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Xboard - Graphical chessboard

XBoard is a graphical chessboard for X that can serve as a user interface for GNU Chess, other chess engines, and the Internet Chess Servers. XBoard can also be used by itself to read and write game files in PGN (portable game notation).

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html
Source tarballhttp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/xboard/xboard-4.2.6.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/
Version 4.2.6 (stable) released on 2002-02-03
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User FAQ included and available in HTML format from http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard/FAQ.html; User manual available in HTML format from http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard/xboard_toc.html; User manual included and available in PostScript format from http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard/xboard.ps
Support contacts

Help List<xboard@tim-mann.org>
Developer List<xboard@tim-mann.org>
Bug List<xboard@tim-mann.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
  • Dan Sears
  • Chris Sears

Related information

InterfacesX Window System
Source languagesC
Related programsChess, Eboard

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-12-12
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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