Activities/Gnuchess
About Gnuchess
Gnuchess is a Sugar front end to the gnuchess program [1], a computer program for playing chess.
Where to get Gnuchess
The Gnuchess activity is not yet available for download from the Sugar Activity Library: Gnuchess
The source code is available on on the Sugar Labs Gitorious server.
Using Gnuchess
The Toolbars
- from left to right
- Activity-toolbar Button
- (toolbar described below)
- Edit-toolbar Button
- (toolbar described below)
- View-toolbar Button
- (toolbar described below)
- Configure-toolbar Button
- (toolbar described below)
- Custom-toolbar Button
- (toolbar described below)
- New game
- Start a new game.
- Undo
- Revert last move (When playing against the robot, the last two moves are reverted.)
- Hint
- Used to offer a hint to the current player
- Message area
- Current status, e.g., Hint, Check, Checkmate, et al.
- Stop Button
- Exit the activity
Activity Toolbar
- Activity name field
- used to change the name of the activity
- Reflection Button
- used to write descriptions for the Journal entry of this instance of Portfolio
- Share Button
- disabled (Gnuchess Activity does not yet support sharing)
- Copy
- Copy current game to clipboard (in algrbraic chess notation)
- Paste
- Paste a game from the clipboard (in algrbraic chess notation)
- Fullscreen
- Used to show board at full screen with no toolbars showing. (Type ESC to return from Fullscreen mode.)
- Playback
- Playback the current game as an animation.
- Game history
- See a transcript of the game history in algebraic chess notation [2].
- White
- Display of White's most recent move
- Black
- Display of Black's most recent move
- Play White
- You play White, your opponent plays Black
- Play Black
- You play Black, your opponent plays White
- Easy
- This is the minimal setting for gnuchess: "book off" and "depth 1"
- Hard
- This is default setting for gnuchess, which includes "book on"
- Play against the computer
- The computer will move automatically
- Play against a person
- Take turns on the same computer (sharing not yet implemented)
Used to load custom artwork for each piece from the Sugar Journal.
Learning with Gnuchess
Extending Gnuchess
Where to report problems
You can soon report bugs and make feature requests on our bug-tracking system (You need to create an account first). To list all open tickets of Gnuchess you can use query component=Gnuchess. You are also welcome to leave comments/suggestions on the Talk:Activities/Gnuchess page.
Credits
The Sugar wrapper for GNU Chess was written and is maintained by User:Walter.