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Expand Up @@ -37,11 +37,11 @@ <h2><a name="Grundlagen">ChessX Basics</a></h2>
<h3><a name="Summary"></a>Summary</h3>
<p>ChessX is an Open Source chess database. With ChessX you can operate on your collection of chess games in many ways:<br />
browse, edit, add, organize, analyze, etc.</p>
<p>ChessX is cross-platform. It works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. </p>
<p>ChessX is cross-platform. It works on Windows, GNU/Linux and OS X. </p>

<h3><a name="Features"></a>Current Features</h3>
<ul>
<li class="bullet">Multi-platform. Supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X<br />
<li class="bullet">Multi-platform. Supports Windows, GNU/Linux and OS X<br />
<li class="bullet">Load and save PGN files<br />
<li class="bullet">Work with multiple databases simultaneously<br />
<li class="bullet">Browse games, including variations<br />
Expand All @@ -50,7 +50,10 @@ <h3><a name="Features"></a>Current Features</h3>
<li class="bullet">Search header (click on columns in GameList header)<br />
<li class="bullet">Display opening tree for current position<br />
<li class="bullet">Analyze using UCI and Winboard/Xboard Chess engines<br />
<li class="bullet">Play Online on Free Internet Chess Server (FICS)
<li class="bullet">Play Online on <a href="https://www.freechess.org/">Free
Internet Chess Server
(FICS)</a>, <a href="https://lichess.org/">Lichess.org</a>
and <a href="https://www.chess.com/">Chess.com</a>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Plans"></a>Planned Features</h3>
<ul>
Expand All @@ -62,12 +65,42 @@ <h3><a name="Plans"></a>Planned Features</h3>

<h3><a name="Development"></a>Development</h3>

<p>The code uses the Qt library. To develop, you need Qt 4.8.1 or later. SVN is used to manage development and SourceForge Tracker to keep track of bug reports and feature requests. All classes are documented using <a href="http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/">Doxygen</a>. </p>
<p>For a long time, ChessX was pushed forward by <strong>Michal Rudolf</strong>.</p>
<p>
<!--Consider using ''Isues'' in github to bring all development to the
same location?-->
<a href="https://github.com/Isarhamster/chessx">Github</a> is
used to manage
development. <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/chessx/bugs/">SourceForge
Bugs</a> is used to keep track of bug reports and feature requests.
</p>

<p>
<!--Modified from: https://sourceforge.net/p/chessx/wiki/Fetch%20the%20Code/
-->
If you want to participate in development, fork and check
out <a href="https://github.com/Isarhamster/chessx">ChessX's source code</a>
with git, or the GitHub desktop. This allows you to send pull
requests after completing your tasks. This is the easiest way to get changes
implemented into mainstream ChessX. Please, sign up to
the <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/chessx-developer">developer's
mailing list</a> and introduce yourself.
</p>

<p>The code uses the <a href="https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/">Qt library</a>. To
compile from source, <em>Qt 5.14.1</em> or later is required. </p>

<p>
All classes are documented using <a href="https://www.doxygen.nl/index.html">Doxygen</a>.
</p>

<p>For a long time, ChessX development was pushed forward by <strong>Michal Rudolf</strong>.</p>
<p>Currently, there are two active ChessX developers: <strong>James Coons</strong> and current maintainer <strong>Jens Nissen</strong>. The main tester and usability expert is <strong>Bruno Rizzuti</strong>.</p>
<p>Among inactive developers we would like to mention <strong>Marius Roets</strong>, <strong>Sean Estabrooks</strong>, <strong>Rico Zenklusen</strong>, <strong>William Hoggarth</strong> and <strong>Ejner Borgbjerg</strong> who wrote significant parts of code. <strong>Heinz Hopfgartner</strong> made useful tests and maintained Mac port.</p>
<p>If you wish to participate in the project (either as a developer or a tester), please sign up to the <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/chessx-developer">developer mailing list</a> and introduce yourself.</p>

<p>Among inactive developers we would like to mention <strong>Marius
Roets</strong>, <strong>Sean Estabrooks</strong>, <strong>Rico
Zenklusen</strong>, <strong>William Hoggarth</strong> and <strong>Ejner
Borgbjerg</strong> who wrote significant parts of code. <strong>Heinz
Hopfgartner</strong> made useful tests and maintained the OS X port.</p>

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