Chess
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Features:
- FICS : can connect to chess servers.
- ggz : another network way.
- Chess Engine Communication Protocol or CECP : can connect to backend such as gnuchess or crafty.
- UCI : universal chess interface, new open standard.
- pgn : can read pgn.
Contents |
[edit] Frontends
| Network | backend protocol | PGN | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xboard | FICS | CECP | yes |
| pouetchess | no | no | no |
| pychess | FICS | UCI/CECP | yes |
| dreamchess | no(planned) | CECP | save |
| glchess(gnome-games) | ggz planned | CECP | ? |
| Network | backend protocol | PGN | |
|---|---|---|---|
| slibo | no | CECP | ? |
[edit] xboard
The original one, not very beautiful. can also do 'email chess'
[edit] pouetchess
Nice 3D gui, bad wiki. Use http://faile.sourceforge.net/ as an internal engine.
[edit] pychess
Require the whole gnome dependencies... nice graphics. Has also its own engine ("pychess")
Available in gentoo but not for ppc. Patching the gentoo ebuild to add ~ppc and remove some dependencies, it works on ppc:
DEPEND="dev-python/pygtk
dev-python/pygobject
dev-python/pycairo
dev-python/pysqlite
dev-python/pygtksourceview
gstreamer? ( dev-python/gst-python )
x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme"
[edit] dreamchess
Include its own engine (dreamer).
Great graphics.
Not yet in gentoo. (strange??)
[edit] glchess
technos : python/gtk+/cairo Now a member of gnome-games.
[edit] Old frontend
[edit] Slibo
Last release 0.4.4 in 2003. Nice 3d graphics. doesn't seem maintained, ebuilds in gentoo, but not for ppc nor amd64. Indeed, the code wont compile (size_t!=unsigned int..)
[edit] brutal chess
Inspired by some well known previous chess software. the main web page is dead, sourceforge svn untouched since january 2007
[edit] gnome-chess
Untouched since 2001
[edit] knights
Was promising, but has been dead for long now.
[edit] tagua (previously kboard)
Ambitious project for kde, can do more than chess, not in gentoo. (Git checkout in ~orzel/git)
The team seems to have hard time keeping on working on it. Uses lua.
As of november 1st, 2008, the git repository has not been touched for very long, and the domain name was dropped. So i guess it's dead. Googling for 'tagua chess' gives nothing.
[edit] chess engines
[edit] gnuchess
The original one, gave birth to the Chess Engine Communication Protocol
[edit] crafty (also)
The challenger, also speaks the Chess Engine Communication Protocol.
[edit] fruit
Only for UCI.
[edit] faile
Strong (~ 2050 - 2250 ELO) free engine, used by pouet internally. Doesn't seem maintained.
[edit] sjeng
some close source thinguy