Updating to version 1.3, release made by Mike Vanier (mvanier@bbb.caltech.edu).

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+GNU Shogi, release 1.3
+----------------------
+
+This is release 1.3 of GNU shogi, a program which plays shogi (Japanese
+chess), as well as xshogi, the graphical interface to GNU shogi.  GNU shogi
+and xshogi were originally written by Matthias Mutz (mutz@fmi.uni-passau.de),
+but are now maintained by me, Mike Vanier (mvanier@bbb.caltech.edu).  GNU
+shogi was in turn based on GNU Chess 4.0, i.e. the first version of GNU Shogi
+was obtained by "simply" modifying the chess-specific parts of GNU Chess 4.0.
+We would like to thank the authors of GNU Chess 4.0 for making the sources of
+that program available.  I would also like to thank Matthias for allowing me
+to take over the maintenance of this project.
+
+See the file NEWS for the new features of this release.
+
+For the installation procedure read the file "INSTALL".  For more information
+on shogi please look at the files in the doc directory or read the info file.
+
+Please email bugs, comments, suggestions, and wish lists regarding GNU shogi
+to me.  And enjoy the program :-)
+
+Mike Vanier (mvanier@bbb.caltech.edu)
+