Free chinese chess game software for linux

VDB Chinese Chess is a Chinese chess program which uses pictures instead of Chinese letters so people who arent Chinese can play it. VDB Chinese Chess supports 99 levels and different computer levels can play against each other.
Installation :
Step 1: Make sure that all necessary components are installed!
This program needs:
1. g++: Gnu c++ support including header files
2. xaw3d: 3D-extension for the Athena Widget Set if you cannot find it you can change xaw3d by xaw in src/Makefile.in but the program will not look so nicely
3. Standard Template Library
Actually this program will use only one header file for the function max(), that returns the maximum of two values. You can implement that yourself. 4. xpm: this is a library for icons in x- all board pieces are implemented with this library, this library is very common under X, so it should be included in your distribution 5. pthread: this is used for multithreading, sometimes also called pthreads, you might have to change this in your src/Makefile.in
Step 2:download this program and unzip it in the directory you want to run it. There is NO separate installation directory! tar xfz cchess.tar.gz
Step 3: cd cchess_dist/cchess
Step 4: ./configure
make
make install
Rules of Chinese Chess:
Indeed, Chinese Chess is very similar to Chess but there are some differences according how to move your pieces on the board and the following:
1. You cannot exchange the pawn against some other piece if you reach the end of the board
2. There is no rochade and moving "en passant"
3. You lose the game also if you are stalemate
4. If both kings are on the same column there must be one piece between them
5. If there is three times the same position because of the same moves you must move different next time
6. The pieces are not black and white but red and black. Red moves first.
There are the following important locations:
The two palaces, each consists of nine fields marked by two diagonal lines.
The river: The area in the middle of the board, that is not interrupted by lines
The pieces on the board move the following way:
King: Can only move one field forward or to the side, not diagonal. Has to stay inside the palace
Pawn: Moves one field forward. If he is beyond the river he can also moves side wards
Rock: Moves one or more fields to the side, forward, backward but not diagonal
Cannon: Moves one or more fields to the side, forward, backward but not diagonal. Must always jump over one piece!
Horse: Moves one field straight, one field diagonal, cannot move over another piece.
Elephant: Moves exactly 2 fields diagonal, cannot move over the river
Mandarin: Has to stay inside the palace. Moves one field diagonal.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes some defects in the game strategy.

3D Python OpenGL Chess Game project is a 3D chess game in Python with OpenGL.

3D Python OpenGL Chess Game is a normal chess game that has no computer player (yet). You can play against a friend on your PC.

Tonic Chess project is an online chess software.

Tonic is a graphical interface for playing online chess. It is based on Jin.

From now on Tonic is really open source software (and free as in libre as well) - I managed (I had some problems last time I tried) to import source to cvs sourceforge repository. It is a bridge2 release source with few little modifications. You can read how to get it from cvs here. If you are impatient pastenenter in console:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@tonic-chess.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tonic-chess login

When prompted for password just hit enter. And then:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@tonic-chess.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tonic-chess co -P tonic

You should see a list of files downloaded from cvs repository. If you are a non-console user (i.e. Windows or Mac user) I recommend visiting this site. I myself use Linux for development. And Netbeans sometimes as you could figure out from examining the contents of tonic directory. So, enjoy the opensourceness of Tonic!

I uploaded new screenshot to Tonic project site. It is Tonic in Aero GTK engine tuxedo. Quite a peculiar engine imo, but you can use other GTK engines if you run Tonic in Java 6 aka Mustang (you know you can get it from here, dont you?) I test Tonic with Mustang and Ive problems with tray icon. After some searching Ive realized why Tonic crashed under Java 6 - the problem was tray.jar plugin and its dependencies - tray.so or tray.dll, so if you want to run Tonic on Java 6 move them away from theirs directory. Ive written a class for tray icon using new desktop API from Mustang, but it doesnt work as expected in KDE (tray icon is invisible) ; GNOME is better, but I have to work on the popup menu. Well, what could I say? Mustang is in beta stage, but it has some goodies to wait for (early splashscreen, access to tab component, ...).

Chess::Game is a class to record and validate the moves of a game of chess.

