Gnuchess plays a game of chess against the user or it
plays against itself.
Gnuchess is an updated version of the GNU chess playing
program. It has a simple alpha-numeric board display, an
IBM PC compatible interface, or it can be compiled for use
with the chesstool program on a SUN workstation or with
the xboard program under X-windows. To invoke the program
gnuchess
- simple curses based version
gnuchessn
- fancy version using curses and inverse video on
UNIX, or IBM PC cursor controls and characters on
MSDOS
gnuchessr
- ASCII based version
gnuchessc
- chesstool compatible version
gnuchessx
- xboard compatible version
Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.
The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.
Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.
Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.