[4] Being nearly just started at the time, it lost to the more established glChess, which managed to fix its hardware accelerating dependency before the end of the trial.

[6] In 2009, PyChess won Les Trophées du Libre in Paris in the category of hobby computing.

[13]The PyChess project puts heavy emphasis on simplicity, trying to avoid the complicated user interfaces of XBoard and BabasChess.

This implies adding new features slowly, so they can be integrated in the overall usage scheme, and make things "just work".

At the same time the project strives to contain most of the features known from major Windows chess clients such as Chessbase and Aquarium by ChessOK.