Web site: Category: Games Sub-Category: Board Platform: Linux, Windows License: GNU GPL Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: 2000 Filler – a simple game where two players try to capture half of the board. Players take turns selecting colours to capture all adjacent hexes of the same colour. The first rule is that all player classes … Read more
Web site: stockfishchess.org Category: Games Sub-Category: Board Platform: Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, Android License: GNU GPL Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: 2008 Stockfish – a free, open-source, and 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 … Read more
Web site: home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/CVfairy.html Category: Games Sub-Category: Board Platform: Linux, Windows License: unknown (open-source) Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: 2009 Fairy-Max – a program that plays chess and chess variants. It uses the xboard/winboard chess-engine protocol to communicate. Apart from ‘regular’ chess (also known as the Mad-Queen variant), it can play Capablanca chess, gothic chess, janus … Read more
Web site: fairy-stockfish.github.io Category: Games Sub-Category: Board Platform: Linux, Windows License: GNU GPL Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: 2008 Fairy-Stockfish – a chess variant engine derived from Stockfish designed for the support of fairy chess variants and easy extensibility with more games. It can play various regional, historical, and modern chess variants as well as … Read more
Web site: chess.grantnet.us/Ethereal/ Category: Games Sub-Category: Board Platform: Linux, Windows License: GNU GPL Interface: CLI Wikipedia: First release: 2016 Ethereal – a UCI-compliant chess engine operating under the alpha-beta framework, paired with a Neural Network for positional evaluations. Ethereal is inspired by a number of open source projects and aims to serve as both a … Read more