** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.2.5 ** A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version 4.2.5 corrects a few bugs in the 4.2.4 release. In addition, the precompiled GNU Chess 5.02 that is bundled in the WinBoard 4.2.5 distribution includes a much smaller book and defaults to using much less memory for hash tables. This makes the download smaller and makes GNU Chess 5 runnable on computers with less memory. The large book is now available from http://www.tim-mann.org/gnuchess.html as a separate download for those who would like it. Several new features contributed by various people are still in the pipeline for a future release, as are several additions to the engine communication protocol that have been discussed on the chess-engines mailing list but which I have not implemented yet. I wanted to work through my large backlog of small bug reports and fixes before moving on to these larger items. You can get both programs from my Chess page on the World Wide Web. In addition, they should soon be available from GNU FTP sites. - http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/winboard/ 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 32-bit Microsoft Windows. It includes all the major features of XBoard except email correspondence chess. Some known bugs and deficiencies in previous versions 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. Most known bugs, deficiencies, and suggestions received are now listed in the ToDo file. If you find a bug not listed there, please report it to me. --Tim Mann