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GNOME Chess

Play the classic two-player board game of chess Source

Description

GNOME Chess is a simple chess game. You can play against your computer at three different difficulty levels, or against a friend at your computer.

Computer chess enthusiasts will appreciate GNOME Chess’s compatibility with nearly all modern computer chess engines, and its ability to detect several popular engines automatically if installed.

Source

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Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: released

This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.

The project repository was created on 2018-05-22.

The last known commit happened on 2025-01-13.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2025-01-13

Features

 This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.

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Get it on Flathub!

Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.Chess.flatpakref

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

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* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

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Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita

AppStream Metadata URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-chess/-/raw/main/data/org.gnome.Chess.appdata.xml.in