Here is a list of chess engines that play “Fischer Random Chess (FRC)”, also known as Chess 960. Programs playing other chess variants than FRC are specially remarked with their download-links.

• Asian Board Games - Chesslight.com
• Chess 2 - The Sequel - David Sirlin / Ludeme Games
• Chess Variants (historical description and enumeration) - Carolus Chess
• Hybrids Chessboard - Artem Shvorin
• Main Index - The Chess Variant Pages - Fergus Duniho / David Howe / Hans Bodlaender
• Musketeer Chess - Evolution of Chess - Dr Zied Haddad
• Overview - Chess Variant Applets - MD Ed Friedlaender aka “path guy”
• PyChess chess variants
• WinBoard and chess variants - Chinese chess introduction - free XianqQi engines - protocol adapters - ShogiBoard collection - Shogi variants - USI to WinBoard - converter

• Beta Elephant - milkpku

• BitStronger ~ UCCI Engine - GitHub - Jian Lin

• Blind Chess (Banqi) - fic

• Challenger, UCI Chinese Chess Engine - grefen

• Chameleon - UCI Chinese Chess Engine - Wilbert Lee

• Chess-AI - hy1013

• ChessQ - Chinese Chess GUI program, using Python and PyQT - UCCI Chess Engines - walker li / 8088

• Chinese AI Chess - Welliam Shour

• Chinese Chess - Chen aka h980501427

• Chinese Chess - stuarts740

• Chinese-Chess Beta - RuXu W.

• Chinese Chess Master for Mac OS X - Quan Le

• Chinese Chess Java Applet - Jiyao Weng

• CXBoard for Chinese Chess - Noah Roberts

• Fairy-Max plays Berolina / Capablanca / Courier / Cylinder / Fairy / Gothic / Great / Makruk / Knightmate / Normal / Seirawan / Shatranj / Spartan / Super / XiangQi (only MaxQi) - H.G. Muller

• Folium ~ UCCI Engine - Google - lwm3751

• Gizmo´s Freeware - a non-commercial community website staffed entirely by volunteers

• HaQiKiD - H.G. Muller

• HiddenLynx - Mikko “Mayoneez” Oksalahti

• Hoichess-HoiXiangqi - Holger Ruckdeschel

• HOXchess - an open source-project by several people

• iXiangQi for Mac OS X - Nanshanweng

• Jian- pu´s Chinese Chess - mrjianpu

• jqxq - liujh168

• Makulit - Ferdinand Mosca

• MaxQi - H.G. Muller

• MRSD - ki11egg - Tzer-Jen Wei

• Palm XianqQ - Alexander R. Pruss / yccheok

• Project "Chinese Chess" under GNU/Linux - Chen

• Tagua, a generic board game application for Chess Variants / Shogi / XiangQi - Paolo Capriotti / Maurizio Monge / Yann Dirson

• TJ xiangqi - Tony Hecker

• TSITO Chinese Chess Engine - Noah Roberts

• Xiang Chi - Jason Freidman aka compnski

• Xiangqi Engine - jik

• Xiangqi for Linux and Windows - Christophe Hannosset / Andrei Barbu

• XiangQi - Online Chinese Chess for Mac OS X - Weikuan Zhou

• Xiang Qi Website - xianq-qi.appspot.com

• XiangQi Wizard (including Light version for Mobile Windows CE / Java CE and ElephantEye ~ UCCI engine) - xqbase

• Xiangqi Light - Huang Chen / H.G. Muller

• XieXie Master - Pascal Tang / Eugenio Jiminez Castillo / Vinh-Tuong Huynh / Jih Tung Pai+

• XQBase - UCCI Engines

• YaYxp by matematiko is called “Yet another YtoICS for Xiangqi at Playxiangqi”, an ICS (Internet Chess Server) emulator for connecting WinBoard/Xboard to Playxiangqi

• Yutopian Chinese Chess computer software - Yutopian Enterprises Inc.

