option
-Sets the time in milliseconds for the ICS Alarm menu option.
+Sets the time in milliseconds for the ICS Alarm menu option.
@xref{Options Menu}. Default: 5000.
+@item lowTimeWarning true/false
+@cindex lowTimeWarning, option
+Controls a color change of the board as a warning your time is running out.
+@xref{Options Menu}. Default: false.
@item -pre/-xpre \fRor\fB -premove true/false
@cindex pre, option
@cindex premove, option
your xterm. Bold can be 1 or 0. If background is omitted, ``default''
is assumed; if bold is omitted, 0 is assumed.
-Here is an example of how to set the colors in your @file{.Xdefaults} file.
+Here is an example of how to set the colors in your @file{.Xresources} file.
The colors shown here are the default values; you will get
them if you turn @code{-colorize} on without specifying your own colors.
aborted, adjourned, or otherwise ends inconclusively. Default: "" (no
sound).
-Here is an example of how to set the sounds in your .Xdefaults file:
+Here is an example of how to set the sounds in your @file{.Xresources} file:
@example
xboard*soundShout: shout.wav
@end table
@node Load and Save options
-@section Load and Save Options
+@section Load and Save options
@cindex Options, Load and Save
@cindex Load and Save options
@table @asis
The @code{rewindIndex} option causes the index to be reset to the
first game of the file when it has reached a specified value.
@item -rewindIndex n
-@citem rewindIndex, option
Causes a position file or game file to be rewound to its beginning after n
positions or games in auto-increment @code{matchMode}.
See @code{loadPositionIndex} and @code{loadGameIndex}.
Default: "Computer Chess Game".
@item -saveOutOfBookInfo true/false
@cindex saveOutOfBookInfo, option`
-Include the information on how the engine(s) game out of its opening book in a special annotator tag with the PGN file.@item -oldsave/-xoldsave or -oldSaveStyle true/false
+Include the information on how the engine(s) game out of its opening book in a special 'annotator' tag with the PGN file.
+@item -oldsave/-xoldsave or -oldSaveStyle true/false
@cindex oldsave, option
@cindex oldSaveStyle, option
Sets the Old Save Style menu option. @xref{Options Menu}. Default: false.
+@item -gameListTags string
+@cindex gameListTags, option
+The character string lists the PGN tags that should be printed in the
+Game List, and their order. The meaning of the codes is e=event,
+s=site, d=date, o=round, p=players, r=result, w=white Elo, b=black Elo,
+t=time control, v=variant, a=out-of-book info.
+Default: "eprd"
@end table
@node User interface options
-@section User Interface Options
+@section User interface options
@cindex User interface options
@cindex Options, User interface
@table @asis
@cindex geometry, option
@cindex iconic, option
These and most other standard Xt options are accepted.
+@item -noGUI
+@cindex noGUI, option
+Suppresses all GUI functions of XBoard
+(to speed up automated ultra-fast engine-engine games, which you dont want to watch).
+There will be no board or clock updates, no printing of moves,
+and no update of the icon on the task bar in this mode.
@item -movesound/-xmovesound or -ringBellAfterMoves true/false
@cindex movesound, option
@cindex bell, option
@itemx -lightSquareColor color
@itemx -darkSquareColor color
@itemx -highlightSquareColor color
+@itemx -lowTimeWarningColor color
@cindex Colors
@cindex whitePieceColor, option
@cindex blackPieceColor, option
@cindex lightSquareColor, option
@cindex darkSquareColor, option
@cindex highlightSquareColor, option
+@cindex lowTimeWarningColor, option
Colors to use for the pieces, squares, and square highlights.
Defaults:
-darkSquareColor #77A26D
-highlightSquareColor #FFFF00
-premoveHighlightColor #FF0000
+-lowTimeWarningColor #FF0000
@end example
On a grayscale monitor you might prefer:
-darkSquareColor gray60
-highlightSquareColor gray100
-premoveHighlightColor gray70
+-lowTimeWarningColor gray70
@end example
@item -drag/-xdrag or -animateDragging true/false
@cindex drag, option
is below the given score threshold for that engine. Make sure the score
is interpreted properly by XBoard,
using @code{-firstScoreAbs} and @code{-secondScoreAbs} if needed.
