+2009-02-28 22:55:30 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
+added myself to the AUTHOR file
+
+2007-06-15 04:26:57 +0000 Mark Loli <chessknight>:
+Initial check-in of NSIS Winboard installer files.
+
+* 06/12/2005: bugfix some more possible buffer overflows.
+
+* 06/27/2004: added simple icsEngineAnalyze for xboard
+
+* 06/26/2004: added icsEngineAnalyze for winboard: Analyze observe games
+with a chessprogram on a Internet Chess Server (ICS)
+
+* 02/12/2004: Bugfix ICS interaction console crashed while chess
+engine starting and user type in some stuff. We wait now to finish
+the engine boot.
+
+* 02/11/2004: Winboard: Added color lines for the ics interaction
+console if zippy used
+
+* 02/09/2004: Added mousewheel support for winboard. Play moves
+backward and forward with the mousewheel.
+
+xboard/WinBoard 4.2.7 -- Fri Nov 28 13:36:00 PST 2003 -- Tim Mann
+
+* 11/26/2003: In WinBoard, setting the -debug flag now logs ICS output
+to WinBoard.debug too. (This isn't needed in xboard because ICS
+output already goes to stdout, so it's easy to capture along with the
+debug output on stderr.) This was issue #280 in the ToDo file.
+
+* 11/23/2003: Cleaned up some minor problems in cygwin.mak. Thanks to
+Hans Werner Strube for the problem report.
+
+* 11/23/2003: Updated the default list of chess servers in
+winboard/defaults.h. Deleted two that appear to be dead and added a
+new one that is active.
+
+* 11/19/2003: Swapped icon_white.bm and icon_black.bm in XBoard.
+Hopefully this will get them the right way around by default on more X
+window managers. I wish I understood this better.
+
+* 11/18/2003: Implemented a simple 32-bit random number generator for
+WinBoard, replacing the Windows rand(), which ranges only up to
+0x7fff. Formerly on Windows, only zippy.lines sayings that started in
+the first 32767 bytes of the file could ever be used. This was issue
+#505 from the ToDo file.
+
+* 11/16/2003: The xboard man page and info files are now built from a
+common set of texinfo source files, and the xboard man page now covers
+cmail as well. Formerly, ever since the texinfo file was first
+contributed to the project, it was separate from the man page and the
+two files had to be updated in parallel, making for a maintenance
+nightmare. To make combining the files possible, I took the Perl
+script "texi2man" from the GNU Units project and added support for a
+larger subset of the texinfo markup language. I then carefully
+compared the old man page and old texinfo file to make sure the latest
+and clearest words survived into the new combined texinfo file. It
+would be great to merge in WinBoard's help file too, but that's a
+larger project. It would have to be heavily conditionalized to
+deal with differences in features between XBoard and WinBoard.
+
+* 11/15/2003: Cleaned up and applied a small patch from Daniel
+Mehrmann, to stop overly long PVs in thinking output from causing a
+buffer overflow crash in backend.c.
+
+* 11/5/2003: When a chess engine sends a "telluser" command (including
+the cases where "tellall" or "tellopponent" acts like telluser), the
+information now goes into a nonmodel popup that is automatically
+dismissed when the user clicks anywhere on the board. This fix is
+more significant on WinBoard, where formerly you got a fully modal
+dialog that had to be dismissed by clicking on OK before anything else
+could happen. The bug was issue #406 in the ToDo file.
+
+* 11/1/2003: Removed email addresses from this file to reduce spam
+load, as it gets linked to from the Web.
+
+* 11/1/2003: Updated READ_ME and winboard/READ_ME.txt.
+
+* Modified xboard and winboard makefiles to be able to build the
+project in the new combined directory structure.
+
+* Applied a small security fix to pxboard, from Martin Maeok.
+
+* Fixed a bug in the game list dialog. The change in 4.2.6 to opening
+games in text mode (meant to avoid getting extra \r's into comments)
+caused a new bug in determining seek offsets when parsing a game file
+to form the game list. Also, the change was incomplete; on some code
+paths games were still being opened in binary mode. Thanks to Lenik
+Terenin for reporting the offset bug. I've now gone back to always
+using binary mode when reading game files, and I've fixed the comment
+bug by adding code to remove \r's from parsed comments explicitly. I
+still use text mode for writing game files so that games written by
+WinBoard will have Windows-style line endings.
+
+* Fix for minor bug in WinBoard installer. If you chose a non-default
+destination directory, the default directory was still used for a
+couple of unimportant things, namely setting the App Paths registry
+keys (unused by WinBoard) and trying to copy the existing WinBoard.ini
+file to WinBoard.old. I inherited this bug from the InstallShield 5
+sample template. Thanks to "l.d." for noticing the incorrect keys.
+
+* Patch from Chris Priest: when two engines are being run through rsh,
+avoid reusing the same stderr port for both. I'm not sure why this
+should be needed, but it's harmless, at least.
+
+* Bugfix: The kludge to deal with old engines that give an error
+message because they don't know the "st" command was too sloppy; it
+could hit on an "st" substring anywhere in an error message. GNU
+Chess 4 is the only engine I know of where the kludge was needed, so I
+changed the kludge to match a longer, more GNU-specific string.
+
+* Changed the WinBoard self-extracting installer to choose a unique
+temporary subdirectory name within the Windows temp directory instead
+of always putting wb-setup directly in temp. Besides being better
+practice, this avoids the need to deltree wb-setup first, which
+occasionally alarms someone who thinks that deltree is only used by
+trojans to delete all your files. (Yes, I'm serious.)
+
+* Fixed a bug where FICS-style "wild/0" strings were not parsed as the
+proper wild type. The "/" was not being skipped.
+
+* Fixed a WinBoard bug where temporary files created by game
+copy/paste were being created in the root directory of the current
+drive instead of the TMP directory and were not always deleted on exit.
+
+* Fixed a small bug in winboard.c's ErrorDialog() function. Thanks to
+"Ron" (no last name given). The bug might have caused a problem when
+pressing OK or Cancel in an error dialog when more than one error
+dialog was being displayed, but I'm not really sure.
+
+* Removed a hack that worked around a bug in very old versions of
+Crafty, where it would sometimes reply "illegal move" to a "."
+command. The hack kept us from recognizing real illegal move messages
+in analyze mode from engines that don't respond to the "." command.
+Thanks to Fabien Letouzey for the report.
+
+* Fixed a bug in the xboard version of GetDelayedEvent. It would
+return the most recently scheduled event even if it had already fired.
+This caused at least one visible error: in -ics -xreuse mode, starting
+the engine again and seeing another "feature done=1" would re-run the
+initialization code in InitBackEnd3, including the code that opens the
+connection to ICS. The WinBoard version didn't have this bug. Thanks
+to Bob Hyatt for the bug report.
+
+* The promotion popup for ICC wild 26 (giveaway) now includes King.
+Thanks to Fredrik Josefsson for the bug report.
+
+* The first game in a file (or being pasted from the clipboard) can
+now start with a bare move -- no PGN tags, no move number "1", etc.
+Suggested by Shane Harrelson. One could imagine taking this farther
+and accepting something like "e4 e5 1/2-1/2 d4 d5" as two games, but
+I haven't done that.
+
+* Bug fix: xboard didn't really accept a paste of multiple games,
+contrary to what I wrote when adding the feature to WinBoard in
+4.2.4. Now it works in both.
+
+* Fixed generic start/end of game messages to work on chess.net, where
+they put ratings in parens after the player names.
+
+* Updated config.sub and config.guess to newer versions from
+automake-1.4p5-2. This makes configure work with MacOS X + X11.
+
+* Bugfix: when examining a game fragment on FICS where black plays
+first, don't show two "(0:00.000)" times on the initial "none" move.
+
+* If TestLegality is on and one of the engines makes an illegal move
+in TwoMachines mode, it forfeits immediately. Formerly the game would
+get stuck at that point and the engine that made the illegal move
+would eventually lose on time.
+
+xboard/WinBoard 4.2.6 -- Fri Feb 1 22:26:31 PST 2002
+Tim Mann
+
+Another small bugfix release.
+
+* Put in a small change from Alexander Mai to allow xboard to build in
+an OS/2 EMX environment.
+
+* Fix WinBoard-only bug where editing a PGN file with comments would
+insert more \r characters before the \n after every Load/Save cycle.
+For some unknown reason we were reading the files in "rb" mode but
+writing them in "a" mode, so we kept the \r characters on reading and
+added an extra one on writing. Fix: change the "rb" to "r". Thanks
+to Joel (last name not given) for the bug report.
+
+* Put the arguments to rsh/remsh in the right order for better
+portability. Thanks to Michael Kalisz.
+
+* FreezeUI is now implemented in WinBoard; it was previously only
+implemented in xboard. This function prevents the user from entering
+moves or other commands while we are waiting for an engine to
+initialize itself. Implementing it fixes a bug where the user could
+start a game (etc.) during feature negotiation. One of the symptoms
+of this bug was that we could send "new" one or move moves *after* the
+first game started!
+
+* Fixed some handle leaks (WinBoard only), including a nasty one that
+leaked one handle per command sent to ICS. Thanks to several folks
+who helped characterize the bug and tried to look for leaks.
+
+* We now install and look for the info file in ${prefix}/share/info
+instead of ${prefix}/info. The latter is still the default in
+autoconf, but the former is currently used in Red Hat Linux and
+probably elsewhere.
+
+xboard/WinBoard 4.2.5 -- Sat Dec 15 11:42:51 PST 2001
+Tim Mann
+
+* Changed the bundled GNU Chess 5.02 in the WinBoard package to
+include a much smaller book and to use much less hash table space by
+default (8 MB transposition table, 0.5 MB pawn evaluation table). The
+large book included with 4.2.4 made the WinBoard download too big for
+some people, and the default hash tables were larger than the
+available physical memory on some people's computers. I built the
+small book by running Crafty's "small.zip" book line collection
+through a Perl script that makes it look enough like real PGN games
+that the GNU Chess book builder will accept it. The script and some
+minor patches to GNU Chess 5 are available in the WinBoard source
+distribution and at http://www.tim-mann.org/gnuchess.html.
+
+* Fixed a bug in the code that deals with engines that complain that
+"time" and "otim" are illegal moves. This was a new bug in 4.2.4.
+
+* Revamped the implementation of ToStart in analysis mode. Formerly
+there was some ill-conceived code that would try to get back to the
+start of the game by doing a "new" command (and all the followup
+commands that requires) while remaining in analysis mode. This is
+problematic for engine authors to support, though it works with
+Crafty. This code was trying to solve the problem of ToStart being
+slow because the engine would try to start an analysis after every
+"undo" command all the way back to the start. But ToEnd already had a
+much better solution to this problem, and now ToStart does the same
+thing: we exit from analysis mode and enter force mode instead,
+make/unmake moves to get to the end/start of the game, and then
+reenter analysis mode.
+
+* Formerly, Zippy could try to start playing a game before the engine
+was initialized; that is, during the initial timeout for protover 1
+engines, or before "feature done=1" for protover 2 engines. We now
+wait until the engine is initialized before connecting to ICS, which
+fixes this in the common case. If you turn off engine reuse for
+multiple games (that is, if you give the -xreuse option), there could
+still be problems; see item 503 in the ToDo file. Thanks to Dieter
+Buerssner for the bug report.