• Apery USI - Hiraoka Takuya

• BCMGames (Shogi related software) - Bernhard März

• Blunder USI - ShogiBoard - Akira Shimoyama

• Bonanza - WinBoard Edition - Kunihito Hoki

• Clownish - dkbk

• CrazyWa (Windows) - Linux Edition - plays plays Crazyhouse (8×8) / Judkins' Shogi (6×6) / Mini-Shogi (5×5) / Regular Shogi (9×9) / Tori Shogi (7×7) / Wa Shogi (11×11) - H.G. Muller

• Gasyou (Mini-Shogi only, requires at least Ivy-Bridge, Windows 7x64, 4 cores/threads, 6,6 GB RAM) - Google Drive - Yuichi Morioka

• Gikou - Gikou Official

• GNU Shogi for Unix systems - Download WB Edition - Mike Vanier / Matthias Mutz

• GPSFish USI - Binaries - Shogi-Interface - GPS Shogi Team

• GPSShogi - Game Programming Seminar (GEMUPUROGURAMINGUSEMINA), a project of the University in Tokyo

• gShogiGUI - GSE Engine USI - GitHub - John Cheetham

• HaChu - plays Chu Shogi / Dai Shogi / Sho Shogi / Wa Shogi (without drops) / Makruk / Nocastle / Mighty-Lion Chess / Shatranj / Werewolf Chess - Chu Variant - H.G. Muller

• Hiyoko Shogi USI - Download - Hatena Website

• Inaniwa Shogi USI - inaniwa3

• Kaya - a board game suite for GNU Shogi , XBoard-compatible chess engines etc. - GitHub - Paolo Capriotti

• Kifu Larabe-Narabe-Warabe - Vector Website - Takahashi Satoshi

• Kuma Shogi USI - Suzumer FC2 Website

• Laramie USI - Galaxy Robot Factory

• Lima for Shogi 5 x 5 - Current Edition - Ferdinand Mosca

• Mac Shogi and Shogi - Eric Cheymol

• Miyako Shogi System USI - Y. Maeda

• Nanoha Mini - woodyring

• Nebiyu - plays Advancer Chess, Alien, Amazons, Atomic, Berolina, Capablanca, Checkers, Coordinator Chess, Crazyhouse, Courier, Go, Gothic, Grand, Hex, Immobilizer Chess, Knightmate, Longleaper Chess, Makruk, Normal Chess, Omega, Pushmepullyus Chess, Quadruple Chess, Reversi, Shatranj, Shogi, Spartan, Triple Chess, Ultima, Withdrawer Chess etc. - Daniel Shawul - Alien WinBoard Edition - H.G. Muller - Crazyhouse Chess Variant Association - Ferdinand Mosca

• Nozomi (requires at least Haswell-microarchitecture) - Yuhei Ohmori

• Okara Manju - dasapon17

• Persimmon Shogi Software - Yoshikazu Kakinoki

• Petit Shogi USI

• Ponanza Quartette - Issei Yamamoto, University of Tokyo

• Ruby Shogi - Tony Helminen

• Saya Chan - Download - Evaluation - ebifrier

• Shogi 5 x 5 - MiniShogi for iPad / iPhone / iPod touch - Yoshikazu Kakinoki

• Shogi 686 - merom686

• Shogi Demon - MacUpdate LLC

• Shogidokoro including Lesserkai USI - Download

• Shogi-Game - Sherman Chow

• Shogi GUI - Download - Google Website

• Shogi Java - AI - Tom Debrave

• Shogi Kurpfalz (German) - Oliver Orschiedt

• Shogi Repeat - ai5

• Shogi Var - Steve Evans - Linux 64-bit / Source Code / - plays Chu / Dai (-Dai) / Heian (Dai) / Judkin´s / Maka Dai-Dai / Micro / Mini / Modern / Sho / Tai / Tenjiku / Tori / Wa / Whale / Yari Shogi

• Shogi Variants - Holland Numerics Ltd. (Software Downloads + Online Games)

• Shogi Viewer - Andrej Lysenka

• Shogi War - RAZA´s Webpages

• Shokidoki - plays Euro / Judkins / Mini / Tori Shogi - H.G. Muller

• Shotest Shogi (Xbox 360, PC)- 3D-Shogi for PC- Shogi for Sony PSP / Gizmondo - AI Factory Ltd.

