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