chess

Vanessa Chess is the first multi-document, multithreading chess program for Macintosh withan intuitive interface and a strong chess engine.

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.

Emacs Chess is an object-oriented library written in Elisp for manipulating chess objects (games, plies, positions, etc.), and for displaying them.

Here are some key features of "Emacs Chess":

· 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!

Whats New in This Release:

· This maintenance release includes several bugfixes.

Java-Chess project is a standalone Java chess program.

Java-Chess is a fully-featured chess program that uses using Java 1.2 (including Swing) and 64-bit computing where possible.

The goal of the Java-Chess project is to develop an OpenSource chess application written in Java. We want to demonstrate that Java can be tuned to a point, where it is almost up to the performance of an application, that was directly compiled to native code.

Even clean object-oriented design does not necessarily generate an overhead, that makes high-performance computing virtually impossible.

CHEOPS Chess project is a C++ chess engine.

CHEOPS (CHEss OPponent Simulator), or Χεοψ, is a fully-functional AI chess program capable of human vs. human, human vs. computer, and computer vs. computer play. It uses a 64-square linear array board representation.

The game tree search is alpha-beta, and the static evaluation function considers material, mobility, and motif features.

CHEOPS comes with extensive documentation on the program internals, aimed at students or programmers wishing to understand or extend the system.

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"

Chess::FIDE is a Perl extension for FIDE Rating List.

SYNOPSIS

use Chess::FIDE;
my $fide = Chess::FIDE->new(-file=>filename);
$fide->fideSearch("surname eq Kasparov");

Chess::FIDE - Perl extension for FIDE Rating List. FIDE is the International Chess Federation that every quarter of the year releases a list of its rated members. The list contains about fifty thousand entries. This module is designed to parse its contents and to search across it using perl expressions. A sample list from April 2004 is provided under filename APR04FRL.TXT The following methods are available:

Constructor

$fide = new Chess::FIDE(-file=>localfile); $fide = new Chess::FIDE(-www=>1,[-proxy=>proxyaddress]);

There are two types of constructors - one takes a local file and another one retrieves the up-to-date zip file from the FIDE site, unzips it on the fly and parses the output immediately. In case of the second constructor no files are created. Also usage of an optional proxy is possible in the second case.

Each player entry in the file is scanned against a regexp and then there is a post-parsing as well which is implemented in function parseLine. The entry is then stored in an object defined by the module Chess::FIDE::Player (see its documentation). Every new object is inserted as a hash member where the FIDE ID of the player is the key. A sparse array could be used instead, though.

fideSearch

@result = $fide->fideSearch("perl conditional");
Example: @result = $fide->fideSearch("surname eq Kasparov");

Searches the fide object for entries satisfying the conditional specified as the argument. The conditional MUST be a PERL expression within double quotes. All constant strings should be expressed within single quotes because the conditional is evaled against each entry. Any conditional including a regexp match that may be eval-ed is valid. For the fields to use in conditionals see Chess::FIDE::Player documentation.

Chess::ChessKit is a set of program to translate chess notations and analyses game by moves count.

ChessKit is composed of:

· Move.pm : basic moves on an empty board.
· Board.pm: functions for valid moves in a true game.
· Trad::trad : functions to translate algebraic from one language to another one
· Trad::dscrip :Translate english descriptive notation to long english algebraic
· tradfromto.pl: standalone with a GUI (Tk/perl) using Trad::trad.
· dscripdata.pl: example using Trad::dscrip and checks distribution
· analizmov.pl: example using Chess::ChessKit:Board to find "best" moves according to TMN

note: TMN : Theoretical move number : its the precise number of different valid moves at the disposal of the chess player having to play.

ChessKit is a set of programs and packages to translate any chess notation into another one. As a consequence we have to provide software that can validate pieces (or pawns) moves.

About chess theory somebody states that advantage belongs to the player who has the bigger number of moves. So, to help to verify and pursue the idea,routines for that purpose have been developped.

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.

Chess::ICClib is a Perl interface to Internet Chess Server commands.

SYNOPSIS

use Chess::ICClib;
my $icc = Chess::ICClib->new([-prompt=>$ICC],
[-host=>$host,-port=>$port]
[-user=>$user,-pass=>$password]);
$icc->ICCCommand("finger romm");

Chess::ICClib - Perl interface to Internet Chess Server commands. Provides a tool able to connect, login and send commands to an Internet Chess Server as well as return responses from the server. Can be used as a basis for information retrieval tool as well as for a player or a chess program interface.

