Open Source C 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.

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.

Scidb is an open-source chess database application for Windows, Unix/Linux. It is a new development inspired by Scid.

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

BYOJeopardy is a program to create and play Jeopardy-like games. BYOJeopardy helps you easily build and display jeopardy games. Also, you can export boards to html, so you can play anywhere. This a great tool to use for reviewing topics in the classroom.

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

A prototype for a 3D Goban display, full featured SGF editor, client for IGS-PandaNet and interface for GNU Go. glGo is written in C++ and based on wxWindows, OpenGL and SDL. glGo is available for Linux and Windows.

Sudokuki is a free graphical SUDOKU game: Sudokuki solves even the most difficult sudoku grids for you - Generate a sudoku - Play sudoku - Print a sudoku... Available in 17 languages. Just download and play! You can also play with arabic or chinese numbers. Sudokuki is Free Software developed in Java. Have fun!

Winboard 4.5 32-bit is a free Windows accessible Chess program that works automatically with the JAWS or the free NVDA screen reader. It is for the blind, low sighted or those who can not use a mouse. It provides vocal announcements of position changes and other selectable board conditions. Blind players also use a separate "tactile chess board". Winboard 4.5 has full keyboard access to move pieces and run menu items. Partial sighted players use high contrast mode and adjust board, piece, most font sizes and colors. Available languages are English, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Russian. Games may be viewed, modified or saved in standard PGN format. Two Chess engines supply play and grand master strength move analysis. Connect to the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) and play humans. Modify verbosity in screen reader configurations and in the Winboard "Sound" dialog under the "General" menu. Find all documentation in the "doc" folder under the Winboard directory of your C drive.

Faile is a free chess program which plays a fairly strong game of chess (Expert strength or better). One of the main goals of Faile is to provide a full featured chess program with source code which is tidy, well documented, and easy to understand.

Implements the rules of Scrabble(tm) for Android devices (and historically, for PalmOS, PocketPC and others) (For development purposes there's also a Linux client using ncurses or GTK.) Easy to port to other platforms, supports multiple languages and multi-device play via the internet, SMS, Bluetooth, and NFC. Not vaporware: one of TIME.com's top 5 PalmOS apps

OpenChess is a Chess game, Opening Trainer and Chess data base for the PalmOS platform. It supports Palm devices with OS 3.0 and above and uses separate layouts for Grayscale, Color and HiRes (OS5 and Sony Clié OS4) devices.

The CGoban 1 program is a Unix-based client for connection to internet go server that use protocols similar to the one used by IGS, the Internet Go Server. It also functions as a SGF (Smart Game Format) browser that lets you view and edit go game records.

Nine men morris is a game I played as kid. Its a strategy board game, of two sides trynig to remove the other pieces. You can play it with two people on one machine or via a network. Current it only a has welsh translation

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/

Programma scritto in QT per giocare alla tombola, tradizionale gioco Italiano. Con questo software sarà possibile generare cartelle, stamparle ed eseguire estrazioni sul database con riconoscimento automatico delle vincite. QT program for "Tombola" italian game. You can now play Tombola, generate random boards, save boards in .stb files and print them directly to a printer in color or black and white. It's like housie bingo game.

Gambit is a cross-platform chess game. There are binaries for Windows users. Users of Unix-like operating systems can check the web site for build instructions (it should be easy to follow).

Thief is a free chess client to play on chess servers like FICS: http://www.freechess.org It supports regular chess and all variants played. It is the best client for playing Bughouse, a special team-chess game (for more info see http://www.bughouse.

This is a command line checkers game for UNIX-like operating systems. It is a fun family oriented board game!

A console/text based chess program with XBoard/CECP and UCI API, available on all major platforms. You may need a graphical chess interface to use it. Please refer to README.md in the files section for installation instructions. The last stable release is 2.1.9 and has been released on 19/08/2025. Belofte 0.2.0 till 0.9.20 (c/c++): Xboard 1 & 2 (CECP) - Linux/Unix/(Windows) Belofte 2.1.1 and up (c++11) : UCI and Xboard 2 - Linux/Windows/Mac/Android/... For access to code, please clone the git repository. Compiles and Runs on 32/64 bit on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android (ARM/x86) and Raspberry. Released under GNU v2 license. (means free to copy, free to modify, free to use, ...) Works fine with Arena/Cutechess/BanksiaGui/Winboard/Xboard/...

Hinversi is a implementation of Reversi (a.k.a. Othello), a board game. It can support many frontends and backends, so you can select how clever your computer opponent is. You can also let one AI engine play against another one.

AmiGoGtp is a version of the AmiGo Go program with a GTP (Go Text Protocol) interface added. It can be used as a weak but fast opponent for beginners and is of historical interest as one of the first open-source Go programs.

Homepages for my projects: userinfo, pwmd, libpwmd, cboard, ncast, ezxradio and bubblegum. There are also code snippets, both VIM and EPIC scripts and more.

FreeICS is a server which allows multiple users to play chess against each other. This project is stable and in production at a number of sites. There are several sub-projects which enhance the utility of the server, starting with a tournament manager.

Gvd is a graphical interface to use with vd engin. This application use libm3d. You can find libm3d in sourceforge.