Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Board Games

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational.

Eagle Mode is a zoomable user interface (ZUI) with file manager, file viewers, games, and more. This project is about a futuristic style of human-computer interaction, where the user can visit almost everything simply by zooming in. It features a portable C++ toolkit API for developing such ZUIs, and it features the Eagle Mode application, which provides a virtual cosmos with plugin applications. The most important one is the professional file manager with its rich, scriptable command set. It integrates file viewers for most of the common file types, as well as an audio and video player. Furthermore, the virtual cosmos contains a chess game, a netwalk game, a 3D minesweeper game, a multi-function clock, a stock watchlist, some fractals, and a Linux kernel configurator in form of a kernel patch.

Pioneers is an emulation of the board game The Settlers of Catan, which can be played over the internet.

jDip is a tool for mapping, managing, and adjudicating Diplomacy games. It has a simple but powerful graphical interface, with a richly customizable map display. Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris are supported. Over 25 variants are supported.

A arcade game. You drive a toy wood engine in many levels. You must collect all the coaches. This game looks like the game snake.

Gomoku (five in a row) and Renju game which has a skinable board and external artificial intelligences from China, Hungary, Czech Republic, Russia, Japan and USA. The board size and time limits are customizable.

Looking for mines on triangular or rectangular fields. The computer moves mines in the background, so that you must not guess. If you set hard level, you will die every time you make a mistake. You can change the board size and mines density.

Manage chess round robin tournaments with JKlubTV Version 3.0.0-beta This application stores the data belonging to round robin into a SQLite database. It is intended for webmasters who want to easily manage a club tournament in their own chess club. The HTML tables that are to be published for the website will be created easily by the application. Automatically calculate the total points, Sonneborn Berger points of each player, as well as their sequence DWZ, and sorts the HTML table by the calculated Rangliste.Desweiteren it is possible the tables as to save PDF file. The software is free (Opensource). - can access the DFB player database - the tables can export into HTML, PDF or Excel format - expects the result from DWZ - counted the points and the Sonneborn Berger figures - automatically sorts the crosstab after ranking Sourcecode on github.com: https://github.com/mars7105/Chess-Round-Robin-Manager Website: https://www.chessrobin.de/

ChessDB is a free open-source chess database for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and most UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. ChessDB is based on code from Scid http://scid.sourceforge.net/ - a project for which there have been no updates for several years. In

A console/text based chess program with XBoard/CECP and UCI API, available on all major platforms. You may need a graphical chess interface to use it. Please refer to README.md in the files section for installation instructions. The last stable release is 2.2.0 and has been released on 13/04/2026. Belofte 0.2.0 till 0.9.20 (c/c++): Xboard 1 & 2 (CECP) - Linux/Unix/(Windows) Belofte 2.1.1 and up (c++11) : UCI and Xboard 2 - Linux/Windows/Mac/Android/... For access to code, please clone the git repository. Compiles and Runs on 32/64 bit on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android (ARM/x86) and Raspberry. Released under GNU v2 license. (means free to copy, free to modify, free to use, ...) Works fine with Arena/Cutechess/BanksiaGui/Winboard/Xboard/...

Simple game. It allows you to select language, color of checkers and one of three modes of game: user vs user, comp vs user and comp vs comp.

A simple application for displaying time-remaining for an event, such as for cooking, chess playing, debate speech timing, or governing floor-time at a public speaking event, such as paper presentations. The numbers appear large enough to be seen at a distance, or the display can be shrunk into the corner of a presentation screen. The time-remaining display changes color, as a warning, near end of the duration. Display also shows elapsed time, and has a pause/resume button. The application is a simple stand-alone executable that can be placed on any machine, and does not require internet connection to use it. Can be used to count-down time for events lasting less than one minute, hours, days, or up to a year.

A modification of the game Yacht with the rules of 1938 year. The goal is to score the maximum number of points by throwing five dice to obtain certain combinations. Player can roll up to three times per turn, either all dice or selected dice. The game consists of eighteen rounds. After each round, player can choose which scoring category to use, but you cannot choose the same category twice. Some categories are fixed, while others depend on the value of the dice.

Fruit machine game written in python.

This is a chess program to help you to organize any chess tournaments without using real chess rules, go to the support page of this program. The support page also has more information about this program. This program creates a "Data" folder to save settings of this program and notes of tournaments and players. Players could play with each other on a single device or playing by multiple devices by a network. This program shows squares that mouse points on them and that helps to prevent any mouse mistakes that happen when playing chess by computers! Although you could do moves by keyboard too. This program has all the functionalities that you need to manage a database, but you cannot analyze games by chess engines or creating variations for them. This program has all time controls in chess clocks, but if you need more complex time controls, you could use them as well, because this program allows you to start a game from any position by two different time controls.

gotangry? is a free, simple, amusing, role-playing board game, featuring 3D graphics. Available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

It is a strategy based board game. It is a very inferior sub set of chess. Currently you can play this game with computer only.

On Sight is a multiplayer, turn based board game. Players try to convert all other players' units to their side by simultaneously seeing a unit and not be seen by it. This is like simple Laser Squad or Jagged Alliance. No weapons, all tactics!

Curious mad fan of sudoku, I've been pretty disappointed to always find programs processing all cases. For us "humans", it's unusable. That's why I've had in mind so far to create one which could help us (giving hints) if we're stumped.

Machine Learning approach to Go

Open source clone of the four-player board game Blokus. Players attempt to place as many of their 21 pieces on the board while preventing other players from doing the same. Features a rudimentary AI.

Brainless is a winboard/xboard chess engine developed in C++.

CINAG is an UCI computer chess engine. This is a module which thinks about the game and try to find the best move for each position. Our goal is to create a quite strong opponent by using state of the art AI technics.

Chess game, but also so much more. Allows user to create their own custom board game, with own rules, pieces, and board layout. Includes intelligent AI that can adapt to customized games, and multiplayer support that allows users to share their creations