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'''''PyChess''''' is a [[free software]] [[chess]] client developed for [[GNU]]. It allows users to play offline or online via the [[Freechess|Free Internet Chess Server]] (FICS). PyChess also incorporates a built-in [[chess engine]], which in contrast to most other chess [[AI|AIs]] is written in the [[Python programming language|Python]] language and focuses more on fun of play than raw strength. For more advanced users, PyChess allows for virtually any other external [[chess engine]] to be used with it.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = About PyChess
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| title = Pychess 0.2
| url = http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2758
| date = 13 September 2006 }}</ref> The release contained the bare minimum of features to play a game of [[chess]], and was backed only by the [[GNU Chess]] engine.
In the end of 2006, PyChess was close to become a part of [[GNOME Games]], which were holding a usage survey of aspiring new games to include in the suite.<ref name="gamesplan">{{Cite web|title=GNOME Games Plan for Included Games |url=http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGames/NewGamesPlan |date=3 September 2006 |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903141629/http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGames/NewGamesPlan |archivedate=3 September 2006 }}</ref> Being nearly just started at the time, it lost to the more established [[glChess]], which managed to fix its hardware accelerating dependency before the end of the trial.<ref name="gamesplan"/><ref>{{Cite web
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== Aims ==
According to the PyChess website:
{{quote|The goal of PyChess is to provide an advanced chess client for [[Linux]], and do that with a nice and efficient [[user interface]]<nowiki> in line with the [GNOME Human Interface Guidelines]]. The client should be fun and exciting to those new to </nowiki>[[chess]] - who just want to play a short games to procrastinate their work - as well as those who want to utilize their [[computer]] for further enhancing their play.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = PyChess at GiHub Project Hosting
| url = https://github.com/pychess/pychess
| accessdate = 10 July 2011 }}</ref>|author=|title=|source=}}
The PyChess project puts heavy emphasis on simplicity, trying to avoid the complicated [[user interfaces]] of [[XBoard]] and
== See also ==
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