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** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 3.6.2 **

A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available.  Version
3.6.2 is a bugfix release.  It has no new features beyond 3.6.1, but
fixes a few small 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://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/X/xboard-3.6.2.tar.gz 
- ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/Win3/winboard-3_6_2.exe (zip format)
- ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/xboard-3.6.2.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 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>

=== Complete change log for 3.6.2 ===

* There was a bug in backing up from the end of a game against a chess
engine, introduced when -reuse mode was added.  Fixed.

* Recognize "{" as terminating an ICS move list.  Previously we needed to
see a prompt (containing %), but occasionally ICC can send more stuff
right after a move list with no prompt in between.

* In WinBoard, -mm now implies -cp, so you don't get the startup dialog.

* WinBoard startup dialog no longer sets -scp.  People used to get
confused because they would give the -fcp and -scp arguments, but omit
-cp.  This would bring up the startup dialog, which would set both -fcp
and -scp to the value in the engine name box.  Now you can change -scp
only with the command-line argument.  That will confuse some people too,
but hopefully fewer.  I think overall it's better than putting spaces for
both -fcp and -scp in the dialog, which would puzzle newbies.

* Bug fix: Analyze File mode now works in WinBoard.

* Bug fix: WinBoard window no longer cuts off part of the bottom row if
the menu bar wraps to a second line.

* Accept game end messages of the form "PGN-result {comment}" from the
chess engine, where PGN-result is 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2.  Accept "resign"
or "computer resigns" from the chess engine as a synonym for "0-1 {White
resigns}" or "1-0 {Black resigns}". Accept any message from the chess
engine containing "game is a draw" as a synonym for "1/2-1/2 {Draw}".
Accept "White resigns" or "Black resigns".

* Enable "Action / Draw" menu item in chess engine mode.  It sends the
command "draw" to the engine.  Accept any message from the chess engine
containing "offers a draw" as a draw offer.  WARNING: Draw offers from the
user and the engine (or from two engines) are not yet matched up by xboard
in chess engine mode.  Two engines could get into a loop offering each
other draws.

* Bug fix: Game end messages from the chess engine are always ignored in
Zippy mode.  Previously they could sometimes be processed, which was
sometimes making Zippy hang at the start of a new game that followed
quickly after an old one.

* Zippy can now respond to titled players in channels.  Zippy will avoid
talking to himself in a channel if he knows his own name.

* Bug fix: in colorization arguments, the bold setting was being ignored
if the background color was defaulted.  (xboard only.)

* Extended ParseFEN to accept Crafty 12.2's interpretation of FEN.
If fewer than 8 squares are given in a row, or fewer than 8 rows are
given, the uncovered squares are empty.  Also, there can be a / after the
8th row.

-- 
Tim Mann <mann@pa.dec.com>
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/