Open Source Linux Chess Engines

Stockfish is a free, powerful UCI chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1. Stockfish is not a complete chess program and requires a UCI-compatible graphical user interface (GUI) (e.g. XBoard with PolyGlot, Scid, Cute Chess, eboard, Arena, Sigma Chess, Shredder, Chess Partner or Fritz) in order to be used comfortably. Read the documentation for your GUI of choice for information about how to use Stockfish with it. Stockfish is a 11-time winner of the Top Chess Engine Championship. Stockfish is open source (GPLv3 license). That means you can read the code, modify it, and contribute back. You can use Stockfish on your computer or on your iOS or Android device. So you can get world-class chess analysis, wherever you are. The Stockfish engine features two evaluation functions for chess, the classical evaluation based on handcrafted terms, and the NNUE evaluation based on efficiently updatable neural networks.

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.

latest portable distribution: https://sourceforge.net/projects/craftychessinterface/files/crafty_gui_10.7z/download

yet another UCI chess engine

Chess engine code name "Gull"

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

Program to train against gambit play (*) with the computer, with a strength adjustable chess engine (Danasah, currently set at approx 1400 EL0 when playing against it). Also included now are two options to watch an engine e.g. the 'aggressive' Patricia5 (with gambits) play against another engine (eg IM level). The engine gambit books are made in such a way that 1) real lousy gambits are not played, and 2) the book is choosing a gambit line as often as possible, so for Black it might go for e.g. a Benko gambit or so and if you let it play with White, a lot of 1.e4 gambits can be played. Thereby, if you try a gambit yourself, the program might try to a counter-gambit (or sometimes an unconventional line). It will play weak against other engines, and it not meant as to play very strong/perfectly, but for human opponents, the gambit lines will most often result in entertaining -not boring- games, and require quite some concentration to avoid tactical mistakes.

Phalanx is a chess engine which understands the xboard protocol. It's suitable for beginner and intermediate players (I'm counting on your help to make it suitable for strong players!)

Mediocre is a Java-based chess engine, implementing features like LMR, SEE, history and killer moves heuristics, transposition tables, internal iterative deepening, PVS search etc.

A portable chess game consisting of an xboard-compatible OpenGL user interface with 2D and 3D board views and a chess engine. The primary targets are Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Super Micro chess engines are a series of world record small source and executables programs able to play the famous "King's Game" (both with simplified and full FIDE support)! Please refer to the official home page for more details: http://smmax.sf.net.

Redqueen is an UCI (Universal Chess Interface) only compatible chess engine written in C++.

NetChess is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for playing chess game. This software can be used To play chess between two players over network using TCP/IP (LAN) or in internet/intranet (Network vs Network) To send instant message (chat) while playing chess To observe the chess game played between two players over network To play chess between two players on the same board As PGN, FEN, EPD converter. This can be used To convert PGN to FEN or EPD format To convert FEG to PGN or EPD format To convert EPD to PGN or FEN format As PGN, FEN or EPD gave viewer. Load multiple games. This can also be used to load the games and analyze using chess engines To play chess using chess engines (Supports engines with WinBoard 1, 2 and UCI 1, 2 protocols) Human vs Chess Engine with White side Human vs Chess Engine with Black side Chess Engine with White side vs Chess Engine with Black side on the same board Chess Engine with White side vs Chess Engine

PasKnight is a UCI compatible chess engine. It does not have a graphical interface of its own; instead, it runs as a console application that communicates via text commands with a GUI (like Arena, CuteChess, or WinBoard). PasKnight is written in Pascal using Lazarus & Free Pascal compiler. Executables are provided for Windows, Linux and macOS. Elo of the engine is maybe 1500

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.

VBA chess engine for EXCEL / WORD / POWERPOINT ( level: 2200 ELO ) with chess board GUI. Full EXCEL install needed (no viewers or OpenOffice) also: VisualBasic 6 compile for winboard (2750 ELO), needs a chess GUI like ARENA latest version here: https://github.com/RZulu54/ChessBrainVB/releases

Tool for chess teachers to create PDF files with chess diagrams in it. 1) Create a pgn file with chess diagrams (FEN notation) in it (e.g by using lichess) 2) Open the Fen2Pdf and select the folder containing the pgn(s) 3) Click start. Fen2Pdf detects the pgn files in it and creates a pdf file You can now print this file and hand the exercises over to your students Extra features: * Mirror the positions. This is handy if you want the same problems presented for the other color for educational purposes. You could present the same set of exercises in 2 different ways! * You can toggle the display of page numbers * The selected pgn folder is saved for next time * The title on the pages is the name of the pgn (without .pgn)

Carballo is an Open Source Chess Engine developed in Java with simplicity and clearity of code in mind. It is based on BitBoards, with a magic Bitboard move generator and scores aprox 2300 ELO points in BT2630 test.

Eia v0.3 - is a open source classical chess engine written just for fun. It plays in strenght around 1900 Elo and may be useful for sparring. Note that it is just an engine - you need to load engine into any available chess GUI (Graphical User Interface).

Neophyte is a Winboard and UCI compatible chess engine designed to play with a human style. Strong play comes second to the goal of playing like a human.

An open source chess engine in C, released under the GPL. Compatible with the XBoard and UCI interface protocols to link to a GUI or other chess arbiter.

A concise javascript chess engine, first written for the 5k web competition. It plays at the level of a lazy amateur, so is a good match for most opponents.

IMPORTANT: I renamed the project to cengix (chess engine no. x). See http://code.google.com/p/cengix. IMPORTANT: yacen is not in any way related to the YACE chess engine. The similar name was a mistake. To avoid confusion, I will rename my project soon and provide a link to the new site then. yacen is a simple chess engine with main focus on understandability of code and mechanisms rather than on pure performance. It is completely written in ANSI-C using nothing more than the standard library and thus is very portable and easy to compile on almost every platform. yacen uses the common UCI interface to communicate with any compatible GUI. NOTE: yacen is currently in pre-alpha status. This means that there is only source code available which is far from complete and thus cannot be compiled to a working binary yet. A more complete source code and first binaries for Linux and Windows will be available when the project reaches alpha status.

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>.

Simontacchi is a Winboard/UCI compatible chess engine that intends to grow via development community involvement. The goal of the project is to create a chess engine that rivals the strongest commericial and amateur programs.