Linux for home users should have chess, draughts (checkers) and go games

Draughts (checkers) and chess games are very popular, also go board game is becoming more and more popular, so It's wise to include these board games into distribution.

- Chess game could be glchess ( ver http://prdownloads.sf.net/glchess/glchess_1.0RC2-1dapper_all.deb or higher, included into GNOME Games ver 2.18 and Baltix 2.5+, see http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGames ) or pychess (http://code.google.com/p/pychess/ ). Both have an ability to choose easier/harder levels, this is very important for beginners, while glchess is nicer look and even optional 3D look, when python2.4-gtkglext1 (from http://prdownloads.sf.net/glchess/python2.4-gtkglext1_1.1.0-1_i386.deb) and python-opengl packages are installed. Note, that on Ubuntu 6.06 glChess crashes in 3D View, see bugreports.)
Also it would be nice to use cool 3D chess figures like http://brutalchess.sourceforge.net has.

- For draughts(checkers) game I didn't found any separate game, only gtkboard (nice project, but not developed since 2003-10), ggz-gtk-games, ggz-kde-games, includes checker and chess games in Ubuntu/Debian.

- Go board game could be GnomeGo (http://gnomego.sourceforge.net - tested ver. 0.5 and 0.5.1 deb packages) or Quarry - a multi-purpose GUI for several board games, at present Go, Amazons and Reversi (a.k.a. Othello). GnomeGo deb package is pretty big (.png and .zip files in /usr/share/gnomego/ wastes ~4Mb), while Quarry is pretty hard to setup for playing agains computer - it need to register playing program (look at http://download.gna.org/quarry/help/en/quarry.html ), there is no simple way to choose play level of computer, but supports more third-party programs, e.g. GNU Go or GRhino). Playing on Internet game servers will be supported in Quarry ver. 0.3.
Also there is cgoban (has internet play ability) and gpe-go and gtkgo packages, but it seems development of gpe-go stopped 4 years ago (I didn't found gpe-go home page or original source location, gtkgo is stopped 5 years ago) :(