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[eboard-users] Eboard and ICC questions...

[<Jas...@bl...>]

Hi everyone,

Just started using eboard and I had a couple of questions.  I used
eboard for FICS games and everything seems to work fine but the other
day I logged into ICC (chessclub.com) with eboard.  Does eboard work
with timestamp (not timeseal)?  If so how does one set this up?

Has anyone else noticed problems on ICC with eboard when trying to
observe games?  I kept getting the game in the console but the game
board would never update.  Is this a big or a feature?  It worked
perfectly with FICS.  I mainly log onto ICC to observe tournament
games.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

Jason
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[eboard-users] announcement: eboard 0.8.0

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

eboard 0.8.0 has just been released. It can be downloaded from the usual
locations:

http://eboard.sf.net/download.html

ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard

the changelog since 0.7.1pl1 follows below. People who play on FICS should
definetely upgrade. The console display has been rewritten from scratch,
and though I've been using for 2 weeks with no anomalies, it is prone to
bugs as any new code. Report to me if anything weird happens.

Have fun!

Changelog since 0.7.1pl1:

0.8.0

  * [all]  Changed behavior of PageDown/ PageUp keys: they'll act only
           on the current window (instead of paging all consoles at the
           same time).

  * [fics] Added proper handling of the Atomic Chess variant.

  * [fics] As of Feb 16 2003 FICS changed its output on game terminations,
           so previous versions of eboard would discard game boards
           even with Smart Discard on. Fixed.

  * [sjen] illegal move behavior has been fixed. This was an issue on
           Sjeng
           due to the variants it plays, for the other engines, having
           eboard's legality check on is the most safe behavior. (if you
           turn legality checking off with GNU chess 5, for example, it
           won't complain about illegal moves, and will just sit waiting
           for a new move, and the game will be broken).

  * [eng]  now 3 types of time controls can be chosen for playing
           against engines: fixed time per move, given number of
           moves in given period of time or Fischer Clocks (increment
           clocks like FICS's -- and move 1, both white and black --
           do not count for the time control, so don't be surprised by
           the clock being reset until white makes move 2).

  * [eng]  the max depth setting was being sent completely wrong
           to engines, fixed <sigh>.

  * [fics] the undocumented pause/unpause flag on examined games
           is now taken into account: relayed games (like Kasparov vs.
           Deep Junior) will show up with clocks running correctly.
           As a consequence, in the first two moves of every game
           the clocks will not be shown running (because the first move,
           both white and black, are always 0:00). FICS says the clock
           is paused at those moves, and eboard behaves accordingly.

  * [all]  rewrote the text console code from scratch, should fix
           a lot of issues regarding selection/copy/paste.

  * [all]  applied a patch to po/Makefile.in.in (NLS support) to
           fix compilation/installation with DESTDIR. Thanks to
           Federico Schwindt for sending the patch.

  * [all]  fixed a crash on PGN game display when the PGN
           contained illegal NAG codes ($140 and above).



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[eboard-users] Atomic chess and eboard 0.8.0

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

Hi,

as some of you may have seen, FICS added support for the atomic variant
(news 753 on the server). Current versions of eboard know nothing about
atomic and will assume it's regular chess, so legality check will be
broken (especially when kings come in contact).

I'll release 0.8.0 still this week with proper support for Atomic Chess;
until then, make sure you turn off Settings -> Legality checking while
playing atomic, or eboard may refuse to make moves that are legal under
atomic.

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[eboard-users] eboard 0.7.99 (last beta before 0.8.0)

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

Hi, I've put eboard-0.7.99 for download at

ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard/eboard-0.7.99.tar.bz2

This is a beta release, I'm still testing some things on it before it
becomes 0.8.0, but provides a fix for clocks in examination mode on FICS
(will show clocks running if they're unpaused and will highlight whose
move it is even when clocks are paused). New clock modes for playing vs.
engines are available too. The changelog since 0.7.1pl1 goes below.

0.7.99 is a particularly good upgrade for watching the Kasparov vs. Deep
Juniors matches on FICS (game 5 just started), since the clocks will feel
much better now. The sourceforge page has not been updated, sourceforge
shell services seem to be down, and most likely 0.7.99 won't be put there,
I'll update sourceforge when 0.8.0 comes out.

0.8.0 should be out by Feb 15, maybe earlier.

-- changelog since 0.7.1pl1

  * [sjen] illegal move behavior has been fixed. This was an issue on
           Sjeng
           due to the variants it plays, for the other engines, having
           eboard's legality check on is the most safe behavior. (if you
           turn
           legality checking off with GNU chess 5, for example, it won't
           complain
           about illegal moves, and will just sit waiting for a new move,
           and the
           game will be broken).

