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+<h2>What is new in WinBoard 4.3?</h2>
+
+ <table cellpadding="20"><tr valign="top"><td>
+ <h4>New Features</h4>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B1">Castling awareness</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-B2">Extensions of WB protocol</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A1">Support for unorthodox pieces</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A2">Configuring the board format</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A3">SAN and FEN with fairy pieces</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A4">Support of complete chess variants</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A5">Bughouse piece drops and holdings display</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A6">Distinguishing promoted pieces in Bughouse</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A7">Displaying player logos</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-A8">Japanese Shogi bitmaps</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tag-C1">Added command-line options</a></li>
+
+ </ul>
+ </td><td valign="top">
+ <img src="../4.5.0/winboardF.png">
+ </td><td valign="top">
+ <p>
+ <a href="index.html">Follow-up release (4.4.0)</a>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <a href="Winboard_x.html">Preceding fork (Winboard_x)</a>
+ </p>
+ </td></tr></table>
+
+ <h3><a name="tag-B1">Treating castling and e.p. rights seriously</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ One of the most important changes betwen WinBoard 3.4 and predecessors is that it is fully aware of the game state.
+ That is, it keeps track of castling rights and e.p. status,
+ and takes that knowledge into account in legality checking of the moves and mate testing.
+ As a result it can do 100% reliable adjudications:
+ forfeit engines that do illegal moves, or make false result claims,
+ and terminate the game on 3-fold repetition of due to the 50-move rule.
+ </p>
+
+ <table cellpadding="20"><tr><td valign="top">
+ <h3><a name="tag-A1">Supporting fairy pieces</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ WinBoard F does not only support the six piece types of orthdox chess,
+ but expanded the number to 22.
+ Most of these have well-specified moves known to WinBoard,
+ such as the Archbishop (a B+N compound) and the Chancellor (R+N) of Capablanca Chess.
+ Others are wild cards just supplied as graphics, and can only be used with legality testing off.
+ </p><p>
+ In board sizes middling (49) and bulky (72) a bitmap for each of these 22 pieces is supplied,
+ while size petite (33) supports most.
+ In the intermediate sizes, only Archbishop and Chancellor are available,
+ while for sizes below 33 and above 72, none are.
+ Some of the more common piece types, such as those for Chinese or Capablanca Chess,
+ were added to the piece menu in Edit Position mode,
+ while others can be made by 'promoting' or 'demoting' the more common ones.
+ </p>
+ </td><td valign="top">
+ <img src="fairies.png">
+ </td></tr></table>
+
+ <table cellpadding="20"><tr><td valign="top">
+ <img src="couriersmall.gif">
+ </td><td valign="top">
+ <h3><a name="tag-A2">Configurable and non-square board formats</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ WinBoard F allows the use of other boards than 8x8.
+ In particular, the number of ranks does not have to be equal to the number of files.
+ Options -boardWidth and -boardHeight can be used to specify exactly the board you want,
+ but a value -1 for these options means WinBoard will use the default size for the
+ variant you are playing (so 8x8 for normal chess or suicide).
+ </p>
+ <h3><a name="tag-A3">Piece-ID letters in SAN and FEN</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ Unfortunately the names of fairy pieces are not as standardized as they are in orthodoc chess:
+ a piece that moves in the same way can be called Marshall in one variant, Chancellor in another,
+ and Champion in a third.
+ This affects the single-letter abbreviation one would use for writing SAN moves in notations for these variants.
+ WinBoard accounts for this through the -pieceToCharTable option,
+ where you can define for each of the 44 colored piece types what letter should be used for them.
+ This can also used to disable pieces, by setting their character to a period.
+ For each of the predefined variants, WinBoard has a default table, and uses that as soon as you select the variant.
+ </p>
+ </td></tr></table>
+
+ <table cellpadding="20"><tr><td valign="top">
+ <h3><a name="tag-A4">Predefined variants</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ With the unorthodox piece types and board formats WinBoard F can support a large number of chess variants.
+ Some of these variants are pre-defined:
+ they can be selected through a New Variant item in the File menu,
+ which brings you to a dialog where you can pick one,
+ and optionally change its board size from the default.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For these predefined variants, WinBoard usually knows the rules exactly,
+ meaning that it can do legality checking, reliably detect checkmate, etc.
+ Some variants are only partially supported, however, and need to be played with legality testing off.
