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.
Binaries for both the GUI and the cutechess-cli command-line interface are available here
Cute Chess requires Qt 5.5 or greater, a compiler with C++11 support and qmake.
In the simplest case you only have to issue:
$ qmake
$ make
If you are using the Visual C++ compiler replace make with nmake.
Documentation is available as Unix manual pages in the docs/ directory. API
documentation can be built by issuing make doc-api (requires Doxygen).
The cutechess-cli program is run from the command line to play 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.
To help with translations, add a line after the last line of cutechess.pro,
in the following format:
TRANSLATIONS += translations/cutechess_[language_code].ts
Then generate the translation file by running the command:
$ lupdate cutechess.pro
There will be a new file pending for translation. Edit with Qt Linguist:
$ linguist translations/cutechess_[language_code].ts
If new strings are added in source code, run lupdate to update corresponding
.ts files.
After finishing translation, generate the binary file with the command:
$ lrelease translations/cutechess_[language_code].ts
There will be the final .qm file for GUI application. Place the GUI
executable under the same path of translations directory.
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.
Cute Chess was written by Ilari Pihlajisto, Arto Jonsson and contributors