diff --git a/package/gnuchess/gnuchess.hash b/package/gnuchess/gnuchess.hash
index 0248abcf71a5..f307ec249e6e 100644
--- a/package/gnuchess/gnuchess.hash
+++ b/package/gnuchess/gnuchess.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # sha256 locally computed
-sha256  ddfcc20bdd756900a9ab6c42c7daf90a2893bf7f19ce347420ce36baebc41890  gnuchess-6.2.9.tar.gz
+sha256  0b37bec2098c2ad695b7443e5d7944dc6dc8284f8d01fcc30bdb94dd033ca23a  gnuchess-6.3.0.tar.gz
 sha256  8ceb4b9ee5adedde47b31e975c1d90c73ad27b6b165a1dcd80c7c545eb65b903  COPYING
diff --git a/package/gnuchess/gnuchess.mk b/package/gnuchess/gnuchess.mk
index 630b3aefa74a..1b343acc997a 100644
--- a/package/gnuchess/gnuchess.mk
+++ b/package/gnuchess/gnuchess.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-GNUCHESS_VERSION = 6.2.9
+GNUCHESS_VERSION = 6.3.0
 GNUCHESS_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/chess
 GNUCHESS_LICENSE = GPL-3.0+
 GNUCHESS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING