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'''WinBoard''' is a [[GUI|graphical user interface]] for the [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] under the [[Windows]] operating system, also called the WinBoard protocol, initially designed and developed by [[Tim Mann]] based on [[XBoard]]. In 2009, [[Harm Geert Muller]] became the main developer and proposed a protocol definition <ref>[http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/engine-intf.html Chess Engine Communication Protocol] by [[Tim Mann]] & [[Harm Geert Muller|H.G. Muller]]</ref>, also covering [[Games|Chess Variants]] with different board sizes.

Winboard supports directly only [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]]. However, UCI's chess engines can run with Winboard via some adapters such as [[PolyGlot]], [[UCI2WB]] ones.

Winboard was the first-ever and unique for a while chess [[GUI|graphical user interface]] with good and very fast graphics, various functions, almost enough for general users. 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. Not supporting directly UCI engines is a huge disadvantage since almost all new and/or strong chess engines nowadays are UCI ones. 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.