Open Source Chess Games - Page 2

A portable chess game consisting of an xboard-compatible OpenGL user interface with 2D and 3D board views and a chess engine. The primary targets are Windows, Mac OS X and 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

EBoard is a user-friendly chess interface for ICS (Internet Chess Servers). While it will focus on FICS (www.freechess.org), should work with any other ICS. It supports playing against local chess engines too.

JChessBoard is a chess game written in Java that can be connected to another JChessBoard via a direct TCP/IP connection. No Internet Chess Server is required for playing. It also became a full featured PGN viewer and editor.

AlphaChess is a new generation of computer chess program. It offers several advanced fonctionnalities while still remaining intuitive and easy to use which makes it the perfect solution for all your needs.

PairFX is a chess pairing program specialized for youth tournaments in schools and chess clubs . No installation required! Just Unzip it and go! I created a free online/mobile version as well : https://oks.myvcc.be/pairfx-live/ (You can run any kind of tournament with it actually but it was written for chess in schools) It supports the organization of a so-called 'run through' tournament and round robin (everybody against everybody) tournaments Swiss pairings are not (yet) possible. Are you a chess teacher at school, or organize a separate tournament at the club? Try PairFX! The run through pairing system makes it possible for player to come and go whenever they want and also to keep players playing all the time. It is not round based , so not everybody has to be finished to allow new pairings to be made. This is really great when players play at different speed and works very well in the club or at school.

It is a Shogi - Japanese Chess - game made in Java, where you can play against one of 3 AI's of your choice. Or against a friend.

Thief is a free chess client to play on chess servers like FICS: http://www.freechess.org It supports regular chess and all variants played. It is the best client for playing Bughouse, a special team-chess game (for more info see http://www.bughouse.

Mediocre is a Java-based chess engine, implementing features like LMR, SEE, history and killer moves heuristics, transposition tables, internal iterative deepening, PVS search etc.

Tyrannus is not yet completely finished! I will continue to release updates as I make major strides towards completing the program. For updates on my progress, please visit my YouTube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/kolemannixtv Tyrannus vs. Tyrannus Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnZapogi5no Please Note: As of January 28, 2012, and the release of version 2.0, I, Koleman Nix, am still the sole programmer of Tyrannus. If anyone would like to work on this project with me, just send me a message and we can see about that. Latest Update: The Engine beats me easily now, and I have pre-programmed 4 different difficulties into the release of version 2.0. The idea is that 1.0 was a chess app, and 2.0 is a chess engine. Hope you enjoy playing against the engine! Good luck.

Open source scripts and tools for Android. Every zip archive contains a readme file with further information (e. g. link to the source code). Chess tools are located in the libs directory and are available for arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86 and x86_64 based devices. CECSA (Chess Engine Compiler Script for Android) and CETSA (Chess Engine Tournament Script for Android) are scripts for Termux. They need to be extracted in the home directory of Termux. There is also an installation script for CECSA (cecsa.sh) that can be used to install a complete compilation environment with all necessary compilers, tools and libraries under Termux. Note that scripts and tools requires Termux.

Mobile Chess (for Java ME) and Flash Chess (for Web) with Strong Chess AI, see http://mobilechess.sourceforge.net/. Java Applet Chess and Ajax Chess are also available. Mobile Chess is sponsored by Chess Wizard now, see http://www.chess-wizard.com/.

OpenGL chess game. Project moved to SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dreamchess/

JavaPairing is a tool to manage a chess tournament. It is pure Java and can run as is on any platform, including Windows, Linux and Macintosh (JRE 1.6 or more required). It is free and open source under the GPLv3 license. Dutch, Dubov, r.r., Amalfi

A console/text based chess program with XBoard/CECP and UCI API, available on all major platforms. You may need a graphical chess interface to use it. Please refer to README.md in the files section for installation instructions. The last stable release is 2.1.9 and has been released on 19/08/2025. Belofte 0.2.0 till 0.9.20 (c/c++): Xboard 1 & 2 (CECP) - Linux/Unix/(Windows) Belofte 2.1.1 and up (c++11) : UCI and Xboard 2 - Linux/Windows/Mac/Android/... For access to code, please clone the git repository. Compiles and Runs on 32/64 bit on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android (ARM/x86) and Raspberry. Released under GNU v2 license. (means free to copy, free to modify, free to use, ...) Works fine with Arena/Cutechess/BanksiaGui/Winboard/Xboard/...

