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glChess |
http://glchess.sourceforge.net/ |
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Chess enviroment with nice OpenGL graphics for chess BFU, not very usefull for profesional chess player. Crafty and GNU Chess motor.
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Cinag Chess Game |
http://cinag.sf.net/ |
14558x |
Cinag is a free 3D chess game. It lets you play against a quite strong A.I. with several levels. This game as many options to let everyone play.
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Java-Chess |
http://www.java-chess.de/ |
8599x |
Java-Chess is a fully-featured chess program that uses using Java 1.2 (including Swing) and 64-bit computing where possible.
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Tiffanys |
http://tiffanys.sourceforge.net/ |
8549x |
Tiffanys is a Java written chess engine for the XBoard/WinBoard client.
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BlacKNight Chess |
http://sourceforge.net/[..]cknightchess/ |
8451x |
Chess game. It supports disconnected network play by means of emails or such. It supports also realtime network play through a TCP connection. Pluggable AI is under development.
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Capa chess |
http://capa.sourceforge.net/ |
8156x |
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.
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SCID |
http://scid.sourceforge.net/ |
7021x |
Chess database. Good chess players need not only strong chess program but also a good game database. It is SCID. You can analyse and find games, print statistics etc. SCID is a realy usefull program for chess profesional, not for typicle user that only wants to see nice board and animations.
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AntiChess |
http://sourceforge.net/[..]ts/antichess/ |
5887x |
AntiChess is an anti chess game written in Java. The goal is to get checkmated or lose all your pieces except your king to your opponent. You have to take your opponents piece if you can. It supports 2 player and 4 player games on the same board.
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Crafty |
http://www.limunltd.com/crafty/ |
5603x |
The strongest open source chess motor that runs on Linux. About only 150 elo weaker than top (comercial, MS Windows only) chess program. Crafty is distributed without enviroment, download for example XBoard.
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PyChess |
http://pychess.googlepages.com |
5601x |
PyChess is a gnome-inspired chessclient written in python. Licensed under the free GPL license
The goal of PyChess, is to provide a fully featured, nice looking, easy to use chess client for the gnome-desktop.
The client should be usable both to those totally new to chess, those who want to take a game here and there, and those who wants to use the computer to further enhance their play.
Features
* CECP and UCI Engine support
* Free online play on the FICS chess servers
* Read and writes the PGN, EPD and FEN chess fileformats
* Builtin python based engine
* Undo and pause functions.
* Board and piece animation
* Drag and drop
* Tabbed interface
* Hints and spyarrows
* Openingbook sidepanel using sqlite
* Scoreplot sidepanel
* "Enter game" in pgn dialog
* Internationalised or figure pieces in notation
* Optional sounds
* Legal move highlighting
* A nice and accesible look
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Sunsetter |
http://sunsetter.sourceforge.net/ |
5525x |
Sunsetter, a chess and w23 playing program.
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DragonChess |
http://dragonchess.sourceforge.net/ |
5451x |
An implementation of Dragon Chess (by Gary Gygax) for PC
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GNU Chess |
http://www.gnu.org/[..]ss/chess.html |
5198x |
Well known chess motor. It does not have any usefull user enviroment, but has XBoard compatible protocol so you need any program like XBoard or SCID to use GNU Chess.
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Gnome Chess |
http://primates.ximian.com/[..]/gnome-chess/ |
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Chess enviroment for Gnome. Something like XBoard but has more bugs and is more user friendly.
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Knights |
http://knights.sourceforge.net/ |
4896x |
Chess enviroment for KDE. Like XBoard but more user friendly (but not so nice pictures), more features and much more bugs
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