Free chess musical software for linux

Chess::ICClib is a Perl interface to Internet Chess Server commands.

SYNOPSIS

use Chess::ICClib;
my $icc = Chess::ICClib->new([-prompt=>$ICC],
[-host=>$host,-port=>$port]
[-user=>$user,-pass=>$password]);
$icc->ICCCommand("finger romm");

Chess::ICClib - Perl interface to Internet Chess Server commands. Provides a tool able to connect, login and send commands to an Internet Chess Server as well as return responses from the server. Can be used as a basis for information retrieval tool as well as for a player or a chess program interface.

Since ICS [Internet Chess Server] (any, commercial and free alike) are built upon the telnet protocol, this module is built upon the Net::Telnet module where the telnet connection serves as the read/write socket.

This module has been tested against ICC (Internet Chess Club, http://www.chessclub.com, telnet king.chessclub.com 5000) but it should work fine against other chess servers unless they propose another "more" preprompt. More about prompts see in ICCCommand method section.

The following methods are available:

Constructor

$icc = Chess::ICClib->new([-prompt=>$ICC], [-host=>$host,-port=>$port] [-user=>$user,-pass=>$password]);

Creates an ICC object, then connects and logins into the ICS. All parameters are optional.

-prompt

The ICS prompt. The default is the ICC prompt aics%. Several other popular servers prompt are provided - see the EXPORT section.

-host,-port

The ICS host and port. The defaults are the ICC host 204.178.125.65 and the ICC port 5000. In later versions hosts and ports for most popular ICS will be added for export.

-user,-pass

The ICS user name and password. There are no defaults. guest login is sufficient on most of the servers (USChessLive and FreeICS are not supporting guest logins!) The module tries to look up the file ~/.icsrc to read the username and password from it.

ICCCommand

my $response = $icc->ICCCommand($icccommand)

This method performs an ICC Command $icccommand and sets the output into $response. The interface of ICC (and supposedly of other ICS) pages the output automatically with preprompt Type "more" to see more and the output unpages it scrolling with issuing the "more" command consecutively until the preprompt disappears. Please note that ICS is case-insensitive while Perl is.

mChess is a simple cross-platform email chess program.

The aim is to be able to play chess with your friends via email using a nice user interface without having a chess board standing in your living room for weeks.

BabyChess is a chess program. You can edit chess games, play chess on the internet, and play locally against engines.
BabyChess is distributed as free software under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Main features:
- Games between humans and/or engines can be played in the match window. XBoard engines are supported.
- The chess position editor lets you edit a chess position, and save it in FEN notation, as used by other chess programs.
- The chess game editor understands PGN notation.
- The game archive editor reads PGN files that contain any number of chess games. It displays a list of all games and lets you edit those games using the game editor.
- The ICS client connects you to an Internet Chess Server and lets you play games against human opponents.
- The "evaluator" of BabyChess is a chess engine that uses its own communication protocol. It is not an XBoard engine. This program is given a FEN position as an argument and analyzes the position. During the thinking process, information about the current best move and more is written.
- The game editor uses the chess evaluator to analyze chess positions.
- Internally, the evaluator uses 64 bit numbers even on 32 bit systems, meaning it is possible to analyze more than 2 billion positions on PCs.
- This program implements an XBoard chess engine. It uses the evaluator as a backend.
- In addition to the standard algebraic notation (SAN). French, German and Dutch notations are supported. Figurine notation is also supported, also the current fonts dont make it look good. New notations can be created.

MKGI Chess Club is a chess playing server with a pure Web interface.
It features complete player profile management, full html email notification with embedded board display.
MKGI Chess Club also features an interface to match against chess engines such as gnuchess, phalanx, and crafty.
Enhancements:
- Fixed the notification feature which was broken since 1.6.0.
- Fixed undo availability immediately after a move.
- Implemented partial dragndrop of pieces on the chess board.

Python chess module project is a Python chess move adjudicator module.
Python chess module does not know how to play chess, but does understand the rules enough that it can watch moves and verify that they are correct.
It features high abstraction, understands various notations (including algebraic, long algebraic, and standard algebraic notation), does disambiguation, and supports saving and loading the state of a game.
Main features:
- high abstraction
- understands various notations, including algebraic, long algebraic, and standard algebraic notation (as in PGN); does disambiguation
- supports saving and loading of the state of a game
- not a trivial move processor; understands the intracies of the game
Enhancements:
- Bug with en passant moves fixed.

ChessTask project is a tool for generating chess tasks.

ChessTask is a frontend for easily creating chess tasks with LaTeX. The tasks are stored in a list which can be exported, either into a LaTeX input file, or into HTML files.

AntiChess project is an anti-chess game.

AntiChess is an anti-chess game written in Java.

The goal is to get checkmated or lose all your pieces except your king to your opponent.

You must take your opponents pieces if you can.

It supports 2 player and 4 player games on the same board