Free crafty winboard software for linux

CSBoard is a small GUI for gnuchess. It is written in C# and uses gtk-sharp and mono. CSBoard is simple, but allows you just play chess with SVG graphics and native look and desktop theme usage.

CSBoard has very detailed user documentation and fully integrated with GNOME desktop environment for many things, like support of mime-types.

CSBoard use gnuchess as playing engine, but you can also play with crafty of phalanx.

Currently user part of CSBoard is almost finished, it can satisfy newbie user needs. But the requirements of advanced chess users are much more complicated.

So the main goal is development of architecture that will allow things like ICS (internet chess server) support but still keep interface simple.

Chessweb is a J2EE chess game Website. It is a pure Java servlet implementation of a two-player chess game.

Two players log into the Web site, see an image of the current board in their browser, and make their moves.

The differentiating features of chessweb (e.g. versus WinBoard / XBoard) is that its an extremely lightweight implementation written completely in Java (nothing more than an app server and browser is required).

Furthermore, the client end is DHTML only, and verified to works with FireFox 1.0.6 and IE 6.

Tiffanys project is a Java chess engine, including a Swing gui and Win/XBoard support.
It supports the PGN / FEN format. Tiffanys also contains a XBoard / Winboard interface.
Main features:
- Swing GUI
- PGN / FEN Support
- XBoard interface
- Knows all basic rules (including Castling, EnPassant and Pawnpromotion)

Emacs Chess is an object-oriented library written in Elisp for manipulating chess objects (games, plies, positions, etc.), and for displaying them.
Main features:
- Emacs Chess is also an object-oriented library for manipulating chess objects (games, plies, positions, etc), and for displaying them. It supports a wide range of engine objects to use as move sources. This what allows chess.el to act as a chess client.
- chess-announce.el announces your opponents moves verbally, such as "knight takes at f4"provided you have "festival" installed.
- chess-sound.el is similar to chess-announce, but uses specific WAV files for each sound used. It takes up much more disk space, but is nicer to listen to. Available in English only at the moment.
- chess-irc.el provides a tiny IRC bot, allowing you to play games over IRC so long as your opponent enters moves in short algebraic notation. If they dont have chess.el, all they need is a regular chessboard, and a knowledge of SAN (short alegebraic notation).
- chess-ics.el lets you to play on Internet Chess Servers, using chess.el as your chessboard display (which means chess-announce works with it, etc). It has only been tested with FICS so far.
- chess-crafty.el, chess-gnuchess.el and chess-phalanx.el let you play against the Crafty, Gnuchess and Phalanx engines.
- chess-random.el will create Fischer Random positions to play against. Note that this feature only really works against opponents who are also using chess.el. Simply type "S" in the chessboard display buffer to setup a Fischer Random starting position.
- chess-network.el lets you play against other chess.el users directly, over a single open port on the server side. To be a server, you must have "netcat" installed, or be using Emacs 21.3 or higher (which supports server side network sockets). To be a client, all you need is Emacs 21.1 or higher.
- chess-link.el lets you tie two engines together, so that events from one are responded to by events from another. This can let you run a chess bot on your computer over any of the transport, or you can use it to pit two computer chess engines against each other.
- chess.el can even export chessboard display to other X servers, allowing you to play against people in your meeting room, even if they dont have Emacs installed!
Enhancements:
- This maintenance release includes several bugfixes.

glChess is a chess game with 3D OpenGL graphics.

An open-source 3D chess program. It uses openGL and gtkglarea (from GTK+) for the rendering and is designed for use in unix.

It will soon be able to be played over network much like xboard can currently. It has tentative support for computer play. Playable against a human or against "crafty" AI.