When connected to an ICS, it is possible to call up a graphical Was already excluded it is a toggle.) This only works for engines that In this case the move you enter will not be played, but willīe excluded from the analysis of the current position. With a double-click of the left mouse button (or while keeping the `Ctrl' In Analysis mode you can also make a move by grabbing the piece As the display of the PV in that case startsĪfter the first move a simple right-click will play the move the engine Releasing the mouse button might forward the game upto that point, like youĮntered all previous PV moves. Only in Analysis mode, when you walk along a PV, The comment window can similarly be played out on the board, by Lines of play displayed in the engine-output window, or PGN variations in Through the principal variation to show how this position will be reached. Moving the mouse vertically with this button pressed XBoard will step To display the position the chess program thinks it will end up in. The default function of the right mouse button in other modes is Square is still used to put a piece on it, and the piece to drop is selectedīy sweeping the mouse vertically with the button held down. Only in Edit Position mode right and middle clicking a You can select what piece to drop on it can still be selected through the Old behavior, where right-clicking a square brings up a menu where Holdings squares displayed next to the board. In crazyhouse,īughouse or shogi you can drag and drop pieces to the board from the To castle you move the King to its destination or, inĬhess960, on top of the Rook you want to castle with. Keeping the button down until the piece that you want appears in the Or after selecting the pawn with a firstĬlick you can then click the promotion square and move the mouse while It morphs into the piece you want to promote to, after which you drag thatįorward to the promotion square. To under-promote a Pawn you can drag it backwards until You can click the left mouse button once on the piece, then once more on theĭestination square. To move a piece, you can drag it with the left mouse button, or As an interface to electronic mail correspondence chess, XBoard works with One or more games in it, click the Save button, and type `|pxboard' as the For example, from the news reader `xrn', find a message with |pxboard If you want to pipe games into XBoard, use the supplied shell script These features are also available in the other You can use it to browse games off the net or review It will read and write game files and allow you to play through xboard -ncp XBoard can also be used simply as an electronic chessboard to play through Most of the ICS "wild" chess variants are Other ICS users, observe games they are playing, or review games that have xboard -ics -icshost hostname As Internet Chess Server (ICS) interface, XBoard lets you play against Polyglot package installed for this to work.
The Polyglot adapter fully transparently, but you will need to have the To run engines that use the UCI standard XBoard will draw upon Interactively analyze your stored games or set up and analyze arbitrary Positions, force variations, watch a game between two chess engines, Machine, XBoard lets you play a game against the machine, set up arbitrary xboard As an interface to GNU Chess or another chess engine running on your Major mode from the command line when you start up XBoard. XBoard always runs in one of four major modes.
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This manual documents version 4.9.1 of XBoard. Interface to chess engines (such as GNU Chess), the Internet Chess Servers,Įlectronic mail correspondence chess, or your own collection of saved XBoard is a graphical chessboard that can serve as a user Xboard xboard -ics -icshost hostname xboard -ncp |pxboard cmail DESCRIPTION Xboard - X graphical user interface for chess SYNOPSIS
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