FeaturesΒΆ

  • Play on FICS (freechess.org)

  • Play on ICC (chessclub.com)

  • CECP and UCI chess engine support with customizable engine configurations

  • Polyglot opening book support

  • Gaviota end-game tablebase support

  • Hint and Spy move arrows

  • Hint, Score, and Annotation panels

  • Play and analyze games in separate game tabs

  • Countless chess variants including Chess960, Suicide, Crazyhouse, Shuffle, Wildcastle, Losers, Atomic, Three-check, King of the hill, Horde, Makruk, Sittuyin, Cambodian

  • Reads and writes PGN, EPD and FEN chess file formats

  • Undo and pause chess games

  • Move animation in games

  • Drag and drop chess files

  • Optional game move and event sounds

  • Chess piece themes with 42 built-in piece themes

  • Legal move highlighting

  • Direct copy+paste pgn game input via Enter Game Notation open-game dialog

  • Internationalised text and Figurine Algebraic Notation (FAN) support

  • Translated into 38 languages (languages with +5% strings translated)

  • Easy to use and intuitive look and feel