Chess games

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
GNU Chess		2021-07-14	Chess	GNU Chess Genre Chess Latest release 6.2.9  (Announcement) Release date July 14th, 2021 Developers Chua Kong Sian, Stuart Cracraft, Lukas Geyer, Simon Waters Code licenses GPL v3 or later Media licenses GPL v3 or later Contribute GNU Chess is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Available as a package in:   Arch: gnuchess   Debian: gnuchess  Fedora: gnuchess   Gentoo: games-board/gnuchess  Ubuntu: gnuchess  OpenSUSE: gnuchess  Mageia: gnuchess  Flatpak: org.sugarlabs.Chess  Snap: gnuchess  24px FreeBSD: gnuchess  24px Haiku: games-board/gnuchess 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, 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." Version 6 of GNU Chess is based on Fruit, a chess engine by Fabien Letouzey With Flatpak GNU Chess can be played by installing Sugarchess, a graphical front end made specifically for it.
CBoard		2018-09-28	Chess, Text-mode	CBoard CBoard ncurses console chess game Genre Chess, Text-mode Latest release 0.7.5  (Announcement) Release date September 28th, 2018 Developer Ben Kibbey Code license GPL Media license no media P. language C Library ncurses Contribute CBoard is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code 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		2021-03-19	Chess	PyChess PyChess Genre Chess Latest release 1.0.3  (Announcement) Release date March 19th, 2021 Code license GPL Media license GPL P. language Python Contribute PyChess is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code 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++ Contribute SilChess is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. 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.
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 Contribute Fairy-Max is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. 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 or GNOME Games Collection was a collection of sixteen small games in a variety of styles and genres for the GNOME desktop (similar to KDE Games and Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection). As of GNOME 3.8 the games were separated into individual packages and the collection doesn't exist anymore.
Gnome Chess		2020-12-06	Chess	Gnome Chess Gnome Chess Genre Chess Latest release 3.38.1  (Announcement) Release date December 06, 2020 Developer Gnome Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 Contribute Gnome Chess is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Chat Forum 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. It used to have a 3D view mode, but it was dropped in version 3.13.4.
KDE Games			Please add the Gameinfo template to the article	KDE Games is a division of the KDE project, creating a collection of quality games for KDE desktop. It is similar to GNOME Games and Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. Most games are distributed under GPLv2.
3Dc		1996-04-11	Chess, Board games	3D chess Genre Chess, Board games Latest release 0.8.1 Release date April 11th, 1996 Developers Paul Hicks, Bernard Kennedy Code license GPL 2+ Media license GPL 2+ Libraries Xpm lib, libdx, Xaw3d Contribute 3D chess is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage 3D chess is kind of a chess game on 3 boards. The pieces are mostly from chess. There are 26 directions to move. 3D chess comes with a computer opponent.
Chess3D			Chess, Board games	Chess3D Genre Chess, Board games Developers FrenchYann Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 Library WebGL Contribute Chess3D is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Chess3D is a HTML/WebGL 3D chess game with AI.
GNU Shogi		2014-02-17	Chess	GNU Shogi GNU Shogi in the terminal Genre Chess Latest release 1.4.2  (Announcement) Release date February 17, 2014 Code license GPL Engine GNU Shogi P. language C Contribute GNU Shogi is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Available as a package in:   Arch AUR: gnushogi 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.
GPSFish	no image		Chess	GPSFish Genre Chess Code license GPL Contribute GPSFish is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project GPSFish is a port of the powerful Stockfish chess engine to the Japanese chess variant, shōgi.
Stockfish	no image	2021-07-02	Chess	Stockfish Genre Chess Latest release 14  (Announcement) Release date July 2nd, 2021 Code license GPL Contribute Stockfish is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Forum Available as a package in:   Slackware: stockfish  Arch AUR: stockfish  Debian: stockfish  Fedora: stockfish   Gentoo: games-board/stockfish  Ubuntu: stockfish  OpenSUSE: stockfish  Mageia: stockfish  24px FreeBSD: stockfish  24px Haiku: games-board/stockfish Stockfish is a chess engine, that is to say a chess AI. It is at the time of this writing the strongest or in general one of the strongest computer chess programs in existence. A notable feature of Stockfish versus other computer chess engines, which has made it so exceedingly powerful, is the Fishtest worker program.. Users run this program and donate their computer time to have development versions of Stockfish play very large numbers of test games against one another. This is used to measure the effectiveness of propsed changes, allowing the program to grow rapidly in playing strength and letting regressions be weeded out.
Eboard	no image	2018-09-24	Chess	eboard Genre Chess Latest release 1.1.3  (Announcement) Release date September 24, 2018 Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 Contribute eboard is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Available as a package in:   Arch AUR: eboard  Debian: eboard  Fedora: eboard   Gentoo: games-board/eboard  Ubuntu: eboard  OpenSUSE: eboard  Mageia: eboard  24px FreeBSD: eboard 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. It suports some chess variants such as the four player game bughouse chess. 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.

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