Free Open Source Board Games

"Shane's Chess Information Database" is a huge chess toolkit with extensive database, analysis and chess-playing features. Scid vs. PC is a usability and bug-fix fork of Scid. It has many interface fixes and improvements, and is fully compatible with Scid's .si4 databases. New features include a rewritten Gamelist, Computer Tournament, and FICS, Tree, Book and Graph improvements.

A free and open source chess database application for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

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Popeye is a chess problem solving and testing software with strong support for fairy chess and heterodox genres. For more information cf. topic "Popeye (chess)" on http://en.wikipedia.org/

lichess.org (also known as Lila - lichess in Scala) is a free and open source chess server written in Scala 2.13 that focuses on real time gameplay and ease of use. It’s where countless chess players and chess enthusiasts can gather and watch or play from a selection of over a million games every day, analyze games, learn and improve their playing. lichess is equipped with a search engine, computer analysis, tournaments, exhibitions, a mobile app, a shared analysis board, and so much more. Thanks to its large active community, the UI is available in more than 130 different languages. lichess is one of the most popular chess websites in the world and remains totally free and ad-free. Visit https://lichess.org today to know more and see what it’s about!

Scrabble3D is a highly customizable Scrabble game that not only supports Classic Scrabble and Superscrabble but also 3D games and own boards. You can play local against the computer or connect to a game server to find other players.

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.

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

Domination is a game that is a bit like the well known board game of Risk or RisiKo. It has many game options and includes many maps. Written in java it includes a map editor, a simple map format, multiplayer network play, single player, hotseat, 5 user interfaces and many more features, it works in all OSs that run java 1.4 or higher, and Android.

Jin is a Java client for various chess servers. It currently supports the Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com) and the Free Internet Chess Server (freechess.org) but is designed to be able to support any chess server.

Fuego is a collection of C++ libraries for developing software for the game of Go. It includes a Go player using Monte-Carlo tree search.

Sokoban YASC - Yet Another Sokoban Clone - for Windows. A wealth of features, e.g., deadlock detection, reverse mode, and replay mode. Good import functions and highly configurable, e.g., skins. Tools: Editor, solver, optimizer, generator, capture, duplicate finder.

Open source chess engines supporting the Universal Chess Interface (UCI) protocol and Chess Engine Communication Protocol (WinBoard and XBoard). They are written in the C, C++, Go and Rust programming language. C and C++ based chess engines were generated with Android NDK, Clang and GCC. Go and Rust based chess engines were generated with their correspondent compilers. This was done on different platforms like Linux, Termux and Windows. Every zip archive contains a readme file with further information. Chess engines are located in the libs directory and are available for arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86 and x86_64 based devices. If a chess engine supports NNUE (Neural Network Updated Efficiently) technology and the network is not embedded in the binary, you will find the missing network file in the networks directory. Note that chess engines requires a chess GUI (e.g. Chess for Android 6.2.1 or DroidFish).

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 world clock, some fractal fun, and a Linux kernel configurator in form of a kernel patch.

Brutal Chess features full 3D graphics, an advanced particle engine, and several different levels of intelligent AI, inspired by the once popular "Battle Chess" released by Interplay circa 1988.

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

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.

Chess database with 15,9 Million games. Database is categorized into 6 parts, to learn which one you need please browse all files and read description. In addition a huge collection of opening books for chess engines and Arena. As well as other chess resources, to download separate packages please browse "all files"

A Collection of Chess Tools. Une collection d'outils des échecs. Eine Sammlung von Schachwerkzeugen.

Detailierte Informationen in Deutsch finden sie auf unserer Homepage. FreeDoko implements a version of the german card game Doppelkopf. The game Doppelkopf is a card game for four or more Players. For more informations visit our Homepage

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.

MegaMekLab is a Mek creator program. Currently it can create Meks, vehicles, battlearmor, and conventional infantry. It can also print PDF record sheets for almost all Battletech units. Created units can also be exported to formatted text or html for posting online.

JSoko is a Java program for playing the Sokoban game. It features path finding, auto push, auto solving, undo/redo, deadlock detection, and more.

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.

Open source chess engines based on the project "Chess Engines for Android". Installer providing these chess engines in Android Open Exchange (OEX) format. The APK files "Chess Engines" and "Chess Engines Bonus" contains almost all UCI compliant chess engines that are already published here. The APK file "Chess Engines Bonus" contains chess engines without embedded networks. Chess engines in this package are not ready to use. The missing network files can be found in the assets directory of the APK file. The APK file "XBoard Chess Engines" contains chess engines supporting the Chess Engine Communication Protocol (WinBoard and XBoard). After installing an APK you will need a chess app that supports the Open Exchange protocol (e.g. Chess for Android or DroidFish).