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+<h2>What is new in Winboard_x?</h2>
+
+ <table cellpadding="20"><tr valign="top"><td>
+ <h4>New Features</h4>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B1">Adjudicating engine-engine games</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A1">Using bitmaps for board textures</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A3">enhanced move highlighting (with arrows)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A2">Using piece symbols from a chess font</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-D1">Score and search depth in the PGN file</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-D2">Did the engine get "out of book" well?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C1">Move history window</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C2">Evaluation histogram window</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C3">Engine output window</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C4">Making four windows behave as one</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C5">A customizable game list</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B2">FRC (Fisher Random Chess, aka Chess960)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A4">Paste anything with Ctrl-V</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-E1">Overview of new options</a></li>
+
+
+ </ul>
+ </td><td valign="top">
+ <img src="../4.5.0/winboardF.png">
+ </td><td valign="top">
+ <p>
+ <a href="WinBoardF.html">Follow-up fork (4.3)</a>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <a href="http://www.ascotti.org/programming/chess/winboard_x.htm">Original Winboard_x website</a>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <a href="Winboard_x.html">Preceding release (4.2.7)</a>
+ </p>
+ </td></tr></table>
+
+ <h3><a name="tag-B1">Engine-game adjudication</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ To prevent games dragging on forever when neither of the engines want to settle for a draw,
+ games can be aborted (adjudicated draw) after a ertain number of moves.
+ Games can also be adjudiated win or loss when both engines agree that the score is above a certain value
+ for one of them, for 3 moves in a row.
+ To make this work, both engines should use the standard soreing convention (own point of view);
+ engines that don't can be corrected through the use of the boolean options -first/secondScoreIsAbsolute.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is also possible to adjudicate engine-engine games manually, through the Action menu, as draw or win for white or black.
+ </p>
+
+ <table cellpadding="20"><tr><td valign="top">
+ <h3><a name="tag-A1">Using arbitrary bitmaps for board squares</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ Winboard_x allows you to make the board look anyway you want by using arbitrary bitmaps
+ to cut the squares from.
+ White and black squares are cut from independent files.
+ The -light/darkBackTextureFile options can specify these bitmaps files,
+ while -light/darkBackTextureMode options control how the orientation of the cut-out squares
+ is randomized to suggest larger variety.
+ On the right you see a board with a wood texture made this way.
+ </p>
+ <h3><a name="tag-A3">Line gap and arrow highlighting</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ The rather heavy black lines used by WinBoard for highlighting moves can interfere badly
+ with the aesthetic effect of the textures;
+ An option -overrideLineGap is therefore provided to overrule the default line width,
+ and set it to very narrow or completely absent.
+ This again makes it very difficult or impossible to see the square highlights,
+ so an option -highLigtMovesWithArrow is supplied as an alternative highlight method.
+ </p>
+ <h3><a name="tag-A2">Using true-type fonts to define the pieces</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ If you are tired of the built-in bitmaps, you can use a chess font to define alternativ piece symbols.
+ As true-type fonts are scalable, this in principle works for all board sizes with a single font.
+ (Except that for very small size the result is not pretty, so Winboard_x does not allow it below size petite.)
+ On the right you see pieces made by using the ChessMark font (obtained from enpassant.dk).
+ </p>
+ </td><td valign="top">
+ <img src="chessmark.gif">
+ </td></tr></table>
+
+ <h3><a name="tag-D1">Engine scores saved in the PGN file</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ Winboard_x captures the scores and depth reported in engine thinking output,
+ for inclusion in the PGN file under control by the option -pgnExtendedInfo).
+ Obviously this requires the engine to send thinking output,
+ even when a human playing it would prefer not to see it above the board.
+ So the option -showThinking can no longer be used to suppress the output.
+ For that reason a new option -hideThinkingFromHuman is provided,
+ which allows you to suppress the displaying of the info, but not the sending.
+ </p>
+
+ <h3><a name="tag-D2">Out-of-book info in engine games</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ With an option -outOfBookInfoInPGN you can control the inclusion of an 'Annotator' tag in the PGN,
+ which will report the score at the first move where the engine was reporting a search depth.
+ (Presumably this was where it got out of book.)
