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XBoard

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XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms, including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi (Japanese chess) and Makruk, in addition to many minor variants such as -Losers Chess, Crazyhouse, Chess960 and Capabanca Chess. It displays a +Losers Chess, Crazyhouse, Chess960 and Capablanca Chess. It displays a chessboard on the screen, accepts moves made with the mouse, and loads and saves games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:

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XBoard runs on Unix and Unix-like systems that use the X Window System.

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Winboard

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The project also includes a port to 32-bit Windows systems called +
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XBoard GTK build, playing some Chess variant

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WinBoard, configured with marble board

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Winboard

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The project also includes a port to MicroSoft-Windows systems called WinBoard.

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You can find the download section for the stable version of Winboard at -the Winboard -Forum or try the link to a beta-version in the download section.

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You can find the downloads for binaries and preconfigured installer packages of Winboard at +the Winboard Forum, +where yo can also report problems, get help from other WinBoard users or discuss feature requests. +Windows builds of development versions or installers for special configuartions +can be found at HGM's web page. +

Development for Winboard, reporting bugs and any other requests can also be done at the same places as for XBoard (see below).

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What's new

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Starting from 4.5.0 we will summarize the latest changes at these webpages. You can also find information about the next upcoming release here. -Have a look, try it out (download links below) and let us know what you think.

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Help needed

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We can always need more people to help out with XBoard/Winboard. Have a look at the following list in case you are interested:

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Testers

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We are always looking for people who are willing to test the latest new features and give us feedback or new ideas. If you are interested, please send an email to our list at <xboard-devel@gnu.org> or just try out the program and reports bugs either to the email list or to the bug-tracker (see below for links).

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GTK developer needed

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We are also working on merging Winboard and XBoard back into one version using a cross platform GTK-front end. This will help us clean up the code and make things like internationalization easier. Progress is slow though, so if you know want to help out there are lots of things waiting to be done. Email the mailing list for more information.

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EPD test-suite capability

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A sort of match mode where one engine automatically does a number of 'games', -(using a position file filled with EPDs as starting positions), -except that each 'game' lasts only for one move, and the 'result' is then computed -by XBoard depending on if this move was the correct solution specified in the EPD.

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Multi-board ICS mode

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Implement a slave mode where XBoard forks itself, connecting a pipe between -what normally would be the ICS socket of the child, and a new output channel -of the parent, so that the parent can forward board and move lists belonging to -a specific game to the slave dedicated to display it.

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Allow run-time loading / unloading of engines

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A tricky issue, because in the current code initializing the engine is intertwined -with initializing XBoard. And the whole idea is to be able to switch engine without -losing your current settings or indeed your current game. So it will require some -good thought about which options need to be reset (like -fd, for sure), and which -should be kept.

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Implement a tournament manager in XBoard

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Currently XBoard supports only two-player matches. If run-time changing of the -engine becomes possible, it wold be nice if people could also perform automatic -round-robins or gauntlets between a group of engines.

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Processing of engine PVs before display

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Currently XBoard just displays what the engine prints for PV in its thinking output -literally. Which often means long algebraic. It would be nice if the user can choose -the display format, so it can be SAN or even some other format (e.g. descriptive -notation or some specific Xangqi or Shogi format), possibly through invoking an -external processor.

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Update the documentation

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The documentation could need some updates. In our effort to merge -Winboard and XBoard back together, we also want to merge the RTF file -back into the XBoard texinfo file. This will take some effort though, -since the two versions still differ in several areas and this would -need to be highlighted. The benefit would be though that we could -prepare a much better and up to date Windows documentation. -

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Update the webpage

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The content of the webpage could be updated with screenshots from -the latest version. We also have a new tutorial that could be -integrated. The webpage should also be integrated with git, so that -all developers have access to it.

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Downloading XBoard

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stable version

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stable version (4.8.0)

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The current stable version -is: 4.5.1

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It can be found on the main GNU ftp server: +

Sources of current stable version can be found on the main GNU ftp server: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ (via http) and -ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ (via ftp).

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It can also be found on one of the mirrors +ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ (via ftp). +It can also be found on one of the mirrors of ftp.gnu.org; please use a mirror if possible.

Precompiled versions are available for openSUSE -and debian-squeeze +and debian-sid + (if you know of other distribution that package it, please let us know).

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Mac OSX Intel 10.7+ App

+A preconfigured app bundle of Xboard for Mac OSX can also be found at the Winboard Forum.

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development version

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It would be great if people would like to help in the developing process. We can use all kinds of help, from people who just use the software and have a feature request (send them to developer mailing list), to people who can update/check the documentation and especially people who test development versions (send problems to the developer mailing list).

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We regularly do so called 'developer releases', which include the newest and the latest we are working on. +If you want to help us test, or just want to use the new features, you might prefer to use those over the stable version. +

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At the moment we have three developer versions:

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At the Open Build Server we provide packages that can be installed in parallel to the normal xboard version. To do this the programs are renamed to xboardnext (latest from the v4.7.x branch in git) and xboardgit (latest version from the master branch in git). Packages are available for: Debian 6.0, Fedora 17/18, RedHat RHEL 6, opensuse 12.1/12.2/12.3/Tumbleweed/Factory, Centos 6, Arch, Ubunutu 10.04/12.04/12.10. These packages are generated automatically and are for testing purposes only. Please let us know if you have any problems related to XBoard or package dependencies.

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If you think you found a bug, please check the bugtracker for open and already closed bugs. If you found a new bug, please, file a bug-report either via our bug-related email list or in the bugtracker. +

For feature requests, please use our mailinglist: <xboard-devel@gnu.org>.

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Licensing

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XBoard +is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the +terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free +Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your +option) any later version.

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