• Silent Majority - Apery WCSC 26 - ebifrier

• SimpleShogi Java - Wock

• Siyam for Shogi 9 x 9 - Ferdinand Mosca

• Spear Shokidokoro - USI - Reijer Grimbergen

• Sunfish USI - Makoto Matsumoto, Mutsuo Saito

• Sunflower Mini - kyamamoto9120

• SxRandom, for Dobutsushogi / Minishogi / Shogi - 3 Check / Atomic / Chess 960 / Crazyhouse / Giveaway / Horde / King Of The Hill / No castle / Racing Kings / Random 256 / Shuffle / Standard Chess - David Šafránek

• Tagua, a generic board game application for Chess Variants / Shogi / XiangQi - Paolo Capriotti / Maurizio Monge / Yann Dirson

• Tanuki USI - Apery WCSC 26

• TJ shogi USI - WB - Tony Hecker

• Universal Shogi Interface - Tord Romstad

• Usapyon 2 - Additional Files - Yasuhiro Ike

• Yagura Shogi - client server application - Tomasz Szczesniak-Szlagowski

• YaneuraOu USI - yaneurao

• Collection Jim Ablett´s Bundle Final - Mediafire
  • CCCP Knightmate by Pawel Koziol
  • Dabbaba Arcbishop / Chancellor / Extinct / FRC 960 / GridChess / Knightmate / Knight As Alfil - Dabbaba - Ferz - Wasir / Nightrider / No Castle / Pawnfreeze / Rooksquare / Shatranj / Wildcastle by Jens Bæk Nielsen
  • Faile Knightmate / Nightrider by Adrien Regimbald
  • Fimbulwinter Knightmate by John Shedletsky
  • Gerbil Knightmate by Bruce Moreland
  • Lime Knightmate / Nightrider by Richard Allbert
  • MS(K)CP Knightmate by Marcel van Kervinck
  • Vanilla Chess Knightmate by Shaun Press

• Jabba Knightmate Download - Richard Allbert

• Joker Knightmate - H.G. Muller

• Masipag Nightrider - Ferdinand Mosca

• Numpty Nightrider - Chris Tatham

• SamChess Berolina Chess - Knightmate - Nightrider - Version for Makruk - Tony Mokonen

• Sjaak - plays Ai-Wok / Amazon Chess / Asean / Berolina Chess / Caïssa Britannia / Capablanca Chess / Chancellor / Chaturanga / Chess-Gi / Courier Chess / Crazyhouse / Diana Chess / Embassy / Fischer Random Chess / Gothic Chess / (Indian) Grand Chess / King Of The Hill / Knightmate / Legan´s Chess / Los Alamos / Makruk / Microchess / Mini-Shogi / Nightrider Chess / Omicron Chess / Omega Chess / Opulent / Peasant´s Revolt / Pocket Knight / Roman Chess / Schoolbook Chess / Shatar - Traditional Mongolian Chess / Shatranj / Seirawan Chess (2880) / (Sho) Shogi - Japanese Chess / Sittuyin - Burmese Chess / Spartan Chess / Suicide Chess / Super Capablanca Chess / The Maharaja And The Sepoys / Tori-Shogi / Twilight Chess / Viceroy Chess / Wildebeest Chess / Xiangqi - Chinese Chess - Evert Glebbeek

