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GNU Chess
Free software chess engine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GNU Chess is a free software chess engine and command-line interface chessboard. The goal of GNU Chess is to serve as a basis for research, and as such it has been used in numerous contexts.
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Developer(s) | GNU Project |
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Initial release | 1984; 40 years ago (1984) |
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Operating system | Linux, Unix, macOS, Windows |
Type | Computer chess |
License | 2010[lower-alpha 1]: GPL-3.0-or-later 1992[lower-alpha 2]: GPL-2.0-or-later 1986: Chess-GPL[lower-alpha 3][2][3] |
Website | www |
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GNU Chess is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or any later version, and is maintained by collaborating developers. As one of the earliest computer chess programs with full source code available, it is one of the oldest for Unix-based systems and has since been ported to many other platforms.