Open Source Windows Chess 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chess application which allows working with PDFs and PGNs. You can work with the chess games of the PDF and edit their tree of variants. Graphical environment. Standard PGN TAGs. PGN comments. Ocr like (Fen string detection from chess board position images). Connection to Uci chess engines (like stockfish). Position analysis, full game analysis. You can now play games against uci engines. pdf2pgn command line command included. Detailed documentation. Multilanguage currently support for English, Spanish and Catalan. Dark mode option. JDK-17 compatibility

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

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.

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 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/...

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/

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

Blind Chess also known as "Dark Chess" (暗棋) or "Banqi" or Half Chess , is a two-player Chinese board game played on a 4x8 grid, or half of the xiangqi (Chinese Chess) board. This application is using Taiwan rule. AI is using basic minimax tree structure and some rules. Advanced algorithm such as Upper Confidence bounds applied to Trees and Monte Carlo Tree Search are NOT used. This app is single player vs computer only. For English user, Christakis Giorgios made Software Requirements Specification(pdf file), it will help anyone that downloads this application to understand basic blind chess and use it. You can download this pdf in Files->Specification folder.

A 3D and portable chess game with an embedded Artificial Intelligence and some pretty good graphics.

Playbox.fx is a free, ad-free and still growing collection of board games. It is a private hobby project with no commercial goals. It contains Mahjong Solitaire, Draughts, Chess, Go, Halma, Nine Men's Morris and Peg Solitaire. The games can be played against a simple AI or locally against friends. There is a portable version (zip) for Linux. There is an installer (exe) and a portable version (zip) for Windows. Have fun and stay healthy, Markus.

Java Open Chess is a project written in Java in NetBeans IDE. There is possibility to play for 2 players on local computers and via network connection. There is also an option to play versus quite weak computer oponent. Stronger computer oponens will be implemented soon. ATTENTION: Requires Java 1.8 or higher!

Manage chess round robin tournaments with JKlubTV Version 3.0.0-beta This application stores the data belonging to round robin into a SQLite database. It is intended for webmasters who want to easily manage a club tournament in their own chess club. The HTML tables that are to be published for the website will be created easily by the application. Automatically calculate the total points, Sonneborn Berger points of each player, as well as their sequence DWZ, and sorts the HTML table by the calculated Rangliste.Desweiteren it is possible the tables as to save PDF file. The software is free (Opensource). - can access the DFB player database - the tables can export into HTML, PDF or Excel format - expects the result from DWZ - counted the points and the Sonneborn Berger figures - automatically sorts the crosstab after ranking Sourcecode on github.com: https://github.com/mars7105/Chess-Round-Robin-Manager Website: https://www.chessrobin.de/

JavaPairing is a tool to manage a chess tournament. It is pure Java and can run as is on any platform, including Windows, Linux and Macintosh (JRE 1.6 or more required). It is free and open source under the GPLv3 license. Dutch, Dubov, r.r., Amalfi

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.

A triad of engine, GUI, and communication protocol for Chinese Chess (XiangQi). The two elements, engine and GUI, are interchangeable with any third-party application that follows the communication protocol.

A PHP Web Application that you can install on your own web server. It allows you to play chess with other users across the internet or sitting at the same screen. It only permits valid moves and can automatically detect check and checkmate status.

Virtual Chess Clock is a chess clock software: it can be used to simulate a chess clock on computer (typically a laptop). Virtual Chess Clock is designed to be easy to use. It is free, open-source and multi-platform.

This is UCI Chess Engine writen in Java. Since version 1.4 (inclusive) the project was moved to https://github.com/bagaturchess/Bagatur

Chess Wizard is a powerful chess software to play, study, edit and publish games. It supports many strong UCI engines, provides a huge online database and hundreds of puzzles. Chess960 is available now.