XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms, including 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. It displays a chessboard on the screen, accepts moves made with the mouse, and loads and saves games in Portable Game Notation (PGN).
It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:
* Chess engines that will run on your machine and play a game against you or help you analyze, such as GNU Chess, Crafty, or many others.
* Chess servers on the Internet, where you can connect to play chess with people from all over the world, watch other users play, or just hang out and chat.
* Correspondence chess played by electronic mail. The CMail program automates the tasks of parsing email from your opponent, playing his moves out on your board, and mailing your reply move after you've chosen it.
Project information
- Licence:
- GNU GPL v3
View full history Series and milestones
trunk series is the current focus of development.
All code Code
- Version control system:
- Bazaar
- Programming languages:
- C
All packages Packages in Distributions
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xboard source package in Xenial
Version 4.8.0-2 uploaded -
xboard source package in Trusty
Version 4.7.3-1 uploaded -
xboard source package in Precise
Version 4.5.3-1 uploaded -
xboard source package in Mantic
Version 4.9.1-2build1 uploaded -
xboard source package in Lunar
Version 4.9.1-2build1 uploaded
