Currently only PGN viewing is implemented, but that it does well. It features a scalable board with SVG piece graphics, move animation, a game list and a detailed display of the notation, including comments and variations.

Planned features among others are editing, computer analysis, and database queries. Chessmonk is intended to be an easy to use alternative to chess suites like ChessBase or scid.
 
Requirements
This application requires GTK+ version 2.8.x. Other dependencies include:
PyGtk, gnome-python, GnomeCanvas