Free shredder chess software for linux

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.

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.

Dreamchess is a XBoard-compatible 3D chess interface and engine.
DreamChess is an open source chess game. Our primary target platforms are Linux, Windows, Dreamcast and BeOS. DreamChess features 3D OpenGL graphics and provides various chess board sets, ranging from classic wooden to flat figurines.
A moderately strong chess engine is included: Dreamer. However, should this engine be too weak for you, then you can use any other XBoard-compatible chess engine, including the popular Crafty and GNU Chess.
Other features include on-screen move lists using SAN notation, undo functionality, and savegames in PGN format. In future releases we plan to add support for time controls, audio, network play, more visual effects such as reflections and shadows, and 3D animated pieces.
Enhancements:
- 3D OpenGL user interface (XBoard-compatible).
- A variety of chess sets, including classic wooden and flat figurines.
- Moderately strong chess engine.
- Savegames in PGN format.

KGpg Shredder Service Menu is a service menu for shredder function of KGpg. Im sick of dragging files to the icon (See SS).
I dont know if you need to install the shredder onto your desktop or not (probably not).
Either way, extract and place in ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus and re-open Konqueror. Comment or email me for improvements. Addy can be found in the file.
Enhancements:
- Thanks to Dr. Pavri for bringing shred command to my attention.
- The archive now has two files.
- shred.desktop is for shred command, kgpg-shred.desktop is for kgpg command.

IRC-Chess project is a 2-player chess game for IRC which turns a computer into an IRC chess bot.

It consists of a Java chess server, with frontend scripts to convert an IRC client into a chess bot. Players then communicate with the bot using standard IRC commands, and dont require any special software to play.

Frontend scripts are available for IRSSI and X-Chat.

The client is merely responsible for interpreting this data and displaying it. In this way, porting the system to a variety of IRC clients is very simple, since
the client script will be short, and effectively contain no code specific to the game being played.

In other words, the Java part is smart. The script is dumb and is just there to make things look pretty.

This idea works. Currently, client scripts have been designed for RSSI and XChat. Since both these programs use Perl for scripting, the scripts are practically identical, with a few client specific modifications.

Porting this script to other IRC clients shouldnt be too much of a hassle, since its just the frontend thats ported, not the chess game itself. Anyone wanting to create frontend scripts for other IRC clients, please feel free to do so.

The PROTOCOL file describes exactly what needs to be done.

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.

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.