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Cute Chess,
an open source graphical chess user interface (GUI) by Ilari Pihlajisto and Arto Jonsson, written in C++ using the Qt framework ¹. Cute Chess is compliant with the Chess Engine Communication Protocol as well the Universal Chess Interface (UCI) and can be build to run under Windows, Linux and OS X, and is therefor compatible with Winboard engines, XBoard engines, and UCI engines. Cute Chess incorporates the core chess library, and the well-known and long time established command line interface Cutechess-cli, suited to run automated engine-engine matches. 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.

Features

Cute Chess features a tabbed document interface (TDI) embedded inside its frame window with classical menu bar. Tabbed game document windows associated with one chess game contain board window, notation window, evaluation windows with principal variations of both sides, and score history chart window.

Screenshot

Cute Chess TDI ²

Versions

• 0.9.0 (1.0 pre-release) was announced in September 2016 ³.
• 1.0.0 was announced in July 2017 ⁴.
• 1.2.0 was announced in August 2020 ⁵.

See also

• Cutechess-cli
• Sloppy

Forum Posts

2010 ...

• Help us make Cute Chess GUI better by Ilari Pihlajisto, CCC, August 20, 2012

2015 ...

• Cute Chess 0.9.0 (GUI) released by Ilari Pihlajisto, CCC, September 02, 2016
• Cute Chess 0.9.3 released by Ilari Pihlajisto, CCC, September 18, 2016
• Cute Chess 0.9.4 released by Ilari Pihlajisto, CCC, September 22, 2016
• Cute Chess 1.0.0 released by Ilari Pihlajisto, CCC, July 20, 2017
• How to play vs LCZero with Cute Chess gui by Hai, CCC, April 08, 2018 » Leela Chess Zero
• cutechess gui build by elcabesa, CCC, Jan 27, 2018

2020 ...

• Cutechess 1.20 released by Günther Simon, CCC, August 10, 2020
• Basic Questions About CuteChess by JoAnn Peeler, CCC, February 01, 2023

External Links

• GitHub - cutechess/cutechess: Cute Chess is a graphical user interface, command-line interface and a library for playing chess

Release Cute Chess 0.9.0 · cutechess/cutechess · GitHub

Release Cute Chess 1.0.0 · cutechess/cutechess · GitHub

Release Cute Chess 1.2.0 · cutechess/cutechess · GitHub

• Cute Chess

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