• Tadyak Knightmate - Ferdinand Mosca

• AntiChess - Baris Yuksel / Hongping Lim / Hooria Komal
• AntiCrux - GitHub - ecrucru
• A status report on Losing Chess - Mark Watkins
• Fritz (SMP) Fischer Random Chess / Giveaway - ChessBase
• Gerbil - Losers Chess - Bruce Moreland
• Kilapa - Eric Polino
• KKFChess - plays Atomic / Crazyhouse / Losers / Suicide / Wild - Andrew Fan - Crazyhouse Chess Variant Association - plays Atomic, Crazyhouse, Losers, Nocastle Chess, Normal Chess, Suicide Chess - Ferdinand Mosca
• KPanta - Google - Anand S / Anil Kumar / Bharath Bhushan
• Les échecs à qui perd gagne - Fabrice Liardet
• Losing Chess 1.e3 wins for White- Mark Watkins
• Losing Chess Wizard - Stan Goldowski´s Losing Chess Page
• Nakshatra - Goutham Bhat
• Nilatac - Colibri - 5 men Online EGTBs - Cătălin Frâncu
• OliPow - plays Atomic / Suicide / Losers Chess - Oliver Brausch
• Pulsar - plays Atomic / Crazyhouse / Losers / Shuffle Chess / Setboard Wilds / Suicide / Three Checks / Two Kings / Wild 9 - Mike Adams
• Schildbach Game - plays (Abstract / Suicide) Checkers, (Abstract / Anti King / Dragon / FRC / Suicide) Chess, Capture Go, Reversi - Andreas Schildbach
• Scidb - database system for various chess variants - Gregor Cramer
• Sjeng - plays Bughouse / Crazyhouse / Giveaway / Losers Chess / Suicide - Gian-Carlo Pascutto - Suicide / Giveaway Challenger respectively Zhouse / Crazyhouse Challenger by WhoAmI
• Stockfish - plays Atomic / Crazyhouse / Fischer Random Chess / Giveaway / Horde / King of the Hill / N-Check (3-Check) / Racing Kings / Relay / Suicide - Daniel Dugovic / Fabian Fichter / Niklas Fiekas
• Suicide Chess Review - Vladica Andreijic aka “Andrew The Almighty”
• Vlasov´s Atomic Chess Homepage
• WinBoard / XBoard

• Aice

• aigochess - with two cannons extra from Chinese Chess by Wang Jian

• Alfil Chess

• Alouette

• Amyan

• Anaconda

• annobook - plays Atomic Chess by atomictheory

• ArcBishop80 - plays 10 x 8 chess variants by Matthias Gemuh

• Arminius

• Atomkraft - plays Atomic Chess by Atomic Lichess

• Ayito

• Barracuda

• Betsy

• BigLion80 - plays 10 x 8 chess variants

• Bihasa for Capablanca Chess and Gothic Variant (10x8) by Ferdinand Mosca

• Bilis for Makruk by Ferdinand Mosca

• Bolyar Chess by Lazar Lashev

• BrainFish by Stefan Zipproth

• Bright

• Capitaine - plays Musketeer Chess by Toni Helminen

• Catalyst - plays Spartan Chess by Richard Allbert

• Chancellor

• Cheng

• Chess-Challenge (Polish edition) - Mohamed Mohab and Dawid Federowicz

• ChessV - plays Alapo / Alice Chess / Almost Chess / Angels and Devil / Archchess / Arch Courier Chess / Berolina Chess / Bird’s Chess / Brouhaha / Butterfly Chess / Cagliostro’s Chess / Capablanca Chess / Capablanca Chess, Aberg variant / Capablanca Chess, Paulowich variant / Capablanca Shatranj / Carrera’s Chess / Chess 256 / Chess 480 / Chess and a Half / Chess on a 12 by 12 Board / Chess with Augmented Knights / Chess with Different Armies / Chess with Ultima Pieces / Colossus / (Compound) Courier (Custom) Chess / Corridor Chess / Courier Chess Moderno / Cylindrical Chess / Diagonal Chess / Diamond Chess / Double Chess 16×8 / Doublemove Chess / Embassy Chess / Emperor’s Game / Enep / Eurasian Chess / Exinction Chess / Falcon Chess / File Sharing Chess / Fischer Random Chess / Gilded Grand Shatranj / Gothic Chess / Grand Chess (Shatranj) / Great Chess (Shatranj) / Gross Chess / Grotesque Chess / Hannibal Chess / Janus (Kamil) Chess / Kinglet / Knightmate / Ladorean Chess / Latrunculi duo milia et septum / Legan’s Game / Lemurian Shatranj / Lions and Unicorns Chess / Los Alamos Chess / Makruk / Marsellais Chess / Maryland Chess / Mecklenberg Chess / Modern Carrera´s Chess / Modern Kamil / Modern Shatranj / New Chancellor Chess / Odin’s Rune Chess / Odyssey / Omega Chess / Opti Chess (mirror I) / Opulent Chess / Orthodox Chess / Pocket Knight / Polymorph Chess / Relative Royalty Chess / Revised Chess / Roman Chess / Royal Court / Schoolbook Chess / Shako / Shatranj / Shatranj Kamil (64-X) / Sosarian Chess / Switching Chess / TenCubed Chess / Three Checks Chess / Ultima / Unicorn (Grand-Great) / Univers Chess / Victorian Chess / Viking Chess / Wild Chess / Wildbeest Chess - Gregory Strong

