1What is XBoard? 2=============== 3XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System. It can 4serve as a user interface for chess engines such as Fairy-Max, 5Crafty or GNU Chess, for the Internet Chess Server, or for electronic 6mail correspondence chess. It supports all major forms of chess, such 7as international chess, xiangqi and shogi. XBoard can also be used by 8itself as viewer for stored chess games. See the manual page for 9further details. 10 11XBoard is free software, copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation 12and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file 13COPYING for details. 14 15You can build xboard on most systems with the following commands. 16 17 ./configure 18 make 19 20See the file INSTALL for more detailed instructions. 21 22See the file FAQ.html for answers to frequently asked questions. 23 24 25What is WinBoard? 26================= 27WinBoard is a port of XBoard to run natively on Windows. It is part 28of the XBoard project and is released under the same terms as XBoard. 29 30You can build WinBoard using the free Cygwin toolchain from 31www.cygnus.com with the following commands. 32 33 cd winboard 34 make -f makefile.gcc 35 36You can build WinBoard using Microsoft Visual C with the following 37commands, or by opening the project in Visual Studio and clicking the 38build button. 39 40 cd winboard 41 nmake -f makefile.ms 42 43 44Reporting problems 45================== 46 47Report bugs and problems with XBoard and WinBoard to 48<bug-xboard@gnu.org>. With XBoard, please use the "script" program 49to start a typescript, run XBoard with the -debug command line option, 50and include the typescript output in your message. With WinBoard, 51please use the /debug command line option and include the contents of 52the file WinBoard.debug. Also tell us what kind of machine and what 53operating system version you are using. On Unix, the command "uname 54-a" will tell you this. On Windows, right-click on My Computer and 55select Properties. 56 57Here is a sample of approximately what you should type (on Unix): 58 59 script 60 uname -a 61 ./configure 62 make 63 ./xboard -debug 64 exit 65 mail bug-xboard@gnu.org 66 Subject: Your short description of the problem 67 Your detailed description of the problem 68 ~r typescript 69 . 70 71If you improve XBoard, please send a message about your changes, and 72we will get in touch with you about merging them in to the main line 73of development. 74