Author: Lex Loep
Date: 04:16:50 03/14/01
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On March 14, 2001 at 03:41:50, Eelco de Groot wrote: >On March 14, 2001 at 03:06:32, Lex Loep wrote: > >>On March 13, 2001 at 15:30:17, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On March 13, 2001 at 15:20:02, Lex Loep wrote: >>> >>>>His new site www.tim-mann.org does not seem to work, the old site just redirect >>>>to the new one. >>> >>>http://www.tim-mann.org/ >>> >>>works fine for me. >> >> >>This is the page I get: >> >> >>-------------------- >> >> >>This is the Plesk Server Administrator™ default page. >>If you see this page it means: >> >>1) hosting for this domain is not configured >>or >>2) there's no such domain registered in Plesk. >> >>For more information please contact dylan@hypnotism.nu >> >> >>--------------------- >> >>Lex > >I could get to the page without problems, Lex. I don't know much about Winboard >but on the Crafty list some time ago, 7 february, Tim gave alternative FTP >address which may work? > > Regards, Eelco > It's very strange, via my provider "Chello" it does not work, but if I use some other dialup account its ok ??!?! Lex > >** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.2.2 ** > >A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version >4.2.2 fixes a few bugs in the 4.2.1 release. See the ChangeLog >entries below for details. > >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 32-bit Microsoft Windows. It >includes all the major features of XBoard except email correspondence >chess. > >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. If you find a bug not >listed there, please report it to me. > > --Tim Mann <tim.mann@compaq.com> > >New ChangeLog entries: > >* Fixed a problem introduced in 4.2.1. In -zippyPlay mode, 4.2.1 >started sending the initString immediately after the old game ended, >but then when the next game started, it would still send "force" and >another initString. This tickled a bug in Crafty 18.1 that made it >fail to move as black. The code is now changed to do a full Reset at >the end of the previous game, and avoid doing a Reset at the start of >a new game if we are still in BeginningOfGame mode. > >* Fixed some limitations in -zippyPlay mode. The engine was not being >fed the moves or history of games that were displayed but not being >played, so it would get confused if you tried to do something like >examine a game, then enter EditGame mode from somewhere in the middle >of the game. > >* Made a small change so that cygwin can compile xboard for Windows >(an X server is required to run it). Thanks to Volker Zell. Most >people would probably prefer to run WinBoard on Windows, however; note >that cygwin could already compile WinBoard. > >* Added some missing documentation to engine-intf.html: It is okay to >send "feature done=0" even before you receive the xboard and protover >commands, if this is needed to give your engine enough time to >initialize. See engine-intf.html for more discussion. > >* Bugfix: "feature done=0" did not work for the second engine; now it does. > >Tim Mann tim.mann@compaq.com http://www.tim-mann.org >Compaq Computer Corporation, Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, CA >----
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