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Release of XBoard 3.2 and WinBoard 3.2

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From: Tim Mann
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 1994 21:27
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** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 3.2 **

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 3.2 by anonymous ftp from the chess
ftp server ics.onenet.net as file pub/chess/X/xboard-3.2.pl0.tar.gz (or
initially in pub/chess/uploads/...), or from prep.ai.mit.edu (or other GNU ftp
sites) as file pub/gnu/xboard-3.2.pl0.tar.gz,

If you plan to use XBoard 3.2 with GNU Chess, get GNU Chess 4.0 patchlevel 73
to go with it.  It is available from prep.ai.mit.edu and other GNU ftp
sites.

WinBoard is a port of XBoard to the Microsoft Win32 programming interface.  It
runs on Windows NT and Windows 95 (Chicago).  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 3.2 is
available from the chess ftp server ics.onenet.net as file
pub/chess/windows/winboard-3.2.pl0.zip or .../winboard-3.2.pl0.tar.gz (or
initially in pub/chess/uploads/...).

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

** Change highlights since the last release (XBoard 3.1.pl1) **

- Show Thinking mode displays what GNU Chess is thinking about.

- Book command accesses GNU Chess's book.

- Automatically observe games on ICS involving your favorite players.

- Menu support for position editing in ICS examine mode.

- Multiple correspondence games per mail message.

- Checkmate/stalemate detection in Edit Game mode.

- New chess piece bitmaps (optional).

- Graphical icon shows whose move it is.

- WinBoard updated to match XBoard and ported to Windows 95 (beta 2).

- XBoard configures itself using GNU autoconf instead of imake.

- Small improvements and bug fixes too numerous to list.
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From: mann@lakeview.pa.dec.com (Tim Mann)
Newsgroups: gnu.chess,rec.games.chess
Subject: Release of XBoard 3.2 and WinBoard 3.2
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Date: 8 Dec 1994 21:27:18 GMT
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Keywords: chess, ICS, gnuchess, PGN