Chess Engines

xChess is a multiplatform graphical chess user interface written in Java for numerous chess engines. It intends to support multiple chess protocols to serve as a front end for many existent chess engines.

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 &...

MKGI Chess Club is a chess playing server with a pure Web interface. It features complete player profile management, full html email notification with embedded board display. It also includes an interface to match against chess engines such as gnuchess.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

glChess is a 2D/3D chess game, where games can be played between a combination of human and computer players. glChess detects known third party chess engines for computer players. While now part of Gnome Games glChess has a long history...


Platforms: *nix

Slibo aims to be a comfortable chess interface for KDE. Designed to be usable as a replacement for the xboard chess interface, it has much more functionality, and, on the other hand, is easy to use. Slibo can be used with common chess engines like crafty or gnuchess, but it provides its own chess...


Platforms: *nix

ExaChess Lite is a freeware version of ExaChess, a full-featured chess database. ExaChess Lite allows up to 256 games per file, reading and storing Chessbase (CBF) and PGN formats among others, and can be used with a variety of chess engines to play computer games or annotate existing games.


Platforms: Mac

ExaChess is a powerful, full-featured chess-database program for the Macintosh. It can manage a database of millions of master games, serve as a chessboard to play through games, and be used as a tool to record and annotate your own games, to play games against the computer, or to play perfect...


Platforms: Mac

ChessDB is a free chess database which can be used on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macs running OS X, FreeBSD, as well as most if not all modern UNIX versions. The program has translations into English, Spanish, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese,...


Platforms: Mac

PyChess is a gtk chess client, originally developed for gnome, but running well under all other linux desktops. (Which we know of, at least). PyChess is 100% python code, from the top of the UI to the bottom of the chess engine, and all code is licensed under the Gnu Public License. Very...


Platforms: *nix

This 3D chess game can be played as a stand-alone game, over the Internet. Key Features: 1. 3 Levels of smart engine power. 2. Playing via Internet or local Network or Game Server. 3. Amazing 3D OpenGL Graphics and Animation. 4. Music and Sound effects. 5. Undo/Redo. 6....


Platforms: Windows

Java3D chess project is a Java applet that allows you to play chess. Java 3D Chess is a chess program with uses Java 3D. You can play the game on any computer capable of using Java. You can play Java 3D Chess agains yourself or a friend (on the same computer). Maybe inthe near future you...


Platforms: *nix

Chess::Game::MoveList is a specialized list class for recording the moves of a Chess::Game. SYNOPSIS $movelist = Chess::Game::MoveList->new("white", "black"); $wpawn = Chess::Game::Pawn->new("e2", "white"); $entry = $movelist->add_move($wpawn, "e2", "e4"); $true = $entry->get_piece() eq...


Platforms: *nix

Chess::Game is a class to record and validate the moves of a game of chess. SYNOPSIS use Chess::Game; $game = Chess::Game->new(); $clone = $game->clone(); $move = $game->make_move("e2", "e4"); $move_c = $clone->make_move("e2", "e4"); $true = ($move->get_piece() ne $move_c->get_piece());...


Platforms: *nix

Fantasy Chess is a chess game environment with a game server, GTK GUI, private and public AI, and a lot of libraries to help developers..


Platforms: *nix

Games::Chess Perl module represent chess positions and games. SYNOPSIS use Games::Chess qw(:constants); my $p = Games::Chess::Position->new; $p->at(0,0,BLACK,ROOK); $p->at(7,7,WHITE,ROOK); print $p->to_text; The Games::Chess package provides the class Games::Chess::Piece to represent...


Platforms: *nix

Chess::PGN::Parse is a Perl module that reads and parses PGN (Portable Game Notation) Chess files. SYNOPSIS use Chess::PGN::Parse; use English qw( -no_match_vars ); my $pgnfile = "kk_2001.pgn"; my $pgn = new Chess::PGN::Parse $pgnfile or die "cant open $pgnfilen"; while...


Platforms: *nix

Chess::PGN::Filter is a Perl extension for converting PGN files to other formats. SYNOPSIS use Chess::PGN::Filter; filter(source => $pgn,filtertype => XML); OR my %substitutions = ( hsmyers => Myers, Hugh S (ID), ); my @exclude = qw( WhiteElo BlackElo EventDate ); filter(...


Platforms: *nix

Emacs Chess is an object-oriented library written in Elisp for manipulating chess objects (games, plies, positions, etc.), and for displaying them..


Platforms: *nix

IRC-Chess project is a 2-player chess game for IRC which turns a computer into an IRC chess bot. It consists of a Java chess server, with frontend scripts to convert an IRC client into a chess bot. Players then communicate with the bot using standard IRC commands, and dont require any special...


Platforms: *nix

Gtk-engines is a package containing a number of sample themes for GTK+..


Platforms: *nix