Open Source C++ Board Games

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.

Scid is a chess database application (cross-platform, for Unix/Linux and Windows) with many search and database maintenance features.

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

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

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 multi-function clock, a stock watchlist, some fractals, and a Linux kernel configurator in form of a kernel patch.

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/...

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.

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.

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

XiangQi Wizard (Chinese Chess Wizard) is a powerful XiangQi (chinese chess) program, which supports UCCI engines. XQWizard Light is the Mobile version for Windows CE and Java ME. ElephantEye is the UCCI engine in XQWizard with strong AI.

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.

Chess engine code name "Gull"

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.

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

Redqueen is an UCI (Universal Chess Interface) only compatible chess engine written in C++.

KMT Chess is a chess engine. It supports Winboard Chess Engine Protocol and can be used in combination with Winboard or Arena user interfaces. KMTWinboard package includes WinboardX interface and a opening book, providing a much better user experience.

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.

The Nimzo_3d GUI is a chess program for Windows 7 - 11 It is an enhanced version of the Tarrasch Chess GUI written by Mr Bill Forster, with many additional features. It has a simple, easy to use interface, so it is ideal for novice players or inexperienced computer users. It also has more advanced features for expert users. So if you just want a casual blitz game against the computer, or to automatically analyse one of the famous games from chess history, it can perform these tasks and many more. It has a choice of a classical 2d screen view or realistic 3d graphics powered by DirectX Anyone who wants to add new features to the program should download the file < Nimzo_3d_v4_build.7z> from the < Files > < Build> section. This package contains Visual Studio project files and C++ source code files. Alternative Nimzo 3d Chess GUI website with other downloads, including 32-bit versions - https://nimzo-3d-chess-gui.infinityfreeapp.com

OliveChess is a simple chess engine compatible with modern chess interfaces such as ChessBase products, Arena and XBoard/Winboard. The engine supports UCI and XBoard protocols. Note: in order to use it as an xboard engine you may need Polyglot tool to be installed first

Pentobi is a computer opponent for the board game Blokus.

Realpolitik is a cross-platform (Mac/Win32) viewer and adjudicator for the game Diplomacy, with a point-and-click interface, game history, and text and bitmap reports for GMs. It has over a dozen rule and map variants, and you can easily create your own

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!

Looking for mines on triangular or rectangular fields. The computer moves mines in the background, so that you must not guess. If you set hard level, you will die every time you make a mistake. You can change the board size and mines density.

MinkoChess is a multiplatform chess engine written in C++.

Kenny is a Winboard/XBoard chess engine based on Winglet (http://www.sluijten.com/winglet/source/index.htm), an open source chess program. Winglet's full source code can be obtained from Winglet. Kenny is an advanced form of Winglet which plays better at some faster time levels like blitz chess or upto 20 minute games, but almost always loses against Winglet when the time controls are 40 minutes or more for each. These tests were run by setting up various tournamennts on the free Chess GUI Arena Version 3.0. Kenny uses modified values for evaluation of various parameters, thus introducing almost an entirely new engine, because the evaluation function is the heart of a chess engine.