+ The predefined new variants are:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Xiangqi (Chinese chess)</li>
+ <li>Shogi (Japanese chess)</li>
+ <li>Capablanca, Gothic and Capa-random Chess (on 10x8 board)</li>
+ <li>Courier chess (a medieval precursor of modern chess)</li>
+ <li>Shatranj (ancient Arabic chess)</li>
+ <li>Knightmate (King moves as Knight, and vice versa)</li>
+ <li>Cylinder chess (the board wraps around at the edge files)</li>
+ <li>Berolina chess (Pawns capture straight and move diagonally)</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>
+ The latter two can only be played with legality testing off.
+ The ICS variants that were already supported in 4.2.7
+ (Fischerandom, Suicide, Losers, Giveaway, Atomic, Twokings, Threechecks)
+ are all fully supported in local mode,
+ and WinBoard is aware of their rules for victory, so it can adjudicate.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Normally all these variants would be played with the piece symbols shown above.
+ But the almost infinite configurability of the WinBoard look
+ through board textures and font-based rendering
+ does allow you to perfectly mimic traditional representation of Asian variants, for example.
+ On the right you see how suppressing the grid that normally separates the squares,
+ and using a drawing of a Xiangqi board and the XIANGQI font for piece rendering
+ can give a very good looking Xiangqi interface.
+ </p>
+ </td><td valign="top">
+ <img src="WinBoardXQ2.png">
+ </td></tr></table>
+
+ <h3><a name="tag-A5">Dragging and dropping from displayed holdings in Bughouse</a></h3>
+ <table cellpadding="20"><tr><td valign="top">
+ <img src="crazy.gif">
+ </td><td valign="top">
+ <p>
+ Drop variants like Bughouse and Crazyhouse used to keep track of the holdings as text in the title bar,
+ and required a drop menu to select dropped pieces from.
+ This only worked in ICS mode, as the holdings were not updated in local play.
+ In WinBoard F, the holdings are displayed beside the board,
+ and you can grab and drag the piece to drop from there.
+ They are also fully updated in local Crazyhouse play.
+ (Bughouse still can only be played on an ICS, being a 4-player game where WinBoard is only a 2-player GUI.)
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Shogi is also a drop game, and uses the same mechanism.
+ In fact WinBoard F allows you to play any variant as a Crazyhouse-style drop game,
+ by configuring holdings for it through the options -holdingsSize,
+ where you can specify the number of piece types for which space should be reserved in the holdings.
+ (Beware: for practical reasons this cannot be larger than the number of board ranks!)
+ Piece types for which no space is reserved will revert to Pawn oon capture.
+ </p>
+ <h3><a name="tag-A6">Promoted Pawn or primordial piece?</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ In Bughouse promoted Pawns revert to Pawn on capture, and are thus in principle different pieces
+ than the primordial pieces of the same type.
+ WinBoard F shows this difference by using alternate representations for pieces obtained through promotions.
+ In sizes where these are available, fairy pieces are used;
+ in other sizes a slightly smaller representation of the normal chess piece.
+ </p>
+ </td></tr></table>
+
+ <table cellpadding="20"><tr><td valign="top">
+ <h3><a name="tag-A7">Displaying engine logos</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ WinBoard F offers the possibility to display logos of the playing engines next to the clock.
+ The options -firstLogo, -secondLogo allow you to explicitly specify bitmap files for those.
+ The logos will be scaled to 2x1 aspect ratio, so results are better if they already have this to begin with.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There also is a persistent boolean option -autoLogo,
+ which makes WinBoard look automatically in the engine directory for a file called logo.bmp,
+ and display that if it finds it (and this is not overruled by an explicitly given file).
+ In ICS mode this option makes WinBoard look for a logo of the ICS in the logos folder,
+ e.g. freechess.org.bmp for FICS.
+ </p>
+ <h3><a name="tag-B2">Modernizing WinBoard protocol</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ WinBoard protocol lacked commands to control the engine's hash-table size and number of CPUs it could use.
+ This was of course because such things did not exist at the time when it was devised.
+ This situation was corrected in WinBoard 4.3, by adding the 'memory' and 'cores' commands.
+ These commands allow the GUI to specify the hash size and CPU number through the protocol interface,
+ with as a result they can now be set through the GUI, rather than requiring editing of obscure ini files.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Of course this only works on engines that actually support these features.
+ But (through Polyglot) all UCI engines do, so the dialogs to set these options were useful from the beginning.