+ This allows you to easily see whether the engine was unfairly treated by giving it a bad opening line.
+ </p>
+
+ <table cellpadding="20"><tr><td valign="top">
+ <h3>Three Auxiliary Windows</h3>
+ <img src="petite.gif">
+ </td><td valign="top">
+ <h3><a name="tag-C3">The engine-output window</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ The engine-output window is the most complex auxiliary window at all.
+ It can consist of two panes (one for each engine), where it displays the thinking output of the engine.
+ Above those the name of the engine is printed, and icons to indicate the color they play, and what they are doing:
+ thinking, pondering or analyzing.
+ It also prints the engine search speed, in nodes per second.
+ When 'periodic updates' is enabled, it also displays the current move, end move count.
+ </p>
+ <h3><a name="tag-C2">The evaluation graph</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ A second auxiliary window is the Evaluation Graph.
+ This displays the engine scores as a histogram when space permits, and as a line graph otherwise.
+ Two lines of user-configurable color do depict the score evolution of the two players.
+ Clicking on a point in the graph fast-forwards the game to the corresponding position.
+ </p>
+ <h3><a name="tag-C1">The move-history window</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ An auxiliary window is supplied to show the move history as free-format SAN.
+ Double-clicking on a move would fast-forward the game to the position where it was played.
+ An option -extraInfoInMoveHistory controls if score/depth info is displayed as comment behind the moves.
+ </p>
+ </td></tr></table>
+
+ <h3><a name="tag-C4">Glueing the windows together</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ The three auxiliary windows can be independently sized and positioned.
+ But if they touch each other, or the main window, thew will 'snap' together.
+ If you then move the main window, the other windows will follow it,
+ like the whole conglomerate forms a single window.
+ This behavior is controlled by the option -stickyWindows.
+ </p>
+
+<h3><a name="tag-C5">Configuring and selecting game-list headers</a></h3>
+<table cellpadding="20"><tr><td valign="top">
+ <p>
+ The header line that appears in the game list for each game can now be composed by the user from the PGN tags.
+ A new menu dialog allows him to pick the tags he likes, and sort them in any desired order.
+ This order will be stored in the settings file as the option -gameListTags,
+ where each tag is encoded by a single letter.
+ </p>
+ <table cellpadding="20"><tr><td valign="top">
+ <img src="FilterWB.png">
+ </td><td valign="top">
+ <p>
+ Another novelty is that there now is a 'Filter' field at the bottom of the Game List window.
+ If you type a text there, only game headers containing that text as a sub-string will be displayed in the game list.
+ This allows you, for instance, to select the games of a single player from a PGN with tourney results,
+ or all games that ended in a draw.
+ </p>
+ </td></tr></table>
+</td><td valign="top">
+ <img src="GLTagsWB.png">
+</td></tr></table>
+
+ <h3><a name="tag-A4">Pasting games and positions with Ctrl-V</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ In Winboard_x the standard 'paste' command Ctrl-V can be used to paste both games and positions into the board,
+ as it will be obvious whih of the two is currently on the clipboard.
+ </p>
+
+<table cellpadding="20"><tr><td valign="top">
+ <img src="Shuffle.png">
+</td><td valign="top">
+ <h3><a name="tag-B2">Shuffling the starting position of Chess960</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ In local mode WinBoard cannot count on an ICS to generate a starting position for him.
+ An item 'New FRC Game' in the file menu now pops up a dialog,
+ where the user can specify how he wants WinBoard to generate the opening position
+ (a new randomly picked position or every game,
+ or the same position for each game, picked randomly once or specified by the user by number.)
+ </p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3><a name="tag-E1">Overview of new command-line options</a></h3>
+<p>
+Below follows a table that lists the new features,
+the command-line option needed to control them,
+and if there is a menu provided that can switch the option while WinBoard is running
+(command-line options exert their effect only at startup).
