4 XBoard is a graphical chessboard that can serve as a user interface
5 for GNU Chess, for the Internet Chess Server, or for electronic mail
6 correspondence chess. XBoard can also be used by itself. See the
7 manual page xboard.man for further details; use the command "nroff
8 -man xboard.man | more" to read it.
12 Quick start: You can build xboard on most systems with the commands
17 See the file INSTALL for more detailed instructions.
19 See the file FAQ for answers to frequently asked questions.
24 Report bugs and problems with XBoard to <tim@tim-mann.org>. Please
25 use the "script" program to start a typescript, run XBoard with the
26 -debug option, and include the typescript output in your message.
27 Also tell us what kind of machine and what operating system version
28 you are using. The command "uname -a" will often tell you this.
30 Here is a sample of approximately what you should type:
39 Subject: Your short description of the problem
40 Your detailed description of the problem
44 If you improve XBoard, please send a message about your changes, and
45 we will get in touch with you about merging them in to the main line
50 XBoard depends on the Xt Intrinsics and Athena Widget Set of X11R4 or
51 later. In particular, X11R3 just won't do.
53 XBoard works best with version 4.0 or 5.0 of GNU Chess. Older
54 versions may also work, but they are unsupported. The GNU Chess
55 project requests that you get a current copy of GNU Chess rather than
56 using older, bug-ridden versions. GNU Chess 4.0 must be compiled with
57 the -DXBOARD flag for use with XBoard. Use the "make gnuchessx"
58 target in GNU Chess 4.0 to do this.
60 The Free Software Foundation would prefer to be able to distribute an
61 X chessboard program covered only by the GNU General Public License
62 and unencumbered by any other copyright. If you can help with this,
63 please contact the FSF.