Home > Repositories > base > pychess
A chess client, that is fully featured, easy to use and nice looking in the gnome way.
The client should be usable both to those totally new to chess, those who want to take a game here and there, and those who wants to use the computer to further enhance their play.
Features:
* CECP and UCI Engine support
* Free online play on the FICS chess servers
* Read and writes the PGN, EPD and FEN chess fileformats
* Builtin python based engine
* Undo and pause functions
* Board and piece animation
* Drag and drop
* Tabbed interface
* Hints and spyarrows
* Openingbook sidepanel using sqlite
* Scoreplot sidepanel
* "Enter game" in pgn dialog
* Internationalised or figure pieces in notation
* Optional sounds
* Legal move highlighting
* A nice and accesible look
To help translate PyChess into your language please visit https://translations.launchpad.net/pychess
pychess: A chess client, that is fully featured, easy to use and nice looking in the gnome way
A chess client, that is fully featured, easy to use and nice looking in the gnome way.The client should be usable both to those totally new to chess, those who want to take a game here and there, and those who wants to use the computer to further enhance their play.
Features:
* CECP and UCI Engine support
* Free online play on the FICS chess servers
* Read and writes the PGN, EPD and FEN chess fileformats
* Builtin python based engine
* Undo and pause functions
* Board and piece animation
* Drag and drop
* Tabbed interface
* Hints and spyarrows
* Openingbook sidepanel using sqlite
* Scoreplot sidepanel
* "Enter game" in pgn dialog
* Internationalised or figure pieces in notation
* Optional sounds
* Legal move highlighting
* A nice and accesible look
To help translate PyChess into your language please visit https://translations.launchpad.net/pychess
| Name: | pychess |
| Release: | 1.1.0-1mamba |
| Group: | Graphical Desktop/Applications/Games |
| Maintainer: | silvan |
| License: | GPL |
| Size: | 13.86 MB |
| Upstream URL: | https://pychess.github.io/ |
| Build time: | 2025-09-22 19:21:14 |
Binary packages and requirements
| x86_64 | i586 | |
|---|---|---|
| Built RPMS | pychess | pychess |
| Build requirements | libpython311-devel [1] python3.11dist(pexpect) [1] python3.11dist(psutil) [1] python3.11dist(pycairo) [1] python3.11dist(pygobject) [1] python3.11dist(sqlalchemy) [1] python3.11dist(websockets) [1] | libpython311-devel [1] python3.11dist(pexpect) [1] python3.11dist(psutil) [1] python3.11dist(pycairo) [1] python3.11dist(pygobject) [1] python3.11dist(sqlalchemy) [1] python3.11dist(websockets) [1] |
History of changes
| Date | Packager | Release | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-22 | Automatic Build System | 1.1.0-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2025-09-16 | Automatic Build System | 1.0.6-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2024-05-04 | Automatic Build System | 1.0.5-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2024-04-16 | silvan | 1.0.4-3mamba | - rebuilt with python3 ~= 3.11 |
| 2023-04-11 | silvan | 1.0.4-2mamba | - dependencies added |
| 2023-04-10 | silvan | 1.0.4-1mamba | - update to 1.0.4 |
| 2021-05-10 | autodist | 1.0.3-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2017-12-07 | silvan | 0.99.0-1mamba | - update to 0.99.0 |
| 2016-07-04 | autodist | 0.12.4-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2016-03-12 | autodist | 0.12.3-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
