Main window of WinBoard, using a marble theme for the board, configured to display engine logos. This shows XBoard playing a (normal Chess) engine-engine game, with the engine-output, move-history and eval-graph windows open. At all sizes, however, the piece representation can be arbitrarily defined by the user through font-based rendering. One board size ("moderate") has bitmaps for traditional Shogi pieces. Two board sizes ("middling" and "bulky") have predefined bitmaps for all the new piece types. (Although the legality testing in the latter two might be not as strict as with Western Chess.) WinBoard is now also aware of pieces occurring in Capablanca Chess (ArchBishop and Chancellor), Shatranj (Alfil and Ferz), Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) and Shogi (Japanese Chess), so that these games can also be played with legality testing on. The move legality testing is improved to the point where it should be 100% reliable, as WinBoard now also keeps track of castling rights and en-passant status. It can also test draw and win claims by the engines for validity. WinBoard can now adjudicate theoretical draws, award 50-move and repetition draws (after an adjustable number of moves or repetitions), adjudicate trivial draws such as KBKB. In addition, I included various adjudication possibilities for engine-engine games. I also improved the support for variants with piece drops, such as Crazyhouse and Bughouse. I have upgraded the popular Winboard GUI to be able to handle more different piece types, and larger board sizes. WinBoard / XBoard 4.4 A Graphical User Interface for Chess and its Variants Which won silver medal at the ICGA Olympiad 2010 for 5x5 mini-Shogi, Includes an adapter to run USI engines, and the Shokidoki WinBoard engine, The Windows executable comes with an installer, which contains a completely configured WinBoard setup (including protocol adapters, example engines and a tournament manager), ready to run out of the box.Ĭonfigured with Xiangqi as default variantĬonfigured with Shogi as default variant. The latest stable WinBoard versions can be downloaded from the WinBoard forum, NEW! WinBoard Shogi-Variants package (incl. WinBoard 4.7 Browse git source repository WinBoard Alien Edition A Peer-to-peer connection adapter WinBoard for mini-Shogi, with 6 engines
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