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Categories:
- Game
- BoardGame
Description:
C: <p>PyChess is a chess client for playing and analyzing chess games. It is intended to be usable both
for those totally new to chess as well as advanced users who want to use a computer to further enhance
their play.</p><p>PyChess has a builtin python chess engine and auto-detects most popular chess engines
(Stockfish, Rybka, Houdini, Shredder, GNU Chess, Crafty, Fruit, and many more). These engines are
available as opponents, and are used to provide hints and analysis. PyChess also shows analysis from
opening books and Gaviota end-game tablebases.</p><p>When you get sick of playing computer players
you can login to FICS (the Free Internet Chess Server) and play against people all over the world.
PyChess has a built-in Timeseal client, so you won't lose clock time during a game due to lag. PyChess
also has pre-move support, which means you can make (or start making) a move before your opponent
has made their move.</p><p>PyChess has many other features including:</p><ul><li>CECP and UCI chess
engine support with customizable engine configurations</li><li>Polyglot opening book support</li><li>Gaviota
end-game tablebase support</li><li>Hint and Spy move arrows</li><li>Hint, Score, and Annotation panels</li><li>Play
and analyze games in separate game tabs</li><li>Countless chess variants including Chess960, Suicide,
Crazyhouse, Shuffle, Wildcastle, Losers, Atomic, Three-check, King of the hill, Makruk, Sittuyin,
Cambodian</li><li>Reads and writes PGN, EPD and FEN chess file formats</li><li>Undo and pause chess
games</li><li>Move animation in games</li><li>Drag and drop chess files</li><li>Optional game move
and event sounds</li><li>Chess piece themes with 42 built-in piece themes</li><li>Legal move highlighting</li><li>Direct
copy+paste pgn game input via Enter Game Notation open-game dialog</li><li>Internationalised text
and Figurine Algebraic Notation (FAN) support</li><li>Translated into 38 languages (languages with
+5% strings translated)</li><li>Easy to use and intuitive look and feel</li></ul>
ID: pychess.desktop
Icon:
cached: pychess_pychess.png
Name:
C: PyChess
Package: pychess
Provides:
mimetypes:
- application/x-chess-pgn
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Summary:
C: PyChess is a fully featured, nice looking, easy to use chess client for the Gnome desktop
Type: desktop-app
Url:
homepage: http://pychess.org