+ </p>
+ </td><td valign="top">
+ <img src="marble.png">
+ </td></tr></table>
+
+ <table cellpadding="20"><tr><td valign="top">
+ <img src="Shogi.png">
+ </td><td valign="top">
+ <h3><a name="tag-A8">Bitmaps for traditional Japanese Shogi pieces</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ As an extra service to Japanese users, board size 'moderate' (58) uses a complete set of traditional Shogi pieces in variant shogi.
+ To properly use them, the options -allWhite and -flipBlack were added, and have to be set to true.
+ Other board sizes (i.e. middling and bulky) use the normal chess-style bitmaps,
+ except that special forms of the Gold are used to indicate some promoted pieces.
+ </p>
+ </td></tr></table>
+
+<h3><a name="tag-C1">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).
+Note that, unlike WinBoard 4.2.7, the WinBoard 4.3 series is fully castling and e.p. aware,
+and handles the castling, e.p. and 50-move field in FENs on input and output as should be expected.
+</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 (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ adjudicates engine-engine game based on score
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Engine... (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -checkMates false (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ detect and end game on checkmates and stalemates
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Engine... (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -testClaims false (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ WinBoard corrects false RESULT claims
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Engine.. (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -materialDraws false (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ adjudicate draw when no mating material present
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Engine.. (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -trivialDraws false (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ adjudicate draw in endgames like KRKR and KNNK
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Engine.. (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -adjudicateDrawMoves 0 (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ adjudicate draw when game lasts too long
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Engine.. (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -ruleMoves 51 (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ number of reversible moves after which to adjudicate draw
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Engine.. (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -repeatsToDraw 6 (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ adjudicate draw when a position occurs this many times
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Engine.. (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -firstScoreAbs false (x)
+ <br>
+ -secondScoreAbs false (x)
+ </td><td>
+ Engine indicates score for white, even when playing black
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Adjudications.. (xboard-only)
+ </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>
+ -firstTimeOdds 1 (x)
+ <br>
+ -secondTimeOdds 1 (x)
+ </td><td>
+ reduce the thinking time of the mentioned engine by the given factor
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Engine Settings.. (xboard only)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -timeOddsMode 1 (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ determines what happens when both engine have time odds
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Engine Settings.. (xboard only)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -firstNPS -1 (x)
+ <br>
+ -secondNPS -1 (x)
+ </td><td>
+ engine must use node count for its time control, as if running at specified rate
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -matchPause 10000 (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ number of msec to wait between games in match mode
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -delayBeforeQuit 0 (*x)
+ <br>
+ -delayAfterQuit 0 (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ timing parameter specifying how to terminate the engine processes
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -
+ </td><td>
+ adjust the clocks by 1 minute (up or down)
+ </td><td>
+ left- or right-cick on clock in edit-game mode
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -niceEngines 0 (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ lower the CPU priority of the engines
+ </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>
+ -autoLogo false (*)
+ <br>
+ -firstLogo ""
+ <br>
+ -secondLogo ""
+ </td><td>
+ causes WinBoard to display player logos above the board, next to the clocks.
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -
+ </td><td>
+ Swap white and black clock
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Swap Clocks
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+
+ </td><td bgcolor="lightblue">
+ <strong>(UCI) ENGINE OPTIONS</strong>
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -polyglotDir "" (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ tells WinBoard where you installed Polyglot, for automatic invocation with UCI engines
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Global Settings... (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -polyglotBook "" (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ tells WinBoard which opening book it should use, or should make Polyglot use.
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Global Settings... (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -usePolyglotBook false (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ turns the use of the Polygot book on or off
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Global Settings... (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -defaultPathEGTB "c:\egtb" (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ folder where to find end-game tables
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Global Settings... (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -defaultCacheSizeEGTB 4 (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ specifies the cache size for UCI engines
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Global Settings... (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -defaultHashSize 64 (*x)
+ </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... (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -firstIsUCI false (x)
+ <br>
+ -secondIsUCI false (x)
+ <br>
+ -fUCI (x)
+ <br>
+ -sUCI (x)
+ </td><td>
+ tells WinBoard the corresponding engine should be run through Polyglot
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -firstHasOwnBookUCI true (x)
+ <br>
+ -secondHasOwnBookUCI true (x)
+ <br>
+ -fNoOwnBookUCI true (x)
+ <br>
+ -sNoOwnBookUCI true (x)
+ <br>
+ -firstXBook (x)
+ <br>
+ -secondXBook (x)
+ </td><td>
+ tells WinBoard (or Polyglot) if the engine should use its own opening book
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Global Settings... (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -smpCores 1 (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ sets the maximum number of CPUs an SMP engine can use.
