awesome-chess

Strong open source chess engine

Stochfish Chess Repo

UCI chess engine. Repo on GitHub

A German chess program originally developed for Chessbase by Frans Morsch based on his Quest program, ported to DOS, and then Windows by Mathias Feist

A free software chess engine which plays a full game of chess against a human being or other computer program. The goal of GNU Chess is to serve as a basis for research. It has been used in numerous research contexts

Leela Chess Zero

A free, open-source, and neural network-based chess engine and distributed computing project

Chess-playing computer developed by IBM. It is known for being the first computer chess-playing system to win both a chess game and a chess match against a reigning world champion under regular time controls. (quick update 2023-2-4: 403 Forbidden)

AlphaZero is a computer program developed by artificial intelligence research company DeepMind to master the games of chess, shogi and go. Chessprogramming wiki on AlphaZero

official-stockfish/books

Chess books used to develop Stockfish

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Chess Strategy, by Edward Lasker

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs (translated as International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation)

Handbook by FIDE

Official site of the FIDE World Cup

Portable Game Notation

Algebraic notation

Wikipedia site about chess symbols

Wikimedia.org about PNG chess pieces

chessboard-js

Repo on GitHub, responsive mobile-first JavaScript chessboard library

chessboardjs

JavaScript chessboard, repo on GitHub

jchess

A jQuery-based JavaScript library for parsing and displaying chess games, repo on GitHub

chess-board

A web component for displaying chess positions, repo on GitHub

Chess clock by Chess.com on Google Play

Chess clock by Online Stopwatch

Chess timer by TimeMe

Chess-Clock

Well-prepared chess timer by Tuhaj which helps during play of board games like chess or scrabble

chess.js

A JavaScript chess library for chess move generation/validation, piece placement/movement, and check/checkmate/draw detection

An algebraic notation driven chess engine that can validate board position and produce a list of viable moves (notated)

angular-chess

Chess directive for AngularJS

angular-chessboard

Chessboard directive for AngularJS

PyChess

A chess client for Linux/Windows

FlutterChess

A concept chess app for Flutter

AndroidChessClock

Simple chess clock for Android

Lila

A free online chess game server focused on realtime gameplay and ease of use

Chess Alpha Zero

Chess reinforcement learning by AlphaGo Zero methods

python-chess

A chess library for Python, with move generation and validation, PGN parsing and writing, Polyglot opening book reading, Gaviota tablebase probing, Syzygy tablebase probing, and UCI/XBoard engine communication

Lichobile

Lichess.org mobile application

Game Server

Distributed Java game server, including cluster management server, gateway server, hall server, game logic server, background monitoring server and a running web version of fishing. State machine, behavior tree, A* pathfinding, navigation mesh and other AI tools

Tensorflow_chessbot

Predict chessboard FEN layouts from images using TensorFlow

Command Line Chess

A Python program to play chess against an AI in the terminal

Free live chess with humans or computers, watch games, chat and join tournaments

The chess community with +30 million members around the world

Lichess is a free and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name

Free Internet Chess Server (FICS)

Games online, chess section

Chess courses & videos

Chess site created by a chess enthusiast for chess enthusiasts, especially those new to this fascinating game

Online PGN chess game database and chess learning community

Official FIDE broadcasting platform

Chess tournaments online

Chess for Kids, an all-in-one chess learning platform for kids (endorsed by the FIDE)

A platform for chess academies

Site with news about chess (Polish lang.)

Reports about chess - tournaments, championships, portraits, interviews, World Championships, product launches and more

The international chess tournaments results server

The global chess news site

An online app created for arbiters and chess tournament organizers

ICC is a commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants

A commercial Internet chess server managed by ChessBase devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants

A news, strategy, and community site for chess players, offering multiple forms of competition via chess tournaments, ladders and more

The official International Chess Federation (FIDE) gaming platform

Site which uses science-backed learning techniques to help boost player retention

– Practice chess against a humanlike chess bot and get feedback on your play

European Chess Union

English Chess Federation

The Polish Chess Federation

German Chess Federation

Georgian Chess Federation

Chess Association of the Czech Republic

Spanish Chess Federation

The Hungarian Chess Federation

The Norwegian Chess Federation

The Italian Chess Federation

The French Chess Federation

The Japan Chess Association

The All India Chess Federation

The United States Chess Federation

Chess Federation of Canada

The Australian Chess Federation

FIDE ratings and statistics

A square-centric method of representing the chess board used by some chess programs

A bitboard is a specialized bit array data structure commonly used in computer systems that play board games

Leap Motion chess game

Voice controlled chess robot

A 3D chess game for macOS, developed by Apple Inc

Lichess' translations in Crowdin

App with GM Magnus Carlsen (App Store & Google Play)

GM Judit Polgar page

GM Hikaru Nakamura page

GM Magnus Carlsen page

Site about Chess prodigy by Wikipedia

Chess titles by Wikipedia

List of the top UCI (Universal Chess Interface) Engines

The Chess Programming Wiki is a repository of information about programming computers to play chess

The biggest online chess games database

A free resource for chess players to learn and master the game of chess

Chess Pursuit

The project where idea was to turn the chess game upside down, making it an action game instead of a strategy game

A human-like neural network chess engines and other

Called Chinese chess

Called Japanese chess

Called Korean chess

Called Thai chess

Also known as Burmese chess

Site of London Chess Conference

An annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands

Homepage of the Biel International Chess Festival

The chess24 Legends of Chess site for 2020

FIDE Online Olympiad site

One of the world's strongest chess tournament

A prestigious chess event

European Online Blitz Chess Championship

A series of 9 tournaments throughout 2021 with the top players of the world

Top Chess Engine Championship is a computer chess tournament organized and maintained by Chessdom in cooperation with Chessdom Arena

The Grand Chess Tour is a circuit of chess tournaments

It is based on the life of prodigy chess player Joshua Waitzkin

Movie about Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess prodigy

A documentary feature film that explores the life of chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer

An American drama television miniseries based on Walter Tevis's 1983 novel of the same name

Article about the 2021 World Chess Championship on FiveThirtyEight

Lichess.org API

A read-only REST API that responds with JSON-LD data