GNU Chess

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GNU Chess
Genre	Chess
Developers	Chua Kong Sian, Stuart Cracraft, Lukas Geyer, Simon Waters
Code licenses	GPL v2
Media licenses	GPL v2
Latest release	5.0.7
Release date	August 7, 2003

GNU Chess is a program that plays the ancient board game, Chess. The latest version of the game is 5.0.7 uploaded on August 7, 2003.^[1] It is licensed under the GPLv2. It was one of the first major games to be developed deliberately as free software. On the game Free Software Foundation founder Richard M. Stallman said "We even developed a chess game, GNU Chess, because a complete [free] system needs games too."^[2]

Contents 1 Developers 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Developers

• Chua Kong Sian
• Stuart Carcraft
• Lukas Geyer
• Samon Waters

[edit] See also

• GNU Go
• GNU Robbo
• GNU Robots

[edit] References

1. ↑ FTP page for GNU Chess project hosted on GNU.org
2. ↑ Stallman's Chess quote

[edit] External links

• GNU Chess homepage