Lucas Chess
An easy way to play and train chess on your PC
- Michele Tumbarello
- Definition of Tourney-elo engines and the formulae for calculating the indices.
- Alfonso Solbes
- His work was an essential help (saved many hours) in the transition from Python 2.7 (version 11) to Python 3 (version R).
- Eric
- Main betatester.
- Johannes Bolzano
- Code improvements and ideas to Find best move training and more.
- Laudecir Daniel
- Main promoter of the Linux version, he did the selection and compilation of engines,
as well as the establishment of the working Linux version.- Graham O'Neill
- Author of the drivers for the use of the electronic boards (except the official DGT ones).
Also co-operator in the development of the interface code with the electronic boards.
- Version R
- Budana P, Luis, futurelauncher, Stefan Akall, Philipp Hagemeister, Olav Stüwe, Alan Lee, Rudolf Krämer, A. Wicker, Nambi, Reinhard
- Version 1..11
- Michele Tumbarello, WyoCas, Dieter Heinrich, Laudecir Daniel, J.Reimers, Urban Gustavsson, Remes, Dariusz Popadowski, Alfons, Raúl Giorgi, Victor Perez, Max Aloyau, Giovanni di Maria, Alfonso Solbes, Mohammed Abdalazez, Georg Pfefferle, Felicia, Uli, bbbaro25us, baddadza, Toan Luong, vga, M.Larson, Indianajones, Roberto Mizzoni, Johannes Reimers, Vishy, Rui Grafino, Gianfranco Cutipa, Reinhard, Lolo S., Red Hood, Iñaki Rodriguez, Ed Smith, Heikki Junes, Ransith Fernando, Mike Eddies, Robert Anderson, thetasquared, bolokay, R. Sehgal, Adrijan, ADT, Chris K., Xavier Jimenez, Bernhard, Istolacio, Rajkrishna, Pavel Rehulka, Shahin Jafarli (shahinjy), Filomeno Marmalé, jayriginal, Philou, Joaquín Alvarez, Daniel Trebejo, Péter Rabi, James, tico-tico, Nils Andersson, Rob, Ken Brown, Chessindia forum, Immortalchess forum, Jose Luis García, Carmen Martínez
| Current | Previous | Current | Previous | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Christo | العربية | Harvey Randall | Mohamad Alhedhed | |
| Azeri | Shahin Jafarli (shahinjy) | Português (BR) | Laudecir Daniel, Adhoniran Gomes | ||
| Català | Salvador Morral i Esteve | Čeština | Jindrich Skula | ||
| Dansk | Lars | Deutsch | Tobias,Olav | Johannes Bolzano,Andreas,alfons Georg Pfefferle,Frank Stender | |
| English | Lucas Monge | Georg Pfefferle, Lolo S., bolokay | Español | Lucas Monge | |
| Euskara | Ilurdi | Suomi | Heikki J. | ||
| Français | Eric, Lolo S. | Max Aloyau, Gamez-sy | Eλληνικά | Nick Delta | |
| Magyar | József Oláh | Հայերեն | S. Yeghiazaryan | ||
| Indonesia | Heri Darmanto | Italiano | CapFracassa | Vecna,Maurizio Peroni, Michele Tumbarello | |
| 日本語 | Harvey Randall | Nederlands | Willy Lefebvre | ||
| Polski | Dariusz Popadowski | Mirosław Kamiński | Português | Rui Grafino | |
| Română | Curs de Sah Ploiesti | Dan-Alexandru Raportaru | Pусский | Johannes Bolzano | Reinhard,Vladimir,Nils Andersson Reinhard,Slavik Pavlov |
| Slovenščina | Matjaž Seničar | Svenska | Nils Andersson | ||
| Türkçe | Mustafa Nazmi ÖZDEMİR | Українська | Dmytro Sapotnitskyi | Volodymyr Soltys, Maxym Makarchuk | |
| Tiếng Việt | Toan Luong | 简体中文 | Zoushen | Kevin Sicong Jiang,Stephen Yang |
| Nuvola | LGPL | |
| Icons for Windows8 | Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported | |
| Gnome | GPL | |
| Silk icon set 1.3 | Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License | |