  * [eng]  now 3 types of time controls can be chosen for playing
           against engines: fixed time per move, given number of
           moves in given period of time or Fischer Clocks (increment
           clocks like FICS's -- and move 1, both white and black -- do
           not
           count for the time control, so don't be surprised by the clock
           being
           reset until white makes move 2).

  * [eng]  the max depth setting was being sent completely wrong
           to engines, fixed <sigh>.

  * [fics] the undocumented pause/unpause flag on examined games
           is now taken into account: relayed games (like Kasparov vs.
           Deep Junior) will show up with clocks running correctly.
           As a consequence, in the first two moves of every game
           the clocks will not be shown running (because the first move,
           both white and black, are always 0:00). FICS says the clock
           is paused at those moves, and eboard behaves accordingly.

  * [all]  rewrote the text console code from scratch, should fix
           a lot of issues regarding selection/copy/paste.

  * [all]  applied a patch to po/Makefile.in.in (NLS support) to
           fix compilation/installation with DESTDIR. Thanks to
           Federico Schwindt for sending the patch.

  * [all]  fixed a crash on PGN game display when the PGN
           contained illegal NAG codes ($140 and above).

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[eboard-users] eboard 0.7.1pl1 update

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

The last minute fix is in place and the files uploaded, the new version
can be downloaded from both sourceforge's site and SEUL's ftp:

http://eboard.sf.net

ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard

In the ftp, I moved the previous 0.7.1 version to the oldversions
directory to prevent confusion. Drop me an email if you have any furthr
problems compiling it.

Regards,

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[eboard-users] announcement: eboard 0.7.1

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

eboard 0.7.1 has just been released.

I just noticed one thing after releasing it, if you get compilation errors
on board.cc (about cerr, ios and endl being undeclared), edit stl.h

and add the line

using namespace std;

just above the using std::list; line. This problem was spotted on gcc
3.0.4. I apologize for the inconvenience, all machines I usually use for
testing compilations are servers and are with a quite high load right now,
so I skipped the tests this time. I'll upload a 0.7.1pl1 version with the
fix in half an hour or so.

The only change between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1pl1 will be that line.

Here goes the changelog since 0.7.0, have fun.

0.7.1

  <warning: the translation files have not been updated since 0.7.0,
   so new messages and new features will be displayed in english only.
   I hope to update the translations soon>

  * [all]  when saving to a PGN file, the game will be APPENDED if
           the file already exists.

  * [all]  eboard can now read .pgn.gz files (only read, not write).
           However, the implementation is somewhat dumb: it decompresses
           the file, indexes games, deletes the file. Each game you ask
           to display requires a new decompression (gzip -d). "gzip" and
           "cp" must be on the PATH for all this to work.

  * [all]  Status bar messages won't stay there forever, but rather
           expire after a given timeout.

  * [gcc3] Fixed iostream inclusions to compile without warnings
           on gcc 3.2

  * [all]  Fixed a bug in the PGN parser. (PGN files that had
           no newline char at the end of the last line would
           make eboard crash). Thanks to Hicks@FICS for spotting it.

  * [ics]  Fixed the misplaying of an "opponent moved" sound event
           on game starts.

  * [eng]  Fixed long standing bug in move display, engine
           pawn checks (like 'g4+') were incorrectly displayed
           as '+'.

  * [all]  5 new sound events added (game started (user playing),
           game won and game lost (by the user, does not apply to
           observed games on ICS), game over (observed games), and
           move (observed games)).
           Sound preferences pane revamped accordingly.

  * [ics]  Clock updates will now be shown immediately (like when you or
           the opponent issues a 'moretime' or when the examiner sets
           the values of the clocks)

  * [eng]  Fixed a bug in the xboard protocol that wouldn't allow users
           to play against the engine with thinking output on (by typing
           'post' after the engine has started).

  * [ics]  A bug in animation code that would make eboard crash when
           the position changed radically (a forw 999 in examination or
           when lecturebot rewinds the variation, for example) was
           fixed. (animation <source,dest> calculation rewritten to fix
           it)

  * [all]  More code size optimization, especially regarding sequences
           of gtk_widget_show()'s , dlg_about.cc/.h removed, content moved
           to help.cc/.h. animate.cc/.h content moved to board.cc/.h

  * [all]  Font configuration GUI code has been simplified (accomplishes
           the same as before with less code)

  * [all]  Added an option to select the font of the seek table.
           Thanks to Michael G. Lane for the patch.

  * [all]  Fixed a bug that would cause eboard to segfault when a
           title in the Local Games dialog list was clicked. Thanks
           to Michael G. Lane for the patch.

