Open Source C Board Games

"Shane's Chess Information Database" is a huge chess toolkit with extensive database, analysis and chess-playing features. Scid vs. PC is a usability and bug-fix fork of Scid. It has many interface fixes and improvements, and is fully compatible with Scid's .si4 databases. New features include a rewritten Gamelist, Computer Tournament, and FICS, Tree, Book and Graph improvements.

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational.

Implements the rules of Scrabble(tm) for Android devices (and historically, for PalmOS, PocketPC and others) (For development purposes there's also a Linux client using ncurses or GTK.) Easy to port to other platforms, supports multiple languages and multi-device play via the internet, SMS, Bluetooth, and NFC. Not vaporware: one of TIME.com's top 5 PalmOS apps

Pioneers is an emulation of the board game The Settlers of Catan, which can be played over the internet.

Scidb is an open-source chess database application for Windows, Unix/Linux. It is a new development inspired by Scid.

A console/text based chess program with XBoard/CECP and UCI API, available on all major platforms. You may need a graphical chess interface to use it. Please refer to README.md in the files section for installation instructions. The last stable release is 2.2.0 and has been released on 13/04/2026. Belofte 0.2.0 till 0.9.20 (c/c++): Xboard 1 & 2 (CECP) - Linux/Unix/(Windows) Belofte 2.1.1 and up (c++11) : UCI and Xboard 2 - Linux/Windows/Mac/Android/... For access to code, please clone the git repository. Compiles and Runs on 32/64 bit on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android (ARM/x86) and Raspberry. Released under GNU v2 license. (means free to copy, free to modify, free to use, ...) Works fine with Arena/Cutechess/BanksiaGui/Winboard/Xboard/...

Popeye is a chess problem solving and testing software with strong support for fairy chess and heterodox genres. For more information cf. topic "Popeye (chess)" on http://en.wikipedia.org/

Pasang is a traditional two-player board game of Brunei. The game starts with a board-full of tokens. The players take turn capturing these tokens. The player with the most tokens wins.

ChessDB is a free open-source chess database for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and most UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. ChessDB is based on code from Scid http://scid.sourceforge.net/ - a project for which there have been no updates for several years. In

A prototype for a 3D Goban display, full featured SGF editor, client for IGS-PandaNet and interface for GNU Go. glGo is written in C++ and based on wxWindows, OpenGL and SDL. glGo is available for Linux and Windows.

Chess program, plays quite interesting, installer for windows, works in Linux under xboard, source code in pure C

DSgf is an SGF file editor on the Nintendo DS platform for GO board game players.

Gambit is a cross-platform chess game. There are binaries for Windows users. Users of Unix-like operating systems can check the web site for build instructions (it should be easy to follow).

The CGoban 1 program is a Unix-based client for connection to internet go server that use protocols similar to the one used by IGS, the Internet Go Server. It also functions as a SGF (Smart Game Format) browser that lets you view and edit go game records.

AmiGoGtp is a version of the AmiGo Go program with a GTP (Go Text Protocol) interface added. It can be used as a weak but fast opponent for beginners and is of historical interest as one of the first open-source Go programs.

OliveChess is a simple chess engine compatible with modern chess interfaces such as ChessBase products, Arena and XBoard/Winboard. The engine supports UCI and XBoard protocols. Note: in order to use it as an xboard engine you may need Polyglot tool to be installed first

A simple application for displaying time-remaining for an event, such as for cooking, chess playing, debate speech timing, or governing floor-time at a public speaking event, such as paper presentations. The numbers appear large enough to be seen at a distance, or the display can be shrunk into the corner of a presentation screen. The time-remaining display changes color, as a warning, near end of the duration. Display also shows elapsed time, and has a pause/resume button. The application is a simple stand-alone executable that can be placed on any machine, and does not require internet connection to use it. Can be used to count-down time for events lasting less than one minute, hours, days, or up to a year.

Thief is a free chess client to play on chess servers like FICS: http://www.freechess.org It supports regular chess and all variants played. It is the best client for playing Bughouse, a special team-chess game (for more info see http://www.bughouse.

CBoard (Curses/Console Board) is an Ncurses frontend to chess engines supporting the XBoard protocol. Supports reading and writing PGN including roster tags, RAV, FEN, NAG and comments, lots of configuration options, UTF-8, different board sizes depending on the terminal and more.

Gtkboard is a generic board game engine into which various games are fitted as plugins. Games share the user interface, move parsing and strategy code. Currently over 30 games have been implemented; some are single player and some are two player games.

Mastermind RK is a little cross-platform game for various classic Z80-based computers, written in C using the z88dk compiler (www.z88dk.org). Your goal is to break a four-digit colour code in as few moves as possible. The compiled program is a little over 8K in size, so it usually requires the target machine to have at least 16K RAM. Currently, 83 target systems are supported, including Mattel Aquarius, Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 (with a separate Chroma colour version), ColecoVision, various Robotron computers, Philips P2000 and VG5000, and many more. 2025-11-10: - New target supported: Commodore 128 (using the Z80 CPU)

Tavli3d is the greek backgammon.It consists of three games:portes (similar to Backgammon),plakoto(with pinning instead of hitting) and fevga(a game where no hitting occurs).The game is written in OpenGL/SDL/C .For now only single player is supported.

Winboard 4.5 32-bit is a free Windows accessible Chess program that works automatically with the JAWS or the free NVDA screen reader. It is for the blind, low sighted or those who can not use a mouse. It provides vocal announcements of position changes and other selectable board conditions. Blind players also use a separate "tactile chess board". Winboard 4.5 has full keyboard access to move pieces and run menu items. Partial sighted players use high contrast mode and adjust board, piece, most font sizes and colors. Available languages are English, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Russian. Games may be viewed, modified or saved in standard PGN format. Two Chess engines supply play and grand master strength move analysis. Connect to the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) and play humans. Modify verbosity in screen reader configurations and in the Winboard "Sound" dialog under the "General" menu. Find all documentation in the "doc" folder under the Winboard directory of your C drive.

Sudokuki is a free graphical SUDOKU game: Sudokuki solves even the most difficult sudoku grids for you - Generate a sudoku - Play sudoku - Print a sudoku... Available in 17 languages. Just download and play! You can also play with arabic or chinese numbers. Sudokuki is Free Software developed in Java. Have fun!

Шахматный движок и графическая оболочка под Windows 64 (запуск - start.cmd), под Linux запускать под xboard. Исходники на Си прилагаются. The chess engine and graphical shell run on Windows 64, and on Linux run on xboard. The C sources are attached.