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GNU Chess
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 Version 6 of GNU Chess is based on Fruit, a chess engine by Fabien Letouzey
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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 Version 6 of GNU Chess is based on Fruit, a chess engine by Fabien Letouzey
With Flatpak GNU Chess can be played by installing Sugarchess, a graphical front end made specifically for it. 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.
==Developers== *Chua Kong Sian *Stuart Carcraft *Lukas Geyer *Samon Waters
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Imported from LibreGameWiki. Verify platform-specific requirements on the linked project/download page before installing.
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Download / project pageLicense: GPL v3 or later
Imported from LibreGameWiki: https://libregamewiki.org/GNU_Chess
Article text attribution: LibreGameWiki contributors, CC BY 3.0/GFDL. Game/media license detected from the infobox: GPL v3 or later.
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