| Wooicons1 | GPL | |
| Ultimate Gnome 0.5.1 | GPL | |
| SnowIsh SVG | GPL | |
| Cartoon animal icons | Free for personal non-commercial use | |
| Album of vehicles | Icons-Land Demo License Agreement | |
| Figurines | Freeware | |
| Transsiberian map | CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons | |
| Washing machine | Public domain |
| Author | License |
|---|---|
| Michele Tumbarello | Permission of author |
| Felicia | Permission of author |
| Balestegui | Permission of author |
| Mohammed Abdalazez | Permission of author |
| Red Hood | Permission of author |
| Michael Byrne | Permission of author |
| Ben Citak | Permission of author |
| Xpdnc | Permission of author |
| Alexander | Permission of author |
| Dan Brad | Permission of author |
| Tamer64 | Permission of author |
| Luis | Permission of author |
| Colors | Author | License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported |
|---|---|---|
| Armani Closet | mimi22 | https://www.colourlovers.com/palette/117475/armani_closet |
| Chocolate Creams | Skyblue2u | https://www.colourlovers.com/palette/582195/Chocolate_Creams |
| Good Friends | Yasmino | https://www.colourlovers.com/palette/77121/Good_Friends |
| Nectarius | note | https://www.colourlovers.com/palette/1897208/nectarius |
| Trajan | Jaime Guadagni aka The Cooler | https://www.colourlovers.com/palette/67170/Trajan |
| ChessiconsV3.5 | Permission of author | Merida-Internet | Permission of author | ||
| Spatial-Fantasy-Fantasy Alt SKulls-Freak-Prmi Celtic-Eyes | GPL | Cburnett | Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License | ||
| Chess Alpha | Permission of author | Montreal | Permission of author | ||
| Magnetic-AlfonsoX Maya-Condal | (enpassant) | Freeware | Leipzig | (github) | GPL |
| Chess Pirat | Freeware | Chess Regular | Freeware | ||
| Chess Regular2 | by Tamer64 | Freeware | Kilfiger | SIL open font licence | |
| Cartoon | Martin Bérubé | Free for personal non-commercial use | Qwertyxp2000 | Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License | |
| Jin Alpha | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike3.0 Unported | Etruscan Etruscan clear | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | ||
| Stauton 3D Kidsdraw | Permission of author | Book Classic Book Diagram Book Strategie | Permission of author | ||
| Balestegui Balestegui2 | Permission of author | Caballo R (M, MM, P, RC C) | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | ||
| Cardinalv1 | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | Berlin | Free for personal non commercial use. True Type Font by Eric Bentzen for diagrams and figurine notation. Based on the familiar design from the East German "Sportverlag" |
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| Training | Web | License |
|---|---|---|
| Checkmates by Eduardo Sadier | https://sites.google.com/site/edusadier | Permission of author |
| Endgames by Rui Grafino | Permission of author | |
| Varied positions by Joaquin Alvarez | Permission of author | |
| Tactics by Uwe Auerswald | Freeware | |
| Endgames by Victor Perez | Permission of author | |
| Tactics by UNED chess school | escuela-de-ajedrez/descargas | Permission of author |
| Engine | OS | Author | Web |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acqua 2.0 | Windows | Giovanni Di Maria | http://www.elektrosoft.it/scacchi/acqua/acqua.asp |
