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Subject: XBoard/WinBoard 3.3 patchlevel 1
Summary: Minor bugfix release of graphical chessboards XBoard and WinBoard
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** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 3.3, patchlevel 1 **
** This is a minor bugfix release. **

XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System that can serve as a
user interface for GNU Chess, for the Internet Chess Server (ICS), or for
electronic mail correspondence chess.  XBoard can also be used by itself.
It can read and write game files in PGN (portable game notation).

You can (either now or soon) get XBoard 3.3.pl1 by anonymous ftp from the chess
ftp server (ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/X/xboard-3.3.pl1.tar.gz or
initially ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/uploads/X/xboard-3.3.pl1.tar.gz),
or from GNU ftp sites (ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/xboard-3.3.pl1.tar.gz).

If you plan to use XBoard with GNU Chess, get the current patch level of GNU
Chess 4.0 to go with it.  It is available from prep.ai.mit.edu and other GNU
ftp sites, in the same directory as XBoard.

WinBoard is a port of XBoard to the Microsoft Win32 programming interface.  It
runs on Windows NT and Windows 95.  Most of its functions do *not* work on
Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, or other DOS-based versions of
Windows, not even with the Win32s package.  (It works only as a standalone
chessboard and PGN viewer/editor on the latter systems.)  WinBoard 3.3.pl1 is
available from the chess ftp server, in either zip or gzip format:
ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/Win3/winboard-3.3.pl1.zip or
ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/Win3/winboard-3.3.pl1.tar.gz.

Report bugs in these programs to <bug-gnu-chess@prep.ai.mit.edu>.

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

=== Change highlights since the last release (3.3) ===

* Bug fix: Handling of initial board position in move list for wild games
was broken, so wild games could not be observed and adjourned wild games
could not be continued.

* Added feature: algebraic notation now shows "+" indicator for check
and "#" for checkmate, as called for in PGN standard.

* Deal properly with Show Thinking output from GNU Chess when it is
thinking on its opponent's time.  This output is present only if GNU Chess is
compiled without the -DQUIETBACKGROUND flag.

* Zippy is now included in the distribution instead of being distributed
separately.  Zippy is a program that lets GNU Chess act as a computer player
on an Internet Chess Server.