https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess
Cute Chess is a graphical user interface, command-line interface and a library for playing chess.
https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess
c-plus-plus chess qt5
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Cute Chess is a graphical user interface, command-line interface and a library for playing chess.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess
- Owner: cutechess
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2012-04-06T13:27:47.000Z (over 13 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-07-22T18:34:22.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-12T14:19:47.394Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: c-plus-plus, chess, qt5
- Language: C++
- Homepage:
- Size: 8.55 MB
- Stars: 638
- Watchers: 32
- Forks: 151
- Open Issues: 251
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: COPYING
- Authors: AUTHORS
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README
# Cute Chess
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](https://www.qt.io/).
## Installation
### Binaries
See the [Releases](https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess/releases) page.
### Building from source
Cute Chess requires Qt 5.15 or greater, a compiler with C++11 support and `cmake`.
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:
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
Documentation is available as Unix manual pages in the `docs/` directory.
For detailed build instruction for various operating systems, see the
[Building from source](https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess/wiki/Building-from-source)
wiki page.
## Running
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.
## License
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.
## Credits
Cute Chess was written by Ilari Pihlajisto, Arto Jonsson and [contributors](https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess/graphs/contributors)