+</p>
+<table cellpadding="3" border="1"><tr><td width="220">
+ <h3>command-line option</h3>
+ </td><td>
+ <h3>description</h3>
+ </td><td width="250">
+ <h3>menu</h3>
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+
+ </td><td bgcolor="lightblue">
+ <strong>ENGINE-ENGINE ADJUDICATION OPTIONS<strong>
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -adjudicateLossThreshold 0 (*)
+ </td><td>
+ adjudicates engine-engine game based on score
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Engine...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -adjudicateDrawMoves 0 (*)
+ </td><td>
+ adjudicate draw when game lasts too long
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Engine..
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -firstScoreAbs false
+ <br>
+ -secondScoreAbs false
+ </td><td>
+ Engine indicates score for white, even when playing black
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -
+ </td><td>
+ Adjudicate the game in progress as win to white, win to black, or draw
+ </td><td>
+ Action -> Adjudicate to White
+ <br>
+ Action -> Adjudicate to Black
+ <br>
+ Action -> Adjudicate Draw
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+
+ </td><td bgcolor="lightblue">
+ <strong>TIME-CONTROL AND TIMING OPTIONS</strong>
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -delayBeforeQuit 0 (*)
+ <br>
+ -delayAfterQuit 0 (*)
+ </td><td>
+ timing parameter specifying how to terminate the engine processes
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+
+ </td><td bgcolor="lightblue">
+ <strong>DISPLAY-LOOK OPTIONS</strong>
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -liteBackTextureFile "" (*)
+ <br>
+ -darkBackTextureFile "" (*)
+ <br>
+ -liteBackTextureMode 1 (*)
+ <br>
+ -darkBackTextureMode 1 (*)
+ </td><td>
+ Allows you to use any bitmap picture for displaying the board square
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -renderPiecesWithFont "" (*)
+ </td><td>
+ specifies a true-type Chess font to be used for piece symbols
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -fontPieceToCharTable "" (*)
+ </td><td>
+ specifies which font character to use for the various piece types
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -overrideLineGap 1 (*)
+ </td><td>
+ controls the width of the black grid lines between squares
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -fontPieceBackColorWhite #0 (*)
+ <br>
+ -fontPieceForeColorWhite #0 (*)
+ <br>
+ -fontPieceBackColorBlack #0 (*)
+ <br>
+ -fontPieceForeColorBlack #0 (*)
+ </td><td>
+ control piece colors in font-based rendering
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -fontPieceSize 80 (*)
+ </td><td>
+ tunes the size of pieces in font-based rendering (% of square size)
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -highlightMoveWithArrow false (*)
+ </td><td>
+ draws a big arrow to indicate the move last played
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> General...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -highlightArrowColor #FFFF80 (*)
+ </td><td>
+ controls the color of the highlight arrow
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+
+ </td><td bgcolor="lightblue">
+ <strong>(UCI) ENGINE OPTIONS</strong>
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -polyglotDir "" (*)
+ </td><td>
+ tells WinBoard where you installed Polyglot, for automatic invocation with UCI engines
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Global Settings...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -polyglotBook "" (*)
+ </td><td>
+ tells WinBoard which opening book it should use, or should make Polyglot use.
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Global Settings...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -usePolyglotBook false (*)
+ </td><td>
+ turns the use of the Polygot book on or off
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Global Settings...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -defaultPathEGTB "c:\egtb" (*)
+ </td><td>
+ folder where to find end-game tables
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Global Settings...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -defaultCacheSizeEGTB 4 (*)
+ </td><td>
+ specifies the cache size for UCI engines
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Global Settings...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -defaultHashSize 64 (*)
+ </td><td>
+ specifies the size of the main hash table for UCI engines and WinBoard engines implementing the memory command
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Global Settings...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -firstIsUCI false
+ <br>
+ -secondIsUCI false
+ <br>
+ -fUCI
+ <br>
+ -sUCI
+ </td><td>
+ tells WinBoard the corresponding engine should be run through Polyglot
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -firstHasOwnBookUCI true
+ <br>
+ -secondHasOwnBookUCI true
+ <br>
+ -fNoOwnBookUCI true
+ <br>
+ -sNoOwnBookUCI true
+ </td><td>
+ tells WinBoard (or Polyglot) if the engine should use its own opening book