  * [all]  PGN reading now correctly reads PGN files with
           variations in parenthesis (but those variations
           are ignored). Thanks to Michael G. Lane for the patch.


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[eboard-users] eboard release announcement: 0.7.0

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

after a long time (this is probably the most busy semester in my graduate 
course, hopefully things will get out faster in 2003), 0.7.0 is out.

it can be found at the usual places:

http://eboard.sf.net/download.html
(may take a while to update with the new files)

ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard/eboard-0.7.0.tar.bz2
(there's a .gz in this FTP directory too).

There are no RPMs yet for I found today that my RPM template won't work 
with the translations added in 0.7.0, but an RPM for RH 7.3 should appear 
in the next versions.

The main changes were:

(*) code cleanups to allow compiling on newer GCCs (3.1/3.2), now it 
    should work on RH 8.0 (untested)

(*) support for very large windows (previously, people with 1280x1024 and 
    above would get segfaults with very large boards).

(*) TRANSLATIONS. eboard 0.7.0 has brazilian portuguese (pt_BR), german 
    (de), spanish (es) and italian (it_IT) translations, eboard will
    come up with the language specified in the LANGUAGE enviroment
    variable (the README talks more about it).
    More translations are welcome, if you would like to translate to your
    language, send me an email and I'll instruct on how to proceed.

(*) FICS: added var command to right-click menu, eboard now sets the
    premove ivar correctly (indicating whether you are using premove or 
    not).
 
(*) a minor *BSD compilation fix.

Have fun!

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Re: [eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.6.2

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, onderste wrote:

> a few questions/remarks in general :
> 
> 1)
> when i play a game (using eboard 0.6.1) and at the same time observing 
> some other games, i noticed that when i start a new game myself the "active" 
> observed games dissappear, (and that's too bad); is this an eboard-feature or 
> fics-feature/restriction or am i doing something wrong ?

FICS fault :)
the FICS variable that controls this behavior is "unobserve". Mine is set 
to 3. Just 'set unobserve 3' on FICS and quit properly with the 'quit' 
command (instead of disconnecting / closing eboard) so that the value is 
stored. For a description of possible values, type 'help v_unobserve' on 
FICS.

> 2)
> i saw a feature-request for lecturebot-observing&saving, which i would
> appreciate also, but i got (after a message from toddmf) one of the 2 
> lecturebot-software (for windows) working with Wine, however, only
> the included lectures are loading, and the ones i'm interested in
> unfortunately won't

I'll take a look on the lectures and if I can make eboard "browse" them,
but I'm quite busy with research (not related to eboard) these days, don't
expect it too soon.

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Re: [eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.6.2

[onderste <ond...@wa...>]

On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 14:40:33 -0400 (EDT)
"Felipe Bergo" <be...@se...> wrote:

hello there,

> eboard 0.6.2 is out, and can be downloaded from the usual locations:
> 
> http://eboard.sf.net
> 
> ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard

great! ;)

once again my thankful admiration for eboard here! :)

a few questions/remarks in general :

1)
when i play a game (using eboard 0.6.1) and at the same time observing 
some other games, i noticed that when i start a new game myself the "active" 
observed games dissappear, (and that's too bad); is this an eboard-feature or 
fics-feature/restriction or am i doing something wrong ?

2)
i saw a feature-request for lecturebot-observing&saving, which i would
appreciate also, but i got (after a message from toddmf) one of the 2 
lecturebot-software (for windows) working with Wine, however, only
the included lectures are loading, and the ones i'm interested in
unfortunately won't

just FYI

thanks again!! :)

[eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.6.2

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

Hi,

eboard 0.6.2 is out, and can be downloaded from the usual locations:

http://eboard.sf.net

ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard

This will be the last in the 0.6.x series, a developer has claimed to have 
made eboard's interface be much faster, I'm giving him CVS access today, 
and I hope these changes will become eboard 0.7.0. Also, eboard 0.7.0 
should add support for GTK 2.0 (but GTK 1.2 will still be supported).

ChrisHowie, sorry for not making the right-click menu configurable yet or 
removing the 2K-per-line limit, I just didn't have time.

ChangeLog since 0.6.1:

0.6.2
 
  * [all]  shortcuts now can issue multiple commands, just separate
           them with ;

  * [all]  shortcuts can now programmatically call scripts, just
           set the command to script.filename , where filename is
           exactly the name show in the left column of
           Windows -> Run Script dialog.

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[eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.6.1

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

eboard 0.6.1 has been released.

People who play Crazyhouse or Bughouse please UPGRADE, a bug has been 
fixed and in the previous versions the number of pieces in the stock would 
be incorrectly shown in some occasions.

