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-What is XBoard?
-===============
-XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System. It can
-serve as a user interface for chess engines such as Fairy-Max,
-Crafty or GNU Chess, for the Internet Chess Server, or for electronic
-mail correspondence chess. It supports all major forms of chess, such
-as international chess, xiangqi and shogi. XBoard can also be used by
-itself as viewer for stored chess games. See the manual page for
-further details.
-
-XBoard is free software, copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation
-and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file
-COPYING for details.
-
-You can build xboard on most systems with the following commands.
-
- ./configure
- make
-
-See the file INSTALL for more detailed instructions.
-
-See the file FAQ.html for answers to frequently asked questions.
-
-
-What is WinBoard?
-=================
-WinBoard is a port of XBoard to run natively on Windows. It is part
-of the XBoard project and is released under the same terms as XBoard.
-
-You can build WinBoard using the free Cygwin toolchain from
-www.cygnus.com with the following commands.
-
- cd winboard
- make -f makefile.gcc
-
-You can build WinBoard using Microsoft Visual C with the following
-commands, or by opening the project in Visual Studio and clicking the
-build button.
-
- cd winboard
- nmake -f makefile.ms
-
-
-Reporting problems
-==================
-
-Report bugs and problems with XBoard and WinBoard to
-<bug-xboard@gnu.org>. With XBoard, please use the "script" program
-to start a typescript, run XBoard with the -debug command line option,
-and include the typescript output in your message. With WinBoard,
-please use the /debug command line option and include the contents of
-the file WinBoard.debug. Also tell us what kind of machine and what
-operating system version you are using. On Unix, the command "uname
--a" will tell you this. On Windows, right-click on My Computer and
-select Properties.
-
-Here is a sample of approximately what you should type (on Unix):
-
- script
- uname -a
- ./configure
- make
- ./xboard -debug
- exit
- mail bug-xboard@gnu.org
- Subject: Your short description of the problem
- Your detailed description of the problem
- ~r typescript
- .
-
-If you improve XBoard, please send a message about your changes, and
-we will get in touch with you about merging them in to the main line
-of development.