+ (only affects engines that support the <strong>cores</strong> command of WB protocol)
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Global Settings... (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -egtFormats "" (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ specifies which end-game tables are installed on the computer,
+ and where they can be found
+ (e.g. "nalimov:\chess\egtb,scorpio:\chess\bitbases")
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -firstOptions "" (x)
+ <br>
+ -secondOptions "" (x)
+ </td><td>
+ sets engine-defined options of UCI engines and WinBoard engines that support the option feature.
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Engine #1 Settings... (x)
+ <br>
+ Options -> Engine #2 Settings... (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN "" (x)
+ <br>
+ -secondNeedsNoncompliantFEN "" (x)
+ </td><td>
+ directly specifies castling and e.p. field to be used in all FENs sent to mentioned engine
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+
+ </td><td bgcolor="lightblue">
+ <strong>CHESS-VARIANT OPTIONS</strong>
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -boardHeight -1 (*x)
+ <br>
+ -boardWidth -1 (*x)
+ <br>
+ -holdingsSize -1 (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ specifies the board format and nr of piece types that can be dropped,
+ when you want it to be different from what is usual in the chosen varint
+ </td><td>
+ File -> New Variant...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -variant normal (x)
+ </td><td>
+ supports many new variants: xiangqi, shogi, fischerandom, capabanca, gothic, caparandom, janus,
+ shatranj, courier, knightmate, berolina, falcon, cylinder, fairy, super, great
+ </td><td>
+ File -> New Variant... (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -defaultFrcOpening -1 (x)
+ </td><td>
+ allows you to play from a specific opening shuffle, or make a new shuffle each game
+ </td><td>
+ File -> New Shuffle Game... (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -pieceToCharTable "" (x)
+ </td><td>
+ allows you to specify by which letters pieces are referred to in FEN and SAN,
+ if you want to deviate from what is usual for the current variant
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -flipBlack fase (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ displays opponent pieces uppside down (for Shogi)
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Board...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -allWhite false (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ use white bitmaps (with black outline) also for display of black pieces (for Shogi)
+ </td><td>
+ Options -> Board...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+
+ </td><td bgcolor="lightblue">
+ <strong>PGN FILE OPTIONS</strong>
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -pgnExtendedInfo false (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ save engine output (depth, score time) in PGN
+ </td><td>
+ Options->General...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -pgnEventHeader </br>"Computer Chess Game" (*x)
+ </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 (*x)
+ </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... (x)
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -userName "" (x)
+ </td><td>
+ sets the name of the human player
+ </td><td>
+ Mode -> Enter Username... (x)
+ </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>
+ -noGUI (x)
+ </td><td>
+ suppress update of display on all machine and ICS moves (moves, clocks, icon)
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+
+ </td><td bgcolor="lightblue">
+ <strong>ICS OPTIONS</strong>
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -autoKibitz (x)
+ </td><td>
+ kibitz engine Thinking Output to ICS, and capture opponent kibitz for in PGN
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -zippyShortGame 0 (x)
+ </td><td>
+ ban opponents on ICS that abort without playing
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+
+ </td><td bgcolor="lightblue">
+ <strong>MISCELLANEOUS</strong>
+ </td><td>
+
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -debugFile "winboard.debug" (x)
+ <br>
+ -nameOfDebugFile "winboard.debug" (x)
+ </td><td>
+ allows you to specify an alternative name for saving the debug information
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -engineDebugOutput 0 (x)
+ </td><td>
+ tells WinBoard if and how to put protocol-violating output in the debug file
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -
+ </td><td>
+ save chess-board display as diagram in bitmap file
+ (only works for the smaller board formats!)
+ </td><td>
+ File -> Save Diagram...
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -defaultFrcPosition -1 (*x)
+ </td><td>
+ specify the number of the starting position in shuffle Chess variants
+ </td><td>
+ File -> New Shuffle Game... (x)
+ </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><tr><td>
+ -rewindFile 0 (x)
+ </td><td>
+ A nonzero value for this option causes the loadGameIndex or loadPositionIndex
+ to rewind to the beginning of the Games or Position file when it reaches
+ the given value in auto-increment match mode.
+ This mode is specified by a negative value as argument of the /lgi or /lpi options,
+ where -1 increments the index after every game of the match,
+ and -2 after every two games (so that each position is played with black and white).
+ </td><td>
+ -
+ </td></tr><tr><td>
+ -sameColorGames 0 (x)
+ </td><td>
+ play a match, but without alternating the colors (overrules -matchGames)
+ </td><td>
+ -
+</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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+
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