Download from:

http://eboard.sf.net/download.html

ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard/eboard-0.6.1.tar.gz

Another change is the new chat / cmd mode toggle in the input box, a brief 
description of its behavior is in the changelog, I'll add an html page 
with more details to the site sometime soon.

Changes since 0.6.0:

0.6.1

  * [all]  scripts in the current directory (like ./timeseal.Linux)
           should now be properly run when . is not in the PATH.

  * [ics]  added a "chat mode", as many have requested. it'll
           probably deceive some of you at first, if you have
           better ideas, email eboard-devel / eboard-users
           about it.

           <cmd> mode is what eboard always was: what you type
           is sent as typed to ICS

           <chat> uses the prefix on its right side.

           to switch modes use the ESC key or click the button
           at the side of the input box. 

           enter (without quotes) '%prefix whatever' to set a
           custom prefix. Notice that receiving tells and says will
           change the prefix in the console window.

           all this documentation will be placed in the webpage
           sometime soon, and probably next versions will add
           a new pane in the Preferences dialog to configure
           the behavior of this feature.

           Currently available in the main window only. The
           console pane has its idyosyncrasies over others
           (%prefix is not sticky in it)

  * [ics]  now it'll recognize your name even in different
           capitalization.

  * [all]  Changed a little the look of the graphical zhouse
           stock.

  * [ics]  Fixed zhouse stock count update bug (some pieces
           wouldn't show up sometimes)

  * [all]  Minor fix to PGN parsing (reading), should now
           correctly read TWIC's 
           (http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twicp.html)
           PGNs which have event names between game data.

  * [ics]  Fixed drawing the little mouse icon in crazyhouse
           games, now it won't be drawn over the stock.



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[eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.6.0

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

eboard 0.6.0 is out, an can be downloaded from

http://eboard.sourceforge.net/download.html

or

ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard/eboard-0.6.0.tar.gz

Piece dragging responsiveness should be better, and now eboards supports 
starting an engine from an arbitrary position.

Changelog since 0.5.2:

0.6.0

  * [all]  The crazyhouse stock will now be shown in the same
           pieceset used for playing. The non-black background
           was needed to prevent all-black pieces from
           disappearing. Pieces will appear the same size
           as they are used on the board, and there may be 
           overlapping. The real click target region is
           delimited by the darker vertical lines.

  * [all]  added Makefile.simple, a Makefile totally independent
           of automake, to ease the life of people trying to
           compile eboard on unexplored platforms. The INSTALL
           has some hints about it.

  * [all]  scratch boards can be set up from a FEN string.

  * [eng]  engines can be started from arbitrary positions
           (from a scratch board)

  * [all]  faster (more responsive) piece dragging

  * [sjen] the variant is now correctly saved in the engine
           bookmark.

  * [all]  compatibility fix for compilation on Solaris
           (strings.h header)


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[eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.5.2

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

eboard 0.5.2 has been released today, it can be downloaded from

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/eboard/eboard-0.5.2.tar.gz

or from

ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard/eboard-0.5.2.tar.gz

If you are running SuSE Linux and have problems running eboard (only 
getting an ugly pieceset, imlib errors on the console), please update your 
imlib RPMs to the latest updates on SuSE's site, SuSE says the issue has 
been fixed already.

eboard 0.5.2 has been successfully compile-tested against EGCS 2.91.66,
GCC 2.96 and GCC 3.0.4. If you have trouble compiling, email me the full 
output of errors.

Changelog since 0.5.1:

0.5.2

  * [all]  minor speed hack on piece drag. Some may notice,
           others may not.

  * [eng]  Added a dialog box to edit the engine bookmarks.
           (Peer -> Engine Bookmarks -> Edit Bookmarks...)

  * [craf] minor fix to engine bookmark naming, now it
           correctly extracts crafty's program name.

  * [eng]  minor fix to xboard protocol implementation, will
           now work correctly with engines with bad I/O
           flushing, like GNU Chess 5.04.

  * [all]  fixed font fallback when creating the bughouse pane.

  * [all]  upgraded to autoconf 2.53 and automake 1.6.1
           If you want to develop/make changes to eboard,
           you're likely to need both.

  * [all]  looks like SuSE has a broken imlib RPM that won't
           load PNGs, I've added a fallback low-res theme,
           but if you use SuSE yo should update the RPM,
           SuSE told me they fixed the issue already and that
           an update is available.

  * [all]  fixed another compilation issue with gcc 3.0.x

  * [all]  added beeping support for OpenBSD (possibly to NetBSD
           too, but that's untested). Thanks to Federico Schwindt
           for the code.

