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    Stockfish

    Stockfish

    UCI chess engine

    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.
    Downloads: 147 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 39 This Week
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    Chess engine code name "Gull"
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    DreamChess

    DreamChess

    OpenGL chess game

    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.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Crafty Chess Interface

    Crafty Chess Interface

    free open-source chess engine interface

    latest portable distribution: https://sourceforge.net/projects/craftychessinterface/files/crafty_gui_10.7z/download
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    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    pythchess

    Python chess engine

    Downloads: 29 This Week
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    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!)
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    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    PasKnight

    PasKnight

    Chess engine written in Pascal with an UCI interface.

    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 v1.00rc21 is around 2620
    Downloads: 25 This Week
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    Chess-gambiteer

    Chess-gambiteer

    Chess training program playing gambits

    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.
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    Chess-Stats

    Chess-Stats

    Chess Stats is a slightly different way to analyze your chess games.

    Chess Stats uses Stockfish 15.1 to analyze any game in a pgn file. It then saves analysis and shows statistics for blunders and best moves for every move of the game. Interactive chessboard shows continuations from any selected move. From the interactive board you can step through the continuation or make new moves with the mouse. New moves calculate new possibilities. Python script developed with Python 3.1 on Linux Ubuntu 22 External libraries that are not part of the standard Python are included so that dependencies don't have to be dealt with by the end user.
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    Super Micro Chess

    Super Micro Chess

    The world's smallest chess playing program just got smaller!

    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.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    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.
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    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    NetChess

    NetChess to play between two players over net or internet

    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
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Redqueen Chess Engine
    Redqueen is an UCI (Universal Chess Interface) only compatible chess engine written in C++.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    yet another UCI chess engine
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Fen2Pdf

    Fen2Pdf

    Tool for chess teachers to create PDF files with chess diagrams in it

    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)
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    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.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    ChessShell API

    ChessShell API

    Extensive Java chess database libraries.

    Extensive Java chess database libraries. Native game database, native position database, pgn database reader.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    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).
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    BagaturChess

    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
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Cave Chess

    A Java chess engine using xboard protocol

    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Chess Engine
    Provides interface for working with chess games in PGN (use libpgn) make moves, and get result
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Fantom

    Fantom

    Chess program for windows and linux

    Шахматная программа с экспериментальным генетическим алгоритмом поиска подобно глубоким нейросетям. Вдобавок к основному алгоритму альфа бета. Программа имеет графику под windows и испол файл под linux.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    GreKo

    Chess engine

    Winboard/UCI chess engine
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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