Description: Website for ChessV, a universal chess program by Greg Strong
free (26161) open source (4369) program (2864) chess (1062) variant (56) chess variants (9)
Update 2020-01-22 ChessV 2.2 released - What's New
ChessV is a free, open-source universal chess program with a graphical user interface, sophisticated AI engine, and other features of traditional Chess programs. As a "universal" chess program, it not only plays orthodox Chess, it is also capable of playing games reasonbly similar to Chess. It currently plays over 100 different chess variants , and can be programmed to play additional variants.
Plays over 100 different Chess variants, including some that are quite exotic. Has a fully-featured graphical user interface, but the engine can also be used separately under another GUI (such as WinBoard ) and other compliant engines can be used with ChessV's GUI. Has a scripting language to allow configuration of new variants. It supports combining existing pieces and rules, and even defining new pieces, but creation of new rules is not supported. Plays with a fairly high level of skill. The engine can al