+
+* Bugfix: All WinBoard versions since the merge with WinBoard Plus
+(but not xboard) have had a bug in changing the PeriodicUpdates,
+PonderNextMove, and ShowThinking options from the menu. The bug
+mostly just caused changing these options during a game to not take
+effect until after the next reset. For TwoMachines games, though,
+changing PonderNextMove just before the game would take effect
+immediately for the second engine but not until the next game for the
+first engine. Thanks to Koundinya Veluri for the bug report.
+
+* Bugfix: In 4.2.4, we sometimes got confused when trying to leave and
+reenter analyze mode. One symptom was that Analyze File did not work.
+Thanks to Igor Syry for the bug report.
+
+xboard/WinBoard 4.2.4 -- Sun Dec 9 14:56:30 PST 2001
+Tim Mann
+
+* WinBoard now includes GNU Chess 5.02 in place of GNU Chess 5.00.
+
+* WinBoard's PasteGameFromClipboard will now handle a paste with
+multiple games in it, popping up the game list dialog. xboard
+already did this. Suggested by Robert Gerstman.
+
+* We now use the "clearboard" command on ICC where appropriate.
+
+* Bugfix: don't generate a bogus "variant normal" command to an engine
+for the loadable ICC wild types that we internally flag as
+VariantLoadable. Also clarified the message that Zippy sends when
+declining such wild games -- it can't deal with the possibility of
+loading an arbitrary position into the game. Thanks to Dieter
+Buerssner for reporting the problem. It would be nice to be able to
+actually play these wild types some day; presumably there would have
+to be an option to either send "loadgame" with a specified position,
+or to deal with an opponent sending it.
+
+* If we get a holdings message from ICS when we thought we were
+playing normal chess, we now try asking for a move list so that we can
+find out from the header what's really happening. Formerly we guessed
+bughouse in this case. Response to a comment from Gian-Carlo
+Pascutto.
+
+* Fixed two longstanding bugs in the clock code. These affected only
+play between a user and a local engine, or between two local engines,
+not ICS play. (1) The last fractional second used by a player before
+moving and virtually pushing his clock was being charged to his
+opponent instead of to him. (2) The time and otim commands were being
+sent to an engine before the (buggy) fractional second update was
+done. The second bug was pretty harmless in itself, but the first one
+was serious. Many thanks to Peter Rosendahl for carefully diagnosing
+and reporting these bugs!
+
+* Changed WinBoard timestamp key. Nothing is changed other than the
+key and a recompilation. ICC may phase out the old key soon; if they
+do, you'll need to use the timestamp.exe from WinBoard 4.2.4 or later
+to connect to chessclub.com.
+
+* Fixed an xboard-only bug where most dialogs would not take keyboard
+input unless the mouse was actually over the dialog, even if the
+dialog window had focus. Thanks to Jason Varsoke for the bug report.
+
+* Bugfix; Remember to send time and otim commands to engine before
+sending playother. Thanks to Bob Hyatt for the bug report. Also
+fixed a bug where time and otim were sometimes sent even with feature
+time=0.
+
+* Added small patches from Wilkin Ng that are meant to fix a crash in
+CopyGameToClipboard and a "can't unlock clipboard memory" error in
+PasteTextFromClipboard, under Windows 2000.
+
+* Changed cygwin.mak to not use -mno-cygwin. In other words, it now
+uses cygwin1.dll instead of the mingw libraries. This works around
+bugs in fileno() and stat() that I encountered in mingw. (fileno
+seems to always return 0. stat fails because the library routine uses
+a different definition of struct stat than the header files provide.)
+Thanks to Robert Gerstman for reporting the symptoms these bugs caused
+when WinBoard was compiled with Cygwin.
+
+* Added -showButtonBar option. This lets you delete the << < P > >>
+buttons and thus widen the message widget a bit.
+
+* Added code to address a very obscure bug. If an engine dies and
+needs to be restarted while in one of the analyze modes, it was not
+getting put back into analyze mode. This bug should not really ever
+have gotten tickled unless reuse was turned off and the engine sends
+game end commands (such as 1-0) when a game ends by rule while in
+analyze mode. The next version of the protocol spec will say that
+engines should not do that, but version 2 and earlier didn't address
+the issue.
+
+* We now use the FICS "iset ms 1" feature to get times in ms instead
+of seconds. Thanks to DAV for email telling me about this feature.
+
+* Changed clock display to show tenths of seconds for 9.9 seconds and
+less, instead of 0.9 seconds and less as before.
+
+* It has been discovered that Zippy can play simuls on ICC (but not on
+FICS). If you arrange for Zippy to send the ICC command "simulize" in
+the -zippyGameStart string, it will accept additional games while
+playing. Zippy will use the same engine for every game, so whenever
+it switches opponents, the engine's state will be reset with the "new"
+command. This will of course weaken its play, so don't enable simuls
+if you want your engine to have the highest possible rating. Zippy
+was never designed to work with simuls; it just works by accident, and
+it hasn't been tested much. So please report any bugs you notice, but
+don't expect them to be fixed rapidly. Thanks to Paul McGuire for
+noticing that this works.
+
+* Bugfix: Suppress the direct command to engine popup if there is no
+engine. In WinBoard this case used to cause a crash. Thanks to
+"Dargon" for the bug report.
+
+* Bugfix: formerly we did part of the engine initialization for the
+very first game too soon, before feature negotiation. One result of
+this is that engines would never get the "ics" command for the first
+game.
+
+* Lengthened timeout to detect protocol version 1 chess engines to 10
+seconds. This should reduce problems with protocol version 2 engines
+that are slow to initialize missing the timeout and not getting a
+chance to send their feature commands before the first game starts.
+
+* Klaus Friedel says that adding a short sleep to WinBoard after
+starting a new chess engine solves a problem that occurs under Windows
+2000, in which engines sometimes don't see the initial command(s) from
+WinBoard and hang. I don't understand how that can happen, but the
+sleep is harmless, so I've put it in. Others have also reported what
+may be the same problem, so hopefully this will fix it for them too.
+
+* Bugfix: editing the Result field in EditTags will no longer cause a
+later crash. Thanks to DAV for a clear bug report that let me
+reproduce the problem.
+
+* ICC wild 28 is now recognized as shatranj, but it is not supported.
+You might be able to play it by turning off Test Legality.
+
+* Formerly we would always turn off "feature time" if the engine
+printed an error message with the string "time" or "otim" in it; now
+we do that only if the message comes before the engine makes its first
+move. This change is useful because some engines spew a lot of bogus
+error messages about commands they don't fully parse, so something
+like "result 0-1 {White lost on time}" could generate such a message.
+Engines shouldn't do that, but if they do, mysteriously turning off
+"feature time" is not a good way to react.
+
+* Fixed an infrequently occurring Zippy bug: formerly, resuming from
+adjournment by position (that is, with GetMoveList turned off) or
+starting/resuming a wild game (nonstandard starting position) would
+try to set up the position without putting the engine into force mode
+first. That was probably tolerated by most engines, but if the
+position was black-to-play and the engine hadn't set feature
+setboard=1, then the fake "a2a3" move (which we use as a kludge to get
+black to be on move before sending the edit command) would appear to
+be a real move, and the engine might reply to it! This bug could also
+be seen when trying to use Zippy to play a simul -- something that
+Zippy was never designed to support, but which seems to mostly work
+anyway. Thanks to Paul McGuire for sending a WinBoard.debug file that
+showed the bug occurring. Some other cases of resuming adjournments
+or starting games from nonstandard positions may have been broken too;
+I think I've straightened out the problems.
+
+* Agreeing to a draw in the human vs. local engine case formerly did
+not work if the human offered first; now it does. A human's
+unsolicited offer is considered valid until he makes another move.
+Thanks to Bruce Moreland for the bug report.
+
+* Bugfix: We used to look for just "fr" in Event tags or strings from
+ICSes to recognize Fischer Random games. This caused a lot of false
+matches. Now we look for "wild/fr" instead, which is what FICS uses.
+
+* Bugfix: Clicking on a move in the MoveList window only updated the
+displayed position; if a chess engine was active, its state was not
+updated. Thanks to Alejandro Dubrovsky for the bug report.
+
+* Bugfix: The "resign" command from engine to xboard formerly did not
+work in ICS (Zippy) mode.
+
+* Bugfix: Formerly we would register a garbage premove if the user
+clicked on a piece, then clicked on an edge or outside the board. Now
+such an errant click is ignored.
+
+* Bugfix: GameEnds would send "exit" to an engine in analyze mode even
+if we did not actually want to leave analyze mode.
+
+* Bugfix: "feature pause" was being rejected. We don't currently use
+it, but that is no reason to reject it. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto
+for the bug report.
+
+* Bugfix: when "partner" needed to be sent both to ICS and the engine,
+Zippy was erroneously sending the ICS prefix character to the engine
+too. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto for the bug report.
+
+* Zippy now declines challenges when the engine is not yet ready to
+play again, instead of ignoring them. This is needed so that the
+server will let the opponent repeat the challenge. It might be better
+to remember such challenges and accept them when the engine is ready,
+but that would be a bit more complicated to implement.
+
+* Bugfix: Zippy's emotes didn't work on FICS because there, "i" is a
+built-in alias for "it", not a real command. So sending "$i foo" gave
+an error message instead of doing "it foo". We now leave out the
+alias-suppressing prefix for emotes.
+
+xboard/WinBoard 4.2.3 -- Mon Feb 19 19:55:05 PST 2001
+Tim Mann
+
+* Bugfix: The error message "Variant X not supported by gnuchessx"
+formerly could pop up even in -ncp mode.
+
+* Fixed an xboard bug in premove highlighting. If you had
+HighlightLastMove turned on, premoves got highlighted in
+highlightSquareColor (yellow) instead of premoveHighlightColor (red).
+
+* Modified premove again. Now we are back to displaying the move
+locally immediately after sending it to the server, as in versions
+prior to 4.2.1. This is good because it lets you register your next
+premove sooner. As a better fix to the problem that the change in
+4.2.1 had been trying to address, we now suppress animating the
+opponent's move if you have a premove reply pending. However, it's
+probably still a good idea for you to turn off AnimateMoves entirely
+if you are trying to play extremely fast games.
+
+* Removed an erroneous patch that left zombie chess engines around
+when both sigterm and reuse were turned off. (Bug was in xboard only,
+not winboard.)
+
+* Bugfix: loading a game with autostepping did not work for games with
+PGN result "*" (unfinished). This bug was introduced in 4.1.0, caused
+by some outdated code that was supposed to leave you in EditGame mode
+after loading an unfinished game. I fixed this, and also changed it
+to leave you in EditGame mode after loading *any* game, but without
+changing the tags to say it's an edited game. It's not really clear
+whether that is the best thing is to do here -- ideally, perhaps, the
+tags should change to say "edited game" if you actually make any
+changes, but that is harder to make work.
