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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: 155 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
    Downloads: 65 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: 35 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: 9 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: 7 This Week
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    Redqueen Chess Engine
    Redqueen is an UCI (Universal Chess Interface) only compatible chess engine written in C++.
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    Chess engine code name "Gull"
    Downloads: 4 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: 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: 13 This Week
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    yet another UCI chess engine
    Downloads: 2 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: 5 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: 6 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    pythchess

    Python chess engine

    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    rodent chess

    UCI chess engine

    Rodent is an UCI chess engine based on Sungorus by Pablo Vazquez, 300 Elo stronger than its predecessor. It allows setting up different personalities and to adjust playing strength.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    GreKo

    Chess engine

    Winboard/UCI chess engine
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Cassandre is an extensible chess engine written in C++, it is Winboard/XBoard compliant.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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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>.
    Downloads: 2 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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    Frittle
    Frittle is an open source amateur Java Chess Engine that supports the XBoard/WinBoard Chess Engine Communication Protocol (version 2).
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    ArbyChess

    ArbyChess is a chess engine that allows arbitrary boards and pieces.

    ArbyChess gets its name from a shortening of "arbitrary chess", and as such is designed to allow arbitrary boards, pieces, and moves.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    A CECP (glChess-, xboard-, ...- compatible) chess engine specially conceived as a study application of Belief-Desire-Intention AI Architectures.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Chess Tools for Windows

    Chess Tools for Windows

    Batch tools for creating Polyglot books and PGN-based statistics.

    Open source scripts and tools for Windows. Every zip archive contains a readme file with further information. PGNStat and PGNXtract are batch processing tools for Windows. Simply unpack the zip archive into a directory of your choice. The batch files require free and open source third-party tools. These are not included in the zip archives and must be downloaded separately. An alternative download link, where all third-party tools are already integrated, can be found in the readme files.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Conqueror Chess Engine

    Conqueror Chess Engine

    A powerful chess engine written in C++

    A powerful chess engine written in C++. It currently implements hybrid board representation, alphabeta pruning, quiescence search, static evaluation, legal move generator, iterative deepening, MVV/LVA move reordering, makemove, unmakemove and uci move representation standard, tapered evaluation. Elostat gives the current version an ELO of 2100 measured over 50 games.
    Downloads: 1 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: 1 This Week
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