gShogi
gShogi is a Shogi (Japanese chess) game. It features loading and saving of games, setting the level of play, retracting moves, choosing Eastern or Western pieces, opening book, resizing the board, and support for USI engines. gShogi is based on GNU Shogi. It uses engine code and graphics for the board pieces from GNU Shogi. It has a new front end GUI for GNOME.
| Tags | Games/Entertainment |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv3 |
| Operating Systems | Linux |
| Implementation | Python PyGTK C |
Recent releases
- 10 Apr 2011 21:14
Release Notes: Some game navigation buttons have been added to the toolbar and the pieces can now be moved with Drag and Drop.
- 03 Apr 2011 19:05
Release Notes: This version contains minor changes to improve the resizing of the board after the main window has been resized.
- 23 Mar 2011 22:48
Release Notes: You can now play handicap games, which is good for beginners when playing strong engines. New USI time controls have been added, giving a choice of seven in all. Support for the PSN format has been added for loading and saving games.
- 04 Oct 2010 08:22
Release Notes: The main change in this version is that you can now play engine versus engine. This allows you to compare different USI engines. There is a new toolbar and new time controls with a display of the players and time remaining. There is an undo/redo move function, which allows browsing the game backwards and forwards. The user settings are now remembered between games.
- 28 Aug 2010 11:40
Release Notes: This version includes minor bugfixes and cosmetic changes.
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- Popularity Score
- 48.33
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- 3.58
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