    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.