Free gnu chess software for linux

Ruby Chess is a chess game implemented in Ruby using GTK2. Ruby Chess project has a good artificial intelligence that is heuristic-based and stochastic.

gnome-chess is chess game, a graphical user interface for playing chess.

It works with chess programs and chess servers - it is also a PGN viewer. For chess programs, it works best with the chess engine crafty (ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt) but most features should also work with GNU Chess (ftp://ftp.gnu.org).

You can use the "first chess program" option to choose the computer engine you want to play against.

E.g. try "gnome-chess --fcp crafty" or "gnome-chess --fcp gnuchessx"

You can use the --ics* options to choose the server and pick user name and passwords.

E.g. try "gnome-chess --ics --icshost freechess.org"

Brutal Chess project features full 3D graphics, an advanced particle engine, and several different levels of intelligent AI, inspired by the once popular "Battle Chess" released by Interplay circa 1988.

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

Java3D chess project is a Java applet that allows you to play chess.

Java 3D Chess is a chess program with uses Java 3D. You can play the game on any computer capable of using Java.

You can play Java 3D Chess agains yourself or a friend (on the same computer).

Maybe inthe near future you can play against other as well.

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.

GNU Termutils provides control utilities for the GNU terminal.
This directory contains the GNU terminal control utilities tput and tabs. tput is a program to enable shell scripts to portably use special terminal capabilities. Although its interface is similar to that of terminfo-based tput programs, it actually uses termcap. tabs is a program to set hardware terminal tab settings.
Enhancements:
- Package renamed to termutils.
- Added SysV tabs utility.
- tput has longname, init and reset options.
- tput has --standard-input option.
- Works with POSIX.1 termios systems as well as BSD sgtty.
- Configuration updated to current standards.