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.
See the Releases page.
Cute Chess requires Qt 5.11 or greater, a compiler with C++11 support and qmake.
Cute Chess depends on the following Qt 5 modules:
- qt5-widgets
- qt5-svg
- qt5-concurrent
- qt5-printsupport
- qt5-testlib (optional: unit tests)
Run these commands:
$ 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.
For detailed build instruction for various operating systems, see the Making a release wiki page.
The cutechess program is the graphical user interface of Cute Chess.
It can be run either from command-line or from your desktop environment's
application launcher.
The cutechess-cli program is the command-line interface for playing
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, Arto Jonsson and contributors