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Global Settings...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+
+ </td><td bgcolor="lightblue">
+ <strong>CHESS-VARIANT OPTIONS</strong>
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -defaultFrcOpening -1
+ </td><td>
+ allows you to play from a specific opening shuffle, or make a new shuffle each game
+ </td><td>
+ File -> New Shuffle Game...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+
+ </td><td bgcolor="lightblue">
+ <strong>PGN FILE OPTIONS</strong>
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -pgnExtendedInfo false (*)
+ </td><td>
+ save engine output (depth, score time) in PGN
+ </td><td>
+ Options->General...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -pgnEventHeader </br>"Computer Chess Game" (*)
+ </td><td>
+ specify the event for the PGN event tag
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -saveOutOfBookInfo true (*)
+ </td><td>
+ include an 'annotator' tag in the PGN file
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -hideThinkingFromHuman false (*)
+ </td><td>
+ suppresses the engine thinking output in the display, without the need to switch it off
+ (so it can still appear in the PGN file)
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> General...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+
+ </td><td bgcolor="lightblue">
+ <strong>USER-INTERFACE OPTIONS AND WINDOW CONTROL</strong>
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -moveHistoryUp true (*)
+ <br>
+ -moveHistoryX 0 (*)
+ <br>
+ -moveHistoryY 0 (*)
+ <br>
+ -moveHistoryW 0 (*)
+ <br>
+ -moveHistoryH 0 (*)
+ </td><td>
+ controls opening, placement and size of a window containing the moves of the current game
+ (new in 4.4 is that all X and Y coordinates of auxiliary windows are stored relative to the main window)
+ </td><td>
+ Mode -> Show Move History (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -evalGraphUp true (*)
+ <br>
+ -evalGraphX 0 (*)
+ <br>
+ -evalGraphY 0 (*)
+ <br>
+ -evalGraphW 0 (*)
+ <br>
+ -evalGraphH 0 (*)
+ </td><td>
+ controls opening, placement and size of a window containing a graph of the
+ evaluation score of the engine(s) as a function of move number of the current game
+ </td><td>
+ Mode -> Show Evaluation Graph
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -engineOutputUp true (*)
+ <br>
+ -engineOutputX 0 (*)
+ <br>
+ -engineOutputY 0 (*)
+ <br>
+ -engineOutputW 0 (*)
+ <br>
+ -engineOutputH 0 (*)
+ </td><td>
+ controls opening, placement and size of a window containing the thinking output of the engine(s)
+ </td><td>
+ Mode -> Show Engine Output (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -stickyWindows true (*)
+ </td><td>
+ make the various windows snap onto each other, and stick together
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -showEvalInMoveHistory true (*)
+ </td><td>
+ depth/score info of the engine is included as comments in the move history window
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> General...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -evalHistColorWhite #FFFFB0 (*)
+ <br>
+ -evalHistColorBlack #AD5D3D (*)
+ </td><td>
+ determines the color of the eval-score comments in the move-history window
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -autoDisplayComment true (*)
+ </td><td>
+ causes a window for displaying PGN comments to pop up automatically when such a comment is encountered
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -autoDisplayTags true (*)
+ </td><td>
+ causes a window with PGN tags to be displayed as soon as a PGN file is loaded
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -gameListTags "eprd" (*)
+ </td><td>
+ specifies the PGN tags that should be displayed in the game list
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Game List...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+
+ </td><td bgcolor="lightblue">
+ <strong>ICS OPTIONS</strong>
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+
+ </td><td bgcolor="lightblue">
+ <strong>MISCELLANEOUS</strong>
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -debugFile "winboard.debug"
+ <br>
+ -nameOfDebugFile "winboard.debug"
+ </td><td>
+ allows you to specify an alternative name for saving the debug information
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -defaultFrcPosition -1 (*)
+ </td><td>
+ specify the number of the starting position in shuffle Chess variants
+ </td><td>
+ File -> New Shuffle Game...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -
+ </td><td>
+ display only those lines in the game list that contain a given string
+ </td><td>
+ in Game-List window
+</td></tr></table>
+<p>
+The value with which the option is listed is the default value.
+If it is false or true, it is a Boolean option, a number implies an integer option.
+A value starting with # indicates an RGB color indication in hexadecimal notation.
+Options the settings of which are saved into the winboard.ini file are marked with (*).
+</p>
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