Install Jerry - Das Schachprogramm

About Jerry - Das Schachprogramm

Jerry is a cross-platform chess graphical user interface. based around one of the world's best chess program Stockfish - play against the computer - adjust strength levels to match your skill - enter, edit and analyse games - fully automatic game analysis - read and save games in standard PGN format - copy and paste FEN positions and pgn games from clipboard - cross-platform: modern look on Linux and Windows - handle large (i.e. 1 GB) PGN files - easy and intuitive GUI - free software (GNU GPL 2), no adware/spyware

What's new in 5.0.0

Changelog - cf. full changelog here Installation on Windows: - download SetupJFXChess_500_win_x64.exe and execute it - The executable may trigger Windows Smartscreen. On the resulting blue Smart Screen Defender window - click on "More info" (upper left corner) and then - click on "Run anyway" (lower right corner) - or download jfxchess_500_win_x64.zip, unzip and run jfxchess.exe Installation on Linux - Install from Snap Store JFXChess - Debian/Ubuntu: download the jfxchess_1.0-5.0_amd64.deb and install with sudo dpkg -i jfxchess_1.0-5.0_amd64.deb - other Linux: install Java JRE, download jfxchess_linux_generic.tar.gz, unzip and run java -jar jfxchess-5.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar. Adapt and install jfxchess-jfxchess.desktop file for inclusion in your start menu/desktop You need a 64 bit OS both for Windows and Linux!

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