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WinBoard READ_ME file
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** See the file INSTALL for instructions
** on installing WinBoard on your system.
WinBoard is an graphical chessboard for Windows NT 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
Windows Help file WinBoard.hlp for further details.
WinBoard is a port of XBoard to Win32, the 32-bit API of Windows NT
and Windows 95 (Chicago). The code in WinBoard.c is all new, but the
other source files are based on XBoard. XBoard was originally written
by Dan Sears and Chris Sears. The alternative set of piece bitmaps in
bitmaps.xchess are derived from XChess, which was written and
copyrighted by Wayne Christopher. Tim Mann <mann@src.dec.com> is
responsible for WinBoard and for XBoard versions 2.0 and following.
Report bugs in WinBoard, XBoard, or GNU Chess to
<bug-gnu-chess@prep.ai.mit.edu>. If you improve WinBoard or XBoard,
please send a message about your changes to bug-gnu-chess, and someone
will get in touch with you about merging them in to the main line of
development.
CAVEATS
WinBoard does *not* run on Windows 3.1. It works only on Windows NT
and Windows 95 (Chicago). Porting it to 3.1 would be a sizable task.
The Win32s subset interface is not sufficient to run WinBoard.
WinBoard 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 or WinBoard. 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.