Since ICS [Internet Chess Server] (any, commercial and free alike) are built upon the telnet protocol, this module is built upon the Net::Telnet module where the telnet connection serves as the read/write socket.

This module has been tested against ICC (Internet Chess Club, http://www.chessclub.com, telnet king.chessclub.com 5000) but it should work fine against other chess servers unless they propose another "more" preprompt. More about prompts see in ICCCommand method section.

The following methods are available:

Constructor

$icc = Chess::ICClib->new([-prompt=>$ICC], [-host=>$host,-port=>$port] [-user=>$user,-pass=>$password]);

Creates an ICC object, then connects and logins into the ICS. All parameters are optional.

-prompt

The ICS prompt. The default is the ICC prompt aics%. Several other popular servers prompt are provided - see the EXPORT section.

-host,-port

The ICS host and port. The defaults are the ICC host 204.178.125.65 and the ICC port 5000. In later versions hosts and ports for most popular ICS will be added for export.

-user,-pass

The ICS user name and password. There are no defaults. guest login is sufficient on most of the servers (USChessLive and FreeICS are not supporting guest logins!) The module tries to look up the file ~/.icsrc to read the username and password from it.

ICCCommand

my $response = $icc->ICCCommand($icccommand)

This method performs an ICC Command $icccommand and sets the output into $response. The interface of ICC (and supposedly of other ICS) pages the output automatically with preprompt Type "more" to see more and the output unpages it scrolling with issuing the "more" command consecutively until the preprompt disappears. Please note that ICS is case-insensitive while Perl is.

3D Chess is a free and unique 3D chess screensaver that features two computer opponents fighting for chess victory in amazing virtual 3D imaginary worlds.

Here are some key features of "3D Chess Screensaver":

· True 3D animations.
· Cool 3D graphic effects and environments.
· Two computer players playing real games.

Unquestionably the best chess game for the Pocket PC!

From the creators of the award-winning Chessmaster series comes the latest in chess gaming innovation, Pinnacle Chess. With computer analysis, an intuitive user interface, personalized computer opponents and teaching modes to take any player to the next level, Pinnacle Chess is redefining the classic game of chess on handheld devices.

Here are some key features of "Pinnacle Chess":

· Grandmaster playing level chess engine
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· 12 computer chess personalities (varieties of playing strength and style)
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· 14 Tutorials on Basic Chess Strategy (by James Eade author of "Chess for Dummies" IDG Books)
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· Multiple time controls
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· Blindfold chess, random chess
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· On-the-fly computer analysis
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· Chess coaching (legal moves, in-game hints)
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· Save/Load in PGN format
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· 2 Fully annotated classic historical chess games
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· Infinite number of Chess Puzzles
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· Stealth chess (popular Dice Corp. board game)

Requirements:

· - Requires Desktop PC to install
· - Any Pocket PC (3.7MB Ram required)
· - XSCALE, ARM, MIPS, SH3

Can be played against the local computer, against a chess XML Web service and against a human opponets over the internet

Here are some key features of "Multiplayer Chess":

· easy-to-use interface with nice graphics
· 4 playing modes: play locally (against the computer or in two-player mode) or over the internet (against a chess XML Web Service or against one of your MSN Messenger buddies)
· 3 versions: for PocketPC, for Windows Smartphone and for Windows desktop
· chess engine with 6 difficulty levels
· full understanding of the chess rules: draw by repetition / by 50 move rule / by insufficient material, castling, en passant etc.
· save/load games in FEN (Forsyth-Edwards Notation) format
· automatically resumes an interrupted game
· board editor
· move history in standard algebraic notation
· two image sets to choose from
· can rotate the board
· gives next move hints
· small size, under 200KB for both mobile ve

Requirements:

· Pocket PC, Pocket PC 2002 or Pocket PC 2003 with .NET Compact Framework 1.0

Chess Timer description
Chess Timer is a free and useful chess timer utility Ever feel like playing chess, but think to yourself, Golly, what I really need before I play is a chess timer, because my dumbass opponent is taking forever to move?

Well, youre search is at an end, my friend. Chess Timer is a free and useful chess timer utility. So simple to use, even a chess Grand Master can figure it out!