emacs-chess software package provides a client and library for playing Chess from Emacs, you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install emacs-chess
emacs-chess is installed in your system.
Make ensure the emacs-chess package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep emacs-chess *
You will get with emacs-chess package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Games |
| Package | emacs-chess |
| Version | 2.0b6-1.1ubuntu1 |
| Description | a client and library for playing Chess from Emacs |
| Sub Section | Games |