Cute Chess is a graphical user interface, command-line interface and a library for playing chess. Cute Chess is written in C++ using the Qt framework.
Binaries are available for cutechess-cli, the command-line interface of Cute
Chess. The latest version is 0.8.0.
The GUI doesn't have a binary release at this time.
Cute Chess requires Qt 5.3 or greater, a compiler with C++11 support and qmake.
In the simplest case you only have to issue:
$ qmake
$ make
If you are using the Visual C++ compiler replace make with nmake.
Documentation is available as Unix manual pages in the docs/ directory. API
documentation can be built by issuing make doc-api (requires Doxygen).
The cutechess-cli program is run from the command line to play games between
chess engines. For example to play ten games between two Sloppy engines
(assuming sloppy is in PATH) with a time control of 40 moves in 60
seconds:
$ cutechess-cli -engine cmd=sloppy -engine cmd=sloppy -each proto=xboard tc=40/60 -rounds 10
See cutechess-cli -help for descriptions of the supported options or manuals
for full documentation.
Cute Chess is released under the GPLv3+ license except for the components in
the projects/lib/components and projects/gui/components directories which
are released under the MIT License.
Cute Chess was written by Ilari Pihlajisto and Arto Jonsson.