-Default: 0 (no adjudiction)
+Default: 0 (no adjudication)
@item -adjudicateDrawMoves n
@cindex adjudicateDrawMoves, option
If the given value is non-zero, XBoard adjudicates the game as a draw
-if after the given number of moves it was not yet decided. Defaut: 0 (no adjudication)
+if after the given number of moves it was not yet decided. Default: 0 (no adjudication)
@item -checkMates true/false
@cindex checkMates, option
If this option is set, XBoard detects all checkmates and stalemates,
@end table
@node Other options
-@section Other Options
+@section Other options
@cindex Options, miscellaneous
@table @asis
@item -ncp/-xncp or -noChessProgram true/false
gothic similar, with a better initial position
caparandom An FRC-like version of Capablanca Chess (10x8)
janus A game with two Archbishops (10x8 board)
-courier Medieval intermedite between shatranj and
+courier Medieval intermediate between shatranj and
modern Chess (on 12x8 board)
falcon Patented 10x8 variant with two Falcon pieces
berolina Pawns capture straight ahead, and move diagonal
unknown Catchall for other unknown variants
@end example
+NOT ALL BOARDSIZES PROVIDE A COMPLETE SET OF BUILT-IN BITMAPS FOR ALL
+UN-ORTHODOX PIECES, though. Only in @code{boardSize} middling and bulky
+all 22 piece types are provided, while -boardSize petite has most
+of them. Archbishop, Chancellor and Amazon are supported in every
+size from petite to bulky. Kings or Amazons are substituted for
+missing bitmaps. You can still play variants needing un-orthodox
+pieces in other board sizes providing your own bitmaps through the
+@code{bitmapDirectory} or @code{pixmapDirectory} options.
+
In the shuffle variants, XBoard now does shuffle the pieces, although
you can still do it by hand using Edit Position. Some variants are
supported only in ICS mode, including bughouse, and
-kriegspiel. The winning/drawing conditions in crazyhouse (offboard
-interposition on mate), losers, suicide, giveaway, atomic, and 3check
-are not fully understood.
+kriegspiel. The winning/drawing conditions in crazyhouse (off-board
+interposition on mate) are not fully understood, but losers, suicide,
+giveaway, atomic, and 3check should be OK.
Berolina and cylinder chess can only be played with legality testing off.
In crazyhouse, XBoard now does keep
-track of offboard pieces. In shatranj it does implement the baring
+track of off-board pieces. In shatranj it does implement the baring
rule when mate detection is switched on.
@item -boardHeight N
@cindex boardHeight, option
@cindex debug, option
@cindex debugMode, option
Turns on debugging printout.
+@item -debugFile filename or -nameOfDebugFile filename
+@cindex debugFile, option
+@cindex nameOfDebugFile, option
+Sets the name of the file to which WinBoard saves debug information
+(including all communication to and from the engines).
+@item -engineDebugOutput number
+@cindex engineDebugOutput, option
+Specifies how WinBoard should handle unsolicited output from the engine,
+with respect to saving it in the debug file.
+The output is further (hopefully) ignored.
+If number=0, WinBoard refrains from writing such spurious output to the debug file.
+If number=1, all engine output is written faithfully to the debug file.
+If number=2, any protocol-violating line is prefixed with a '#' character,
+as the engine itself should have done if it wanted to submit info for inclusion in the debug file.
+This option is provided for the benefit of applications that use the debug file
+as a source of information, such as the broadcaster of live games TLCV / TLCS.
+Such applications can be protected from spurious engine output that might otherwise confuse them.
@item -rsh or -remoteShell shell-name
@cindex rsh, option
@cindex remoteShell, option
@cindex userName, option
Name under which the Human player will be listed in the PGN file.
Default is the login name on your local computer.
+@item -delayBeforeQuit number
+@itemx -delayAfterQuit number
+@cindex delayBeforeQuit, option
+@cindex delayAfterQuit, option
+These options specify how long WinBoard has to wait before sending a termination signal to rogue engine processes, that do not want to react to the 'quit' command. The second one determines the pause after killing the engine, to make sure it dies.