| Alaric 707 | Windows | Peter Fendrich | http://alaric.fendrich.se/index.html |
| Alouette 0.1.7 | Windows | Roland Chastain | https://codeberg.org/rchastain/alouette |
| Alouette64 | Linux | Roland Chastain | https://codeberg.org/rchastain/alouette |
| Amoeba-2.6 | Linux | Richard Delorme | https://github.com/abulmo/amoeba |
| Amyan 1.62 | Windows | Antonio Dieguez R. | http://www.pincha.cl/amyan/amyane.html |
| Andscacs 0.9432n | Windows | Daniel José Queraltó | http://www.amateurschach.de/main/_download.htm |
| Andscacs-0.95 | Linux | Daniel José Queraltó | http://www.andscacs.com/ |
| Arasan-22.2 | Linux | Jon Dart | https://www.arasanchess.org/ |
| Arminius 2017-01-01 | Windows | Volker Annus | http://www.nnuss.de/Hermann/Arminius2017-01-01.zip |
| Asymptote-0.8 | Linux | Maximilian Lupke | https://github.com/malu/asymptote |
| Beef-0.36 | Linux | Jonathan Tseng | https://github.com/jtseng20/Beef |
| Bikjump 2.01 (32-bit) | Windows | Aart J.C. Bik | http://www.aartbik.com/ |
| Cassandre-0.24 | Linux | Jean-Francois Romang), Raphael Grundrich, Thomas Adolph, Chad Koch | https://sourceforge.net/projects/cassandre/ |
| Cdrill 1800 Build 4 | Windows | Ferdinand Mosca | https://sites.google.com/view/cdrill |
| CeeChess-1.3.2 | Linux | Tom Reinitz | https://github.com/bctboi23/CeeChess |
| Cheng 4.40 | Windows | Martin Sedlák | http://www.vlasak.biz/cheng |
| Cheng-4.40 | Linux | Martin Sedlák | http://www.vlasak.biz/cheng |
| Chessika-2.21 | Linux | Laurent Chea | https://gitlab.com/MrPingouin/chessika |
| Chispa 4.0.3 | Windows | Federico Corigliano | http://chispachess.blogspot.com/ |
| Cinnamon 1.2c | Windows | Giuseppe Cannella | https://github.com/gekomad/Cinnamon |
| Cinnamon-1.2b | Linux | Giuseppe Cannella | http://cinnamonchess.altervista.org/ |
| Clarabit 1.00 | Windows | Salvador Pallares Bejarano | http://sapabe.googlepages.com |
| Clarabit-1.00 | Linux | Salvador Pallares Bejarano | https://sites.google.com/site/sapabe/ |
| Counter-3.7 | Linux | Vadim Chizhov | https://github.com/ChizhovVadim/CounterGo |
| Critter 1.6a 32bit | Windows | Richard Vida | http://www.vlasak.biz/critter/ |
| Critter-1.6a | Linux | Richard Vida | http://www.vlasak.biz/critter |
| Ct800 1.46 | Windows | Rasmus Althoff | https://www.ct800.net/ |
| CT800_V1.46 | Linux | Rasmus Althoff | https://www.ct800.net/ |
| Cyrano 06B17 | Windows | Harald Johnsen | http://sites.estvideo.net/tipunch/cyrano/ |
| Daydreamer 1.75 JA | Windows | Aaron Becker | https://github.com/AaronBecker/daydreamer |
| Daydreamer-1.75 | Linux | Aaron Becker | https://github.com/AaronBecker/daydreamer |
| DeepToga1.9.6nps | Linux | WHMoweryJr,Thomas Gaksch,Fabien Letouzey | http://www.computerchess.info/tdbb/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=357 |
| Delfi 5.4 | Windows | Fabio Cavicchio | http://www.msbsoftware.it/delfi/ |
| Delocto-0.61n | Linux | Moritz Terink | https://github.com/moterink/Delocto |
| Demolito 32bit | Windows | Lucas Braesch | https://github.com/lucasart/Demolito |
| Discocheck 5.2.1 | Windows | Lucas Braesch | https://github.com/lucasart |
| Discocheck-5.2.1 | Linux | Lucas Braesch | https://github.com/lucasart/ |
| Dragon-linux{avx2} | Linux | Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman, Mark Lefler, Dmitry Pervov, Dietrich Kappe | https://komodochess.com/ |