+
+xboard/WinBoard 4.2.2 -- Tue Feb 6 20:00:00 PST 2001
+Tim Mann
+
+* Fixed a problem introduced in 4.2.1. In -zippyPlay mode, 4.2.1
+started sending the initString immediately after the old game ended,
+but then when the next game started, it would still send "force" and
+another initString. Another problem was that the first initString put
+the engine out of sync with the displayed board position, though that
+might not usually have been noticeable. This is now changed to do a
+full Reset at the end of the previous game, and avoid doing a Reset at
+the start of a new game if we are still in BeginningOfGame mode.
+
+* Fixed some limitations in -zippyPlay mode. The engine was not being
+fed the moves or history of games that were displayed but not being
+played, so it would get confused if you tried to do something like
+examine a game, then enter EditGame mode from somewhere in the middle
+of the game.
+
+* Made a small change so that cygwin can compile xboard for Windows
+(an X server is required to run it). Thanks to Volker Zell. Most
+people would probably prefer to run WinBoard on Windows, however; note
+that cygwin could already compile WinBoard.
+
+* Added some missing documentation to engine-intf.html: It is okay to
+send "feature done=0" even before you receive the xboard and protover
+commands, if this is needed to give your engine enough time to
+initialize. See engine-intf.html for more discussion.
+
+* Bugfix: "feature done=0" did not work for the second engine; now it does.
+
+xboard/WinBoard 4.2.1 -- Sat Feb 3 19:52:26 PST 2001
+Tim Mann
+
+* Bugfix: in Zippy mode with feature san=1, the elapsed time was being
+sent to the engine after the SAN move; for example, "e4 (0:01)" was
+sent instead of just "e4".
+
+* It seems that scroll wheel mice with incompletely installed software
+(under Windows 95, at least) can send repeated middle button up events
+when the wheel is turned. Moved QuickPaste from middle button up to
+middle button down to avoid problems with this.
+
+* A premove is now sent *before* the opponent's move that it replies
+to is animated. The premove itself is no longer displayed (or
+animated) when sent; instead, it is displayed when the chess server
+echoes it back as a board update.
+
+* Bug fix: in -xreuse mode, xboard was only sending command line
+arguments to the engine the first time it was started. (WinBoard
+didn't have this bug.)
+
+* In -zippyPlay mode, we now initialize the chess engine for a new
+game immediately after the old game ends. (In -xreuse mode, this
+means starting a new engine process; in the default -reuse mode, it
+just means sending "new".) If the engine supports ping, we don't
+accept challenges until the "new" has finished. This should help
+avoid losing time (re)initializing the engine after the game starts.
+
+* We now handle the new FICS field in style 12 that says whether the
+clocks are ticking.
+
+* whiteFlag and blackFlag are now reset whenever an ICS board image
+arrives, giving autoflag a fresh chance to work.
+
+* Suppressed "geometry error" debug messages unless -debug flag is given.
+
+* Bugfix: avoid core dump on Solaris with -debug flag, caused by
+passing NULL to a %s format in GameEnds.
+
+* Added -firstProtocolVersion and -secondProtocolVersion. This will
+allow use of extremely broken engines that hang or die when given the
+"protover 2" command. It should be rarely if ever needed.
+
+* Zippy now strips highlights from player names in the Creating
+message; previously the ratings would not be extracted from this
+message properly if you had set the highlight variable.
+
+* Bug fix: Zippy with -zp but not -zt used to be fooled by false
+partner tells inside channel tells; e.g.:
+Garf(24): Garf (your partner) tells you: sit
+
+* Bug fix: when an engine reported its name with the new "feature
+myname=" command, we had been putting just that name into the window
+title even when in TwoMachines mode.
+
+* By default, WinBoard no longer uses the new feature introduced in
+4.2.0beta of keeping the ICS menu, ICS server list, and lists of chess
+engine command lines in separate files; instead, the lists are back in
+the winboard.ini file. This gets rid of some problems where the
+separate files could not be opened because the working directory was
+not set to WinBoard's installation directory.
+
+* WinBoard command lines and ini files now have another optional
+syntax for quoting an option value. All characters within { } curly
+braces are interpreted literally except for '}' itself. SaveSettings
+now uses this syntax for string values that contain a backslash or
+newline and do not contain a '}'. This should address the problem
+that the separate .ini files had been meant to fix; engine command
+line lists can now be written without \-escapes.
+
+* Fixed three bugs in relaying moves between engines in TwoMachines
+mode: an engine would be sent SAN if the *other* engine had set
+feature san=1, a relayed SAN move did not end with a newline, and
+feature usermove was not implemented for relayed moves.
+
+* Fixed several bugs in exiting: File/Exit would sometimes hang;
+timestamp/timeseal would not get killed off; an engine crash would
+cause error messages to be printed recursively until stack overflow.
+
+* Fixed a bug in the code to detect which ICS is in use and adapt to
+it; the chess.net case was broken.
+
+* Removed the leading alias-suppression character when sending a move
+to ICS, because it seemed to break accuclock on chess.net.
+
+* Fixed a bug where a FICS prompt like "10:01_fics%" would be matched
+as finger note number 10, causing a problem detecting when the user is
+logged in.
+
+* Added tellicsnoalias command to protocol.
+
+* Changed st command in protocol back to old behavior.
+
+* Added done=0 feature to protocol, to lengthen initial timeout.
+
+* Added missing -colorSeek command line option to xboard. (Was
+present in WinBoard.)
+
+* Bug fix: setting feature reuse=0 was not working.
+
+xboard/WinBoard 4.2.0beta -- Sat Dec 16 16:34:56 PST 2000
+Tim Mann
+
+* Setting -searchTime no longer turns off -clockMode. Note that when
+-searchTime is set, some engines may search for the lesser of
+searchTime and the amount of time their normal clock management would
+dictate, while others will disable their normal clock management and
+always search for exactly searchTime.
+
+* Fixed WinBoard bug where on Windows 2000 (and maybe Windows 98) the
+ICS Interaction window would scroll back to the top whenever it filled
+to capacity and WinBoard trimmed some text off the top.
+
+* Changed xboard dragging so that the center of the dragged piece is
+forced to be over the mouse cursor. (WinBoard dragging already worked
+that way.) This should avoid confusing cases when you start a drag
+with the mouse near the edge of a square -- formerly most or all of
+the piece could be over one square but the mouse cursor over another.
+Suggested by DAV.
+
+* Added move list window for xboard. Code contributed by Manuel
+Hoelss and re-hacked a bit by me. Performance of this window is poor,
+because the implementation regenerates the entire window contents
+whenever anything changes. It's hard to avoid this when using the
+Athena List widget, though we could be a little smarter and notice
+when the current move number has changed but the move list has not.
+There are also several drawing problems caused by bugs in the Athena
+Form and List widgets. The window should not really allow a
+horizontal scroll bar, but the bugs are much worse if I turn it off.
+In both Xaw and Xaw3d, the List widget tries to resize itself when
+XawListChange is called, even if you tell it not to; and what's worse,
+if the widget cannot resize itself to be large enough to avoid
+clipping any of the list item, it does not change the list! Arrgh.
+On top of that, the Xaw Form widget is very buggy in XFree86 4.0.1
+(X11R6.4.3).
+
+* The OK button in the WinBoard startup dialog is now simply disabled
+if none of the radio buttons is selected, instead of bringing up an
+error dialog. Suggested by Ted Milbaugh.
+
+* Used ping to address the worst of the race conditions in the
+protocol. Now if an engine supports ping, we ping it after sending
+the "new" command and after trying to place it in force mode at the
+end of a game. When a ping has been sent and the corresponding pong
+has not yet come back, we (1) ignore or undo any moves the engine
+sends, (2) ignore game end messages (such as "offer draw", etc.) from
+the engine, (3) ignore thinking output from the engine, (4) delay
+starting the next game if in -matchGames mode, (5) in -zippyPlay mode,
+respond to challenges with a polite message to try again soon instead
+of accepting them. There are a few more things that should be done
+(and item 5 might not be quite what we want), but it's hard to fit
+them all into the existing code.
+
+* Patched the version of GNU Chess 5.00 included with WinBoard to
+support protover, feature, setboard, and ping, and to fix some minor
+bugs. See gnu500+.patch.
+
+* Changed the GNU Chess 4 kludges for missing "st" and "sd" commands
+to be invoked only if the engine gives an error message for "st" or
+"sd", and to always use protocol commands instead of engine
+command-line options. See "Idioms" in engine-intf.html.
+
+* Added new protocol command "protover 2" to tell the engine what
+version of the protocol is in use. Version 2 is still compatible with
+old engines; see engine-intf.html.
+
+* Add new protocol command "feature ..." The engine can send this in
+response to the protover command command, to say what extended
+protocol features it would like to enable, etc. xboard responds
+"accepted F" or "rejected F" for each feature F that is set. See
+engine-intf.html.
+
+* Added new protocol command "setboard <fen>". This is an alternative
+to "edit", used only if the engine says "feature setboard=1".
+
+* Added new protocol command "ping <msg>". The engine is supposed to
+respond "pong <msg>". This gives us a tool to fix some race
+conditions in the protocol, but it is not used to the fullest yet.
+
+* Added new protocol command "tellopponent". This will do a "say" if
+you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
+dialog otherwise.
+
+* Added new protocol command "tellall". This will do a "kibitz" if
+you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
+dialog otherwise.
+
+* Added new protocol command "tellothers". This will do a "whisper" if
+you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or do nothing otherwise.
+
+* Changed the WinBoard /icsNames, /icsMenu, /firstChessProgramNames,
+and /secondChessProgramNames options to accept a filename preceded by
+"@", meaning to find the value in the file. Changed the defaults to
+use this feature, with filenames icsnames.ini, icsmenu.ini, fcp.ini,
+and scp.ini. This should make it easier for users to edit the values,
+since one less level of quoting is needed, and each value is in its
+own file, not mixed into winboard.ini. Those who upgrade from an
+older winboard version and already have a winboard.ini file will not
+automatically have these values moved to a file; that has to be done
+by hand if desired.
+
+* We now strip .exe from engine names for "name" command, tags, etc.
+
+* Allowed WinBoard input widget to hold more than one line. You can get
+a newline into the widget with copy/paste or with Ctrl+Enter.
+
+* Fixed an xboard bug where the [P] button would appear in the
+opposite highlight state from what it should be after being pressed.
+
+* We now use the "/" or "$" alias suppression feature on the chess
+servers, to avoid problems if the user inadvertently aliases a
+needed command to something else.
+
+* Changed the method used to deiconize xboard in AutoRaise and cmail.
+This may fix bugs under some window managers where after
+deiconization, the board window was mapped but nothing was drawn
+inside.
+
+* Preliminary, partial support for playing several chess variants
+against a local engine or editing variant games. The -variant option
+must be given on the command line or WinBoard startup dialog; there is
+no menu. The current variant is not displayed (except in the
+Tags/EditTags window). Many variants will not work quite right even
+if the engine supports them; see item 326 in the ToDo file for
+details.
+
+* Added a workaround to detect the variant type when examining a
+scratch wild game on an ICS.
+
+* Fixed two cases where "variant" command should be sent to the engine
+when necessary but was not: loading a game from a file and restarting
+a dead engine. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto.
