gnuchess: GNU chess¹

GNU Chess lets most modern computers play a full game of chess. It has a plain terminal interface but supports visual interfaces such as X-Windows "xboard".

Version 5.06 is the current release. Version 5 shares no code with versions 1.x through 4.x. This release features simplified chess code and modern data structures, which make it more pedantically accessible, easier to modify, and more understandable for skilled chess experts who are not necessarily programmers.

Chua Kong-Sian is the primary author of GNU Chess 5's precursor program (Cobalt, which maintains a separate but cooperative parallel development path.) Several features have been integrated or written by Stuart Cracraft (opening book code, documentation, ability to play on Free Internet Chess Server etc.)

... part of T2, get it here

URL: https://www.fsf.org/software/chess/chess.html

Author: Stuart Cracraft <cracraft [at] ai [dot] mit [dot] edu>
Author: Lukas Geyer <lukas [at] debian [dot] org>
Author: Simon Waters <simon [at] wretched [dot] demon [dot] co [dot] uk>
Maintainer: The T2 Project <t2 [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 6.2.9

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).

Download: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/chess/ gnuchess-6.2.9.tar.gz

T2 source: gnuchess.cache
T2 source: gnuchess.conf
T2 source: gnuchess.desc

Build time (on reference hardware): 3% (relative to binutils)²

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.66 MB, 33 files

Dependencies (build time detected): 00-dirtree bash binutils coreutils diffutils findutils gawk grep linux-header make ncurses readline sed tar

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

¹) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.

²) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).