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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[User Interface]] * [[GUI]] * XBoard'''
[[FILE:Isa Genzken X (1994) Arnulfstrasse Muenchen-2.jpg|border|right|thumb|240px| [[:Category:Isa Genzken|Isa Genzken]] - X <ref>[[:Category:Isa Genzken|Isa Genzken]] - X (1994), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnulfstra%C3%9Fe Arnulfstraße], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich Munich], Photo by [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rufus46 Rufus46], December 19, 2013, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons] </ref> ]] '''XBoard''' is a graphical user interface for the [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] running under the [[Unix]] (Posix) operating system based on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System X Window System], originally developed by [[Tim MannDan Sears]] and [[Chris Sears]] as a chess [[GUI]] for [[GNU Chess]] interface only <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.chess/browse_frm/thread/28d5826a078d091d xboard v1.2] by [[Dan Sears]], [[GNU Chess#NewsGroup|gnu.chess]], June 14, 1991</ref>. In 1991 [[Tim Mann]] took over, became the main developer and he continued developing it parallelly with [[WinBoard]] <ref>[http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/engine-intf.html#4 Chess Engine Communication Protocol - 4. How it got this way]</ref> <ref>[http://tim-mann.org/history.html XBoard Project History]</ref>. In Fall 2013, [[Joshua Pettus]] managed to port XBoard to [[Mac OS|MAC OS X]] using the native [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_%28graphics_layer%29 Quarz Graphics layer] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49729 OSX Xboard 4.7.2 .app] by [[Joshua Pettus]], [[CCC]], October 16, 2013</ref> <ref>[http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6492 XBoard native Mac App] by [[Harm Geert Muller]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], December 18, 2013</ref>. When [[Harm Geert Muller]] took over the project, he focused on [[WinBoard]] only and XBoard was abandoned since <ref>That statement seems wrong to me, see [http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xboard.git;a=summary hgm.nubati.net Git - xboard.git/summary]</ref>.
=Screenshot=
* [[GNU Chess]]
* [[Pondering]]
* [[Tournament Manager]]
* [[UCI]]
* [[WinBoard]]
* [[:Category:XBoard |XBoard Engines]]
=Forum Posts=
==1990 ...==
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.chess/browse_frm/thread/40206c9937414b0d xboard datapoint] by Paul Vaughan, [[GNU Chess#NewsGroup|gnu.chess]], January 29, 1991
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.chess/browse_frm/thread/28d5826a078d091d xboard v1.2] by Chris [[Dan Sears]], [[GNU Chess#NewsGroup|gnu.chess]], June 14, 1991
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.chess/browse_frm/thread/4dc93bfa82e41a08 reading in a position and playing in xboard] by [[Lewis Stiller]], [[GNU Chess#NewsGroup|gnu.chess]], February 20, 1992
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.chess/browse_frm/thread/c07cc9102c2a203a GNU Xboard introductory letter] by [[Stuart Cracraft]], [[GNU Chess#NewsGroup|gnu.chess]], May 16, 1992
==2010 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32254 XBoard and epd tournament] by [[Vlad Stamate]], [[CCC]], January 31, 2010 » [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]], [[Engine Testing]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36722 Problem using XBoard + Polyglot + Zippy on FICS] by [[Ben-Hur Carlos Vieira Langoni Junior|Ben-Hur Carlos Langoni]], [[CCC]], November 15, 2010 » [[PolyglotPolyGlot]], [[Free Internet Chess Server]]
'''2011'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40448 xboard and engine match using remote machine] by [[Frank Phillips]], [[CCC]], September 18, 2011
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58360 xboard issue] by [[Robert Hyatt]], [[CCC]], November 25, 2015
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58535 xboard: Spurious undo after a new game and first move] by [[Steven Edwards]], [[CCC]], December 09, 2015
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=58556 xboard and fifty move rule] by [[Fabio Gobbato]], [[CCC]], December 11, 2015
'''2016'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59173 Pi Zero compiling XBoard] by [[Richard Allbert]], [[CCC]], February 06, 2016 » [[Raspberry Pi]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60688 Einstein wuerfelt nicht] by [[Harm Geert Muller]], [[CCC]], July 03, 2016 » [[EinStein würfelt nicht!]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61465 Crashing engines (Linux)] by [[Harm Geert Muller]], [[CCC]], September 18, 2016 » [[Linux]], [[Process]]
==2020 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=73229 XBoard: C11 and more warnings] by Mehdi Amini, [[CCC]], February 29, 2020
=External Links=
==[[Free Software Foundation]]==
* [https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/ XBoard - GNU Project]
** <span id="TournamentManager"></span>[https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.6.0/index.html What is new in WinBoard / XBoard 4.6.0?]
*** [https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.6.0/TM.html XBoard tourney-manager function] » [[Tournament Manager]]
** [https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.7.0/index.html What is new in WinBoard / XBoard 4.7.0?]
** [https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.8.0/index.html What is new in WinBoard / XBoard 4.8.0?]
** [https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.9.0/index.html What is new in WinBoard / XBoard 4.9.0?]
==[[Tim Mann]] & [[Harm Geert Muller|H.G. Muller]]==
* [http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/engine-intf.html Chess Engine Communication Protocol] by [[Tim Mann]] & [[Harm Geert Muller|H.G. Muller]]
* [http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xboard.git;a=summary hgm.nubati.net Git - xboard.git/summary]
* [http://hgm.nubati.net/news.html XBoard News] by [[Harm Geert Muller|H.G. Muller]]
* [http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html Tim Mann's xBoard page]
==XBoard Misc==
* [http://walkofmind.com/programming/chess/xboard.htm Winboard/XBoard UML state diagram] by [[Alessandro Scotti]]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBoard XBoard from Wikipedia]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System X Window System from Wikipedia]
* [[Videos#BrandX:Category:Brand X|Brand X]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Communication X-Communication] (1992), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
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'''[[GUI|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:Isa Genzken]]
[[Category:Brand X]]