+
+* Added missing support for FICS games that start from a bsetup position
+with Black moving first.
+
+* Fixed a bug in loading a file from the game list window while in
+Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. This now leaves us in AnalyzeFile
+mode, analyzing the new file.
+
+* Fixed a bug in loading games with a comment before the first move.
+
+* Fixed a bug in handling LoadGame (or -lgf) with -td 0.
+
+* Added a command line option to select an initial minor mode from the
+Mode menu. This should satisfy requests from a couple of users with
+special applications.
+
+* Fixed a problem where some things in WinBoard's General Options
+dialog box were grayed out at the wrong time.
+
+* We look for a few messages from the chess engine pipe that are
+intended to catch problems starting an engine via rsh, such as "No
+such file". Moved code so that these strings won't match until other
+protocol messages have been looked for, and documented the messages in
+engine-intf.html.
+
+* Fixed the WinBoard bug that sometimes made the console input box
+white-on-white even when not in password-entry mode.
+
+* Small changes to WinBoard to be compilable with the latest Cygwin
+net release (as of 10-16-2000). Thanks to Mark Schoenberg.
+
+* Recompiled GNU Chess 5.0 for WinBoard with the latest Cygwin net
+release (as of 10-16-2000). Also rebuilt the book just to be sure,
+since I had one bug report about it. It came out identical and seems
+to work fine.
+
+* Added messages for some common InstallShield errors instead of just
+printing InstallShield's stupid error code numbers.
+
+* Added -firstComputerString and -secondComputerString, allowing you
+to suppress or change the command that is sent to a chess engine when
+its opponent is another computer.
+
+* Added "configure --with-Xaw3d" to allow use of Xaw3d widgets instead
+of Xaw widgets in xboard. Thanks to Johnny C. Lam of the NetBSD
+project. I've left Xaw as the default because Xaw3d is too ugly.
+
+* The version of the Xaw Form widget released in XFree86 4.0.1
+(X11R6.4.3) has a bug that causes xboard to display the button bar
+on top of the message widget. I've reported the bug and have
+installed a kludge workaround into xboard.
+
+xboard/WinBoard 4.1.0 -- Sun Sep 17 17:30:14 PDT 2000
+Tim Mann
+
+* Merged Winboard Plus 4.0.8 from Mark Williams into xboard
+ source pool. Status of Winboard Plus features in xboard:
+
+ - White pieces now have borders, but the implementation is
+ completely different from WinBoard's; see below.
+
+ - Options menu not changed, probably won't be.
+
+ - Copy&paste support working, using Mark's changes to backend.c, Ben
+ Nye's changes to xboard.c for FEN positions, and some code of my
+ own in xboard.c for PGN games.
+
+ - Premove hooked up and working. No pre-first-move, though.
+
+ - ICS Alarm hooked up and working.
+
+ - Auto-flip working.
+
+ - PGN Training mode hooked up and working.
+
+ - Improved menu item enable/disable working.
+
+ - Improved >> button working.
+
+ - Auto activate board working. I changed this to be optional; you
+ might not always want it, especially in Zippy mode.
+
+ - Blindfold working.
+
+ - Documentation updated.
+
+* Fixed more colorization bugs. Commands like "message foo tells you:
+xxx" and "tell 33 tells you: xxx" will no longer generate bogus
+colorization.
+
+* Added low-tech sound support to xboard, by invoking an external
+program on a filename for each sound to be played.
+
+* ICC wild 27 is now recognized as VariantAtomic, and it sets the
+"ignore check" flag, but is not otherwise supported.
+
+* Converted the piece bitmaps from .bm to .xpm for use with xboard's
+xpm support. (An .xim version was not created.) Wrote a shell script
+using ImageMagick to do the conversion and to bucket fill from
+coordinate 0,0 with the background color. Used xpaint by hand to
+clean up a few pieces where background color "leaked" into the inside
+or didn't flow all the way around the outside, then a sed script to
+fix up color names and bitmap names in the xpaint output. If any more
+sizes are added later, they should be straightforward to convert with
+reference to the existing scripts. With this conversion, not only do
+the white pieces now have dark borders, but (unlike with WinBoard) the
+light details on the black pieces are opaque.
+
+* If the XPM library is found when building xboard, the new xpm pieces
+are compiled in as the default. External bitmap (or xpm) pieces can
+still be used by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory)
+option. If the XPM library is not found, the old bitmap pieces are
+the default. In this case external bitmap (or xim) pieces can be used
+by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory) option. There is no
+way to compile in xim pieces.
+
+Winboard Plus 4.0.8 -- Sat Aug 5 15:51 PDT 2000
+Mark Williams
+
+* Bugfix release.
+
+* Main menu now visible in Win NT. Thanks to Microsoft for creating a
+compiler which auto-mutilates the WinBoard.rc file so that the menu is
+displayed under Win 98 but not Win NT. I fixed the problem by hand editing the
+.rc file. Sigh.
+
+* "Reset game" now works properly when invoked from Analysis mode when two
+engines are present. Correction of bug introduced in Winboard Plus. Thanks to
+Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
+
+* Pasting a FEN position with Black to move now works in all modes.
+Thanks to Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
+
+* Added gnuchess.dat to the distribution and a couple of text files that were
+missing in 4.0.7.
+
+*** Merged in the following changes from Tim Mann:
+
+* Bugfix: Highlights would sometimes not be taken down, at least in
+xboard. The problem is that SetHighlight works in chess coordinates,
+not view coordinates, so if flipView has been toggled since the
+highlight was put up, it gets taken down from the wrong square. Fixed
+by being careful to call ClearHighlights before toggling flipView, not
+after. Ugh.
+
+* Bugfix: HighlightLastMove would sometimes highlight square a1 after
+a FICS "tomove black" command.
+
+* Bugfix: a move list with initial position that has black to play was
+not being handled correctly.
+
+* Removed "decline abort" and "decline adjourn" commands from Zippy.
+The syntax is changing on FICS, and Zippy really doesn't have to
+explicitly decline the requests anyway; it's sufficient to not accept
+them.
+
+* ICC wild 26 is now recognized as VariantSuicide (the FICS name; ICC
+calls it "giveaway").
+
+* Bugfix: PGN games with black to move in the initial position weren't
+being legality checked correctly. I think this was introduced in
+4.0.6 when I fixed a different PGN bug. Thanks to Mark Williams for
+spotting the bug and suggesting a fix.
+
+* Bugfix: the initial "name(" of a kibitz wasn't being colorized.
+
+Winboard Plus 4.0.7 -- Thu May 12 17:57 PDT 2000
+Mark Williams
+
+* New white pieces with black borders.
+
+* Major overhaul to Options menu. New dialogs for setting General Options,
+ Board Options, ICS Options, Sounds, Fonts, Colors.
+
+* Clipboard support for PGN game scores and FEN positions.
+
+* Optional ICS Premove with user-specified first moves for White and Black.
+
+* New sound events: ICS Win, ICS Loss, ICS Draw, ICS Unfinished, ICS Alarm.
+
+* New auto-flip option when playing against a chess program.
+
+* Added PGN Training mode.
+
+* Certain menu options now disabled while program is thinking.
+
+* ">>" button now always goes to the end of the game.
+
+* In ICS mode, the board is automatically activated at the start of a
+new game.
+
+4.0.7 -- Sun Mar 5 17:17:49 PST 2000 Tim Mann
+
+* Fixed a nasty bug in parsing ICS game histories that was introduced
+in 4.0.6.
+
+4.0.6 -- Fri Mar 3 16:20:11 PST 2000 Tim Mann
+
+* Fixed bugs in Zippy's code for responding to messages sent with the
+ICS "message" command.
+
+* Fixed bugs where xboard could still create dialogs partially off the
+top of the screen. Fixed unwanted interactions between initial sizes
+and positions of various unrelated xboard dialogs. Deleted
+borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources.
+
+* Fixed restoring the xterm name on exit to work in more cases.
+
+* Small fix to the WinBoard self-extracting installer: when it starts
+up, it now always deletes any old wb-setup directory left over from a
+previous installation. Formerly this worked only on Windows 95/98, so
+on NT the self-extractor would sometimes stop and ask the user whether
+it was OK to overwrite the old wb-setup files.
+
+* Modified WinBoard to be compilable with the free Cygwin tools
+available from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/. Based on work by
+Mark Schoenberg. (His mods were enough to get WinBoard through the
+compiler, but a few things were broken along the way, so I reworked them.)
+
+* Merged changes from Don Fong to make WinBoard compilable with
+Borland C++ 4.5. I do not have Borland C++ and am unable to test with
+it, but I did make sure the changes don't stop it working with MSVC++
+5.0 and Cygwin.
+
+* Forbade entering TwoMachines mode from MachineWhite or MachineBlack
+mode when machine is on move. This used to confuse the engine and
+cause problems, because when we try to get the engine to stop, it
+might make a move first, and it might not do that immediately.
+
+* Variant classification now deals with new ICC wild 25, classifying
+it as "3check". Also, we are now conservative about new wild numbers
+we don't know about, classifying them as "unknown" instead of
+"normal".
+
+* Replaced bad GNU Chess 5.00 book in WinBoard distribution with a
+correct one. 1.e4 now no longer takes GNU Chess 5.00 out of book!
+Thanks to Pete Galati.
+
+* Made move parser accept and ignore nonstandard ep suffix on PGN moves,
+e.g., "exf6ep" or "exf6e.p."
+
+* Fixed bugs in parsing PGN files starting with no move number, or
+with a move number other than "1." (including "1..."). Thanks to
+Michael Soulier and Stefan Zipproth for example PGN files
+demonstrating the bugs.
+
+* Changed InitComboStringsFromString to not modify the input string;
+this caused an exception when WinBoard was compiled with MSVC++ 6.
+Thanks to Bert Tuyt for the report.
+
+* In WinBoard, dragging a piece off the edge of the board without
+releasing the mouse button no longer instantly aborts the move. You
+still must release the mouse button inside a square to complete a
+move, but you can now drag off the edge and come back inside.
+
+* WinBoard bugfix: If you went into EditGame or EditPosition mode
+while observing or playing an ICS game, and a new move came in
+(snapping you back to ICSClient mode) while you were dragging a piece
+around, the drag state would not be reset, causing the piece you were
+dragging to remain on the board wherever you dropped it. Thanks to
+David Brinegar for the bug report.
+
+* WinBoard bugfix: If you moved or resized the board while your
+opponent was moving, and you had AnimateMoving on, his move would not
+be displayed until after your next move. Thanks to DAV for reporting
+the bug repeatedly until I finally understood it.
+
+* Added a Zippy "farewell" feature; see zippy.README.
+
+* Fixed a bug (xboard only) in processing -zippyReplayTimeout on the
+command line. Thanks to Steve Beer for the report and patch.
+
+* Send "computer" command to both sides in TwoMachines matches.
+
+* Fixed a Y2K bug in Evan's cmail code! Thanks to Brian Mays for the
+report and patch.
+
+* Bugfix: Initialize variant field of GameInfo struct in gameinfo.c.
+This could cause crashes in LoadGame. Thanks to Andrzej Nagorko.
