GNU Chess
| GNU Chess | |
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| Genre | Chess |
| Latest release | 6.2.9 (Announcement) |
| Release date | July 14th, 2021 |
| Platforms | GNU/Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, Haiku |
| Developers | Chua Kong Sian, Stuart Cracraft, Lukas Geyer, Simon Waters |
| Code licenses | GPL v3 or later |
| Media licenses | GPL v3 or later |
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| GNU Chess is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. | |
 Arch:
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gnuchess |
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 Debian:
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gnuchess |
 Fedora:
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gnuchess |
 Flatpak:
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org.sugarlabs.Chess |
 FreeBSD:
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gnuchess |
 Gentoo:
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games-board/gnuchess |
_logo.svg){kind=logo} Haiku:
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games-board/gnuchess |
 Mageia:
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gnuchess |
 Snap:
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gnuchess |
 OpenSUSE:
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gnuchess |
 Ubuntu:
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gnuchess |
GNU Chess is a program that plays the ancient board game, Chess. It is licensed under the GPLv2. The original version of GNU Chess, written by Stuart Cracraft[1], 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] Version 6 of GNU Chess is based on[3] Fruit, a chess engine by Fabien Letouzey[1]
With Flatpak GNU Chess can be played by installing Sugarchess, a graphical front end made specifically for it.[4] A contemporary version was included on the 100 Great Games for Linux shovelware collection, as well as The UNIX Book of Games by Janice Winsor in 1996.