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[eboard-users] SuSE / Ticket [20020520990000023] (fwd)

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

For the people having problems running eboard on SuSE, it's SuSE's imlib 
package's fault. Go upgrade yours.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:20:00 +0200
From: Feedback <fee...@su...>
To: Felipe Bergo <be...@se...>
Subject: Ticket [20020520990000023]

Dear Mr Bergo,

thank you for your contribution.

You wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am the author of the eboard chess interface
> (http://eboard.sourceforge.net) 2 SuSE users are reporting that they can't
> get eboard 0.5.1 to work on their systems, one using SuSE 7.3 and other
> using SuSE 8.0.
>

There was a bug with a security update for imlib. Now the bug is fixed and
there's a ftp patch which solves the problem.

> eboard needs to load some PNG files, which it does with imlib 1 (which in
> turn should do it through libpng or convert, or whatever).
>
> Can you test eboard on a SuSE box to check if it's a problem with some
> patch you made to those libraries and advise me how to work around it ? I
> can't get it reproduced on Slackware, Debian, FreeBSD or OpenBSD.

I have tested the package and it worked great. Maybe I'll do later a SuSE
RPM package out of it. I like chess a lot, but I never played against
people in the web :-)

Best regards,

Jordi Jaen Pallares

	Your SuSE Feedback Team

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[eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.5.1

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

0.5.1 is out with a couple of bug fixes that have been reported this week. 
If tehy didn't bite you, most likely it isn't worthy upgrading. I didn't 
build RPMs this time.

The main fix is about promotion vs. engines. If you experience any 
weirdness with 0.5.1, let me know ASAP, possibly with a copy of the game 
where the oddity occurred.

Testing engine playing is quite tough and demands time, and of course 
0.5.1 isn't as tested as it should, I'm releasing it so that more people 
can help find eventual bugs.

Changelog since 0.5.0:

0.5.1

  * [eng]  promotion vs. engines was still broken, I hope it's
           fixed now.

  * [ics]  Absence of wget in the $PATH won't make eboard crash
           when trying to connect anymore.

  * [ics]  Channel list retrieval will work with non-timeseal
           connections too.

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[eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.5.0

[Felipe B. <fel...@te...>]

Hello,

eboard 0.5.0 is out.

It can be downloaded from:

http://eboard.sourceforge.net/download.html
ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard

RPMs are available this time, they were generated on
a RedHat 7.2 box, see the Files section on the project page
or the ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard/RPMS directory.

The list of changes is long, some bugs have been fixed, but I'm also
experimenting with a new memory allocation scheme, which may translate
in memory waste. I'll test this new scheme for some weeks before
deciding between this and the older one.

I tried to C++-ize a little more, so some code like PGN-reading, config-file
parsing and others were touched. If you experience any problems that didn't
happen with the 0.4.x versions, report it right away so I can go fix it.

Among the main changes: bughouse support for FICS, new piece scaling
algorithm (taken from the Gimp), changed the separation pane in
the main window, so that you can see the console snippet together with
observation/examination boards, and added engine bookmarks (so you can
quickly start a match with an engine).

Have fun! Changelog since 0.4.3 follows.

-- Felipe Bergo
be...@se... / fel...@te... (not sending from be...@se...
because it's revenue tax declaration deadline and the brazilian internet is
way beyond jammed this weekend - 1.5-second ping time from here to the
seul.org mail server).

0.5.0

  * [all]  Fixed a minor misfunction of the input history
           in the detached consoles.

  * [all]  Removed the antialias option since the new scaling
           algorithm doesn't need it.

  * [fics] Renamed the Seek Graph to Seek Table since it isn't really
           what most interfaces call a seek graph.

  * [eng]  Added engine bookmarks.

  * [all]  Engine promotion fixed on engines that use uppercase
           in promotion notation (like Yace).

  * [all]  Fixed display of one-line annotations.

  * [all]  Variants (the ones supported, of course) are correctly
           detected in PGN files.

  * [all]  X11 GC caching (should leak less memory).

  * [all]  substituted many C char arrays for C++ dynamic strings, and a
           a many C streams for C++ streams.

  * [all]  Fixed yet another segfault situation when dragging
           with extruded (3D) piece sets.

  * [all]  Decent piece scaling algorithm (taken from Gimp 1.0.4)
           Pieces look better when magnified.

  * [fics] Bughouse support (in the bughouse pane) works.

  * [all]  Lots of changes in class structures regarding
           pieces, boards, bugpane.

  * [all]  The console snippet/bughouse pane can now be seen
           together with observed/examined games, not just
           the main board.

  * [all]  added an option to increase animation framerate
           (Smoother animation in the Appeareance pane of the
           preferences dialog). Will eat more CPU if turned on.