+
+* Fixed several pattern matching problems: Finger notes and formula
+vars no longer get replied to by zippyTalk or colorized. Channel
+tells by players with many titles are now colorized fully, and
+zippyTalk handles channel tells by such players correctly. The shout
+"--> foo(99): bar" no longer gets colorized as a channel tell. Code
+is cleaned up a bit, and autocomment capture now uses the same
+criteria as colorization.
+
+* xboard fix: Enter key now closes error popups as in WinBoard.
+Especially nice for the "Exiting: Connection closed by ICS" popup.
+
+4.0.5 -- Tue Dec 7 10:30:40 PST 1999 Tim Mann
+
+* Added missing documentation of SIGTERM usage into engine-intf.html.
+
+* Bugfix: New -zippyReplayTimeout option was misspelled in WinBoard as
+-zippyReplyTimeout. Thanks to Francesco Di Tolla.
+
+* xboard -ics now restores the xterm's original title upon exit, at
+least if $WINDOWID is set.
+
+* Bugfix: -matchGames mode wasn't terminating properly. Final score
+popup would come up twice and engines would not be killed off. Thanks
+to Frank Quisinsky for the bug report. Bug was introduced in 4.0.4.
+
+* Bugfix: "tell 50 foo shouts: bar" no longer gets colored as a shout;
+similarly for "...s-shouts:" and "...c-shouts:". Thanks to David Lee
+for the bug report.
+
+4.0.4 -- Fri Dec 3 17:51:27 PST 1999 Tim Mann
+
+* Bug fix: formerly if you invoked SaveGame from EditPosition mode
+with black to play, the position was not saved properly. As a quick
+fix, SaveGame now takes you out of EditPosition mode before saving.
+
+* Changed -matchGames to keep track of the score (won-lost-drawn) and
+display it in the banner. The final score is displayed in a modal
+popup before the program exits.
+
+* Changed "Connection closed by ICS" to display in a model popup
+before the program exits.
+
+* Added -popupExitMessage option, default on. Setting this to false
+suppresses the modal popups that you sometimes get just before
+xboard/winboard exits -- both the two new ones listed above and the
+existing Fatal Error popup. This is useful when running Zippy
+unattended from a shell script (or .bat file) that loops and starts a
+new copy after a time delay when there is an error.
+
+* In xboard, added missing support for WM_DELETE_WINDOW to all
+windows. This makes xboard a better citizen, and is much needed with
+the newer X window managers that put an [X] button on every window and
+bind it to "kill application" if the applicationd does not support
+"delete window". We can't allow xboard to be thoughtlessly killed,
+since that leaves the chess engine running in the background.
+
+* We now avoid positioning tops of xboard dialog boxes offscreen.
+
+* zippy.lines can now use the caret ('^') character as an inter-saying
+separator. You no longer need to dig up a text editor that can put NUL
+('\000') characters in text files.
+
+* Bugfix: In traditional chess clock mode, White now gets time added
+to its clock as soon as it makes time control. Previously both White
+and Black got their time added only when Black made time control,
+which would cause some engines to make their 41st move as White too
+quickly, thinking they were low on time.
+
+* The zippyAcceptOnly feature no longer sends a decline command or
+a tell. Thus you can use it to put Zippy into a manual accept mode.
+
+* Bugfix: "tell 50 foo tells you: bar" no longer gets colored as a
+personal tell; similarly for "...whispers:" and "...kibitzes:".
+
+* WinBoard no longer blanks the message line when you start a new
+move, unless there was an error message there from the previous move.
+
+* WinBoard now never puts the white piece drop menu on the middle
+mouse button. Both colors are always on the right button. Windows
+users often don't think to look for a middle button menu, or don't
+really have a working middle button despite what Windows says.
+
+* Guest login handles on ICC are now parsed again; an ICC wording
+change had broken this feature.
+
+* Autodetect when the engine does not support the "draw" command and
+don't relay the command to it in that case. Needed because sending an
+unsupported command to GNU Chess makes it move immediately, so people
+could make Zippy move without thinking by continually offering a draw.
+Thanks to Frank Walker for the problem report.
+
+* Small changes based on code from Robert Jurjevic: The WinBoard
+analysis window can be minimized (though not to the taskbar). The
+WinBoard ICS Interaction window will autoscroll if you drag the mouse
+above or below the window while selecting, and password entry mode
+leaves the entry line as the background color instead of using 75%
+gray. Seeks are now colorized with a new color of their own.
+
+* Added -zippyMaxGames feature.
+
+* -zippyNoplayCrafty command line option was missing in xboard; fixed.
+Thanks to John Perry.
+
+* Fixed bug in detecting when Zippy loses his bughouse partner.
+Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura.
+
+* allobs fix in 4.0.3 didn't work; corrected it.
+
+* WinBoard will now update the board immediately if a move is made
+while the window is being moved or resized.
+
+4.0.3 -- Sun Aug 15 18:44:39 PDT 1999 Tim Mann
+
+* Bugfix: moved winboard wizard functions that send a command directly
+to the chess engine from Ctrl+Alt+1 and Ctrl+Alt+2 to Alt+1 and Alt+2.
+Ctrl+Alt is equivalent to the European AltGr key, so the old assignments
+conflicted with typing an @-sign on some keyboards.
+
+* Bugfix: prevent "If this message stays up, your chess program does
+not support analysis" from appearing if AnalysisMode is selected when
+already in Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. Also, deleting analysis window
+in WinBoard now switches you to EditGame mode, to avoid the anomaly of
+being in an analysis mode with no analysis window present.
+
+* Change all Zippy environment variables to work as command line
+options. For now they still work as environment variables too, but
+the environment variables are deprecated.
+
+* Use unsigned long to hold node counts from engines.
+
+* Print error instead of crashing on attempts to use xpm or xim pieces
+in monochrome mode. Thanks to Jim Torrance for the bug report.
+
+* Tightened pattern recognition for ICS messages sent to Zippy; should
+no longer match ICC allobs output. Fixed recognition of when Zippy is
+sent a message; small change to FICS output had broken it.
+
+* Zippy now exits if the engine dies unexpectedly.
+
+* Added Zippy "spoofedby" feature; see zippy.README.
+
+* Narrowed the margins on some older WinBoard dialogs to make their
+style uniform with the newer ones.
+
+* Bugfix: Changing Ponder Next Move from the Options menu did not take
+effect until the next game. This bug was in WinBoard only. Thanks to
+Stefan Zipproth for the bug report.
+
+* Got rid of "Internal error: bad move type" message when the engine
+makes a move that we can parse but think is illegal. Now the move is
+just passed on (which also may be the wrong thing to do).
+
+4.0.2 -- Thu Feb 25 19:55:32 PST 1999 Tim Mann
+
+* Added one more built-in sound choice to WinBoard: move.wav from Pete
+Galati.
+
+* Added new larger piece sizes: big, huge, giant, colossal, titanic.
+
+* Modified the xboard font searcher to be able to use scalable fonts.
+The new -fontSizeTolerance flag controls how closely a nonscalable
+font must match to be used in preference to a scalable font.
+
+* Zippy environment variables ZIPPYABORT and ZIPPYADJOURN now control
+whether Zippy will accept abort and adjourn requests.
+
+* We now determine the variant type being played on ICS, send it as a
+command "variant VARTYPE" to the chess engine (if in Zippy mode), and
+put it in the PGN tags. See engine-intf.txt for variant names. See
+ZIPPYVARIANTS in zippy.README to control what variants Zippy will
+accept. Note that this now applies to bughouse, too.
+
+* Zippy now won't do -zippyTalk in a channel unless his handle is
+mentioned there.
+
+* Zippy now ignores bughouse holdings if not actually playing, instead
+of stupidly trying to abort the game. Let me know if other strange
+things happen when Zippy is observing a game.
+
+* Set ICS Interaction title bar to "user@server". User name is
+determined by parsing message during the login sequence. Zippy now
+uses this method to get its name too, so ZIPPYNAME is eliminated.
+Problem: with xboard, the title bar gets set to "xterm" upon exit,
+since we didn't know what it was to start with.
+
+* Fixed xboard-only bug in -colorChannel1 command line option. Thanks
+to Fredrik Sandstrom for the bug report and fix.
+
+* Check for overflow of MAX_MOVES. Still not sure this is checked for
+everywhere it needs to be.
+
+* Added .epd to suffixes recognized by WinBoard as position files.
+This is a bit of a kludge, as the .fen reading code was not written
+with .epd files in mind, but reading them with it is said to work.
+
+* Added ZIPPYGAMESTART feature, suggested by Jason Hoblit. See
+zippy.README.
+
+* Restored the feature of soaking up the moves from a user-typed "moves",
+"oldmoves", or "smoves" ICS command when xboard/WinBoard is idle, but
+changed it so that the move list is also echoed to the screen. Some folks
+still liked the old feature since it is faster than examine mode, and
+printing the moves to the screen should eliminate the confusion it caused
+for other people.
+
+* Bugfix: in WinBoard, starting a click-click move and then clicking on
+a black line would cause the source square to be forgotten without taking
+the highlight down. Now the errant click is ignored.
+
+* Corrected shortcut key labels for LoadNext/PrevPosition in WinBoard's
+File menu. Thanks to Andreas Stabel for the bug report.
+
+* Bugfix: if you had a completely full ICS context menu in WinBoard
+(90 items), the last one would do nothing if selected.
+
+* The "computer" engine command added in 4.0.1 was not working; I had
+left out part of the code patch. Oops.
+
+4.0.1 -- Fri Feb 12 21:24:15 PST 1999 Tim Mann
+
+This is a minor bugfix release. The first item listed below is the
+only interesting new feature.
+
+* You can now type in moves from the keyboard in WinBoard. Either
+select TypeInMove from Step menu, or (if you are not in ICS mode),
+just start typing. In ICS mode you can type moves into the ICS
+interaction window anyway, so I've retained the feature that typing
+switches you there. Not implemented in xboard.
+
+* Removed the "noise 1000" command that used to be sent to the chess
+engine when entering analysis modes.
+
+* Deleted the feature where we soak up the output of a user-typed ICS
+"moves" or "oldmoves" command. This ancient feature is not really
+useful anymore, now that "examine" exists, and it caused a lot of
+complaints.
+
+* Increased maximum size of ICS text menu to 90 entries and added
+overflow checking.
+
+* The command sent to ICS by Zippy at the end of each game can now be
+customized with the ZIPPYGAMEEND environment variable.
+
+* We treat xboard.info as a pseudo-source since most people don't have
+the tools to rebuild it. But "make install" erroneously had a
+dependency on it, even though "make all" did not. Fixed.
+
+* Miscellaneous minor updates and clarifications to engine-intf.txt.
+In particular, documented the st and sd commands (support for command
+line options -searchTime and -searchDepth), warts and all.
+
+* Added a small code patch from Bob Hyatt to detect when Zippy's ICS
+opponent is a computer and send the command "computer" to the engine.
+Added this command to engine-intf.txt. Thanks, Bob.
+
+* Bugfix: configure was looking for usleep(), but config.h.in didn't
+have an entry for it, so HAVE_USLEEP was never defined. Also, in the
+non-HAVE_USLEEP case, there was a possible race condition between the
+signal handler and the pause() call. Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura for
+the bug reports.
