CBoard

CBoard (Curses/Console Board) is an open source and free Ncurses-powered command-line front-end for chess engines that support the XBoard protocol.

At the moment, CBoard supports reading and writing of PGN formats, including RAV, roster tags, FEN, comments, and NAG.

As reported by users, CBoard works great in any Linux terminal window. It can be used for browsing PGN files using the Crafty chess engine for analyses. Also, the software tends to be very lightweight and not so memory hungry.

CBoard is distributed only as a source archive, but it can be found in the default software repositories of many popular Linux operating systems.

What is new in this release:

• Fixed a few bugs found by Coverity.

What is new in version 0.7.1:

• This version adds the configuration parameter "color_board_prev_move", lets message boxes scroll when needed, and adds bugfixes.

What is new in version 0.6.1:

• When copying a game, the FEN tag wasn't getting updated for the copied game; this has been fixed.

What is new in version 0.6:

• This version no longer sends SIGINT to the chess engine, fixes the engine IO, and adds miscellaneous fixes and updates.

Requirements:

• Crafty
• GNU Chess
• Ncurses