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** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 3.3, patchlevel 3 **

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.pl3 by anonymous ftp from the chess
ftp server (ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/X/xboard-3.3.pl3.tar.gz or
initially ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/uploads/X/xboard-3.3.pl3.tar.gz),
or from GNU ftp sites (ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/xboard-3.3.pl3.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.pl3 is
(or will soon be) available from the chess ftp server, in either zip or gzip
format: ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/Win3/winboard-3.3.pl3.zip or
ftp://caissa.onenet.net/pub/chess/Win3/winboard-3.3.pl3.tar.gz.  The
distribution includes a port of GNU Chess to Win32.

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.pl2) ===

* In ICS mode, XBoard now permits you to observe more than one game, or to
observe while playing or examining.  There is still only one board display,
which always shows the last game for which ICS has sent a board update.  Each
time the display switches to a different game, XBoard fetches the history of
the new game and forgets the previous one.

* In GNU Chess mode, you can now play with an incremental clock.  Thanks to
Joel Rivat for the suggestion and some code.

* Several bug fixes.  See ChangeLog in the distribution for details.