+
+* Bugfix: a "1..." preceding Black's first move (usually present if
+there is a comment on White's first move) would cause the parser
+to think a new game started there and report "End of game" on the
+current game. Thanks to Dell Garner for the bug report.
+
+* Changed the abbreviation for -searchDepth from -sd to -depth to fix
+a clash with -secondDirectory.
+
+* Changed -searchDepth to be orthogonal to the various timing options.
+Previously it would search for an unlimited time to the given depth;
+now the engine is allowed to choose its search time in the normal way,
+but is told to cut off the search early if it reaches the given depth.
+
+* Bugfix: SaveSettings in WinBoard was saving both the long form
+option highlightSquareColor and its abbreviation (hsc).
+
+* Fixed a redisplay bug in DisplayBothClocks that could cause White's
+clock to be highlighted in EditPosition mode when Black's should have been.
+
+* Fixed Zippy's feature of passing on draw offers from the ICS opponent.
+The colorization code was eating the offer before Zippy saw it, so I disabled
+colorization of offers while in -zp or -zt mode. (Other types of
+colorization are already disabled in Zippy mode for similar reasons.)
+
+* Added some more commands to the default ICS context menu in WinBoard,
+and put "(name)" on the ones that insert a playername (or game number).
+
+* Added missing documentation to WinBoard help file: PonderNextMove, the
+-ponder/-xponder argument, and the up/down arrow history feature in the
+ICS Interaction window.
+
+* Fixed ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature to fire only if the opponent is Crafty,
+not if some other Crafty is observing the game and kibitzes.
+
+* Fixed bugs in generating "partner" commands when Zippy is playing
+bughouse.
+
+4.0.0 -- Sat Jun 20 16:59:47 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
+
+* Fixed WinBoard resizing so that the edges you do not drag remain in
+place, even when the final size is different from what you dragged to.
+(This doesn't work on NT 3.51 or earlier, if anyone cares.)
+
+* Fixed problems with resizing WinBoard on Windows NT: you no longer get
+whitespace around the board, a clipped board, or a lot of flashing during
+the drag.
+
+* Added customization for highlight-square color.
+
+* Bugfix: backend.c wrote to stderr in a few obscure places, which doesn't
+work in WinBoard.
+
+* Added Index Number field back to LoadGame/LoadPosition dialog boxes in
+WinBoard. This required some extra code to work with both the
+Explorer-style dialog boxes and the old-style NT 3.51 dialog boxes. Ugh.
+
+* WinBoard startup dialog now understands -zp mode. The first chess
+engine selector is enabled and the value is used.
+
+* Bugfix: ResetGame would send "exit" to engine twice if it was in an
+analysis mode.
+
+* Bugfix: The response "Illegal move: bk" to the "bk" command, indicating
+that it is not implemented, would confuse xboard.
+
+* Bugfix: Ignore empty hints ("Hint:\n") instead of printing a message
+saying that some bogus string (often "Hint:") is illegal.
+
+* Bugfix: LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame/ReloadSameGame were broken.
+
+3.6.12 -- Sat Jun 13 14:57:10 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
+
+Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
+
+* Spruced up xboard man page a bit.
+
+* Added Highlight Last Move to xboard too.
+
+* The revamped xboard mouse click code had several more bugs than the
+previous version, so I revamped it again. All fixed now, I hope.
+
+* xboard bugfix: crash in CreatePieceMenu.
+
+* Oops. winboard-3_6_11beta.exe installed 3.6.10beta, not the new version.
+
+3.6.11 -- Fri Jun 12 20:00:48 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
+
+Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
+
+* Major reorganization to engine-intf.txt. Some new features added,
+many existing features clarified and hints for engine programmers added.
+Support for new features added to program.
+
+* Changed defaults for -scp (etc.) back to being independent of -fcp, as
+in 3.6.2. That is, the default is no longer to copy the value from -fcp if
+-scp is not specified. This will sometimes make command lines longer but
+will remove some confusing situations.
+
+* Split -reuseChessPrograms into two options: -reuseFirst and
+-reuseSecond. Fixed obscure bugs when reuse is off.
+
+* Detect ICC and change some command usage slightly there: only ICC has
+set-quietly; only FICS has iset and bsetup clear. With this feature, we
+can now safely use bsetup clear when appropriate instead of deleting each
+piece one by one.
+
+* Added indent to lines that are wrapped by WinBoard ICS Interaction
+window. This seems to tickle a Microsoft bug in the RichEdit control:
+occasionally the start of the next line after the wrapped line is indented
+too. I think the wrapped indent feature is useful enough that it's worth
+having in spite of the bug.
+
+* WinBoard bugfix: bounding box for the board was computed incorrectly by
+mouse code. It would think you moved off the bottom of the board before
+you really did, so it was hard to drag pieces along the bottom rank on
+smaller board sizes.
+
+* Fixed obscure parser.l bug: ambiguity between capture using : instead of
+x and email header line. Also removed or simplified a lot of complex
+patterns for English (as opposed to PGN) end-of-game indications while I
+was in there.
+
+* Added PonderNextMove option.
+
+* xboard EditPosition piece menus now let you set the side to play by
+selecting the "White" or "Black" label at the top of the menu, like
+WinBoard. (Both xboard and WinBoard still let you set the side to play by
+clicking on the clock.)
+
+* Merged documentation of Crafty and GNU Chess thinking output in
+engine-intf.txt. Corrected code in backend.c to match documentation; it
+used to require the PV to start in column 27 (!).
+
+* Fixed bug that caused crashes in "-reuseChessProgram false" mode.
+
+* Draw by agreement in Two Machines mode now works as it is supposed to.
+Other minor bugs in handling game end messages from machines are also
+fixed, and engine-intf.txt is revised in this area.
+
+* Revamped xboard code for handling mouse clicks on the board. In
+particular, it had a bug if a click-click promotion move was made.
+
+* Fixed and reinstated optimization for << in analysis modes: send
+initString and re-send the board if needed. Sending repeated undos
+is bad because Crafty prints some analysis after every one.
+
+* Don't go into a spin loop while pausing between xboard animation frames.
+This caused problems, especially when compiling with -O2 on HP-UX.
+
+* WinBoard Options/Colors/RevertToDefaults now also turns off Monochrome
+if it was on, and similarly for Options/ICSInteractionColors/RevertToDefaults.
+This seemed to confuse people before.
+
+* Bugfix: ICS Interaction context menu items with neither of the two
+optional flags set did not work.
+
+* Bugfix: PGN move numbers are optional, but we were insisting on "1"
+right after the tags.
+
+* Bugfix: only the first game of an -mg match was loading -lpf or -lgf.
+
+* Other minor fixes and code cleanup.
+
+3.6.10 -- Mon Jun 1 01:32:31 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
+
+* Added ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature; see zippy.README.
+
+* Added timestamps for chess engine interaction to -debug output.
+
+* Now allow 10 seconds (was 5) between games in match mode for engines to
+respond to "force" command that ended previous game.
+
+* When a game is picked from the game list and the names of White and
+Black are known, display them in the window banner instead of the filename
+and game number.
+
+* Changed default for -scp and -sd to be the values of -fcp and -fd.
+
+* Added boxes for both engines to WinBoard startup dialog. Changed to
+dropdown boxes whose content can be set from winboard.ini, similar to
+the box for ICS name.
+
+* Accept "offer draw" (or "*offer*draw*") from engine to offer a draw.
+
+* Accept "move mmmm" from engine as well as silly "1. ... mmmm" syntax.
+
+* Added support for bughouse engines (Zippy mode only).
+
+* Move bombproofing for engines sending illegal or out of turn moves.
+
+* Always send "xboard\n" to engine as first command. Eliminates need
+to run crafty as "crafty xboard".
+
+* Rewrote xboard code for input from engines to fix longstanding bugs.
+Previously an engine that sent one line in two separate writes with
+some time lapse in between (or perhaps that sent several lines in one
+write) could make xboard hang. WinBoard did not have this bug.
+
+* Fixed minor bugs in dealing with illegal moves.
+
+* Added "iset startpos 1" for FICS.
+
+* Removed special support to put "GNU Chess" or "Crafty" in the window
+banner instead of the engine's base filename. This gives a more level
+playing field for other engines. Also fixed bugs in the code that finds the
+engine's base filename.
+
+* Bugfix: Abort or Resign at the very start of a game in chess engine mode
+would fail to send "force" to the engine.
+
+* Fixed some minor bugs in new "result" messages, and changed format to
+include a trailing PGN comment giving the reason the game ended.
+
+* Changed syntax of /font options in WinBoard; old syntax was assuming
+that a font name can't contain a digit, which is wrong. Old font names in
+WinBoard.ini files are still accepted.
+
+* Serious further work on getting WinBoard to read/write files in the
+"right" directories and documenting exactly what it does.
+
+* Added LoadPreviousPosition, LoadNextPosition, ReloadSamePosition.
+
+* Misc. tiny fixes and cleanup.
+
+3.6.9 -- Sun May 24 20:53:08 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
+
+xboard and WinBoard beta release.
+
+* Tightened up illegal move handling. Illegal or meaningless moves from a
+file or chess engine should no longer get translated into a1a1 and blindly
+applied. Explicit moves to the same square (like a1a1) no longer make the
+piece on that square capture itself and vanish.
+
+* Added AlwaysOnTop feature to winboard.
+
+* Fixed bug in winboard "@" command line indirection operator.
+
+* Removed buggy "optimization" code for ToStart in analysis modes.
+
+* Fixed typo bug in zippy.c that would often cause winboard to crash
+right after starting a game in -zp mode.
+
+3.6.8 -- Sat May 23 22:23:19 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
+
+xboard and WinBoard beta release.
+
+* Added -firstDirectory and -secondDirectory so that chess engines can
+be started in a different directory from xboard/WinBoard itself.
+
+* Added -matchGames to allow more than one game in -matchMode. The games
+are played with colors alternating between the two chess engines. Had to
+add a time delay at the end of each game to catch up with game ending
+messages from both chess engines -- yuck.
+
+* Changed TwoMachines mode to have firstChessProgram play White by
+default. Added -firstPlaysBlack to restore old behavior.
+
+* Major rework of code in backend.c for dealing with first and second
+chess engines. Generalized the code and created a struct type with one
+instance for each engine. Several small bugs fixed along the way.
+
+* Fixed bugs in Abort in local chess engine mode.
+
+* Tightened pattern matching to recognize moves from machine. Should cure
+bogus "Illegal move" errors while Crafty is pondering with Show Thinking
+on, among other things.
+
+* WinBoard keeps focus in board window after popping up a comment due to
+Forward/Backward/ToStart/ToEnd commands.
+
+* Finally got rid of warnings on compiling moves.c under Windows.
+
+* Fixed so WinBoard will compile on machines where WM_MOUSELEAVE is not
+defined.
+
+* Removed various bits of unused code.
+
+* Parse (and ignore) NAGs in PGN files.
+
+* Updated engine-intf.txt.
+
+* Send "result R" to the chess program at the end of each game, where
+R is the PGN result 1-0, 0-1, 1/2-1/2, or *.
