3 XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System. It can
4 serve as a user interface for chess engines such as Fairy-Max,
5 Crafty or GNU Chess, for the Internet Chess Server, or for electronic
6 mail correspondence chess. It supports all major forms of chess, such
7 as international chess, xiangqi and shogi. XBoard can also be used by
8 itself as viewer for stored chess games. See the manual page for
11 XBoard is free software, copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation
12 and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file
15 You can build xboard on most systems with the following commands.
20 See the file INSTALL for more detailed instructions.
22 See the file FAQ.html for answers to frequently asked questions.
27 WinBoard is a port of XBoard to run natively on Windows. It is part
28 of the XBoard project and is released under the same terms as XBoard.
30 You can build WinBoard using the free Cygwin toolchain from
31 www.cygnus.com with the following commands.
36 You can build WinBoard using Microsoft Visual C with the following
37 commands, or by opening the project in Visual Studio and clicking the
47 Report bugs and problems with XBoard and WinBoard to
48 <bug-xboard@gnu.org>. With XBoard, please use the "script" program
49 to start a typescript, run XBoard with the -debug command line option,
50 and include the typescript output in your message. With WinBoard,
51 please use the /debug command line option and include the contents of
52 the file WinBoard.debug. Also tell us what kind of machine and what
53 operating system version you are using. On Unix, the command "uname
54 -a" will tell you this. On Windows, right-click on My Computer and
57 Here is a sample of approximately what you should type (on Unix):
65 mail bug-xboard@gnu.org
66 Subject: Your short description of the problem
67 Your detailed description of the problem
71 If you improve XBoard, please send a message about your changes, and
72 we will get in touch with you about merging them in to the main line