  * [all]  removed the script popup and made it a control
           next to the input box.

  * [all]  the icon selection in the shortcut bar setup dialog 
           had some glitches when buttons were set up for the
           first time. Fixed.

  * [ics]  the bughouse/console pane below the main board will
           no longer be hidden/reduced when a new game is started.

  * [all]  squeezed graphics code (bitblt) again by producing
           assembly output and optimizing C++ code accordingly.
           Better than this, only coding straight in assembly
           (and yes, would get better, gcc is not particularly 
           wise here)
                      

Re: [eboard-users] announcement: eboard 0.4.3

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Felipe Bergo wrote:

>   The channel list is stored in a file in /tmp that expires
>   after 8 hours, so eboard will only retrieve a new list when
>   attempt a connection and have a cache file older than 8 hours.

...so eboard will only retrieve a new list when attempting a connection 
if no cache file exists or the existing cache file is older than 8 hours.

sorry for that paragraph, I don't know what language I was
thinking in, but it wasn't english.

-- Felipe

[eboard-users] announcement: eboard 0.4.3

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

eboard 0.4.3 has been released and is available from the usual places:


http://eboard.sourceforge.net/download.html

ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard



main changes (full changelog will follow below, as usual):

- Added warning (both audio and visual) for when clock is low
  (how low is configured in the ICS pane of the Preferences dialog)

- The Local Game List now is organized as a tree, separating
  games accordign to their sources.

- Added a console snippet to the main board (drag up the small
  square in the bottom right of the main board).

- Now it's possible to remove ICS channel panes you no longer
  want (clicking the trash can button in its tab)

- eboard will retrieve a list of channel names and use them in
  the channel tabs. The FICS list is retrieved from 

  http://eboard.sourceforge.net/ics/64.71.131.140.txt

  Currently only FICS has a list (of the form <ip>.txt), to add
  lists for other servers, let me know their IPs and send me a
  channel list by email.

  The channel list is stored in a file in /tmp that expires
  after 8 hours, so eboard will only retrieve a new list when
  attempt a connection and have a cache file older than 8 hours.

  The whole thing only works if you have wget installed and in your
  path. For the paranoid, there's an option in the ICS pane of the
  preferences dialog to disable it.

Have fun!

Full Changelog since 0.4.2:

0.4.3

  * [ics]  Now channel names (Help, Chat, Tourneys, etc.) will appear
           on the channel tabs. The channel list is retrieved by
           HTTP from eboard's website. You must have wget installed
           else it won't work. Currently only FICS channels are
           listed there, feel free to contribute channel lists
           from other sites. Cache is stored in /tmp/eboard-chlist-*
           and expires after 8 hours (remove the file to force a
           reload).
 
  * [ics]  Added a button on the channel panes to remove the panes
           at will.

  * [all]  Added a Hide button to the shortcut bar.

  * [all]  Added a console snippet to the main board (drag up the small
           square in the bottom left of the main board)

  * [all]  Changed the look of the Local Game List dialog to display
           games in a tree hierarchy. (ability to double click a
           game to display it is disabled for the time being)

  * [ics]  Added a sound warning to announce that time is running out.

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  but a delusion nonetheless.
 

[eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.4.2

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

Hello,

eboard 0.4.2 is out.

It can be found at the usual places:

[1] ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard

[2] http://eboard.sourceforge.net/download.html

The changelog since 0.4.1 follows. For 0.4.3 I want to implement visual
and audio warnings for when time is running out on the clock. I expect to 
have it done by the next week.

Enjoy it.


0.4.2

  * [fics] As a side effect of the change below, some FICS lines that
           included the user name but were not highlighted as personal 
           (yellow) now will be.

  * [fics] Hotfixed the treatment of LectureBot announcements when
           channel splitting is on. Notice that the :LectureBot(TD)(67)
           lines aren't really channel tells, but xtells pretending to
           be channel tells. Now eboard is credulous and will send these
           to the ch 67 channel pane. (translation: it is LectureBot's
           fault, not mine)

  * [all]  Added the shortcut bar below the board. If you don't like it,
           disable it from the Settings -> Preferences : Appearance
           dialog.

  * [all]  Modified the antialias algorithm again, now it does a regular
           gaussian smoothing as a 3x3 convolution in RGB-space instead
           of the previous oddball.

  * [all]  Beeping code now calls SNDCTL_DSP_POST, which should prevent
           unwanted noise after the beep with some audio drivers
           (especially on AC'97 devices).

  * [all]  Revamped the Sound pane in the Preferences dialog so that
           it becomes able to handle more sound events.