| Dragontooth-0.2 | Linux | Dylan Hunn | https://github.com/dylhunn/dragontooth |
| Drofa-3.3.0 | Linux | Rhys Rustad-Elliott and Alexander Litov | https://github.com/justNo4b/Drofa |
| Ethereal-12.75 | Linux | Andrew Grant, Alayan & Laldon | https://github.com/AndyGrant/Ethereal |
| Fox 1.4 | Windows | Lucas Monge | |
| Fox 1.4 | Linux | Lucas Monge | |
| Foxcub 1.1 | Windows | Lucas Monge | |
| Foxcub 1.1 | Linux | Lucas Monge | |
| FracTal-1.0 | Linux | Visan Alexandru | https://github.com/visanalexandru/FracTal-ChessEngine |
| Fruit 2.3.1 | Windows | Fabien Letouzey | http://www.fruitchess.com/ |
| Fruit-2.1 | Linux | Fabien Letouzey | http://www.fruitchess.com/ |
| Gambitfruit Beta 4bx | Windows | Ryan Benitez, Thomas Gaksch and Fabien Letouzey | https://github.com/lazydroid/gambit-fruit |
| Garbochess 2.20 | Windows | Gary Linscott | http://forwardcoding.com/projects/chess/chess.html |
| Gaviota 1.0 | Windows | Miguel A. Ballicora | https://sites.google.com/site/gaviotachessengine |
| Gaviota-0.84 | Linux | Miguel Ballicora | https://sites.google.com/site/gaviotachessengine/Home |
| Gaïa 3.5 | Windows | Jean-Francois Romang, David Rabel | http://gaiachess.free.fr |
| Gfruit | Linux | Ryan Benitez, Thomas Gaksch and Fabien Letouzey | https://github.com/lazydroid/gambit-fruit |
| Glaurung 2.2 JA | Windows | Tord RomsTad | http://www.glaurungchess.com/ |
| Glaurung-2.2 | Linux | Tord RomsTad | http://www.glaurungchess.com/ |
| Godel-7.0 | Linux | Juan Manuel Vazquez | https://sites.google.com/site/godelchessengine |
| Goldfish-1.13.0 | Linux | Bendik Samseth | https://github.com/bsamseth/Goldfish |
| Greko 12.9 | Windows | Vladimir Medvedev | http://sourceforge.net/projects/greko |
| GreKo-2020.03 | Linux | Vladimir Medvedev | http://greko.su/index_en.html |
| Greko98 9.8 | Windows | Vladimir Medvedev | http://sourceforge.net/projects/greko |
| GreKo98a | Linux | Vladimir Medvedev | http://sourceforge.net/projects/greko |
| Gull 3 32bit | Windows | Vadim Demichev | https://sourceforge.net/projects/gullchess/ |
| Gunborg-1.35 | Linux | Torbjorn Nilsson | https://github.com/torgnil/gunborg |
| Gödel 7.0 | Windows | Juan Manuel Vazquez | https://sites.google.com/site/godelchessengine |
| Hactar-0.9.0 | Linux | Jost Triller | https://github.com/tsoj/hactar |
| Hamsters 0.5 | Windows | Alessandro Scotti | https://walkofmind.com/programming/chess/hamsters.htm |
| Hannibal 1.4b | Windows | Samuel N. Hamilton and Edsel G. Apostol | http://sites.google.com/site/edapostol/hannibal |
| Houdini 1.5a | Windows | Robert Houdart | http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm |
| Igel-3.0.10 | Linux | Volodymyr Shcherbyna | https://github.com/vshcherbyna/igel/ |
| Irina 0.18 | Windows | Lucas Monge | https://github.com/lukasmonk/irina |
| Irina 0.18 | Linux | Lucas Monge | https://github.com/lukasmonk/irina |
| Jabba-1.0 | Linux | Richard Allbert | http://jabbachess.blogspot.com/ |
| K2-0.99 | Linux | Sergey Meus | https://github.com/serg-meus/k2 |
| Komodo Dragon 1 | Windows | Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman, Mark Lefler, Dmitry Pervov, Dietrich Kappe | https://komodochess.com/ |
| Laser-1.17 | Linux | Jeffrey An and Michael An | https://github.com/jeffreyan11/laser-chess-engine |
