XBoard - Summary
This project is part of the GNU Project.
XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess. It displays a chessboard on the screen, accept moves made with the mouse, and load and save 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: Saturday 10/18/2003 at 22:51 UTC
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
Development Status: 6 - Mature
posted by mann, Thursday 06/14/2007 at 06:50 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.)
posted by mann, Monday 03/28/2005 at 06:58 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/
posted by mann, Friday 11/28/2003 at 22:45 UTC - 0 replies
A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version
4.2.7 corrects about two dozen bugs in the 4.2.6 release. See the
ChangeLog for a list. In addition, WinBoard 4.2.7 comes bundled with
GNU Chess 5.07 instead of the old 5.02+ version. The XBoard and
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posted by mann, Tuesday 10/28/2003 at 03:52 UTC - 0 replies
I've combined the xboard and WinBoard 4.2.6 source distributions and checked them into the project's CVS repository. I've also checked in all the changes that I've made since 4.2.6 came out. This should be very close to what I plan to release as 4.2.7, and I will keep it up to date. So if you'd like to do some xboard/WinBoard development, please start with the version in CVS.
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