Chess games
Chess games are games that implement the ancient game of Chess or a Chess variant. Chess is a popular game which is played by two players on a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid.
List of Chess games[edit]
This is a list of free/libre chess games:
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| GNU Chess | 
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2021-07-14 | Chess |
GNU Chess is a program that plays the ancient board game, Chess. It is licensed under the GPLv2. The original version of GNU Chess, written by Stuart Cracraft[1], was one of the first major games to be developed deliberately as free software. On the game Free Software Foundation founder Richard M. Stallman said "We even developed a chess game, GNU Chess, because a complete [free] system needs games too."[2] Version 6 of GNU Chess is based on[3] Fruit, a chess engine by Fabien Letouzey[1] With Flatpak GNU Chess can be played by installing Sugarchess, a graphical front end made specifically for it.[4] A contemporary version was included on the 100 Great Games for Linux shovelware collection, as well as The UNIX Book of Games by Janice Winsor in 1996.
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| CBoard | 
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2018-09-28 | Chess, Text-mode |
CBoard is a text-mode chess game front-end and editor for PGN (Portable Game Notation) files. It uses unicode characters to display chess pieces. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PyChess | 
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2023-04-04 | Chess |
PyChess is a graphical front-end that works with xboard-compatible engines such as GNU Chess and stockfish, and also comes with its own chess engine if no other is available. PyChess is also capable of online play using the FICS server. Features include hints, different chess variants, and themeable chess pieces. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SilChess | 
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2008 | Chess | This page is a stub. Please help LibreGameWiki by expanding it.
SilChess (from “silly chess”) is a chess program written by Oliver Hamann in C++ in the years 2000—2009. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fairy-Max | 
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2011-07-10 | Chess |
Fairy-Max is a xboard compatible chess engine for playing user defined chess variants with non-orthodox pieces. The movement rules for new pieces can be defined in a text file. Fairy-Max can also play regular chess. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gnome Chess | 
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2023-03-17 | Chess |
Gnome Chess (formerly a part of GNOME Games) is a 2D chess game for GNOME desktop. It automatically detects installed chess engines (such as GNU Chess) for computer players.[9][10] It used to have a 3D view mode, but it was dropped in version 3.13.4.[11] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3Dc | 
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1996-04-11 | Chess, Board games |
3Dc is kind of a Chess game played on 3 boards. The pieces are mostly from Chess. There are 26 directions to move. 3Dc comes with a computer opponent. A version was included on the 100 Great Games for Linux shovelware collection. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chess3D | 
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Chess, Board games |
Chess3D is a HTML/WebGL 3D chess game with AI. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GNU Shogi | 
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2014-02-17 | Chess | This page is a stub. Please help LibreGameWiki by expanding it.
GNU Shogi is a chess engine for the traditional Japanese chess variant, called shōgi. The game can be played in the terminal, or it can be played with the graphical interface of XBoard. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eboard | 
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2018-09-24 | Chess |
eboard is a chess interface for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It allows the user to play chess online against other users or against any chess engine with an Xboard compatible interface. eboard is primarily intended for playing on the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) or similar service.[16] It suports some chess variants such as the four player game bughouse chess.[17] Note: As of February 2021, the Fedora repository is unmaintained. The Gentoo repository is outdated. Several other distros are also distributing outdated versions, although they are generally not bleeding edge distros anyway. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Knights (KDE) | 
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2026-07-02 | Chess |
This article is about “Knights” from KDE Games. For the roguelike game of the same name, see Knights (knightsgame.org.uk).
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/manual/html_node/Overview.html#Overview
- ↑ Stallman's Chess quote
- ↑ https://packages.debian.org/stable/gnuchess
- ↑ https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.sugarlabs.Chess
- ↑ http://repo.or.cz/w/cboard.git/blob/HEAD:/COPYING
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 LICENSE on Github
- ↑ copyright file git
- ↑ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-chess/blob/master/COPYING
- ↑ https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Chess
- ↑ https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-chess/stable/engines.html.en
- ↑ https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-chess/blob/master/NEWS#L288
- ↑ license
- ↑ https://github.com/FrenchYann/Chess3D/blob/master/LICENSE.md
- ↑ Media license confirmed by email.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 COPYING file in the repository as well as in the theme subdirectories under directory "extra".
- ↑ http://www.bergo.eng.br/eboard/
- ↑ http://www.bergo.eng.br/eboard/index.php?p=1
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 https://apps.kde.org/de/knights/