Xboard
GNU XBoard
https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/
Graphical chessboard.
XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System. It can serve as a user interface for chess engines such as Fairy Max, Sjeng, Baby, Hachu or GNU Chess, for the Internet Chess Server, or for electronic mail correspondence chess. It supports all major forms of chess, such as international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi (Japanese chess) and Makruk, in addition to many minor variants such as Losers Chess, Crazyhouse, Chess960 and Capablanca Chess.
XBoard presents a fully interactive graphical interface and can load and save games in the Portable Game Notation. It can also be used by itself as viewer for stored chess games.
Documentation
https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/user_guide/UserGuide.htmlhttps://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/manual/
https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/rules/
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Download
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/xboard-4.9.1.tar.gz
version 4.9.1
(stable)
released on 1 August 2016
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User level
Intermediate
Donate link
https://my.fsf.org/donate/Accepts cryptocurrency donations.
Paid support
https://www.fsf.org/resources/service/VCS Checkout
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/xboard.gitCategories
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Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
| Arun Persaud | Maintainer |
| Joshua Pettus | Maintainer |
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This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 19 January 2019.
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