** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.0.3 ** A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version 4.0.3 is an update to version 4.0.2 that fixes a few small bugs and adds some very minor features. It has not been extensively tested, so please report any apparent new bugs. Many known bugs and deficiencies in 4.0.2 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. You can get both programs from my Chess page on the World Wide Web or from the Internet Chess Library FTP site. In addition, XBoard should soon be available from GNU FTP sites. - http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/chess.html - ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/X/xboard-4.0.3.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/Win3/winboard-4_0_3.exe (zip format) - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ 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 Microsoft Windows 95/98 and Windows NT. It includes all the major features of XBoard except email correspondence chess. Warning: WinBoard does not work on Windows 3.1 or 3.11, not even with Win32s. Report bugs in XBoard and WinBoard to . --Tim Mann === Selected change highlights in 4.0.3 === * Changed all Zippy environment variables to work as command line options. For now they still work as environment variables too, but the environment variables are deprecated. This change provides a way to have Zippy issue several ICS commands at game end, because there is syntax to get a newline into the command line option (whereas for Windows, there was no way to get a newline into the environment variable value). * Zippy now exits if the engine dies unexpectedly. * Added Zippy "spoofedby" feature; see zippy.README. * Sundry bug fixes; see ChangeLog for details.