diff --git a/packages/gnuchess/build.sh b/packages/gnuchess/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..770ceaf12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/gnuchess/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Chess-playing program"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=6.2.6
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/chess/gnuchess-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=d617f875d6411378c6ce521663ebda42db9006a5eb5706bcd821a918c06eb04f
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libc++, ncurses, readline"
+TERMUX_PKG_RM_AFTER_INSTALL="bin/gnuchessu bin/gnuchessx"
diff --git a/packages/gnuchess/components.cc.patch b/packages/gnuchess/components.cc.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f713e8e6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/gnuchess/components.cc.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -uNr gnuchess-6.2.5/src/components.cc gnuchess-6.2.5.mod/src/components.cc
+--- gnuchess-6.2.5/src/components.cc	2017-06-11 18:17:14.000000000 +0300
++++ gnuchess-6.2.5.mod/src/components.cc	2018-11-09 14:17:10.952608702 +0200
+@@ -171,6 +171,6 @@
+ 
+ void TerminateInput()
+ {
+-  pthread_cancel( input_thread );
++  pthread_kill( input_thread, 0 );
+   pthread_join( input_thread, NULL );
+ }
diff --git a/packages/gnuchess/main.cc.patch b/packages/gnuchess/main.cc.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e3df1ed4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/gnuchess/main.cc.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -u -r ../gnuchess-6.2.1/src/main.cc ./src/main.cc
+--- ../gnuchess-6.2.1/src/main.cc	2015-01-04 05:10:41.000000000 -0500
++++ ./src/main.cc	2015-01-05 20:40:16.816570715 -0500
+@@ -237,8 +237,8 @@
+   char opt_addbook[MAXSTR+1] = "";
+   char *endptr;
+ 
+-  /*disable graphic output by default */
+-  graphicmodeoutput = 0;
++  /*enable graphic output by default */
++  graphicmodeoutput = 1;
+ 
+ 
+   progname = argv[0]; /* Save in global for cmd_usage */