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This project is part of the GNU Project.

XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess. It displays a chessboard on the screen, accepts moves made with the mouse, and loads and saves games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:

Chess engines that will run on your machine and play a game against you or help you analyze, such as GNU Chess, Crafty, or many others.

Chess servers on the Internet, where you can connect to play chess with people from all over the world, watch other users play, or just hang out and chat.

Correspondence chess played by electronic mail. The CMail program automates the tasks of parsing email from your opponent, playing his moves out on your board, and mailing your reply move after you've chosen it.

XBoard runs on Unix and Unix-like systems that use the X Window System. The project also includes a port to 32-bit Windows systems called WinBoard.

Registration Date: Sat 18 Oct 2003 10:51:18 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 6 - Mature

 

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New git repository
     posted by apersaud, Wed 27 May 2009 04:41:31 AM UTC - 0 replies

I uploaded the xboard/winboard source code into git. The repository can be viewed at:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git/

New version coming soon...
     posted by apersaud, Sat 23 May 2009 02:05:36 AM UTC - 0 replies

It's been a while since a new version of Xboard/Winboard has been officially released. In the meantime a fork of the source code had been created (of 4.2.7) and Alessandro Scotti and H.G. Muller released several new versions of Xboard/Winboard ...


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New WinBoard installer
     posted by mann, Thu 14 Jun 2007 06:50:57 AM UTC - 0 replies

A new self-installer for WinBoard 4.2.7 is now available at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/winboard/winboard-4_2_7b.exe. This installer is reported to work on Vista and should also work more smoothly than the old one on other versions of Windows. Thanks to Mark Ioli for putting it together! (And my apologies for not making it available much sooner.)

fselch chess font source available
     posted by mann, Mon 28 Mar 2005 06:58:44 AM UTC - 0 replies

I occasionally get requests for the Metafont source code of the fselch chess font, from which XBoard's piece bitmaps are made. fselch is a separate GPL'ed work created by Elmar Bartel, but it has no web site, ftp site, or Savannah project of its own, so I've checked a copy into XBoard's CVS repository to make it easier to obtain. See http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/xboard/fselch/


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