pychess 0.4 review

pychess is a chess game written using pygtk. Should be able to do most things xboard does, but in a nicer gtk/svg enviroment. W

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Thomas Dybdahl Ahle

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pychess is a chess game written using pygtk.

Should be able to do most things xboard does, but in a nicer gtk/svg enviroment.

Will support
Svg pieces
Pgn reading/writing
Animation
D'n'D
Builtin move validation
Multiple engines
and much more.

Requirements:
GTK+ version 2.2.x
pygtk
gnome-python

What's New in This Release:
You can now Load and Save games in both PGN format and EPD/FEN!
You can now see hints, tips and openings to help you make better move decisions.
PyChess now helps you evaluate the game, showing you a scoreplot of the game's development, helping you finding the breaking points in the game.
PyChess now supports all CECP engines, instead of only Crafty and GNU Chess. It also uses a better Linux way of handling the subprocesses, making sure they exit probably when PyChess exits or is killed.
PyChess 0.4 Has a builtin pythonbased chessengine, letting you play chess out of the box. (Most people will still want other engines however)
PyChess 0.4 fixes a lot of bugs and should be even faster than 0.2