pychess provides a fully featured, nice looking, easy to use chess client for the gnome-desktop.
The client should be usable both to those totally new to chess, and those who want to use a computer to further enchance their play.
* Tabbed interface
* pgn+epd read/write support
* Hints and spymode
* xboard/cecp engine support
* Builtin python based engine
* Openingbook using sqlite
* Clean interface and dialogs
* Builtin move validator
* Legal move highlighting