🚀 go-pugleaf

> I'd like to plead for the addition of a new, very simple, feature to
> xboard.  
> 
> It seems the simplest way to use xboard as a chess board on which I can
> show a game to my office-mate, or on which I can read through an annotated
> game just posted on r.g.c., is by selecting ForceMoves in the Mode menu.
> This seems quite complex, and leaves me with a waiting gnuchessx in the
> background.  Surely, there should exist a less indirect way, especially
> because xboard itself is able to check legality of moves. 

If I understand your request correctly, the feature you want is
already there.  Just start xboard with the -ncp flag.  This suppresses
starting gnuchess and puts xboard into Force Moves mode.  (However,
you then can't start gnuchess except by saving the game and restarting
xboard without -ncp.)  I often do this myself.

> (BTW, it would
> sometimes be useful to inhibit checking legality.)

I realize that, but I don't know whether I will get around to
implementing it.  Once I allow illegal moves, I have to figure out
what kind of notation to generate if you save the game, I have to
modify the parser to accept it, etc.

	--Tim