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Article #2867Re: XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.0.1
From: pojax
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 00:00
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hey i want to know who has ftp sites to downloads good games Tim Mann wrote: > > ** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.0.1 ** > > A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version > 4.0.1 is an update to version 4.0.0 that fixes about a dozen small > bugs and adds a few minor features. It has not been extensively > tested, so please report any apparent new bugs. > > You can get both programs from my Chess page on the World Wide Web or > from the Internet Chess Library FTP site. In addition, XBoard should > soon be available from GNU FTP sites. > > - http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/chess.html > - ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/X/xboard-4.0.1.tar.gz > - ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/Win3/winboard-4_0_1.exe (zip format) > - ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/xboard-4.0.1.tar.gz > > XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System that can > serve as a user interface for GNU Chess, Crafty, and other chess > engines, for the Internet Chess Servers, and for electronic mail > correspondence chess. XBoard can also be used by itself. It can read > and write game files in PGN (portable game notation). > > WinBoard is a similar program for Microsoft Windows 95/98 and Windows > NT. It includes all the major features of XBoard except email > correspondence chess. Warning: WinBoard does not work on Windows 3.1 > or 3.11, not even with Win32s. > > Report bugs in XBoard and WinBoard to <bug-gnu-chess@prep.ai.mit.edu>. > > --Tim Mann <mann@pa.dec.com> > > === Some change highlights === > > * You can now type in moves from the keyboard in WinBoard. Either > select TypeInMove from Step menu, or (if you are not in ICS mode), > just start typing. In ICS mode you can type moves into the ICS > interaction window anyway, so I've retained the feature that typing > switches you there. Not implemented in xboard. > > * The command sent to ICS by Zippy at the end of each game can now be > customized with the ZIPPYGAMEEND environment variable. > > * Miscellaneous minor updates and clarifications to engine-intf.txt. > In particular, documented the st and sd commands (support for command > line options -searchTime and -searchDepth), warts and all. > > * Added a small code patch from Bob Hyatt to detect when Zippy's ICS > opponent is a computer and send the command "computer" to the engine. > Added this command to engine-intf.txt. Thanks, Bob. > > * Changed -searchDepth to be orthogonal to the various timing options. > Previously it would search for an unlimited time to the given depth; > now the engine is allowed to choose its search time in the normal way, > but is told to cut off the search early if it reaches the given depth. > -- > Tim Mann <mann@pa.dec.com>, Compaq Systems Research Center > http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/
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