| Lc0 v0.31.2 | Windows | The LCZero Authors | https://github.com/LeelaChessZero |
| Lc0-0.27.0 | Linux | Reid McIlroy-Young,Ashton Anderson,Siddhartha Sen,Jon Kleinberg,Russell Wang + LcZero team | https://maiachess.com/ |
| Lc0-0.32.0 | Linux | The LCZero Authors | https://github.com/LeelaChessZero |
| Lime v 66 | Windows | Richard Allbert | http://www.geocities.com/taciturn_lemon |
| Maia-1100/1900 | Windows | Reid McIlroy-Young,Ashton Anderson,Siddhartha Sen,Jon Kleinberg,Russell Wang + LcZero team | https://maiachess.com/ |
| Marvin-5.0.0 | Linux | Martin Danielsson | https://github.com/bmdanielsson/marvin-chess |
| Monarch 1.7 | Windows | Steve Maughan | http://www.monarchchess.com/ |
| Monochrome | Linux | Dan Ravensloft, formerly Matthew Brades (England), Manik Charan (India), George Koskeridis, Robert Taylor | https://github.com/cpirc/Monochrome |
| Monolith-2.01 | Linux | Jonas Mayr | https://github.com/cimarronOST/Monolith |
| Octochess-r5190 | Linux | Tim Kosse | http://octochess.org/ |
| Paladin 0.1 | Windows | Ankan Banerjee | https://github.com/ankan-ban/chess_cpu |
| Patricia 4 v2 | Windows | Adam Kulju | https://github.com/Adam-Kulju/Patricia |
| Pawny 0.3.1 | Windows | Mincho Georgiev | http://pawny.netii.net/ |
| Pawny-1.2 | Linux | Mincho Georgiev | http://pawny.netii.net/ |
| Pigeon-1.5.1 | Linux | Stuart Riffle | https://github.com/StuartRiffle/pigeon |
| Pulse-1.6.1 | Linux | Phokham Nonava | https://github.com/fluxroot/pulse |
| Quokka-2.1 | Linux | Matt Palmer | https://github.com/mattbruv/Quokka |
| Rhetoric 1.4.3 | Windows | Alberto Sanjuan | http://www.chessrhetoric.com/ |
| Roce 0.0390 | Windows | Roman Hartmann | http://www.rocechess.ch/rocee.html |
| Rocinante 2.0 | Windows | Antonio Torrecillas | http://sites.google.com/site/barajandotrebejos/ |
| Rocinante-2.0 | Linux | Antonio Torrecillas | http://sites.google.com/site/barajandotrebejos/ |
| Rodentii 0.9. | Windows | Pawel Koziol | http://www.pkoziol.cal24.pl/rodent/rodent.htm |
| RodentII-0.9.64 | Linux | Pawel Koziol | http://www.pkoziol.cal24.pl/rodent/rodent.htm |
| Rybka 2.3.2a 32-bit | Windows | Vasik Rajlich | http://rybkachess.com/ |
| Shallow-blue-2.0.0 | Linux | Rhys Rustad-Elliott | https://github.com/GunshipPenguin/shallow-blue |
| Simplex 0.9.8 | Windows | Antonio Torrecillas | http://sites.google.com/site/barajandotrebejos/ |
| Simplex-0.9.8 | Linux | Antonio Torrecillas | http://sites.google.com/site/barajandotrebejos |
| Sissa-2.0 | Linux | Christophe J. Mandin | http://devzero.fr/~mnc/SISSA/fr/index_fr.html |
| SpaceDog-0.97.7 | Linux | Eric Silverman | https://github.com/thorsilver/SpaceDog |
| Stash-29.0 | Linux | Morgan Houppin | https://gitlab.com/mhouppin/stash-bot |
| Stockfish 17.1 | Windows | T. Romstad, M. Costalba, J. Kiiski, G. Linscott | https://stockfishchess.org/ |
| Stockfish-17.1-64 | Linux | Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski | https://stockfishchess.org/ |
| Supernova-2.3 | Linux | Minkai Yang | https://github.com/MichaeltheCoder7/Supernova |
| Tarrasch ToyEngine Beta V0.906 | Windows | Bill Forster | http://www.triplehappy.com/ |
| Teki-2 | Linux | Manik Charan | https://github.com/Mk-Chan/Teki |
| Texel 1.08 32bit | Windows | Peter Österlund | https://github.com/peterosterlund2/texel |
| Texel64 | Linux | Peter Österlund | https://github.com/peterosterlund2/texel |
