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xboard/WinBoard 4.0.0 available by Tim Mann, rgc, June 21, 1998.

XBoard and WinBoard, version 3.6.0 by Tim Mann, rgc, May 09, 1997.

Problems with Winboard - fix? by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, June 6 1996.

XBoard and WinBoard 3.4, patchlevel 1 by Tim Mann,, December 13 1995.

Re: Accessing remote computers with WinBoard by Tim Mann, gnu.chess, November 7, 1993.

It is also the main reason why recently there are so few computer chess tournaments using Winboard as a Tournament Manager even it has enough functions to do that task. Not supporting directly UCI engines is a huge disadvantage since almost all new and/or strong chess engines nowadays are UCI ones. However, some users criticize it since it does not support directly UCI's chess engines as well as it has old-style, complicated and hard to use interface. Winboard was the first-ever and unique for a while chess graphical user interface with good and very fast graphics, various functions, almost enough for general users. However, UCI's chess engines can run with Winboard via some adapters such as PolyGlot, UCI2WB ones. Winboard supports only Chess Engine Communication Protocol. It would be nice to make some major revisions, but then of course it would (at best) take a long time for the existing engines to convert over to the new protocol, so both would have to be supported, probably forever. Unfortunately, because the protocol was never really designed, but just grew out of documenting the existing communication with GNU Chess, there are still several bugs and deficiencies in it today. The document that exists now (chess-engines.html) evolved directly from the original email reply I sent to Shay. Over the years I received so many requests for this information that I was more or less forced into documenting and extending the ad-hoc engine protocol to support them. I think the first person to ask was Shay Bushinsky, in November 1994.

XBOARD CHES HOW TO

Because the GUI and the chess engine are separate programs, several people thought of the idea of connecting their own chess programs in place of GNU Chess, and they began to email me asking how to do it.

Originally, xboard and WinBoard were simply graphical user interfaces for GNU Chess, then for GNU Chess and Internet chess servers. Tim Mann's quote from an Interview by Frank Quisinsky, April 2000 :

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