Author: Tim Mann
Date: 19:56:50 09/18/00
** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.1.0 **
A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version
4.1.0 adds several new features. All the features of Mark Williams's
"Winboard Plus 4.0.8" are merged in, and most of them have been ported
to xboard as well.
You can get both programs from my Chess page on the World Wide Web.
In addition, they should soon be available from GNU FTP sites.
- http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/winboard/
XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System that can
serve as a user interface for GNU Chess, Crafty, and other chess
engines, for the Internet Chess Servers, and for electronic mail
correspondence chess. XBoard can also be used by itself. It can read
and write game files in PGN (portable game notation).
WinBoard is a similar program for Microsoft Windows 95/98 and Windows
NT. It includes all the major features of XBoard except email
correspondence chess. Warning: WinBoard does not work on Windows 3.1
or 3.11, not even with Win32s. It should work on Windows 2000 and
Windows ME, but I have not tested it there.
Please report any apparent new bugs to me. Some known bugs and
deficiencies in previous versions have not been addressed. It is not
necessary to report your favorite bug again if you have reported it
before, unless the ChangeLog erroneously says it has been fixed. Most
known bugs, deficiencies, and suggestions received are now listed in
the ToDo file.
--Tim Mann <tim.mann@compaq.com>
== Highlights from the ChangeLog ==
* White pieces now have dark borders.
* Games and positions can be copied to and pasted from the clipboard.
* In ICS games, you can register your next planned move before it is
your turn ("premove").
* Audible low-on-time alarm in ICS games.
* PGN Training mode.
* When a game starts, the board is automatically made visible and
positioned so that your pieces move upward.
* Blindfold mode.
* The large WinBoard Options menu has been broken down into several
easier to use dialogs.
* Simple sound support added to XBoard. (WinBoard already had sound.)
Some additional sound events and built-in sounds.
* Several small bug fixes.
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