Game Chess, How to play in Ubuntu with computer.

[john levin]

Vilas Sukhadeve wrote:
> Hello Friends, 
> I have down loaded the Emacs chess,gnome-chess,chess-2.Ob5, all these
> files are stored in Home. Most of the files are text files, as soon as I
> open them the text is appeared but how to open them as a board game and
> play chess with computer. I tried my best and failed. Will somebody
> guide me how to do it.
> 

Why not install them via Synaptic?
System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager
and search for 'chess'

HTH

John