+
@end table
@node Chess Servers
xboard -ics -icshost firewall.example.com -icsport 23
@end example
@noindent
-Or in your @file{.Xdefaults} file:
+Or in your @file{.Xresources} file:
@example
XBoard*internetChessServerHost: firewall.example.com
@end example
@noindent
-Or in your @file{.Xdefaults} file:
+Or in your @file{.Xresources} file:
@example
XBoard*gateway: rsh.example.com
@end example
@noindent
-Or in your @file{.Xdefaults} file:
+Or in your @file{.Xresources} file:
@example
XBoard*useTelnet: true
alternative ports. As noted above, your chess server may allow you to
connect on port 23 instead. In that case, just add the option
@samp{-icsport ""} to the above command, or add
-@samp{XBoard*internetChessServerPort:} to your @file{.Xdefaults} file.
+@samp{XBoard*internetChessServerPort:} to your @file{.Xresources} file.
But if your chess server doesn't let you connect on port 23, you will have
to find some other host outside the firewall and hop through it. For
instance, suppose you have a shell account at @samp{foo.edu}. Set
@end example
@noindent
-Or in your @file{.Xdefaults} file:
+Or in your @file{.Xresources} file:
@example
XBoard*useTelnet: true
Evan Welsh wrote @code{CMail}. Patrick Surry helped in designing,
testing, and documenting CMail.
-Allessandro Scotti added many elements to the user interface of WinBoard,
+Alessandro Scotti added many elements to the user interface of WinBoard,
including the board textures and font-based rendering, the evaluation-graph,
move-history and engine-output window.
He was also responsible for adding the UCI support.
In addition he added most of the adjudication options,
made WinBoard more robust in dealing with buggy and crashing engines,
and extended time control with a time-odds and node-count-based modes.
-Most of the options that initially wre WinBoard only have now been back-ported to XBoard.
+Most of the options that initially were WinBoard only have now been back-ported to XBoard.
Michel van den Bergh provided the code for reading Polyglot opening books.
+Arun Persaud worked with H.G. Muller to combine all the features of the never-released WinBoard 4.2.8
+of the Savannah project (mainly by Daniel Mehrmann),
+and the never-released 4.3.16 into a unified WinBoard 4.4,
+which is now available both from the Savannah web site and the WinBoard forum.
@node CMail
@chapter CMail
@cindex cmail
environment variable @code{$CMAIL_MAILPROG} or failing that
@file{/usr/ucb/Mail}, @file{/usr/ucb/mail} or @file{Mail}. You will need
to set this variable if none of the above paths fit your system.
-@item -gamesFile <file>
-@cindex .cmailgames
-A file containing a list of games with email addresses. This defaults to
-the environment variable @code{$CMAIL_GAMES} or failing that
-@file{.cmailgames}.
-@item -aliasesFile <file>
-@cindex .cmailaliases
-A file containing one or more aliases for a set of email addresses. This
-defaults to the environment variable @code{$CMAIL_ALIASES} or failing
-that @file{.cmailaliases}.
@item -logFile <file>
A file in which to dump verbose debugging messages that are invoked with
the @samp{-v}
@menu
* GNU Chess:: The GNU Chess engine.
+* Fairy-Max:: The Fairy-Max chess engine.
+* HoiChess:: The HoiChess chess engine.
* Crafty:: The Crafty chess engine.
* zic2xpm:: The program used to import chess sets from ZIICS.
@end menu
@node Fairy-Max
@section Fairy-Max
-Fairy-Max is a derivative from the World's smallest Chess program micro-Max,
+Fairy-Max is a derivative from the once World's smallest Chess program micro-Max,
which measures only about 100 lines of source code.
The main difference with micro-Max is that Fairy-Max loads its move-generator
tables from a file, so that the rules for piece movement can be easily configured
to implement unorthodox pieces.
-Fairy-Max can therefore play a lage number of variants, normal Chess being one of those.
-In addition it plas Knightmate, Capablanca and Gothic Chess, Shatranj, Courier Chess,
+Fairy-Max can therefore play a large number of variants, normal Chess being one of those.
+In addition it plays Knightmate, Capablanca and Gothic Chess, Shatranj, Courier Chess,
Cylinder chess, Berolina Chess, while the user can easily define new variants.
It can be obtained from:
xboard -pixmap ~/fritz4
@end example
-Alternatively, you can add this line to your .Xdefaults file:
+Alternatively, you can add this line to your @file{.Xresources} file:
@example
xboard*pixmapDirectory: ~/fritz4
@printindex cp
@contents
@c end noman
+
+@bye
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