diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index 8be4d74dce..0c7a9ec198 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 # Copyright © 2018, 2019 Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>
 # Copyright © 2018 Stefan Stefanović <stefanx2ovic@gmail.com>
 # Copyright © 2018 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
+# Copyright © 2019 Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net>
 #
 # This file is part of GNU Guix.
 #
@@ -979,6 +980,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA =						\
   %D%/packages/patches/lcms-CVE-2018-16435.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/ldc-bootstrap-disable-tests.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/ldc-disable-phobos-tests.patch		\
+  %D%/packages/patches/leela-zero-gtest.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/liba52-enable-pic.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/liba52-link-with-libm.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/liba52-set-soname.patch			\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/games.scm b/gnu/packages/games.scm
index 304ef45024..240b1d33df 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/games.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/games.scm
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2019 Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
 ;;; Copyright © 2019 Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357+guix@gmail.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2019 Dan Frumin <dfrumin@cs.ru.nl>
+;;; Copyright © 2019 Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -130,6 +131,7 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages netpbm)
   #:use-module (gnu packages networking)
   #:use-module (gnu packages ocaml)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages opencl)
   #:use-module (gnu packages pcre)
   #:use-module (gnu packages perl)
   #:use-module (gnu packages perl-check)
@@ -7580,3 +7582,52 @@ remake of that series or any other game.")
     ;; released under both gpl2 and cc-by-sa3.0.  Bundled Gigi library is
     ;; released under lgpl2.1+.
     (license (list license:gpl2 license:cc-by-sa3.0 license:lgpl2.1+))))
+
+(define-public leela-zero
+  (package
+   (name "leela-zero")
+   (version "0.17")
+   (source
+    (origin
+     (method git-fetch)
+     (uri (git-reference
+           (url "https://github.com/leela-zero/leela-zero.git")
+           (commit (string-append "v" version))))
+     (file-name (git-file-name name version))
+     (sha256
+      (base32
+       "17px5iny8mql5c01bymcli7zfssswkzvb2i8gnsmjcck6i2n8srl"))
+     (patches (search-patches "leela-zero-gtest.patch"))))
+   (build-system cmake-build-system)
+   (native-inputs
+    `(("googletest" ,googletest)))
+   (inputs
+    `(("boost" ,boost)
+      ("ocl-icd" ,ocl-icd)
+      ("openblas" ,openblas)
+      ("opencl-headers" ,opencl-headers)
+      ("qtbase" ,qtbase)
+      ("zlib" ,zlib)))
+   (arguments
+    '(#:configure-flags '("-DUSE_BLAS=YES")
+      #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
+                 (add-before 'configure 'fix-tests
+                   (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+                     (let ((home (getcwd)))
+                       (setenv "HOME" home)
+                       (substitute* "src/tests/gtests.cpp"
+                         (("\\.\\./src/tests/0k\\.txt")
+                          (string-append home "/src/tests/0k.txt"))
+                         (("cfg_gtp_mode = true;")
+                          "cfg_gtp_mode = true; cfg_cpu_only = true;")))
+                     #t))
+                 (replace 'check
+                   (lambda _
+                     (invoke "./tests"))))))
+   (home-page "https://github.com/leela-zero/leela-zero")
+   (synopsis "Program playing the game of Go")
+   (description
+    "Leela-zero is a Go engine with no human-provided knowledge, modeled after
+the AlphaGo Zero paper.  The current best network weights file for the engine
+can be downloaded from @url{https://zero.sjeng.org/best-network}.")
+   (license license:gpl3+)))
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/leela-zero-gtest.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/leela-zero-gtest.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7291b4ab72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/leela-zero-gtest.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+Use shared gtest instead of submodule
+
+diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
+index 617e4b2..2857875 100644
+--- a/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/Modules/")
+ include(GNUInstallDirs)
+ 
+ project(leelaz)
+-add_subdirectory(gtest EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL) # We don't want to install gtest, exclude it from `all`
+ 
+ # Required Packages
+ set(Boost_MIN_VERSION "1.58.0")
+@@ -27,6 +26,7 @@ find_package(Boost 1.58.0 REQUIRED program_options filesystem)
+ find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
+ find_package(ZLIB REQUIRED)
+ find_package(OpenCL REQUIRED)
++find_package(GTest REQUIRED)
+ # We need OpenBLAS for now, because we make some specific
+ # calls. Ideally we'd use OpenBLAS is possible and fall back to
+ # not doing those calls if it's not present.
+@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ include_directories(${IncludePath})
+ include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+ include_directories(${OpenCL_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+ include_directories(${ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIRS})
++include_directories(${GTEST_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+ 
+ if((UNIX AND NOT APPLE) OR WIN32)
+     include_directories(${BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+@@ -141,7 +142,8 @@ target_link_libraries(tests ${Boost_LIBRARIES})
+ target_link_libraries(tests ${BLAS_LIBRARIES})
+ target_link_libraries(tests ${OpenCL_LIBRARIES})
+ target_link_libraries(tests ${ZLIB_LIBRARIES})
+-target_link_libraries(tests gtest_main ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
++target_link_libraries(tests ${GTEST_BOTH_LIBRARIES})
++target_link_libraries(tests ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
+ 
+ include(GetGitRevisionDescription)
+ git_describe(VERSION --tags)