What is XBoard? =============== XBoard is a graphical chessboard that can serve as a user interface for 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.man for further details; use the command "nroff -man xboard.man | more" to read it. Building XBoard =============== Quick start: You can build xboard on most systems with the commands configure make See the file INSTALL for more detailed instructions. See the file FAQ for answers to frequently asked questions. Reporting bugs ============== Report bugs in XBoard or GNU Chess to . Please use the "script" program to start a typescript, run XBoard with the -debug option, and include the typescript output in your message. Also tell us what kind of machine and what operating system version you are using. The command "uname -a" will often tell you this. If you improve XBoard, please send a message about your changes to bug-gnu-chess, and we will get in touch with you about merging them in to the main line of development. Caveats ======= XBoard depends on the Xt Intrinsics and Athena Widget Set of X11R4 or later. In particular, X11R3 just won't do. XBoard works best with version 4.0 of GNU Chess. Older versions may also work, but they are unsupported. The GNU Chess project requests that you get a current copy of GNU Chess rather than using older, bug-ridden versions. GNU Chess must be compiled with the -DXBOARD flag for use with XBoard. Use the "make gnuchessx" target in GNU Chess 4.0 to do this. The Free Software Foundation would prefer to be able to distribute an X chessboard program covered only by the GNU General Public License and unencumbered by any other copyright. If you can help with this, please contact the FSF.