3 XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System. It can
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4 serve as a user interface for chess engines such as GNU Chess, for the
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5 Internet Chess Server, or for electronic mail correspondence chess.
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6 XBoard can also be used by itself. See the manual page xboard.txt for
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9 XBoard is free software, copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation
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10 and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file
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11 COPYING for details.
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13 You can build xboard on most systems with the following commands.
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18 See the file INSTALL for more detailed instructions.
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20 See the file FAQ.html for answers to frequently asked questions.
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25 WinBoard is a port of XBoard to run natively on Windows. It is part
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26 of the XBoard project and is released under the same terms as XBoard.
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28 You can build WinBoard using the free Cygwin toolchain from
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29 www.cygnus.com with the following commands.
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32 make -f makefile.gcc
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34 You can build WinBoard using Microsoft Visual C with the following
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35 commands, or by opening the project in Visual Studio and clicking the
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39 nmake -f makefile.ms
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45 Report bugs and problems with XBoard and WinBoard to
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46 <bug-xboard@gnu.org>. With XBoard, please use the "script" program
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47 to start a typescript, run XBoard with the -debug command line option,
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48 and include the typescript output in your message. With WinBoard,
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49 please use the /debug command line option and include the contents of
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50 the file WinBoard.debug. Also tell us what kind of machine and what
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51 operating system version you are using. On Unix, the command "uname
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52 -a" will tell you this. On Windows, right-click on My Computer and
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55 Here is a sample of approximately what you should type (on Unix):
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63 mail bug-xboard@gnu.org
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64 Subject: Your short description of the problem
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65 Your detailed description of the problem
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69 If you improve XBoard, please send a message about your changes, and
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70 we will get in touch with you about merging them in to the main line
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