Free chinese chess 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.

Five Chess is a connect-five board game. Five Chess is released under the terms of GNU General Public License version 2.
It was initially developed from a qt Tic-Tac-Toe example.
Main features:
- 4 ways to play -- Human vs Human, AI vs Human, Human vs AI, AI vs AI
- 6 board sizes available -- 9X9 to 19X19
- Save Played games
- View played games
- Not so smart AI

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

VDB Janus Chess project is a chess game with a slight variation.

The table is 10x8 instead of 8x8 and every person has one additional piece, the Janus, which can move like a bishop and a knight.

This game is really an extension of ordinary chess. Both player have one additional piece, called Janus. The Janus can move like a knight and a bishop together, it also looks like a combination of knight and bishop.

At the beginning the Janus is located between knight and rock. There are two Janusses for every player so the field extends to 10x8. The Janus is the only piece that is able to checkmate the other king alone. All other rules are identically to chess.

Most of the interface is self-explanatory. But there are some points that should be explained.

If you play against the computer and want to take back your last move, it is easier to chose "Move - Last own". This returns to your last own move.

This program supports "Lazy drag and drop". If you press the middle button of your mouse, the icon is glued to the mouse pointer. You drop the icon with another click on the middle mouse button.

PicoChess project is a small chess program.

PicoChess will support one and two player games, as well as playing against itself. It can also load and save games, and export transcripts of games.

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

pouetChess is a 3D and open source chess game.

pouetChess is a chess game for Linux with very few and basic dependencies. Moreover pouetChess has an embedded Artificial Intelligence so engines such as GNUChess are not even needed.

... pouetChess was a game I wrote for a project at school (IUP GMI Avignon(french)).
I quickly realized there were very few chess games for Linux so I decided to continue it. Actually I think the juice is worth the squeeze and we will finally have a good and pretty chess game for Linux...

Unfortunately I wrote it completely in french so for now the source code is quite useless but Im working on it and its one of the things who have to be done for the next release. But dont worry, I already translated the interface and you can play in english.