| Toga deepTogaNPS 1.9.6 | Windows | WHMoweryJr,Thomas Gaksch,Fabien Letouzey | http://www.computerchess.info/tdbb/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=357 |
| Tucano-9.00 | Linux | Alcides Schulz | https://sites.google.com/site/tucanochess |
| Tunguska-1.1 | Linux | Fernando Tenorio | https://github.com/fernandotenorio/Tunguska |
| Ufim 8.02 | Windows | Niyas Khasanov | http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Ufim.html |
| Umko 0.7 | Windows | Borko Boskovic | http://umko.sourceforge.net/ |
| Velvet-1.2.0 | Linux | Martin Honert | https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess |
| Weiss-1.2 | Linux | Terje Kirstihagen | https://github.com/TerjeKir/weiss |
| Wildcat 8 | Windows | Igor Korshunov | http://www.igorkorshunov.narod.ru/WildCat |
| Wowl-1.3.7 | Linux | Eric Yip | https://github.com/eric-ycw/wowl |
| WyldChess-1.51 | Linux | Manik Charan | https://github.com/Mk-Chan/WyldChess |
| Zappa 1.1 | Windows | Anthony Cozzie | http://www.acoz.net/zappa/ |
| Zappa-1.1 | Linux | Anthony Cozzie | http://www.acoz.net/zappa/ |
| Zurichess-1.7.4 | Linux | Alexandru Mosoi | https://bitbucket.org/zurichess/zurichess/ |
| Jordi Gonzalez Boada | https://www.jordigonzalezboada.com/ajedrez/aperturas.html |
|---|---|
| PGN Mentor | https://www.pgnmentor.com/files.html |
| Dann Corbit | http://cap.connx.com/ |
| The Week in Chess | https://theweekinchess.com/ |
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_games |
| fics | https://www.ficsgames.org/download.html |
| Norman Pollock | http://www.nk-qy.info/40h/ |
| STS Created by Dann Corbit, Swaminathan | https://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/about |
| liChess database | https://database.lichess.org |
| lichess openings | https://github.com/lichess-org/chess-openings |
| Programming language | https://www.python.org/ | PSF License Agreement | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUI | https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Python | LGPLv3 | |
| psutil | https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil | BSD License (BSD-3-Clause) | |
| chardet | https://github.com/chardet/chardet | LGPLv2 or later | |
| Polyglot books | |||
| python-chess | https://github.com/niklasf/python-chess | GPL-3.0+ | |
| pillow | https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow | CMU License | |
| photohash | https://github.com/bunchesofdonald/photohash | MIT License | |
| cython | Mark Florisson, Vitja Makarov, Dag Sverre Seljebotn | https://cython.org/ | Apache Software License 2.0 |
| formlayout | https://github.com/PierreRaybaut/formlayout | MIT License | |
| sortedcontainers | https://www.grantjenks.com/docs/sortedcontainers/ | Apache Software License 2.0 | |
| polib | https://github.com/izimobil/polib | MIT License | |
| deep_translator | https://github.com/nidhaloff/deep-translator | MIT License | |
| requests | https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest | Apache Software License 2.0 | |
| urllib3 | https://pypi.org/project/urllib3/ | MIT License | |
| idna | https://pypi.org/project/idna/ | BSD License | |
| certifi | https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi | Mozilla Public License 2.0 | |
| bs4 | https://pypi.org/project/bs4 | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |