Bug#398600: RFP: pychess -- chess graphical user interface for several chess engines

[Laurent Bonnaud <Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


Chess GUI in Debian need a replacement: eboard, gnome-chess and xboard are
either based antiquated toolkits or buggy or unmaintained (upstream and in
Debian).  Here is a candidate:


* Package name    : pychess
  Version         : 0.4.1
  Upstream Author : lobais@gmail.com
* URL             : http://pychess.googlepages.com/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : chess graphical user interface for several chess engines

The goal of pychess, is to provide a fully featured, nice looking, easy to use
chess client.

Features:
    * PGN read/write
    * Hints and spymode
    * CECP Engine support 
    * Builtin python based engine
    * Openingbook using sqlite
    * Clean interface and dialogs
    * Builtin move validator
    * Legal move highlighting