pychess(1)

pychess1

Chess graphical user interface for several chess engines

Overview

pychess provides a fully featured, nice looking, easy to use chess client for the gnome-desktop.

The client should be usable both to those totally new to chess, and those who want to use a computer to further enchance their play.

Features

* Tabbed interface

* pgn+epd read/write support

* Hints and spymode

* xboard/cecp engine support

* Builtin python based engine

* Openingbook using sqlite

* Clean interface and dialogs

* Builtin move validator

* Legal move highlighting

* Supports drag'n'drop.

Homepage

https://pychess.github.io/

Releases

10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 5.0–12
  2. 13–Arch

Author

This manual page was written by Varun Hiremath <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From pychess 1.2.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.