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Introduction
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XBoard is a graphical chessboard that can serve as a user interface to
chess engines (such as GNU Chess), the Internet Chess Servers,
electronic mail correspondence chess, or your own collection of saved
games.

   This manual documents version 4.9.1 of XBoard.

Major modes
The main things XBoard can do.
Basic operation
Mouse and keyboard functions.
Menus
Menus, buttons, and keys.
Options
Command options supported by XBoard.
Chess Servers
Using XBoard with an Internet Chess Server (ICS).
Firewalls
Connecting to a chess server through a firewall.
Environment
Environment variables.
Limitations
Known limitations and/or bugs.
Problems
How and where to report any problems you run into.
Contributors
People who have helped developing XBoard.
CMail
Using XBoard for electronic correspondence chess.
Other programs
Other programs you can use with XBoard.
Copyright
Copyright notice for this manual.
Copying
The GNU General Public License.
Index
Index of concepts and symbol names.

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