Play chess in Linux

Over 1,200 years old, chess remains a test of strategy, mental ability, computing power and generally a way to use time.

GNU Chess at the Free Software Foundation. This is another terminal-based game, not visual eye-candy faorte.

GNU Chess

Installation:

sudo apt install gnuchess 

execute:

gnuchess

For the GUI version:

sudo apt install xboard

execute:

xboard 

Stockfish

Stockfish is one of the most powerful chess engines in the world. Unlike most chess engines, Stockfish is open source (LPG licensed). This means that you can read the code, modify it, contribute and even use it in your own projects.

You can use Stockfish on Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS or Android. Thus, you can get world-class chess analysis, wherever you are.

Ubuntu 20.04 comes with Stockfish11:

sudo apt-get install -yl stockfish

Install python3-pip if you don't already have one:

sudo apt install python3-pip

To install chs:

python3 -m pip install chs

You may have a warning towards the end of the installation, suggesting to add the directory .local/binto the environment variable$PATH:

export PATH = ”$ PATH: $ HOME / .local / bin”

Final:

chs