XBoard READ_ME file
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** See the file INSTALL for instructions	
** on building xboard for your system.

XBoard is an graphical chessboard that can serve as a user interface
for GNU Chess or for the Internet Chess Server, or can be used to play
out games manually or from game files.  See the manual page xboard.man
for further details; use the command "nroff -man xboard.man | more" to
read it.

XBoard was originally written by Dan Sears and Chris Sears.  XBoard
borrows its colors, icons and piece bitmaps from XChess, which was
written and copyrighted by Wayne Christopher.  We thank him for his
work on XChess.  Tim Mann <mann@src.dec.com> is responsible for XBoard
versions 2.0 and following.

Report bugs in XBoard or GNU Chess to <bug-gnu-chess@prep.ai.mit.edu>.
If you improve XBoard, please send a message about your changes to
bug-gnu-chess, and Tim 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.
