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Sorry if some of you see this information twice.

Summary:

* Now available on prep.ai.mit.edu via anonymous ftp: xboard-3.0.pl8.tar.gz

* New features:
	See below.

* Known bugs:
	Just a few minor ones; see the ToDo file in the distribution.

* Report bugs and suggestions to bug-gnu-chess@prep.ai.mit.edu

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** Announcing the release of XBoard version 3.0 **

XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System that can
serve as a user interface for GNU Chess or the Internet Chess Server,
or can be used by itself.

You can (either now or soon) get XBoard 3.0 by anonymous ftp from
export.x.org (and other X ftp sites), from the chess ftp server
chess.uoknor.edu, or from prep.ai.mit.edu (and other GNU ftp sites).

WinBoard, a chessboard for Windows NT that shares most of the same
features and much of the same code as XBoard, is now available too.
Send me mail if you would like a copy.  Note: WinBoard does not run on
Windows/DOS at this time, only on Windows NT.

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

** XBoard change highlights since the last release (2.1.pl11) **

- The user interface has a new look.  A menu bar replaces most of the
buttons, and the chess clocks are displayed in an extra-large font.
Many options that could formerly be set only on the command line can
now be changed using the menus.

- A popup dialog lets you enter or edit comments on moves.

- The distribution includes a perl script that helps you use xboard
for playing correspondence chess by electronic mail.  (Contributed by
Evan Welsh and Pat Surry.)

- You can have an initialization script run automatically whenever you
connect to the ICS.

- "Always Queen" option suppresses the underpromotion dialog when you
move a pawn to the last rank---useful in extremely fast blitz ICS games.

- You can call your opponent's flag on ICS by clicking on his clock.

- The move parser can now be compiled by either lex or GNU flex---good
news for linux users.

- Other minor features, bug fixes, and improvements too numerous to
list here.