  * [ics]  Added a sound event to be played when the user is
           challenged.

  * [all]  Changed button disposition in the Games on Client dialog.

  * [fics] Now eboard works correctly when the FICS examine variable
           is set (automatically start examination when game finishes)

  * [all]  Minor corrections to network connection opening code
           (more accurate reporting of connection failures)

  * [ics]  Added the bookmarks submenu in the Peer menu.

  * [ics]  The Connect to Other Server... dialog will no longer take
           empty host names (which would lead to startup failure
           on previous versions)

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[eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.4.1

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

eboard 0.4.1 is out with two bug fixes related to engines (regarding 
crazyhosue playing against Sjeng and eboard crashes after games are 
interrupted or terminated)

It can be found at 

ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard/eboard-0.4.1.tar.gz
and at sourceforge at the usual

http://eboard.sourceforge.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eboard

addresses.

Have fun.

Changelog since 0.4.0:

0.4.1
  * [eng]  Fixed bug that made eboard crash after a game against an
           engine ended or was interrupted.
           (the "game not found: 7777" message on the console)

  * [sjen] Fixed bug that prevented crazyhouse playing (incorrect piece
           drop processing).

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[eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.4.0

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

eboard 0.4.0 is out after a long break. I'm going back to Campinas to 
start my Graduate Course (CompSci MSc) on March 4th, and from there on I 
should have more time for eboard than I had these 3 last months.

0.4.0 is not as ready as I'd like it to be, but it has enough bug fixes to 
justify its release. It has also new features that may not be perfected 
yet.

It should be available soon at sourceforge (http://eboard.sourceforge.net)
[I have already uploaded, but sourceforge sometimes is slow to actually 
publish the file]

And is available from ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard

No RPMs this time, I'll build RPMs again in the next few versions.

New Features: "Getting Started" help dialog popps up for first time users 
(no ~/.eboard directory), Debug Info dialog, Scratch Board (for solving 
puzzles, etc.), PGN annotations shown when browsing the game.

[to empty an sqaure in the scratch board, drag from an empty square to the 
square you want empty]

Bug Fixes: completely new PGN parsing, should be faster and break less.
PGN writing no longer writes %-comments. There was a bug promoting pawns 
against an engine, it should be fixed by now. Fixed word selection bug in 
the console pane. Solves an issue with the follow command on FICS (not 
fully yet).

Known problems that remain: PGN annotation browsing: there is no way to 
scroll it if the comment is too big to fit. FICS LectureBot issue not 
fixed, I'll send a message to the -devel list soon explaining what the 
issue is and how I plan to fix it (bug #480073 on sourceforge).
FICS recently introduced thematic games. While it's possible to play and 
observe them with eboard, PGN-saving and move-browsing are nuts (FICS 
doesn't send the initial moves but rather an ECO code of the opening, and 
eboard is currently unable to "build" the game)

The ChangeLog since 0.3.5 in the regular format follows:

0.4.0
  * [all]  Added the Help : Getting Started dialog, which will pop up
           when the user runs eboard for the first time (no ~/.eboard
           directory)

  * [fics] Games observed with "follow" now are saved correctly
           (untested with wild)

  * [eng]  En passant captures in crazyhouse/bughouse now correctly
           add a pawn to the stock. (fixes bug ticket #493844)

  * [all]  Double-click selection on the first word of a line in the
           console now behaves correctly (previously it would not
           select the word's first character)
           (fixes bug ticket #495103)

  * [all]  PGN annotations (between { }) are now shown in the clock
           pane of the board (as long as there is enough space)

  * [all]  eboard will no longer write % comments in its PGN files,
           but still understands %eboard when reading them,
           for backward compatibility. Many chess programs are
           confused by those comments, even though they are legal
           PGN. There is a Perl script on the eboard website
           that will convert your old PGN files removing the old
           %eboard comments and adding the new-style PGN fields,
           see the downloads section.

  * [eng]  Now the user (human player) can correctly promote on
           games against engines.
           (fixes bug ticket #508092)
  
  * [all]  PGN code now can cope with bad move syntax (e.g.
           a8Q instead of a8=Q. a8Q is _wrong_, but some
           large PGN files around use it)

  * [all]  To save memory, the movetext section of PGNs is _not_
           loaded with the "Load PGN" command (Windows->Games on
           Client dialog). It is only loaded when the game is
           selected and the "Display" button is hit (and the PGN
           file must still exist to load the moves from it)

  * [all]  Rewrote PGN-reading code from scratch. Should be
           simpler to maintain and does not crash on situations
           where the old code crashed.

