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1 Overview

GNU Chess (http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/) is a computer program for playing chess. It can be used to interactively play chess on a text terminal, but it is more often used in conjunction with a GUI program such as GNU XBoard.

Because it is protected by the GNU General Public License, users are free (in perpetuity) to share and change it.

The main author of GNU Chess version 6 is Fabien Letouzey, The original author is Stuart Cracraft.