Chess Instruction

WebChess is an open source chess application which will allow you to play chess over the internet.Features: User Interface - Web chess has a graphical user interface. Just click to highlight the piece you want to move, then click the square to move to. - Move history is displayed either in... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

Some Chess was written in pure PHP using a MySql database as a backbone. It is multiplayer only allowing players to play together in realtime or in a correspondence style. Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

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

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

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

n8chessnet is a customizable/themed online web-based chess server software for playing chess with other people. It is PHP based using MySQL. It is also easy to install and use. Platforms: PHP

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

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

A cross platform chess database which supports ChessGML, PGN, SVG, PostgreSQL and plugins written in Java or Jython. Some Python chess libraries and some Python tools are included. Usable pieces are Java and Python opening classification libraries. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

This Component allows your site to have its own Chess game. Please unpack the component and read the readme.txt file before installing. Platforms: Windows, *nix, PHP, BSD

A simple plugin that searches content items and replaces the standard chess notation for positions, Forsyth- Edwards Notation (FEN), with a graphic representation. For instance, {mosFEN}rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1{/mosFEN} results in a diagram for the starting... Platforms: Windows, *nix, PHP,

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

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

Chesley is a free software chess engine written in C++ targeting Windows and Unix-like platforms and the xboard GUI. Chesley implements a number of modern chess programming techniques, including bitboard move generation, transposition tables, etc. Platforms: *nix

This plugin adds a new template to Templatedia (required for this plugin to work) that allows you to display a chess diagram in your posts or pages.It is a replication of a Wikipedia template and accepts parameters in the exact same format.This plugin was originally coded as an example for how to... Platforms: PHP

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 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

Chess 112 is chess variant played on an 8 by 14 square board. Each player has 4 bishops, 4 knights, 4 rooks, and 14 pawns.At this point (May 2009) castling and en passant capturing have yet to be implemented, and pawn promotion is restricted to queens.The game features moving by piece and square... Platforms: PHP

JobyX is an ICS (Internet Chess Server) robot framework that provides basic robot functionality, including commands, lists, variables, avariables, and (in the new JobyX 2) full-blown Java-like exception handling. Commands, etc, are provided by modules. Platforms: *nix