Chess programs

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

Install gnome-games-extra, that one has glchess, which is quite
nice, note that you can enable a 3d view (if you prefer) from
the menus.

Regards,

Hans


On 03/24/2011 04:21 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:35:56 +0200,
>    Olavi Halme<omhalme64 at kolumbus.fi>  wrote:
>> Hello friends,
>>
>> I am a chess player from Finland and have operated many years with
>> Fedora. My last system is Fedora 14 x86_64 and I have been very
>> satisfied to it. But I have noticed that Fedora has only gnuchess and
>> something other chess program.
>
> 'chess' is completely broken after F14. Upstream is dead and it needs to
> be updated for more recent cegui and ogre. I still hope to do that, but
> I haven't had time to work on it for quite a while.
>
> 'pychess' was recently orphaned, but might get picked up again.
>
> 'knights' is a fairly recent addition.
>
> There could be other ones I am not aware of.
>
> I don't play much chess, so I don't have recommendations for how any of these
> fare against each other.
>
> Be aware that Fedora only includes 'free' (freedom) software. Programs
> that are commercial or free for noncommercial use, are not 'free' even if
> there is no charge for them and will not be included in Fedora.
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