  * [eng]  Fixed eboard hanging when engine crashed before
           outputting a complete text line (e.g., running
           GNU chess 4 with "gnuchess -t")

  * [all]  Added the Help -> Debug Info dialog. 

           **********************************************
           Please report everything in it when you report
           any kind of eboard crash.
           **********************************************

  * [ics]  Fixed the mess on the movelist when going back and
           forth in an exmined game in FICS.

  * [all]  Added the --enable-debug configure option to compile
           with -ggdb instead of -O6 when desired

  * [all]  Added Scratch/Edit Board Feature

  * [all]  Fixed crashing when saving the desktop geometry
           (bug observed in FreeBSD only)

  * [all]  Minor typecasting bug solved, fixes compilation
           some incarnation of gcc 2.95.2 somewhere.

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[eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.3.5

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

eboard 0.3.5 has just been released, and is available from the usual 
locations:

http://eboard.sourceforge.net
ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard

It is available as source .tar.gz , source RPM and binary RPM for i586 
(built on RedHat 7.1)

For 0.3.6 I'll look into implementing the pause function that was 
suggested in the sourceforge tracker system (only didn't do it for 0.3.5 
for I was busy playing with the new version of Emacs) and fixing the 
memory leak bug in PGN loading -- I haven't been able to track it yet, but 
discarding the games isn't freeing all the memory.

Last week I added a Themes section to the website. There are a couple of 
themes that use the new theme feature already there, and I have a couple 
of new themes here that will be uploaded in the next few days.

Have fun with it.

The ChangeLog since 0.3.4:

0.3.5
  * [all]  Several little code cleanups suggested by Matt
           Zimmerman: error reporting upon fork() failure,
           correct closing of pipes when spawning child
           processes, no script path fallback to /tmp when
           HOME is not set, warning message (on stderr) if
           HOME is not set.

  * [all]  Now scripts can be in any language. That makes
           writing autologin scripts easier with tools
           like 'expect'.

  * [all]  Added support for "extruded" piece sets (pieces can
           take up a portion of the square right above it, good
           for 3D sets. Please notice that such sets are even
           slower to render than the regular bitmapped sets)

  * [all]  Fixed (at last ?) the bug that made eboard segfault
           when dragging pieces off the board's limits.

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Re: [eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.3.4

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Felipe Bergo wrote:

> eboard 0.3.4 is out and can be download at the usual places:

er... downloadED.

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[eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.3.4

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

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eboard 0.3.4 is out and can be download at the usual places:

http://eboard.sourceforge.net
ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard

Here is the changelog since 0.3.3:

0.3.4
  * [fics] Added context menu with operations on games and players
           (right-click anywhere in the clock region of a game
           while connected to FICS). Will be extended to
           engines soon.

  * [all]  Modified "Show Coordinates" format to a more sane one.

  * [all]  Added text search on the console (Ctrl+F, Ctrl+G,
           the commands are currently in the Windows menu,
           but will be relocated to a new "Edit" menu or
           elsewhere soon).

  * [all]  Added a Dismiss button to the "Run Script" dialog,
           since some window managers (Sawfish) will make it
           non-trivial to close a modal dialog box from the window
           mamager.

  * [all]  Added menu command to save the contents of the main
           console to a file (Windows -> Save Text Buffer).

  * [all]  Added common C++ code for file dialogs, instead of
           scattered GTK+ C code (smaller code, possibly smaller
           binaries, possibly faster compilation)

  * [ics]  Yet another issue of password-showing on detached
           consoles was fixed. (typing in the username, opening
           a detached console then typing the password on that
           console wouldn't masquerade it. Now it's fixed.)

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[eboard-users] Release Announcement: eboard 0.3.3

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

eboard 0.3.3 has just been released, changleog goes below, but basically
many bugs were fixed and the feature to save desktop geometry (number of
detached consoles, and their positions) was added.

It's available for download at the usual places

http://eboard.sourceforge.net
ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard

Have fun with it :-)

Changelog since 0.3.2pl1:

0.3.3
  * [ics]  Now ratings, seek id  and time control columns are sorted
           correctly (numerically) on the seek graph.

  * [eng]  Crashes and weird behavior when engine is not found
           were fixed.

  * [all]  Better fallback fonts, should work even if only the
           100 dpi package is installed, and better message if
           that still fails. If you still have problems loading
           eboard due to lack of fonts, mail me the output of
           your 'xlsfonts' command.

  * [ics]  The input boxes of detached consoles now go to
           password mode upon ICS login, as they should.

  * [all]  Fonts with embedded spaces in their names are now accepted.

  * [all]  Fixed crashes when dragging pieces way out of the
           board.

  * [all]  Added desktop state saving (Windows -> Save Desktop Geometry)


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