Baby News
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This is a list of features that were added to each release of Baby.
Baby was renamed from BabyChess to Baby on Monday November 12th 2001.   


Version 12.3
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General
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- Memory leak in image handling fixed. 
- Installation is now faster using Cook. 
- Faster drag movement of chess pieces by buffering "mouse move"
  events. 
- In addition to the Make file, there is now a `Howto.cook' file that
  can be used with the Cook program.  
- Drop support for Make. 
- Partial update of the Cygwin port. 

Chess
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- Design changes in the "Edit position" window make it easier to use. 
- Introduced the "Chess evaluator," which replaces the chess engine.  
- The chess program now runs in another process, rather than in
  another thread. 
- New ICS client program.
- New PGN file editor for game collections. 
- Added a "busy indicator" to the chess game editor that blinks when
  the evaluator is running, similar to what's in most web-browsers
  upper right corner. 
- Game Editor:  Moves can be taken back by taking them back on the
  board. 
- Game Editor:  Read and write PGN files with one game in them.  
- Game Editor:  Display the move list.  You can go to the position
  after a move by clicking on the move. 
- Game Editor:  Display the piece balance. 
- The XBoard engine has been dropped in favor of the new "chess
  evaluator." 

GUI
...

- The chess pieces are now stored in one 8 kB PNG indexed image with 
  tRNS transparency, instead of the old 547 kB X bitmap .xbm file. 
- Fixed bug in the "GNU GPL" window where characters would be drawn
  over the scroll bars. 
- New, thinner caret. 
- Most windows are now "editors."  The "Chess program" window is now
  the "Chess game editor." 
- Objects such as chess games and chess positions can now be edited
  separately. 

Version 12.2
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- Bugfixes

GUI
...

- Added anti-aliased fonts using Xft
- Scroll bars

BabyFractal
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- News colors dialog
- Added undo information and back/forward commands 

Version 12.1
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- Name changed from BabyChess to Baby. 

Fractal
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- New program that displays the Mandelbrot set. 

Chess
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- Added "Flip board" option
- Added "Show square name on each square" option
- Floating text in the "About window"
- Radio buttons
- New "Edit position" dialog
- Proportional font used with XLib
- "Copy" and "Paste" button in "Edit position" window;  the FEN description of
  the position can be copied and pasted. 
- Radio buttons with chess pieces in the "Edit position" window.
- "Copy position" and "Paste position" in the "Game" menu of the "Game window".  
- New load/save file window.
- "Load" and "Save" in the "Position" menu of the "Edit position" window.
- Focus follows mouse;  buttons and other widgets get activated when mouse is
  over.  
- Keyboard input with the X Window System. 
- Chess board drawn faster when changing size. 
- Anti-aliased chess pieces

XBoard Engine
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- Think 10 s instead of 5 s. 

version 12
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Chess
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- New GUI. 

Xboard engine
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- The program is renamed from `bbch' to `babychess-xboard-engine'. 

version 11.1
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Xboard engine
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- The "move now" command works. 
- The chess Engine can play with white. 
- "Post mode" works.  The engine outputs information about its thinking.   
- Instead of always calculating a fixed number of knots, the engine calculates
  during a fixed time.    
- The engine sends information when the position is checkmate or stalemate.    
- The engine understands the protocol version 2, but it still runs with older
  Xboard versions.  
- The "undo" command works