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 |
| Homepage | http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/ |
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| GNU Chess is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. | |
 Arch:
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 Debian:
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.svg){kind=icon} Fedora:
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 Flatpak:
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org.sugarlabs.Chess |
 FreeBSD:
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 Gentoo:
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games-board/gnuchess |
 Haiku:
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games-board/gnuchess |
 Mageia:
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gnuchess |
 openSUSE:
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gnuchess |
 Snapcraft:
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gnuchess |
 Ubuntu:
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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.