Playbox.fx is a free, ad-free and still growing collection of board games. It is a private hobby project with no commercial goals. It contains Mahjong Solitaire, Draughts, Chess, Go, Halma, Nine Men's Morris and Peg Solitaire. The games can be played against a simple AI or locally against friends. There is a portable version (zip) for Linux. There is an installer (exe) and a portable version (zip) for Windows. Have fun and stay healthy, Markus.

Faile is a free chess program which plays a fairly strong game of chess (Expert strength or better). One of the main goals of Faile is to provide a full featured chess program with source code which is tidy, well documented, and easy to understand.

A Collection of Chess Tools. Une collection d'outils des échecs. Eine Sammlung von Schachwerkzeugen.

Sour*eforge.net has become inaccesible to me because of Cl*udflare. The latest versions of the programs will be on my site: https://matei.one/. Simple chess game for people who want to play chess but don't want to take it seriously. Written in C, using SDL 1.2 or SDL 2 for graphics. Interface inspired from old chess game for ZX Spectrum. The computer searches (L+2)/2 moves ahead (assuming that a move means that both sides move a piece), where L is the difficulty level. Positions are evaluated only by adding the values of the pieces left on the board. Any factors related to where the pieces are, such as mobility, doubled pawns, isolated pawns etc. are not considered. To add variety to the game, possible moves are randomly shuffled before every search.

yet another UCI chess engine

SJCE - Strong Java Chess Engines, free portable cross-platform graphical chess game, 100%-pure Java. Support with including many best free/open-source java xboard/uci chess engines. It is possible to play both White and Black. It is possible to play Human to Human, Human vs Engine, Engine vs Engine. Simple and intuitive GUI - Graphical User Interface. Tested on Windows/Linux. Need jre1.8 - https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/javase8-archive-downloads.html. Source - https://github.com/harp077/sjce If you like this - put a star on https://github.com/harp077/sjce/ for support project please.

The Nimzo_3d GUI is a chess program for Windows 7 - 11 It is an enhanced version of the Tarrasch Chess GUI written by Mr Bill Forster, with many additional features. It has a simple, easy to use interface, so it is ideal for novice players or inexperienced computer users. It also has more advanced features for expert users. So if you just want a casual blitz game against the computer, or to automatically analyse one of the famous games from chess history, it can perform these tasks and many more. It has a choice of a classical 2d screen view or realistic 3d graphics powered by DirectX Anyone who wants to add new features to the program should download the file < Nimzo_3d_v4_build.7z> from the < Files > < Build> section. This package contains Visual Studio project files and C++ source code files. Alternative Nimzo 3d Chess GUI website with other downloads, including 32-bit versions - https://nimzo-3d-chess-gui.infinityfreeapp.com

Manage chess round robin tournaments with JKlubTV Version 3.0.0-beta This application stores the data belonging to round robin into a SQLite database. It is intended for webmasters who want to easily manage a club tournament in their own chess club. The HTML tables that are to be published for the website will be created easily by the application. Automatically calculate the total points, Sonneborn Berger points of each player, as well as their sequence DWZ, and sorts the HTML table by the calculated Rangliste.Desweiteren it is possible the tables as to save PDF file. The software is free (Opensource). - can access the DFB player database - the tables can export into HTML, PDF or Excel format - expects the result from DWZ - counted the points and the Sonneborn Berger figures - automatically sorts the crosstab after ranking Sourcecode on github.com: https://github.com/mars7105/Chess-Round-Robin-Manager Website: https://www.chessrobin.de/

jChecs is an open source Java chess program, designed to introduce the basics of computer chess programming concepts.

Program to train against gambit play (*) with the computer, with a strength adjustable chess engine (Danasah, currently set at approx 1400 EL0 when playing against it). Also included now are two options to watch an engine e.g. the 'aggressive' Patricia5 (with gambits) play against another engine (eg IM level). The engine gambit books are made in such a way that 1) real lousy gambits are not played, and 2) the book is choosing a gambit line as often as possible, so for Black it might go for e.g. a Benko gambit or so and if you let it play with White, a lot of 1.e4 gambits can be played. Thereby, if you try a gambit yourself, the program might try to a counter-gambit (or sometimes an unconventional line). It will play weak against other engines, and it not meant as to play very strong/perfectly, but for human opponents, the gambit lines will most often result in entertaining -not boring- games, and require quite some concentration to avoid tactical mistakes.