Introduction

glChess is a 2D/3D chess game for Unix. Games can be played between a combination of human and computer players. glChess detects known third party chess engines for computer players. Network play will soon* be supported.

glChess is written in Python and uses GTK+ and Cairo to render the chess board. 3D support is available using OpenGL. As with most modern 3D programs hardware acceleration is recommended but it should run OK in software.

glChess is now part of the Gnome project. All future work is on the Gnome version with changes being periodically copied back to the version supplied here. Gnome and other dependencies will always be optional so you can play chess on any Posix system with GTK+ support.

* The term "soon" is undefined...