Chess

glChess is a 2D/3D chess game, where games can be played between a combination of human and computer players. glChess detects known third party chess engines for computer players. While now part of Gnome Games glChess has a long history...

glChess is written in Vala and uses GTK+ and Cairo to render the chess board. 2D rendering is done using Cairo/rsvg, and 3D support is optionally available using OpenGl. As with most modern 3D programs hardware acceleration is recommended but it should run OK in software. glChess is bundled with GNU Chess as the default chess AI.

glChess is a part of Gnome Games. There are still stand alone versions of glChess in the wild, some information about the old versions is here for historical reasons.