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Linux Chess Apps

Cute Chess – GUI and CLI for chess engines

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Cute Chess provides a graphical chess interface and command-line tool for running engine matches, tournaments and many chess variants.

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Linux Chess Apps

Nibbler – chess analysis GUI for UCI engines

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Nibbler is a real-time chess analysis GUI for UCI engines, with especially rich Leela Chess Zero statistics, graphs and analysis tools.

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Linux Chess Apps

GNOME Chess – chess game for the GNOME desktop

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games, GUI

GNOME Chess is a straightforward desktop chess game for human or computer play, with automatic detection of UCI and CECP chess engines.

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Chess Engines

Combusken – UCI-compliant chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Combusken is a UCI-compliant open source chess engine using Alpha-beta algorithm. The software saw its first release in 2020.

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Chess Engines

Halogen – analysing and playing chess

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Halogen is a powerful, world-class program capable of analysing and playing chess.

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Chess Engines

Arasan – cross-platform chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Arasan is a chess engine, that is, a console-based program that plays the game of chess.

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Chess Engines

Defenchess – UCI chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Defenchess is a free, open source UCI chess engine written in C++. It needs a UCI compatible chess graphical user interface.

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Chess Engines

Laser – UCI-compliant chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Laser is a UCI-compliant chess engine. This is a command-line engine only.

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Chess Engines

Xiphos – UCI chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Xiphos is a UCI chess engine. The project is inspired by Garry Kasparov’s “Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins.”

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Chess Engines

Igel – UCI chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Igel is a free UCI chess engine forked from GreKo 2018.01.

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Chess Engines

Nemorino – UCI chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Nemorino is a UCI chess engine. This is one of the strongest free and open source engines.

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Chess Engines

RubiChess – chess engine written in C++

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

RubiChess is a very strong UCI-compliant chess engine. RubiChess is free and open source software which plays a very strong game.

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Chess Engines

Lc0 – Leela Chess Zero – neural network based chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Leela Chess Zero (Lc0) is a neural network based chess engine. It needs a chess GUI to use beside it.

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Chess Engines

Stockfish – strong open source chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Stockfish is an open source chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1. It is not a complete chess program.

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FICS Internet Chess Clients

Raptor – chess interface for FICS

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Raptor is an open source, multi-platform chess interface for the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS).

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FICS Internet Chess Clients

Jin – graphical client for chess servers

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Jin is an open source, cross platform, graphical client for chess servers, written in Java.

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FICS Internet Chess Clients

eboard – chess board interface for ICS and chess engines

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games

eboard is a chess interface based on the GTK+ GUI toolkit. It provides a chess board interface to ICS (Internet Chess Servers) like FICS.

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FICS Internet Chess Clients

PyChess – GTK chess client

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games, GUI

PyChess is a GTK chess client with UCI and CECP engine support, FICS online play, chess variants, analysis tools and training features.

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FICS Internet Chess Clients

XBoard – graphical user interface for chess

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games

XBoard is a graphical user interface chessboard for chess engines under the X Window System.

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FICS Internet Chess Clients

ChessX – chess database and analysis application

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games, GUI

ChessX is a chess database application for browsing, editing and analysing games with engines, opening trees, searches and Lichess studies.

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