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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 GNU Chess, for the
-Internet Chess Server, or for electronic mail correspondence chess.
-XBoard can also be used by itself.  See the manual page xboard.txt for
+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