+
+* Bugfix: suppress animation when loading a game with timeDelay=0.
+
+* Bug fix: pondering output from Crafty that contained "..." could be
+mistaken for a move, causing bogus error messages and general chaos.
+
+* xboard "make clean" bug fix: moved things created by configure to be
+removed only by "make distclean".
+
+* Fixed a remaining case where move was being animated before being
+relayed to opponent.
+
+* Backend was reversing time/otim commands to the chess program (new bug),
+and was often not sending them on the first move of a game or the first
+move after a mode change (old bug). Fixing the latter required a kludge
+to work with both GNU Chess and Crafty, because Crafty swaps white and
+black clock times when it swaps sides, while GNU Chess does not. The
+kludge is that we always make sure the chess engine thinks its opponent is
+on move before we set the clock. This will sometimes result in sequences
+like "white\ntime xxx\notim yyy\nblack\ngo", or the same with white and
+black interchanged.
+
+* Removed last trace of old -whiteString and -blackString arguments.
+
+* Fixed so that you can type "bd" into the Direct Command dialog when
+debugging gnuchess, without having xboard parse the clock display
+(starting with "White") as "White wins" and end the game.
+
+* Changed moves.c to make a distinction between IllegalMove (where we
+could tell what move was intended, but it violates the chess rules) and
+MeaninglessMove (where we could not tell). This is a step towards getting
+rid of cases where we translate meaningless moves into "a1a1", but some
+work is probably needed to track them all down.
+
+* Fixed bug in WinBoard monoMode dragging.
+
+* Changed WinBoard to new style file dialogs. In the process, disabled
+the feature that let you enter the index number of a game or position within
+the file in the dialog. This is no loss in LoadGame, as you can pick your
+game from the game list dialog that follows, but it does remove some
+functionality from LoadPosition.
+
+3.6.7 -- Mon May 18 21:25:00 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
+
+xboard and WinBoard beta test release. I've been unable to reproduce some
+reported drawing bugs, so they may still not be fixed.
+
+* Changed PopUpErrors option to PopupMoveErrors, which is more useful, and
+changed default to off. Errors other than move errors should always be in
+popups; they are often too big for the message area and too important to
+put where they can be easily missed. But it seems good to get rid of the
+popups for move errors by default.
+
+* xboard analysis window no longer forces itself to top whenever there is
+new output. Also, now uses built-in Xaw word wrapping instead of trying
+to do its own; works better.
+
+* Bugfix: Reset did not take Crafty out of analyze mode.
+
+* A chess engine no longer has to claim to be Crafty to be able to use
+AnalysisMode and AnalyzeFile; it just has to implement the analyze
+command as Crafty does. Put in heuristics to generate more informative
+error messages if the engine does not support analyze, and checked that
+they work at least with GNU Chess.
+
+* Added click-click moving, HighlightLastMove, and HighlightDragging to
+WinBoard. The highlight features are unlikely to go into xboard unless
+the xboard drawing code is cleaned up to do *all* drawing on the board
+from DrawPosition, as WinBoard does. This is low priority for me.
+
+* Eliminated bogus "Error gathering move list: no header" popup. You
+could get this by observing two fast games at once without turning off
+GetMoveList.
+
+* Disable WinBoard Sounds menu entirely in -ncp mode, since not even
+MoveSound is used in that mode.
+
+* WinBoard bugfix: Several problems were caused if the user changed
+WinBoard's current directory in a Load, Save, or Browse dialog. In
+particular, WinBoard.ini would get saved in the wrong directory, and
+sound .wav file names would not get saved with a full pathname. I think
+all such problems are now fixed.
+
+* WinBoard bugfix: iconizing the board after an aborted mouse resize would
+(partially) resize it to Tiny.
+
+* WinBoard bugfix: board was not being drawn in color on 256-color
+displays. This bug was introduced in 3.6.6.
+
+3.6.6 -- Tue May 12 17:43:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
+
+xboard and WinBoard beta release. Note: not all reported bugs are fixed.
+
+* Move animation in WinBoard, programmed by Henrik Gram. Great stuff!
+
+* Animate backward moves too.
+
+* xboard bugfix: -font (and friends) can now specify a font alias (such
+as "fixed"), not just a full X Consortium name pattern. Previously this
+would give a resource conversion error message.
+
+* Some coding style cleanup in xboard.c.
+
+* Earlier error check for moving wrong color piece in EditGame mode.
+
+* Completed fix to pattern matching; see 3.6.5.
+
+* Fixed some software rot bugs in Zippy.
+
+* Split AnimateDragging as separate option from AnimateMoves.
+
+* Added FlashMoves to options menu and -flash/-xflash to command line
+options (xboard only).
+
+* Some preliminary work on visible bughouse holding support. Most of the
+code is not present in this release because I have not gotten it working
+properly yet; my first approach went down a blind alley and I had to
+remove most of the partially working code in preparation for a rewrite.
+
+3.6.5 -- Fri May 8 14:22:09 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
+
+Not generally released.
+
+* Pack bughouse holdings display in banner more tightly when board is one
+of the smaller sizes (when smallLayout or tinyLayout is true, that is).
+An interim measure, but should help.
+
+* Completed fix to make move list parsing recognize the end condition and
+final comment.
+
+* Fixed pattern matching for chatter (tells, etc.) to be more reliable.
+This should reduce the incidence of colors starting in the wrong place and
+of incorrectly matching things that look like other patterns inside
+chatter, such as "shout <12>". (These errors were already rare.)
+
+* WinBoard now lets you customize the list of ICS's in the startup dialog.
+For now, at least, requires editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
+
+* Bug fix: WinBoard window sizing and position setting save/restore did
+not work right when the taskbar was at the top (or left side) of the
+screen and not in autohide mode.
+
+* Merged xboard click/click mode and drag mode, and deleted
+ClickClickMoving option on menu. Now if you click on a piece, it
+highlights and a further click on another square will move it. (A second
+click on the same square takes down the highlight.) Or if you press down
+on a piece and start to drag, you can drag it to a new square.
+
+* When making click/click style moves, if your second click is on a piece
+of the same color, instead of saying "Illegal move", we now cancel the first
+starting square, replace it with the second, and wait for another click to
+finish the move.
+
+* Separate -secondInitString. Default: same as -initString. Suggested by
+Remi Coulom.
+
+* Patch from Frank McIngvale to make animation work with XIMs. Yay!
+
+* Changed move animation to happen after move is passed on to ICS or the
+chess engine, where applicable. Fixed problems with updating moveList
+that this uncovered.
+
+* Changed game list to show PGN result token for each game.
+
+* The usual minor bug fixes.
+
+3.6.4 -- Thu Apr 30 23:14:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
+
+xboard and WinBoard beta test release.
+
+* xboard documentation updated, both man page and info file. An attempt
+to generate both from the same source with LinuxDocSGML was abandoned, at
+least for now. WinBoard doc updated too.
+
+* Merged updates to animation code from Hugh. Fixed a couple of remaining
+bugs, mostly to do with handling Pause mode correctly.
+
+* Added SaveSettingsOnExit to WinBoard.
+
+* WinBoard now saves the last screen position of the Comment, Edit Tags,
+Game List, and Analysis windows (in addition to the board and ICS
+Interaction windows) in WinBoard.ini.
+
+* WinBoard now provides a way to customize the right-button context menu
+in the output area of the ICS Interaction window. For now, requires
+editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
+
+* Various minor fixes to ICS message recognition, most affecting only Zippy.
+
+* Colorize the notification when someone sends you a message while you are
+logged in, not the output of the "messages" command.
+
+* Fixed colorization to turn off at the right place more reliably.
+
+* Added a new color and WinBoard sound for "requests": abort, adjourn,
+draw, pause, and takeback. The same color and sound are used for all of
+these.
+
+* Added GUI to change sounds in WinBoard.
+
+* Suppressed WinBoard error popup when a sound can't be played. They were
+popping up when two separate WinBoards tried to play a sound at the same
+time (such as during a bughouse match).
+
+* Fixed WinBoard crash when a sound file didn't exist.
+
+* WinBoard ports of timestamp and timeseal now produce decent error
+messages if they fail to connect, and WinBoard captures the messages and
+puts them into a popup. Previously WinBoard would exit with no message on
+such errors.
+
+* WinBoard resizing with mouse improved; now accurately picks the largest
+size that fits in the new area.
+
+* Added option to turn off error message popups.
+
+* Added sizes slim, dinky, and teeny.
+
+* Fixed some minor problems with error message wording.
+
+3.6.3 -- Mon Feb 23 19:08:57 PST 1998 Tim Mann
+
+xboard beta test release only. Man page is updated for the changes, but info
+file is not.
+
+* Bug fix: LoadGame could not load a PGN game whose first move was
+castling (which is possible from setup positions).
+
+* Bug fix: we were ignoring illegal move messages from chess engines in
+modes where the engine is refereeing but not participating (EditGame,
+LoadGame, AnalyzeFile). The problem was in a workaround for a Crafty bug,
+where Crafty generates a bogus illegal move message if a "." (used by
+the PeriodicUpdates feature) is sent in analysis mode when the current
+analysis reveals a forced mate. Installed a different workaround (that
+works in most but not all cases) and reported the Crafty bug. Bob Hyatt
+replied with a fix, so the Crafty bug should be gone in Crafty 14.12 or so.
+
+* WinBoard only: enabled resizing board with the mouse. It snaps to the
+nearest (but not too much larger) predefined size.
+
+* The xboard default font is now sized according to piece size, just as
+clockFont and coordFont have always been.
+
+* Added more sizes: bulky, moderate, average, middling, mediocre, petite.
+
+* xboard only: Added Animate Moves and Click-Click Moving to Options menu.
+
+* xboard only: Added code to animate piece movement, from Hugh Fisher.
+
+* New feature: autoflag is implemented in MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and
+TwoMachines modes. If it is on and either a chess program or the user
+oversteps his time, xboard will automatically call the flag and end the
+game. This feature was requested by someone who runs matches between
+programs and wants to penalize GNU Chess for its habit of running slightly
+over at the end of a time control. I personally think it's pointless.
+
+* Fixed a bug in Zippy's pattern matching; he can now reply to ICC
+messages again.
+
+* Generate prettier notation for illegal moves. If a move is illegal only
+because it leaves the player in check, generate notation as if that were
+not illegal. For instance, if two knights are a knight's move away from
+f3, one on g1 and one on e5 that is pinned, the notation would be Nf3 to
+move the g1 knight, Nef3 to move the e5 knight. (Suggested by Philippe
+Schnoebelen.) In addition, if a move is illegal because the type of piece
+moved cannot go that way, would be jumping over another piece, etc., we
+give fully disambiguated coordinate notation; for example, Ng1g3, Ke1xe8,
+d2xd8=Q, etc. An alternative would be to still write Ng3 if there is only
+one knight on the board, or Ngg3 if the other knight is not on the g file,
+but life is too short to code up all this stuff, and perhaps the way I did
+it is better as it emphasizes that this move was really made despite being
+illegal. I wonder if the new PGN standard revision will speak to notation
+of illegal moves?
