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.

See the Releases page.

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 wiki page.

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.

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