GNOME Chess

GNOME Chess is a 2D chess game, where games can be played between a combination of human and computer players. GNOME Chess detects known third party chess engines for computer players.

GNOME Chess is written in Vala and uses GTK+ and Cairo to render the chess board using Cairo/rsvg. GNOME Chess requires a separately-installed chess engine if you want to play against the computer, but your Linux distribution probably installs one for you.

Now part of GNOME Games, GNOME Chess has a much longer history.

Screenshots

Getting in Touch

IRC channel (#gnome-games)
Mailing list
File a bug

Development Resources

Issues
Browse source code
git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-chess
Tarballs
Testing Plan.

Current Maintainers

Sahil Sareen (#ssareen)
Michael Catanzaro (#mcatanzaro)

All Contributors/Translators