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** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 3.6.1 **

A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available.  Version
3.6.1 is a bugfix release.  It has no new features beyond 3.6.0, but
fixes some annoying 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-3.6.1.tar.gz 
- ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/Win3/winboard-3_6_1.zip
- ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/xboard-3.6.1.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 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.

If you are using Crafty with XBoard 3.6.1 or WinBoard 3.6.1, you'll
need Crafty version 12.1 or later.  (12.1 fixes some small bugs in
12.0.  Versions earlier than 12.0 are not fully compatible with
XBoard/WinBoard 3.6.1.)  You can get Crafty 12.1 from its author, Bob
Hyatt, at ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/hyatt/.

Report bugs in XBoard and WinBoard to <bug-gnu-chess@prep.ai.mit.edu>.
Report bugs in Crafty to its author.

	--Tim Mann <mann@pa.dec.com>

=== Complete change log for 3.6.1 ===

* Bug fix: Hitting escape while entering a password on WinBoard no longer
sets the font color back to black (which made further typing visible).

* Bug fix: On Windows NT 4.0, WinBoard /ics /icshelper=timestamp would
often hang if you tried to exit with the Exit menu item, the [X] button,
etc.  The same fix may also have corrected the problem where running a
chess program with /xreuse would sometimes crash Windows 95 (but not NT)
when the chess program was killed and quickly restarted.

* Bug fix: Periodic Updates would not work if turned on after having been
off.  Also, the default was needlessly "off" in WinBoard.

* Zippy bug fix: Continuing an adjourned game was totally broken.  The
wrong moves, or no moves at all, were being fed to the chess program.

* WinBoard change: Giving -ics without -icshost now pops up the startup
dialog with "Use an Internet Chess Server" pre-selected, so that you get a
menu of chess servers instead of going directly to ICC.

* Bug fix: WinBoard's SaveSettings was saving -icshost, -icsport, and
-icshelper in winboard.ini.  This causes a problem if you use a different
icshost later that needs the default values for icsport (5000) and
icshelper ("", meaning none).

* Disabled complaints about unexpected "[Ii]llegal move" messages from
the chess program; we still get them at times.

* Greatly simplified the code for Move Now and SIGINT (ATTENTION).  Fixes
the bug where Move Now did not work with GNU Chess in WinBoard, and
several more obscure bugs as well.  Reintroduces a minor bug: GNU Chess might
not think on your time after a Move Now command.  Trying to fix this
causes too many other problems.  Documented change in engine-intf.txt.

* Cleaned up code for obtaining ratings from ICS.  It was kludgey and may
have had bugs on systems with no "Creating:" message.  It should fail
gracefully there, just not finding the ratings.

=== Change highlights for 3.6.0 ===

* WinBoard now has an installer.  Simply unzip the distribution and
run setup.exe to install.  Start menu entries for most common uses are
created.

* WinBoard now has a custom ICS interaction window with scrollback, a
separate line for input, colorization, and a context menu.

* Added ICC timestamp and FICS timeseal to the WinBoard distribution.

* Added a WinBoard startup dialog for people who run WinBoard.exe
without using the Start menu or reading the help file.  Instead of
being dumped directly into GNU Chess mode, you now get a menu of
choices.

* Added simple sound support to WinBoard.

* Added SaveSettings to WinBoard, which saves current option settings
to winboard.ini.

* WinBoard error popups are now non-modal and disappear when you make
a new move (as in XBoard).

* WinBoard works around the Windows 95 bug that sometimes caused
crashes at the start of a new game and in the TimeControl dialog.

* XBoard and WinBoard handle FICS suicide chess automatically.

* Updated and completed the documentation of the interface between
XBoard/WinBoard and chess programs.  Added several extensions.

* Zippy now resumes adjourned games by feeding the chess program the
move list instead of the position.

* Many smaller bug fixes and improvements.

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