GNOME Chess (formerly glChess) is a graphical front-end featuring a 2D and a 3D chessboard interface. GNOME Chess does not comprise an own chess engine and to play against the computer a third party chess engine must be present, but most Linux distributions package GNU Chess as the default chess engine with it. Additionally GNOME Chess supports third party chess engines, known ones are automatically detected. GNOME Chess is written in Vala. For 2D rendering it uses GTK+ and Cairo/librsvg, and 3D support is optionally available using OpenGL.