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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.

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.

The JSChess is JavaScript Chess. It completely real time, java-or-activex-less, platform independent version of chess.

Chess enviroment for Gnome. Something like XBoard but has more bugs and is more user friendly.

Chess Training Tools is a collection of chess training tools.

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.

Online Chess Club is a PHP chess game. It allows you to play any number of games simultaneously against your friends online using only a Web browser, provided you own some PHP-ready Web space. It recognizes checkmate, stalemate, and allows you to draw a g

Classic chess enviroment for XWindows. Typicle chess motor for Unix do not have user friendly enviroment, they use XBoard compatible protocol. XBoard is quite old program and does not have lot's of features, but is quite nice and (unlike some other) stabl

Chess enviroment for KDE. Like XBoard but more user friendly (but not so nice pictures), more features and much more bugs

An implementation of Dragon Chess (by Gary Gygax) for PC

Opala is a chess-like game written in Java. You can either play against another human or against an AI. A cool user interface using Java Swing is availible. Network support is planned.

pythonchess is a small program for playing chess against the computer.

This is a chess game. Written in C with a documentation in Lyx(convert into pdf). All in french.

All users of Linux now have a new great game - Challenge Checkers! The game is a wonderful training for you logic force and strategy skills. You play with your device or with your partner, getting more and more experience on several skill levels. Enjoy al

Sjeng was an attempt to create a bughouse & crazyhouse playing program that can attain a level comparable to what the best human players are capable of. Newer versions of Sjeng also play standard, suicide, giveaway and losers chess.

A GPL-ed "non-intelligent" chess program (without an own integrated chess engine) that enables users to play chess via a LAN or the internet as well as enter, store, load and view games.

QiPan is the reference implementation of a cxboard compliant interface program. CXBoard is a communication protocol, modeled after XBoard and UCI, used for communication between Chinese Chess engines and interfaces.

VDB Janus Chess is a variant of chess. The table is 10x8 instead of 8x8 and every person has one additional piece, the Janus, which can move like a bishop and a knight.

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 wa

Phalanx is a chess playing engine with agresive playing style. It does not have its own graphical interface, but can be used with general chess interface Xboard (Winboard) by Timm Mann. There is also a commercial version that runs as a native Fritz module