XBoard and WinBoard.

XBoard is a graphical chessboard for X that can serve as a user interface to play against any of a variety of chess engines that run on your local machine, or against human or computer opponents on an Internet chess server. XBoard can also be used by itself to read and write game files in PGN (portable game notation). WinBoard is a port of XBoard to Microsoft Win32.

• Release tags
• All releases

Recent releases

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• 4.7.0

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•  04 Mar 2013 23:30
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• Stable

Release Notes: Many new features and some bugfixes.

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• 4.5.1

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•  27 Feb 2011 08:57
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• Minor bugfixes
• Stable

Release Notes: Some bugs were fixed.

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• 4.5.0

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•  27 Feb 2011 08:57
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• Stable

Release Notes: Lots of new features were added.

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• 4.4.4

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•  27 Feb 2011 08:57
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• Stable

Release Notes: This release includes several bugfixes.

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• 4.4.3

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•  25 Apr 2010 22:30
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Release Notes: Bugfixes and some new features.

• All comments

Recent comments

19 Dec 2001 09:45 kunnk

interface
This is the best chess interface for *nix, in my opinion. It has LOT features and is very stable. But GUI looks dated.
If you want chess interface with more modern GUI for *nix, i recommend to look eboard or knights.

11 Mar 2000 08:51 rarez

xboard 4.0.5
As of xboard 4.0.5 i think that it's a much better than gnomechess.gnuchess is not as clear on the visualizalation part.