4 XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System. It can
5 serve as a user interface for chess engines such as GNU Chess, for the
6 Internet Chess Server, or for electronic mail correspondence chess.
7 XBoard can also be used by itself. See the manual page xboard.man for
8 further details; use the command "nroff -man xboard.man | more" to
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
43 There is also a contributed .mak file for Borland C. It's not
44 maintained and thus may need updating if you want to use it.
50 Report bugs and problems with XBoard and WinBoard to
51 <bug-xboard@gnu.org>. With XBoard, please use the "script" program
52 to start a typescript, run XBoard with the -debug command line option,
53 and include the typescript output in your message. With WinBoard,
54 please use the /debug command line option and include the contents of
55 the file WinBoard.debug. Also tell us what kind of machine and what
56 operating system version you are using. On Unix, the command "uname
57 -a" will tell you this. On Windows, right-click on My Computer and
60 Here is a sample of approximately what you should type (on Unix):
68 mail bug-xboard@gnu.org
69 Subject: Your short description of the problem
70 Your detailed description of the problem
74 If you improve XBoard, please send a message about your changes, and
75 we will get in touch with you about merging them in to the main line