SYNOPSIS

use Chess::Game;

$game = Chess::Game->new();
$clone = $game->clone();
$move = $game->make_move("e2", "e4");
$move_c = $clone->make_move("e2", "e4");
$true = ($move->get_piece() ne $move_c->get_piece());
$move = $game->delete_move();
...
while (!defined($result = $game->result())) {
# get a move
$move = $game->make_move($sq1, $sq2);
if (!defined($move)) {
print $game->get_message();
}
}
if ($result == 1) {
print "White wins!n";
}
elsif ($result == 0) {
print "Draw!n"
}
else {
print "Black wins!n";
}

The Chess module provides a framework for writing chess programs with Perl. This class forms part of that framework, providing move validation for all moves recorded using the Chess::Game class. The Game contains a Chess::Board, 32 Chess::Pieces and a Chess::Game::MoveList that contains a series of Chess::Game::MoveListEntrys that record the exact state of the game as it progresses. Moves can be taken back one-at-a-time to allow for simple movelist manipulation.

HellChess project is a freeware chess program that guides beginners through the game, while intermediate and expert players can evaluate their level of play and match wits with the opponent available in HellChess or online on the net.
HellChess is the first project that is using the full features of the BraatWorst engine and serves as an perfect example of the capabilities this engine can provide.
Main features:
Perfect online teaching while chatting to trainee in the game.
- Using HellChess one can give online training to students that are willing to learn chess. The teacher can setup a chessboard while chatting to the trainee. The trainee will see the chessboard being setup while the teacher is placing his pieces. This is really helpfull to both trainee and teacher. If a trainee does a bad move, the teacher can undo his move and explain why using the edit board or the chat function.
Battle between different computers
- Tired of your friends claiming their machine is better than yours ? Why not let it play against a friends computer ? You can let HellChess play against the other machine using the networking option. Whoever wins will have the better machine and youll earn respect.
Bored waiting ?
- Now you can install HellChess on your PocketPC and tickle your brain whenever you have to wait. Youll be surprised how quickly time passes when battling your pieces on the board against the CPU. And now with the new games Othello and Connect4 you can also play a different kind of game whenever youve had enough chess battles.
Enhancements:
- The game can now also play Chinese chess, Japanese chess, and Checkers.
- Built-in documentation that explains all of the game rules was included along with several tutorials for learning these games.
- The skin was changed.

GNU Chess project is a computer program which plays the Game of Chess.
GNU Chess lets most modern computers play a full game of chess.
It has a plain terminal interface but supports visual interfaces such as X-Windows "xboard" and Windows-for-PC "winboard" as well as a full 3-dimensional wooden chess-board protocol for the Novag Chess board enabling one to be relatively free of the computer itself.
Enhancements:
- Minor ScoreDev code tidy
- ensure gnuchessx included in EXTRA_DIST
- Fix to Posix thread for readline
- Fix to ensure "HARD" is default
- Improve Posix thread handling
- Portability fix IsTrustedPlayer
- Portability fix to lexpgn.l
- Changes to lexpgn.l to handle some special cases
- Fix trailing "/" in FEN causes buffer overflow issues.
- Portability fix to lexpgn.l

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.

Gullydeckel Chess Program project is a simple chess program.
The Gullydeckel chess playing program allows you to play a game of chess against a not too strong opponent. It has been written by Martin Borriss and is available free of charge on the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
You can use Gullydeckel with Linux and Windows. Most people integrate Gullydeckel with a graphical chess board such as WinBoard. Other interfaces are quite possible (Fritz 8, Arena, or Chessbase).
Installing
1. Extract the sources from the archive (e.g., "tar zxf g2_2.13.pl6.tgz")
2. "cd src"
3. "make" (This gives you the gully2 binary.)
4. To have the opening book available, copy the file "book.bin" into the directory where the binary resides. (This is the place and filename searched by default.)
5. Now you are ready to go. You can solve testsuites (in epd/fen format) by typing something like
"gully2 -f ../Tests/bk.epd --time 30"
or play a game using Xboard (e.g., "xboard -fcp gully2").
Enhancements:
- This release removes extra polling code used when pondering structures for detailed evaluation in place.