diff --git a/games-board/pychess/Manifest b/games-board/pychess/Manifest
index b8ff66cdf3e81..06c1bcd9aa0c7 100644
--- a/games-board/pychess/Manifest
+++ b/games-board/pychess/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST pychess-1.0.5.tar.gz 14543243 BLAKE2B 1ae3bf93e9f5ecf642c518ccaafe44068094276ed81c9d0b6f6346f94f56acc99359993d5cd75c1f7a20ff94bc3aa66e5c306361706ddcf946b3ea8fdd716513 SHA512 ac5f652706d50fe3c4cbf5d0f91531e6112c5f670de206434b02ded08b17921b5f11ec2d4842209d6d081a198d35cd235d7539f3c012aa6b7093d713aefc4951
+DIST pychess-1.0.6.tar.gz 14540543 BLAKE2B 5c280b18a1b328b9215dd7746bb23d5fa160cc6990388cd8bdff3c542fe4cea5f3b37083aae216cee06d189fcc2e566bd21dca86921e2d88caa9579c274cd656 SHA512 4acf8b61692dc7118efd46516a9ba0854df7f1dd00cd766ea7d9e183ee5ec8cdef3ac54bc552fb1a7d8b922cda6f27cf194263d3cb7356986062e2c1de2e330d
diff --git a/games-board/pychess/pychess-1.0.6.ebuild b/games-board/pychess/pychess-1.0.6.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9a8dd489241d5
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+++ b/games-board/pychess/pychess-1.0.6.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_SINGLE_IMPL=1
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
+PYTHON_REQ_USE="sqlite"
+inherit distutils-r1 xdg
+
+DESCRIPTION="GTK chess client"
+HOMEPAGE="https://pychess.github.io/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/pychess/pychess/releases/download/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
+IUSE="gstreamer"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		dev-python/pexpect[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/psutil[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pycairo[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pygobject:3[${PYTHON_USEDEP},cairo]
+		>=dev-python/sqlalchemy-2[${PYTHON_USEDEP},sqlite]
+		dev-python/websockets[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		gstreamer? ( dev-python/gst-python:1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	')
+	gnome-base/librsvg:2[introspection]
+	x11-libs/gtk+:3[introspection]
+	x11-libs/gtksourceview:4[introspection]
+	x11-libs/pango[introspection]
+	x11-themes/adwaita-icon-theme
+"
+BDEPEND="${RDEPEND}" # setup.py fails if introspection deps not found
+
+src_install() {
+	distutils-r1_src_install
+
+	# https://github.com/pychess/pychess/pull/1825
+	gunzip -v "${ED}"/usr/share/man/man1/${PN}.1.gz || die
+}