Open Source BSD Chess Engines
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jose is a graphical Chess tool. >>> moved to https://peteschaefer.github.io/jose <<< You can store chess games in a database. You can view and edit games (including variations and comments). You can play against a plugged-in chess engine and use it for analysis. Features 3D board view.
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olivechess
a UCI chess engine
OliveChess is a simple chess engine compatible with modern chess interfaces such as ChessBase products, Arena and XBoard/Winboard. The engine supports UCI and XBoard protocols. Note: in order to use it as an xboard engine you may need Polyglot tool to be installed first -
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Redqueen is an UCI (Universal Chess Interface) only compatible chess engine written in C++.
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BagaturChess
Java Chess Engine
This is UCI Chess Engine writen in Java. Since version 1.4 (inclusive) the project was moved to https://github.com/bagaturchess/Bagatur -
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Cave Chess
A Java chess engine using xboard protocol
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c-board
A console/ncurses chess engine frontend and PGN editor.
CBoard (Curses/Console Board) is an Ncurses frontend to chess engines supporting the XBoard protocol. Supports reading and writing PGN including roster tags, RAV, FEN, NAG and comments, lots of configuration options, UTF-8, different board sizes depending on the terminal and more. -
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Chess Editor is a pure Java tool to create, edit and view chess games in the Portable Game Notation (PGN) format. The tool integrates with externally specified chess engine programs to provide analysis of board positions.
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Small potato is a IETF protocol version 2 compliant chess engine, to be used with XBoard/WinBoard style interfaces.
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Provides interface for working with chess games in PGN (use libpgn) make moves, and get result
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A CECP (glChess-, xboard-, ...- compatible) chess engine specially conceived as a study application of Belief-Desire-Intention AI Architectures.
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Braincrack is a chess engine I wrote in my high school time. It is capable of being used with the Winboard protocol and via Winboard->UCI conversion tools within professional chess GUIs like Chessbase.
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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.
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Chesley is a free software chess engine written in C++ targeting Windows and Unix-like platforms and the xboard GUI. Chesley implements a number of modern chess programming techniques, including bitboard move generation, transposition tables, etc.
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ChessApplication
A chess application : game with human and/or computer
A chess application in order to play against computer or to play with another human. No network playing is planned (no FICS). This program uses the Carballo Chess Engine in order to check moves, and the Stockfish engine (that you must download on their website) in order to generate the computer moves. -
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ChessShell API
Extensive Java chess database libraries.
Extensive Java chess database libraries. Native game database, native position database, pgn database reader. -
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Frittle is an open source amateur Java Chess Engine that supports the XBoard/WinBoard Chess Engine Communication Protocol (version 2).
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JChess
The Java Chess Engine
This library is an attempt to create a flexible chess engine using the Java programing language. The main diference than others chess engine's is that it is only a library, and it can be attached to any program, including a web application. If you are interested to contribute please contact me. Francisco Rafael Del Roio <francipvb@hotmail.com>. -
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Java Program of a machine which plays chess: it recognizes the chessboard, the position, the move of the opponent, and asks an external Chess Engine to reply to the opponent move. it is connected to a real robot which has an arm to manipulate the pieces.
