Web site: www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/
Category: Games
Sub-Category: Platform, Console
Platform: Linux, BSD, Unix-like
License: GNU GPL
Interface: CLI
Wikipedia:
First release: April 10, 1993
GNU Shogi – a computer program that plays the game of Shogi, also known as Japanese Chess.
GNU shogi and xshogi were originally written by Matthias Mutz, have been maintained by Mike Vanier in the 1.3.x era, by Luis Felipe Strano Moraes until 1.4.0, and are now maintained by Yann Dirson.
GNU shogi was in turn based on GNU Chess 4.0, i.e. the first version of GNU Shogi was obtained by “simply” modifying the chess-specific parts of GNU Chess 4.0.
GNU Shogi proper is only the AI engine, and you will likely want to use a GUI frontend to be more comfortable. The gnushogi program does include a text-based UI if you’re into this sort of things, and the source distribution also includes the (very) old xshogi frontend for the X Window system.
Gnuminishogi is a computer player for the MiniShogi variant of shogi (Japanese chess). Gnuminishogi is a modified version of the gnushogi program.
