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34 <h2 class="chapter">2 Menus, buttons, and keys</h2>
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37 To move a piece, you can drag it with the left mouse button, or you
38 can click the left mouse button once on the piece, then once more on
39 the destination square. To drop a new piece on a square (when
40 applicable), press the middle or the right mouse button over the
41 square and select from the pop-up menu. In cases where you can drop
42 either a white or black piece, use the middle button (or shift+right)
43 for white and the right button (or shift+middle) for black. When you
44 are playing a bughouse game on an Internet Chess Server, a list of the
45 off-board pieces that each player has available is shown in the window
46 title after the player's name; in addition, the piece menus show the
47 number of pieces available of each type. From version 4.3.14 on, it is
48 also possible in crazyhouse, bughouse or shogi to dag and drop pieces
49 to the board from the holdings squares displayed next to the board.
51 <p>All other XBoard commands are available from the menu bar. The most
52 frequently used commands also have shortcut keys or on-screen buttons.
54 <p>When XBoard is iconized, its graphical icon is a white knight if
55 it is White's turn to move, a black knight if it is Black's turn. See
56 Iconize in <a href="Keys.html#Keys">Keys</a> below if you have problems getting this
60 <li><a accesskey="1" href="File-Menu.html#File-Menu">File Menu</a>: Accessing external games and positions.
61 <li><a accesskey="2" href="Mode-Menu.html#Mode-Menu">Mode Menu</a>: Selecting XBoard's mode.
62 <li><a accesskey="3" href="Action-Menu.html#Action-Menu">Action Menu</a>: Talking to the chess engine or ICS opponents.
63 <li><a accesskey="4" href="Step-Menu.html#Step-Menu">Step Menu</a>: Controlling the game.
64 <li><a accesskey="5" href="Options-Menu.html#Options-Menu">Options Menu</a>: User preferences.
65 <li><a accesskey="6" href="Help-Menu.html#Help-Menu">Help Menu</a>: Getting help.
66 <li><a accesskey="7" href="Keys.html#Keys">Keys</a>: Other shortcut keys.