XBoard - Summary
This project is part of the GNU Project.
XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms, including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi Japanese chess), in addition to many minor variants such as Losers Chess, Crazyhouse, Chess960 and Capabanca 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
posted by apersaud, Sat 31 Oct 2009 05:51:30 PM UTC - 0 replies
This release includes several new features and lots of bugfixes.
You can get the source code for XBoard/Winboard at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/
Windows binaries will be available at:
http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewforum.php?f=19
Thanks for all the bug-reports we got, if you find some new bugs, please report them in the bug tracker at
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/ or by email to bug-xboard
(AT) gnu.org.
Arun Persaud (arun@nubati.net)
posted by apersaud, Sun 06 Sep 2009 03:24:07 AM UTC - 0 replies
A new release both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version
4.4.0 includes many changes. It is the first major release of
xboard/winboard after a fork of the project after version 4.2.7. It
includes small changes made in the main line and changes made by a
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posted by apersaud, Thu 16 Jul 2009 11:41:23 PM UTC - 0 replies
We are pleased to announce the first beta-release for version 4.4.0 of XBoard/Winboard. This release merges version 4.2.7 with changes from the GNU team, Alessandro Scotti's Winboard_x and H.G. Mullers series of releases of Winboard and XBoard. We invite everyone to try out the new version and send us feedback and bug-reports, so that we can get a very stable final release.
Arun
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/
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