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XBoard is a graphical chessboard for X that can serve as a user interface to play against any of a variety of chess engines that run on your local machine, or against human or computer opponents on an Internet chess server. XBoard can also be used by itself to read and write game files in PGN (portable game notation). WinBoard is a port of XBoard to Microsoft Win32.

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2001-02-07 10:16
4.2.2

Tags: Minor bugfixes

2001-01-30 15:14
4.2.0beta

This release supports an improved (but compatible) protocol for communicating with chess engines such as GNU Chess and Crafty. Also included are a few user-visible features, and various bugfixes.

2001-01-30 15:14
4.1.0

Dark borders on white pieces, ability to copy and paste games and positions to and from the clipboard, ability to register your next planned move in ICS games before it is your turn ("premove"), an audible low-on-time alarm in ICS games, a PGN training mode and a blindfold mode, automatic board visibility and positioning so that your pieces move upward on game start, simple sound support, and several small bugfixes.

2001-01-30 15:14
4.0.7

Version 4.0.7 (released 5 Mar 2000) fixes one bad bug in Internet Chess Server support that was introduced in 4.0.6. Version 4.0.6 (released two days before 4.0.7) was a larger bug-fix release, including over 20 fixes to various small bugs and a couple of very minor new features.

2001-01-30 15:14
4.0.5

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