Web site: www.gnu.org/software/xboard/
Category: Games
Sub-Category: Board
Platform: Linux, OS X, Windows, BSD
License: GNU GPL
Interface: GUI
Wikipedia: XBoard
First release: 1991
XBoard – a graphical chessboard for the X Window System. It can serve as a user interface for chess engines such as Fairy-Max, Crafty or GNU Chess, for the Internet Chess Server, or for electronic mail correspondence chess.
It supports all major forms of chess, such as international chess, xiangqi and shogi. XBoard can also be used by
itself as viewer for stored chess games.
It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:
– Chess engines that will run on your machine and play a game against you or help you analyze, such as GNU Chess, Crafty, or many others.
– Chess servers on the Internet, where you can connect to play chess with people from all over the world, watch other users play, or just hang out and chat.
– Correspondence chess played by electronic mail. The CMail program automates the tasks of parsing email from your opponent, playing his moves out on your board, and mailing your reply move after you’ve chosen it.
XBoard runs on Unix and Unix-like systems that use the X Window System.
XBoard is free software, copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
