Chess games

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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

This is a list of free/libre chess games:

Game	Screenshot	Last Release	Genres	Description
CBoard		2013-09-21	Chess, Text-mode	CBoard CBoard ncurses console chess game Genre Chess, Text-mode Latest release 0.7.1 Release date September 21th, 2013 Developer Ben Kibbey Code license GPL Media license no media P. language C Library ncurses 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.
Fairy-Max		July 10, 2011	Chess	Fairy-Max Genre Chess Latest release 4.8R Release date July 10, 2011 Developer H. G. Muller Code license custom non-copyleft 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 Games			Please add the Gameinfo template to the article	This article needs update. This article should be split into one article per game GNOME Games is a collection of sixteen small "five-minute" games in a variety of styles and genres for the GNOME desktop.
GNU Chess		2016-10-29	Chess	GNU Chess Genre Chess Latest release 6.2.4  (Announcement) Release date October 29th, 2016 Developers Chua Kong Sian, Stuart Cracraft, Lukas Geyer, Simon Waters Code licenses GPL v2 Media licenses GPL v2 GNU Chess is a program that plays the ancient board game, Chess. It is licensed under the GPLv2. It 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."
PyChess		2017-12-26	Chess	PyChess PyChess Genre Chess Latest release 0.99.1  (Announcement) Release date Dec 26th, 2017 Code license GPL Media license GPL P. language Python 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			Chess	SilChess SilChess in Eagle Mode 0.71.0 Genre Chess Developer Oliver Hamann Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 P. language C++ SilChess (from “silly chess”) is a chess program written by Oliver Hamann in C++ in the years 2000—2009. SilChess.cpp - Command line version of SilChess The command-line version shows a pseudographical board with ASCII art pieces, and asks for a command. It also supports xboard protocol. The other version (using the same code) is a plug-in for the Eagle Mode ZUI environment. Its UI is isometric, with the pieces reflecting everything around them. The plug-in says it is called so because it was written by a weak chess player and weak chess programmer. However, John Knight called the AI “rather aggressive” and “rather nasty” in his article.