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Category: Games

Chess

Koivisto is a strong chess engine

June 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Koivisto in itself is not a complete chess program and requires a UCI-compatible graphical user interface.

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Chess

JFXChess is a JavaFX Chess GUI

June 16, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

JFXChess is a cross-platform chess graphical user interface.

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Chess

chess22k is a chess engine written in Java

June 15, 2025 Steve Emms Games

chess22k is a chess engine that uses the UCI protocol to communicate with graphical interfaces.

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Roguelike Games

Cataclysm: Bright Nights is a roguelike with sci-fi elements

June 15, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Cataclysm: Bright Nights is a roguelike with sci-fi elements set in a post-apocalyptic world.

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Chess

Weiss is a UCI chess engine

June 14, 2025 Steve Emms Games

This is a chess engine written in C.

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Bomb

Mines is a puzzle game where you locate mines

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Mines (previously gnomine) is a puzzle game where you locate mines floating in an ocean using only your brain and a little bit of luck.

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Bomb

mynes – rolling minesweeper with islands and sonars

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games

mynes is a rolling minesweeper with islands and sonars. Play the classic minesweeper with many sizes and a scrolling variant with lives.

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Chess

Ethereal is a UCI chess engine

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ethereal is a UCI-compliant chess engine operating under the alpha-beta framework, paired with a Neural Network for positional evaluations.

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OChess – chess game analysis software

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

OChess is a chess game analysis software which is in an early stage of development.

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Bomb

xdémineur is a minesweeper game

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games

xdémineur is a minesweeper game for the X Window System.

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Bomb

XBomb is a minesweeper game

June 10, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

XBomb is a minesweeper game where you play on a hexagonal grid or for a challenge on a triangular grid.

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Chess Engines

SlugChess – chess with Fog-of-War and shuffled officers

June 10, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

SlugChess is an online digital chess variant with fog-of-war and double shuffled officers. It is both a rule set and an application.

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FICS Internet Chess Clients

CoreChess – chess GUI for chess engines

June 9, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Play chess (standard or Chess960) against your computer.

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Sports Games

Tactics – football lineup builder

June 9, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Tactics is a football lineup builder. Build your association football lineup.

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Bomb

GMines is a clone of the well-known minesweeper game

June 8, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

GMines is a clone of the well-known minesweeper game. The look is inspired by the KDE minesweeper program.

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Bomb

go-minesweeper is a minesweeper game

June 7, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Golang minesweeper is an implementation of minesweeper in golang, made with the ui framework fyne.

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Chess Engines

Berserk is a UCI compliant chess engine

June 6, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Berserk is a strong open source chess engine. It’s an unusual chess engine with a unique style of play.

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Bomb

KMines is the KDE minesweeper

June 6, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

KMines is a very classical minesweeper written from scratch with three predefined levels and custom levels.

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Video Games

Tux Fishing is a 3D fishing game

June 5, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Tux Fishing is the first FOSS Linux Fishing game in 3D.

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Video-Emulators

dgb-n64 is an experimental low-level N64 emulator

June 2, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

dgb-n64 is a experimental low-level N64 emulator written in C and a bit of C++. It’s under heavy development and not ready for prime time.

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