Chess Opening Traps

The classic strategy game with gorgeous graphics, online gaming and intuitive interface. Beautiful handcrafted board and pieces are showcased in a 3D view with rotation and zoom. Easy to play but very hard to master. Now you can test your playing skills against the computer on three different...

A small conversion of chess in Mario World. Choose your opponent first from Luigi, Grand Toad and Koopa Troopa and play chess on Mario Land board.

PlayE4 chess software offers multi-players chess games in real time. The 3D, user-friendly chess software allows chess enthusiasts to enlarge their pool of game partners and play against players of their skill level any time of day. PlayE4 is available in 3 game modes and 6 different languages...


Platforms: Windows

Before you are willing to choose side, either the white or the black, you have to pick up your desired difficulty level. When the computer plays at its normal level, it will think for around 5 seconds and it can be challenging for normal players. Casual flash chess thinks for about one second....


Platforms: Windows

Arena is a FREE available Graphical User Interface (GUI) for chess programs (engines) by Martin Blume. Arena runs on Win95, NT4 or higher Microsoft OS versions. Arena is compatible to Winboard protocol I, II and UCI protocol I, II. Furthermore, compatible to Chess960, DGT electronic chess board &...


Platforms: Windows

Chess game. It supports disconnected network play by means of emails or such. It supports also realtime network play through a TCP connection. It requires Java 2 version 1.3 or later (vers. 2 under development will reqire JDK5.0 to compile from sourc


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Java chess game. JDK 1.4 or above required with built-in simple engine XBoard/WinBoard compatible, interface with external XBoard/WinBoard engines, basic plug-in capabilities, import/export.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Chess Editor is a pure Java tool to create, edit and view chess games in the Portable Game Notation (PGN) format. The tool integrates with externally specified chess engine programs to provide analysis of board positions.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

A Perl script which accepts a chess position (in the FEN format) as input and outputs POV-Ray source, which, when rendered by POV-Ray, produces a 3-D view of the chess position.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Java chess programm. Main goal is to develop an object orientated program with simple and well documented interfaces. A major point is how to handle endgame situations.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Java application for the management of chess (or other) tournaments. Includes player database, round pairings (e.g. SWISS pairings), tie-breaks, print support, many more features.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

ChessDB is a free open-source chess database for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and most UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. ChessDB is based on code from Scid http://scid.sourceforge.net/ - a project for which there have been no updates for several years. In


Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Solaris, Linux

Croatian Chess is a collection of various chess variants, starting as a simple and natural enhancement to classical chess and growing ever more complex with each new variant.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Gcboard is a gameboard component for Chess-style games (i.e. Checkers). It implements most of the features that are usually found in chess interfaces (dragging, animating, ...) and handles them without additional programming effort.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Robots that run on Internet Chess Servers (i.e. FICS, ICC), including VoteBot, RoomBot, BabelBot, PlayBot, AnalyzeBot, FaceBot.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

One of the oldest chess programs for Unix-based computers, GNU Chess has been built and improved since 1984. The current version plays at senior master strength (2500+ Elo on simple hardware). Though console based, there are a number of GUIs available to facilitate play. GNU Chess has been used...


Platforms: Mac, BSD, Linux

ictk - Internet Chess ToolKit is a java based set of libraries and widgets useful for performing common tasks such as reading PGN, FEN, and generating legal moves. The net libraries convert ICS (Internet Chess Server) output into java objects.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

The Java Chess Protocol Interface aims to provide a standard Java interface to all possible chess protocols. Mainly to UCI and to Winboard/XBoard.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Jhess is a combination email real time chess system. It allows seamless switching between correspondence and real time chess. This allows quick and easy play when both players are online simultaneously, and email chess when both players aren't online.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Jin is a Java client for various chess servers. It currently supports the Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com) and the Free Internet Chess Server (freechess.org) but is designed to be able to support any chess server.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux