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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Board Games, Chess Engines

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GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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  • kvisser Posted 2011-04-07
    Works great in any terminal window! I use it for browsing pgn-files using the Crafty chess engine for analyses. Very light weight and enough features. Nice piece of work!
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Operating Systems

BSD, Linux

Languages

English, Spanish

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Curses/Ncurses

Programming Language

C

Database Environment

Other API

Related Categories

C Board Games, C Chess Engines

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2010-12-29
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