pychess(1)

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version 1.2.0 · 2 versions
, in arch rolling, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for pychess — it lives in the General Commands Manual section of the pychess(1) docs, and it's literally a chess graphical user interface for several chess engines. no cap. 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

pychess gives you a fully featured, nice looking, easy to use chess client for the gnome-desktop. it's giving main character energy for your chess era. 👑

the way this client is designed?? it's meant to be usable by both people who are totally new to chess and people who wanna use a computer to further enchance their play. everybody eats at this table. 🍓

🎀 Features 🎀

okay here's the lineup, and every single one of these is iconic:

  • Tabbed interface 💅
  • pgn+epd read/write support
  • Hints and spymode 🙈
  • xboard/cecp engine support
  • Builtin python based engine 🐍
  • Openingbook using sqlite
  • Clean interface and dialogs
  • Builtin move validator ✅
  • Legal move highlighting ✨
  • Supports drag'n'drop. 🫶

🌈 HOMEPAGE 🌈

lowkey the place to go:

https://pychess.github.io/

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Varun Hiremath <varunhiremath@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

okay so that's the whole page, bestie — and fr fr, this manual page was written by Varun Hiremath <varunhiremath@gmail.com> for the Debian project (but may be used by others, so go off 💅), and it's stamped December 22, 2006, filed under pychess(1). obsessed with her. periodt. 🦋🌸✨
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