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|| [[image:PyChess_Screenshot.jpg link="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PyChess_Screenshot.png"]] ||~ || **PyChess**,
a free, [[Open Source Engines|open source]]  [[GUI|chess GUI]] and engine, distributed under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU Public License]], both written in [[Python]].  [[Thomas Dybdahl Ahle]] started the project in 2006, with  [[Bajusz Tamás]] and [[Justin Blanchard]] contributing in the meantime <ref>[[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61231&start=1|Re: Chess Engine Update Information: August 25, 2016]] by [[Justin Blanchard]], [[CCC]], August 26, 2016</ref>. The GUI uses [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyGTK|PyGTK]] and was originally developed for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME|GNOME]], compliant with its [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#Human_Interface_Guidelines|Human Interface Guidelines]], but runs well under all other [[Linux]] desktops, and since PyChess **0.12 Anderssen rc4** released in August 2015, in parts re-written to Python 3 [[Thread|threading]] <ref>[[https://docs.python.org/3/library/threading.html|17.1. threading — Thread-based parallelism — Python 3.4.3 documentation]]</ref>, also under [[Windows]] <ref>[[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57302|PyChess 0.12rc4]] by [[Bajusz Tamás]], [[CCC]], August 18, 2015</ref>. PyChess allows playing with the build in engine, with [[UCI]] and [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] compliant chess engines, or can act as online client of the [[Free Internet Chess Server]] (FICS). Further, PyChess supports many [[Chess#Variants|chess variants]]. 
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|| PyChess GUI <ref>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PyChess_Screenshot.png|PyChess screenshot]] User playing [[Crafty]], from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyChess|PyChess from Wikipedia]], Source [[http://pychess.org/about/|About PyChess]] by Matthew Gatto, January 4, 2011.</ref> ||~ ||^ ||
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=Chess Variants=
* [[Atomic Chess]]
* [[Capablanca Chess]]
* [[Chess960]] or Fischer Random Chess (FRC)
* [[Crazyhouse]]
* [[Makruk]], the Thai version of Chess.
* [[Losing Chess|Suicide Chess]] (Losing Chess)
> and more

=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Acronym|Acronym]]
* [[glChess]]
* [[Python]]

=Forum Posts=
==2010 ...==
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36140&start=2|Re: Python chess engine]] by Justin Blanchard, [[CCC]], September 22, 2010
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47566|PyChess Anderssen 0.12 beta1 released]] by [[Bajusz Tamás]], [[CCC]], March 21, 2013
==2015 ...==
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55962|PyChess - the greatest chess interface for Linux]] by [[Lanzo Nazaire]], [[CCC]], April 11, 2015
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57302|PyChess 0.12rc4]] by [[Bajusz Tamás]], [[CCC]], August 18, 2015
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57682|PyChess Anderssen 0.12 rc5]] by [[Bajusz Tamás]], [[CCC]], Sepember 17, 2015
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58036|PyChess Anderssen 0.12 released]] by [[Bajusz Tamás]], [[CCC]], October 24, 2015
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58508|PyChess Anderssen 0.12.1 released]] by [[Bajusz Tamás]], [[CCC]], December 07, 2015
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59115|PyChess Anderssen 0.12.2 released]] by [[Bajusz Tamás]], [[CCC]], January 31, 2016
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60146|Pychess built in engine infos?]] by [[Günther Simon]], [[CCC]], May 12, 2016
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60595|PyChess 0.12.4]] by [[Bajusz Tamás]], [[CCC]], June 25, 2016
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65147|PyChess 0.99.0]] by [[Bajusz Tamás]], [[CCC]], September 12, 2017
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66149|PyChess 0.99.1]] by [[Bajusz Tamás]], [[CCC]], December 26, 2017

=External Links=
* [[http://pychess.org/news/|PyChess - news]]
* [[http://pychess.org/about/|PyChess - Features]]
* [[http://pychess.org/community/|PyChess - Get Involved]]
* [[http://pychess.org/download/|PyChess - download]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyChess|PyChess from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://code.google.com/p/pychess/|pychess - pygtk chess client - Google Project Hosting]]
* [[https://github.com/pychess/pychess|pychess/pychess · GitHub]]

=References= 
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