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- Gnuchess plays a game of chess against the user or it
- plays against itself.
+This is gnome-chess, a graphical user interface for playing chess.
- Gnuchess is an updated version of the GNU chess playing
- program. It has a simple alpha-numeric board display, an
- IBM PC compatible interface, or it can be compiled for use
- with the chesstool program on a SUN workstation or with
- the xboard program under X-windows. To invoke the program
- gnuchess
- - simple curses based version
-
- gnuchessn
- - fancy version using curses and inverse video on
- UNIX, or IBM PC cursor controls and characters on
- MSDOS
-
- gnuchessr
- - ASCII based version
-
- gnuchessc
- - chesstool compatible version
-
- gnuchessx
- - xboard compatible version
+It works with chess programs and chess servers - it is also a PGN viewer.
+For chess programs, it works best with the chess engine crafty but most
+features should also work with GNU Chess.