diff --git a/games-board/gnuchess/gnuchess-6.2.1.recipe b/games-board/gnuchess/gnuchess-6.2.1.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3a7f5ca41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/games-board/gnuchess/gnuchess-6.2.1.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+SUMMARY="A chess engine and console frontend"
+DESCRIPTION="GNU Chess is a free software chess engine developed by the GNU \
+project. It started as a project by Stuart Cracraft and Richard Stallman in \
+1984. It is supported as an engine for a wide range of graphical frontents \
+such as XBoard and glChess, but also works autonomously on the console."
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/"
+COPYRIGHT="2001-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/chess/gnuchess-6.2.1.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="17caab725539447bcb17a14b17905242cbf287087e53a6777524feb7bbaeed06"
+PATCHES="gnuchess-6.2.1.patchset"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 ?x86 ?x86_64"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	gnuchess = $portVersion
+	cmd:gnuchess = $portVersion
+	cmd:gnuchessu = $portVersion
+	cmd:gnuchessx = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku_devel
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:gcc
+	cmd:awk
+"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	runConfigure ./configure
+	make $jobArgs
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make install
+}
diff --git a/games-board/gnuchess/patches/gnuchess-6.2.1.patchset b/games-board/gnuchess/patches/gnuchess-6.2.1.patchset
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6e33b42fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/games-board/gnuchess/patches/gnuchess-6.2.1.patchset
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+From 9b3cb24d4a252dc3b0bbe3a26f4fa67274b1c9e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Markus Himmel <markus@himmel-villmar.de>
+Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 10:24:07 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix signature for non-debug stubs and fix unicode literals
+
+---
+ src/frontend/debug.cc  | 4 ++--
+ src/frontend/output.cc | 4 ++--
+ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/frontend/debug.cc b/src/frontend/debug.cc
+index f7df145..541de85 100644
+--- a/src/frontend/debug.cc
++++ b/src/frontend/debug.cc
+@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ int dbg_printf(const char *fmt, ...)
+ 
+ #else /* !DEBUG */
+ 
+-int dbg_open(const char *name __attribute__((unused)) ) { return 0; }
+-int dbg_printf(const char *fmt __attribute__((unused)), ...) { return 0; }
++int dbg_open(const char *name) { return 0; }
++int dbg_printf(const char *fmt, ...) { return 0; }
+ int dbg_close(void) { return 0; }
+ 
+ #endif /* DEBUG */
+diff --git a/src/frontend/output.cc b/src/frontend/output.cc
+index 21698cb..fda1ea8 100644
+--- a/src/frontend/output.cc
++++ b/src/frontend/output.cc
+@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
+ 
+ #define MAX_BOARD_RANGE 65
+ #define PIECE_SIZE 8
+-const char w_pieces[6][PIECE_SIZE] = {"\u2654 ", "\u2655 ", "\u2656 ", "\u2657 ", "\u2658 ", "\u2659 "};
+-const char b_pieces[6][PIECE_SIZE] = {"\u265A ", "\u265B ", "\u265C ", "\u265D ", "\u265E ", "\u265F "};
++const char w_pieces[6][PIECE_SIZE] = {"\\u2654 ", "\\u2655 ", "\\u2656 ", "\\u2657 ", "\\u2658 ", "\\u2659 "};
++const char b_pieces[6][PIECE_SIZE] = {"\\u265A ", "\\u265B ", "\\u265C ", "\\u265D ", "\\u265E ", "\\u265F "};
+ const unsigned ui_king = 0;
+ const unsigned ui_queen = 1;
+ const unsigned ui_rook = 2;
+-- 
+2.2.2
+