GNU Shogi
Encyclopedia
GNU Shogi is a free software
program by the Free Software Foundation
that plays Shogi
. Although the program is ASCII
based, most often it is used in conjunction with XShogi
, much as XBoard
is used for GNU Chess
. Source code
is available.
The most recent version is Version 1.3 (stable) released on 2002-04-26. The project is maintained by Matthias Mutz.
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
program by the Free Software Foundation
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, a copyleft-based movement which aims to promote the universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software...
that plays Shogi
Shogi
, also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, and Chinese Xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan...
. Although the program is ASCII
ASCII
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...
based, most often it is used in conjunction with XShogi
XShogi
XShogi is a free software GUI client for GNU Shogi.xshogi can also be used as an X client for the Internet Shogi Server , which is currently embedded in the Internet Go server ....
, much as XBoard
XBoard
XBoard and WinBoard are free graphical user interface clients. Originally developed by Tim Mann, these programs are compatible with various chess engines that support the Chess Engine Communication Protocol such as GNU Chess...
is used for GNU Chess
GNU Chess
GNU Chess is a computer program which plays a full game of chess against a human or other computer program.GNU Chess is one of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix-based computers and one of the earliest available with full source code....
. Source code
Source code
In computer science, source code is text written using the format and syntax of the programming language that it is being written in. Such a language is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer mostly by writing source...
is available.
The most recent version is Version 1.3 (stable) released on 2002-04-26. The project is maintained by Matthias Mutz.