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eboard README
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eboard is a chess board interface for ICS (Internet Chess
Servers) and chess engines.
for quick compilation / installation instructions, see the INSTALL file.
Currently it supports the following protocols / engines:
- Generic XBoard protocol v2-compliant engines
Almost full support. Engines that behave on the edge of
protocol may fail. Works with GNU Chess 5.
- Particular Engine Support (most of them comply with the
XBoard protocol, but eboard supports additional features):
- GNU Chess 4
- Crafty
- Sjeng (multi-variant engine)
See the eboard site for links to get them.
- Crafty
Full support.
Tested with 18.9 thru 18.14, won't work with versions earlier
than 18.x Crafty is *NOT* distributed with eboard, see
Documentation/Crafty.txt for information on installing Crafty and
the game books.
- Direct play across a network - one eboard connects to another
eboard over a TCP/IP network (like the Internet).
- FICS
Support most features.
Current status is:
It will allow you to play regular, suicide, losers, atomic,
crazyhouse and bughouse chess games.
Wild variants are supported (tested with Fischer Random and Wild/5,
but weird castlings are not directly supported and you may have to
type in the castling moves by hand)
It will observe games.
It will examine games (but the move list may not be retrieved correctly)
Supports premove and drag-and-drop.
Nice, customizable, colorization of FICS output.
bsetup mode not supported by the interface yet (but you can
enter bsetup and add pieces with FICS commands)
Known issues: simuls are not yet supported.
If you set nowrap on on FICS (this is not the default), some
very long lines (like 'in 1') can make eboard crash. Just don't
mess with that FICS variable and you'll be fine.
FICS is a no-charge service, operating since 1995, and over
these years it has fostered the building of a huge community
of chess enthusiasts. It's a great place to play chess and
to make friends. Besides regular chess, it supports bughouse,
crazyhouse, suicide, losers and several wild variants (in wild
rules are the same as regular chess but the starting position
isn't)
FICS recently introduced thematic games - you don't get the initial
moves but rather an ECO code. You can play and watch those with eboard,
but PGN saving and game browsing (moving back and forth while watching)
are still quite nuts. This should get fixed soon.
For timeseal support see Documentation/FICS-Timeseal.txt
For information on getting an account to play at FICS, visit
FICS at http://www.freechess.org
If you have problems with firewalls, the best approach is to use
a third-party TCP port-forwarding tool. I have a nice experience
with portfwd (http://portfwd.sourceforge.net), but many other
packages like this exist.
For automatic login scripts for FICS see Documentation/Scripts.txt
Features:
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- Scroll locking on text pane: if you scroll up in the text
pane, it won't auto-scroll to the bottom when new output
comes from the server.
- Input history. The Up and Down arrow keys work like the
bash history in the text entry box.
- The board can be resized on the fly.
- The piece set can be changed on the fly.
- Scripting
- PGN reading/writing
- Seek Graph (FICS)
- Multiple text panes (Windows|Detached Console)
- National Language Support (portuguese, german, spanish, czech and
italian so far)
To change the language, make sure you performed 'make install' and
set the environment variable LANGUAGE to the language code
(de for German, pt_BR for brazilian Portuguese, es for Spanish, etc.)
Under bash (the most common shell on Linux), it can be done with
export LANGUAGE=de
You can use, modify and redistribute eboard under the terms of
the GNU General Public License, version 2 or any later version
published by the Free Software Foundation. The license is
included in the COPYING file.
To compile/install it:
./configure
make
(become root)
make install
For further instructions see the INSTALL file. You'll need:
- the GTK+ library, version 1.2.8
- the Imlib 1.x library. Tested with 1.9.7 through 1.9.14, you may
get it working with earlier versions, or not. Imlib must have
PNG support. Notice that Imlib 1 and Imlib 2 are different
libraries, eboard uses Imlib 1.
- the C++ standard library (libstdc++)
eboard is being developed by Felipe Bergo <bergo@seul.org>.
The eboard web site is at
http://eboard.sourceforge.net
There is an alternative mirror for the source at
ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard
and the project page (for bug reports, mailing list, CVS
access) is
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eboard
Have fun!
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