gShogi - An open source Shogi Game for Linux

Download  gshogi-0.4.2.tar.gz    Last update: 10th April 2011

gShogi is an open source Shogi (Japanese chess) game written in Python / PyGTK / C.

Features:

• Load / Save Games in native format or PSN format
• Set level of play (byoyomi, classical, incremental, fixed time per move, depth, infinite and nodes USI time controls)
• Undo / Redo Moves
• Choose eastern or western pieces
• Opening Book
• Resizable Board
• Builtin engine
• USI support - you can play against USI engines
• Play human vs engine, engine vs engine or human vs human
• Play Handicap games

gShogi is based on GNU Shogi. It uses C engine code and graphics for the board pieces from GNU Shogi. It has a new front end gui for GNOME written in python/PyGTK.

Screenshots

Screenshot of gShogi using western pieces.

Screenshot of gShogi engine list after some USI engines have been added.

Using USI engines

USI is the Universal Shogi Interface. You can install USI engines and use them with gShogi.

More information on using USI engines with gShogi.

GSE

gse is a USI version of the gShogi engine.
It runs on Linux and windows.
It must be used in conjunction with a USI GUI such as gShogi on Linux or shogidokoro on windows.
Version 0.1.4 supports more USI time controls which are available in gshogi 0.4.

Downloads (Last update: 23rd March 2011)

    gse-0.1.4.tar.gz   Linux source tarball

    gse-win-0.1.4.zip   source code and windows executable

Screenshot of the gse engine playing against the Laramie engine on shogidokoro. Click on the image to view it at full size.
Shogidokoro is a windows USI GUI which you can download from http://www.geocities.jp/shogidokoro/download.html.