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25 <h1 class="settitle">XBoard</h1>
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34 <h2 class="unnumbered">Introduction</h2>
36 <p><a name="index-introduction-1"></a>
38 <p>XBoard is a graphical chessboard that can serve as a
39 user interface to chess engines (such as GNU Chess), the
40 Internet Chess Servers,
41 electronic mail correspondence chess, or your own collection of saved games.
43 <p>This manual documents version 4.4.0j of XBoard.
46 <li><a accesskey="1" href="Major-modes.html#Major-modes">Major modes</a>: The main things XBoard can do.
47 <li><a accesskey="2" href="Menus.html#Menus">Menus</a>: Menus, buttons, and keys.
48 <li><a accesskey="3" href="Options.html#Options">Options</a>: Command options supported by XBoard.
49 <li><a accesskey="4" href="Chess-Servers.html#Chess-Servers">Chess Servers</a>: Using XBoard with an Internet Chess Server (ICS).
50 <li><a accesskey="5" href="Firewalls.html#Firewalls">Firewalls</a>: Connecting to a chess server through a firewall.
51 <li><a accesskey="6" href="Environment.html#Environment">Environment</a>: Environment variables.
52 <li><a accesskey="7" href="Limitations.html#Limitations">Limitations</a>: Known limitations and/or bugs.
53 <li><a accesskey="8" href="Problems.html#Problems">Problems</a>: How and where to report any problems you run into.
54 <li><a accesskey="9" href="Contributors.html#Contributors">Contributors</a>: People who have helped developing XBoard.
55 <li><a href="CMail.html#CMail">CMail</a>: Using XBoard for electronic correspondence chess.
56 <li><a href="Other-programs.html#Other-programs">Other programs</a>: Other programs you can use with XBoard.
58 <li><a href="Copyright.html#Copyright">Copyright</a>: Copyright notice for this manual.
59 <li><a href="Copying.html#Copying">Copying</a>: The GNU General Public License.
61 <li><a href="Index.html#Index">Index</a>: Index of concepts and symbol names.