+
+* Fixed gross bug from 3.6.2: if a chess program said "checkmate" and
+White was left on move, the PGN outcome was "1-0 {Black mates}" instead
+of "0-1 {Black mates}"! The bug occurred only for that specific string.
+
+3.6.2 -- Wed Jul 23 16:47:29 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
+
+* There was a bug in backing up from the end of a game against a chess
+engine, introduced when -reuse mode was added. Fixed.
+
+* Recognize "{" as terminating an ICS move list. Previously we needed to
+see a prompt (containing %), but occasionally ICC can send more stuff
+right after a move list with no prompt in between.
+
+* In WinBoard, -mm now implies -cp, so you don't get the startup dialog.
+
+* WinBoard startup dialog no longer sets -scp. People used to get
+confused because they would give the -fcp and -scp arguments, but omit
+-cp. This would bring up the startup dialog, which would set both -fcp
+and -scp to the value in the engine name box. Now you can change -scp
+only with the command-line argument. That will confuse some people too,
+but hopefully fewer. I think overall it's better than putting spaces for
+both -fcp and -scp in the dialog, which would puzzle newbies.
+
+* Bug fix: Analyze File mode now works in WinBoard.
+
+* Bug fix: WinBoard window no longer cuts off part of the bottom row if
+the menu bar wraps to a second line.
+
+* Accept game end messages of the form "PGN-result {comment}" from the
+chess engine, where PGN-result is 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2. Accept "resign"
+or "computer resigns" from the chess engine as a synonym for "0-1 {White
+resigns}" or "1-0 {Black resigns}". Accept any message from the chess
+engine containing "game is a draw" as a synonym for "1/2-1/2 {Draw}".
+Accept "White resigns" or "Black resigns".
+
+* Enable "Action / Draw" menu item in chess engine mode. It sends the
+command "draw" to the engine. Accept any message from the chess engine
+containing "offers a draw" as a draw offer. WARNING: Draw offers from the
+user and the engine (or from two engines) are not yet matched up by xboard
+in chess engine mode. Two engines could get into a loop offering each
+other draws.
+
+* Bug fix: Game end messages from the chess engine are always ignored in
+Zippy mode. Previously they could sometimes be processed, which was
+sometimes making Zippy hang at the start of a new game that followed
+quickly after an old one.
+
+* Zippy can now respond to titled players in channels. Zippy will avoid
+talking to himself in a channel if he knows his own name.
+
+* Bug fix: in colorization arguments, the bold setting was being ignored
+if the background color was defaulted. (xboard only.)
+
+* Extended ParseFEN to accept Crafty 12.2's interpretation of FEN.
+If fewer than 8 squares are given in a row, or fewer than 8 rows are
+given, the uncovered squares are empty. Also, there can be a / after the
+8th row.
+
+3.6.1 -- Sat May 17 01:02:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
+
+* Bug fix: Hitting escape while entering a password on WinBoard no longer
+sets the font color back to black (which made further typing visible).
+
+* Bug fix: On Windows NT 4.0, WinBoard /ics /icshelper=timestamp would
+often hang if you tried to exit with the Exit menu item, the [X] button,
+etc. The same fix may also have corrected the problem where running a
+chess program with /xreuse would sometimes crash Windows 95 (but not NT)
+when the chess program was killed and quickly restarted.
+
+* Bug fix: Periodic Updates would not work if turned on after having been
+off. Also, the default was needlessly "off" in WinBoard.
+
+* Zippy bug fix: Continuing an adjourned game was totally broken. The
+wrong moves, or no moves at all, were being fed to the chess program.
+
+* WinBoard change: Giving -ics without -icshost now pops up the startup
+dialog with "Use an Internet Chess Server" pre-selected, so that you get a
+menu of chess servers instead of going directly to ICC.
+
+* Bug fix: WinBoard's SaveSettings was saving -icshost, -icsport, and
+-icshelper in winboard.ini. This causes a problem if you use a different
+icshost later that needs the default values for icsport (5000) and
+icshelper ("", meaning none).
+
+* Disabled complaints about unexpected "[Ii]llegal move" messages from
+the chess program; we still get them at times.
+
+* Greatly simplified the code for Move Now and SIGINT (ATTENTION). Fixes
+the bug where Move Now did not work with GNU Chess in WinBoard, and
+several more obscure bugs as well. Reintroduces a minor bug: GNU Chess might
+not think on your time after a Move Now command. Trying to fix this
+causes too many other problems. Documented change in engine-intf.txt.
+
+* Cleaned up code for obtaining ratings from ICS. It was kludgey and may
+have had bugs on systems with no "Creating:" message. It should fail
+gracefully there, just not finding the ratings.
+
+3.6.0 -- Thu May 8 19:55:58 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
+
+* WinBoard now has right-button context menus in the ICS Interaction
+window. Some of the items do immediate commands on the player name you
+have selected or pointed to. (Suggested by Paolo Casaschi.) Also, the
+middle button or shift+right does a immediate Copy and Paste.
+
+* Fixed a bug in Zippy's wild rejection. The bug was causing Zippy to
+reject all forms of wild. Now it rejects only 1, 9, 16, 17, and 24, as
+was intended. These variants have different rules, while the other
+variants defined so far only have different starting positions.
+(Actually, wild 2, 3, and 4 never allow castling, but may sometimes by
+chance have king and rook start on squares where castling appears legal.
+This could cause a problem later.)
+
+* Zippy now resumes adjourned games by feeding the chess program
+the move list instead of the position. Setting -getMoveList to False
+restores the old behavior. Feeding in the move list is better because
+it enables the chess program to correctly handle en passant legality,
+castling legality, draw by repetition, and draw by the 50 move rule.
+
+* Added a WinBoard startup dialog for people who run WinBoard.exe without
+using the Start menu or reading the help file. Instead of being dumped
+directly into GNU Chess mode, you now get a menu of choices. You now have
+to give the new WinBoard -cp option to go directly into chess engine mode.
+I did not add this feature to xboard.
+
+* Handling of "illegal move" from Crafty is now back on. (It was turned
+off in 3.4.6; see below.) Crafty 12.0 doesn't seem to send bogus ones
+anymore. I did have to suppress sending time and otim in analyze mode to
+make this work, but there is no harm in that.
+
+* Zippy now sends "gameend" to ICS at the end of each game. You can alias
+this to "seek" or whatever you like.
+
+* Added Crafty support for Move Now, using the "?" command. We test
+whether this command exists by trying it once at the start of the first
+game, before it really makes sense. If we don't get a message like
+"Illegal move ... ?", we assume it's OK. (We're careful about this
+because sending a "?" to GNU Chess on Move Now keeps it from pondering the
+next move as it should.)
+
+* Added support for a tellusererror command from the chess engine. See
+engine-intf.txt.
+
+* Attempted to make engine-intf.txt complete.
+
+* Minor fixes/cleanup to GameEnds code, to be sure we always interrupt
+when needed, and always undo an extra move generated by stopping the chess
+program while it is thinking.
+
+3.5.7 -- Sat May 03 22:37:44 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
+
+Beta release of both xboard and WinBoard.
+
+* Updated xboard documentation. I really wish the man page was built from
+the info file instead of being separate! It's a pain to update them both.
+
+* Updated documentation of the interface between XBoard/WinBoard and chess
+programs, and renamed it to engine-intf.txt.
+
+* Added support for tellics, telluser, and askuser commands from the chess
+engine. See engine-intf.txt.
+
+* Various bug fixes. On WinBoard, 256 color displays are finally handled
+right; no more color flashing when you switch windows unless the colors
+really need to be updated. Also, I think the problem of the console font
+failing to change or changing back by itself is finally fixed.
+
+3.5.6 -- Tue Apr 29 03:08:00 PDT 1997
+
+Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release,
+updated here.
+
+* Added ICC timestamp and FICS timeseal to WinBoard distribution. These
+are my own ports to Win32, based on and used by permission of the owners
+of the proprietary source code (Daniel Sleator for timestamp, Henrik Gram
+for timeseal). The owners permit these programs to be distributed only in
+binary form (to help prevent cheating), so to avoid running afoul of the
+GPL, I have kept them as separate programs, not linked into the WinBoard
+address space. Updated Start menu icons to use them.
+
+* Miscellaneous smaller changes.
+
+3.5.5 -- Fri Apr 25 03:06:00 PDT 1997
+
+Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release;
+updated here.
+
+* Added simple sound support to WinBoard.
+
+* Updated WinBoard documentation.
+
+* Internal implementation of the telnet protocol is now more complete.
+You can now hop through a VMS host on the way to ICS. For example, do
+"xboard -ics -icshost vms.host.edu -icsport 23", then log in. Do not use
+the -telnet flag; that says to use an *external* telnet program. To avoid
+double echoes, you need to force character mode in VMS telnet after
+connecting from VMS to ICS. Do "^]^Mset mode char^M^M".
+
+* Display opponent names in the title bar for MachineWhite, MachineBlack,
+and TwoMachines modes.
+
+* WinBoard now has an installer, built with InstallShield. The installer
+works with a binary-only distribution. Sources are still freely
+available, but now separately.
+
+* Added SaveSettings to WinBoard, which saves current option settings to
+winboard.ini. Made sure all options can be saved and loaded, including
+fonts and com port settings.
+
+* If the game ends while you are dragging a piece, we now don't let you
+finish the move. Formerly the move was accepted and your opponent's clock
+would start running again.
+
+3.5.4 -- Fri Apr 18 01:15:24 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
+
+Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard. The documentation remains
+out of date.
+
+* Many fixes and improvements to new WinBoard user interface code.
+
+* In Zippy mode, avoid sending another copy of the same move to the chess
+program if ICS sends us another copy of the board image. Hard to believe
+it took me until now to diagnose and fix this problem!
+
+3.5.3 -- Sat Apr 12 19:49:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
+
+Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard.
+
+* Fixed fatal bug in WinBoard input handling.
+
+* Made code to stop chess program for reuse a bit smarter. Removed kludge
+of "white" in initString; it didn't work well, and is unneeded
+with Crafty 11.21 and later.
+
+3.5.2 -- Sat Apr 12 15:40:01 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
+
+Beta test release of WinBoard.
+
+* Ignore check and permit promotion to King during suicide games; no need
+to turn off TestLegality.
+
+* Renamed CheckLegality to TestLegality to avoid confusion with the chess
+term "check".
+
+* Added Rematch to Action menu.
+
+* WinBoard now has a custom ICS interaction window with scrollback, a
+separate line for input, and colorization. Accelerators that conflict
+with normal editing keys were changed (by requiring Alt+) so they can work
+in both the console and the main window.
+
+* WinBoard error popups are now non-modal and disappear when you make a
+new move, as in xboard.
+
+* Configure now defaults to --disable-ptys on all systems. If anyone has
+an ancient SysV system where pipes don't work with select, they can still
+do "configure --enable-ptys" explicitly. I would appreciate getting a bug
+report if this happens to anyone, with complete output from configure and
+"uname -a".
+
+* "make install" now makes the installation directories too.
+
+* Fixed a bug that would cause an "Illegal move" message for Black from
+GNU Chess to be incorrectly considered bogus.
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