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