Open Source Java Chess Games for BSD

Jin is a Java client for various chess servers. It currently supports the Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com) and the Free Internet Chess Server (freechess.org) but is designed to be able to support any chess server.

Chess application which allows working with PDFs and PGNs. You can work with the chess games of the PDF and edit their tree of variants. Graphical environment. Standard PGN TAGs. PGN comments. Ocr like (Fen string detection from chess board position images). Connection to Uci chess engines (like stockfish). Position analysis, full game analysis. You can now play games against uci engines. pdf2pgn command line command included. Detailed documentation. Multilanguage currently support for English, Spanish and Catalan. Dark mode option. JDK-17 compatibility

Capa chess is a chess program. Features built-in simple engine, interface with external XBoard/WinBoard and UCI engines, basic plug-in capabilities, import/export, 2D/3D boards with customization. Java JRE 1.8 or above required.

jose is a graphical Chess tool. >>> moved to https://peteschaefer.github.io/jose <<< You can store chess games in a database. You can view and edit games (including variations and comments). You can play against a plugged-in chess engine and use it for analysis. Features 3D board view.

Mobile Chess (for Java ME) and Flash Chess (for Web) with Strong Chess AI, see http://mobilechess.sourceforge.net/. Java Applet Chess and Ajax Chess are also available. Mobile Chess is sponsored by Chess Wizard now, see http://www.chess-wizard.com/.

Chesspresso is a chess library entirely written in Java. The main focus is to deliver high-level interfaces and efficient algorithms to programmers of Java chess software.

JChessBoard is a chess game written in Java that can be connected to another JChessBoard via a direct TCP/IP connection. No Internet Chess Server is required for playing. It also became a full featured PGN viewer and editor.

Java Open Chess is a project written in Java in NetBeans IDE. There is possibility to play for 2 players on local computers and via network connection. There is also an option to play versus quite weak computer oponent. Stronger computer oponens will be implemented soon. ATTENTION: Requires Java 1.8 or higher!

A J2ME MIDlet implementing a Portable Chess Board to run on a Java enabled Cell Phone. In order to download the binaries and/or the source files please follow the Files->MobileChessBoard link above.

It is a Shogi - Japanese Chess - game made in Java, where you can play against one of 3 AI's of your choice. Or against a friend.

JavaPairing is a tool to manage a chess tournament. It is pure Java and can run as is on any platform, including Windows, Linux and Macintosh (JRE 1.6 or more required). It is free and open source under the GPLv3 license. Dutch, Dubov, r.r., Amalfi

Chess Editor is a pure Java tool to create, edit and view chess games in the Portable Game Notation (PGN) format. The tool integrates with externally specified chess engine programs to provide analysis of board positions.

Java based client / server online games engine & API for easy creation/running of real-time multiplayer games. Games include Battleships, Camelot, Checkers, Chess, Connect 4, Dots, Go, Octagons, Texas Hold'em Poker, Reversi, Spades, Tetris & Tic-tac-toe

A 2D-Chess with many features, such as a multiplayer server and many others. It will also show you all movement possibilites you have. Playing against Computer is in development

A chess study aid that lets you keep track of the various positions and branches of a chess game. It's very useful for studying the complexities of a board situation, and for following along a game that has plenty of commentary. Check out the homepage!

MobiChess is classical Chess game for J2ME-enabled mobile phones. Two modes of game are available: hotseat and single play.

This is UCI Chess Engine writen in Java. Since version 1.4 (inclusive) the project was moved to https://github.com/bagaturchess/Bagatur

This project just aims to be a simple chess board. You can do whatever you want with pieces (even make a piece eat a king if you want !!!) : the purpose is just to provide a "magnetic" chess board on computer. But all moves are verified. Also with some facilities : history manager, so that you can go back and rewrite the game history !!!

A chess study aid that lets you keep track of the various positions and branches of a chess game. It's very useful for studying the complexities of a board situation, and for following along a game that has plenty of commentary. The goal of the project

Frittle is an open source amateur Java Chess Engine that supports the XBoard/WinBoard Chess Engine Communication Protocol (version 2).

SimpleShogi is a Java implementation of the game Shogi (japanese chess) it supports hot seat and multiplayer via network (UDP). SimpleShogi offers intuitive symbols for beginners but does not implement an AI-player.

A chess-engine based on Java.

xChess is a multiplatform graphical chess user interface written in Java for numerous chess engines. It intends to support multiple chess protocols to serve as a front end for many existent chess engines.

AEHChess - A console based chess game between two players played in non GUI environment