• Chessy plays Atomic Chess, Bughouse, Cylindric Chess, Darkchess, Quad, Roleplay, Shuffle Chess, Turquoise Chess and many other variants by Nils Beckmann / Nibec - Software

• Chiron

• Chispa

• Crab

• CrazyAra - plays Crazyhouse - GitHub by Alena Beyer, Johannes Czech and Moritz Willig

• Crazybot - plays Crazyhouse (Zhouse / Crazyhouse Challenger) by Tecumseh

• Critter

• Croatian Chess - a collection of various chess variants by mmlacak

• Cyclone

• DanaSah

• Daydreamer

• Deep Bug - plays Bughouse / Crazyhouse - Ben Dean-Kawamura - Zhouse / Crazyhouse Challenger by WhoAmI

• Defeo - an AI (originally based on Sjeng 8.5.1) for Bughouse / Crazyhouse - Dušan Škaloud

• DiceChess plays DiceChess with 6 pieces / sides each - Toni Helminen

• Dreierschach, a hexagonal chess game for three opponents - Christian Wahlmann

• Duell, a chess board where figures are replaced by dices (flipped around the board according to their value, obeying the rules of chess) - Maettu

• Einstein - plays Onestone does not throw dice respectively Einstein würfelt nicht - H.G. Muller

• Ethereal for Musketeer Chess by Andrew Grant

• EXchess

• Femto for Marsellais Chess by Sven Schüle

• Ferrarifish

• Feuerstein for Crazyhouse by Ferdinand Mosca

• Firefly

• FishCooking

• Frenzee

• Fridolin

• Fruit

• Gitna for King of the Hill by Ferdinand Mosca

• Glaurung

• GNU Chess

• Gorke - plays Racing Kings variant by goracingkingsengine

• Gothic Chess - Vortex Engine - plays Gothic Chess (10 x 8) by Ed Trice and Gil Dodgen

• Gothmog

• Hamsters

• Heretic - Capablanca Chess only - Initial Release

• Hermann

• Hexodus Chess - San Pedro Software Inc.

• HIARCS

• Homer

• Hsmde - hexagonal chess program

• Houdini

• Hussar

• Hybrid Chess - graphical chess board for new variants (called “hybrids”) etc. by Artem Shvorin

• Ikarus - no public release of this project available

• Imortal for Crazyhouse by Ferdinand Mosca

• Ivanhoe

• Jackal Chess - plays 6 x 4 chess by Marcel Normand Blais

• Jang-gi MS-DOS - plays 9 x 10 chess, a.k.a. Korean Chess hosted by Mobygames.com

• Janus-Schach - plays 10 x 8 chess with two pawns and identical figures (move like bishops or knights) more on each side by Uwe Auerswald

• Joker80 - plays 10 x 8 chess

• Jonny

• Junior

• King of the Brick by Will Merges

• Kurt

• Laser Chess MS-DOS by COMPUTE! Publications Inc

• Leonidas - plays Spartan Chess / Seirawan Chess by Evert Glebbeek

• Liit for Los Alamos Chess by Ferdinand Mosca

• List / Loop

• LittleThought

• Mandirigma for Musketeer by Ferdinand Mosca

• Martian Chess - a Blitz Basic program that emulates a game for 4 players by Elendia Starman

• Matibay for Amazon by Ferdinand Mosca

• Matulis for Theban Chess (based on Deuterium) - no public release of this project available by Ferdinand Mosca

• Maverick

• Minic

• Movei

• Naum - development of this project is finished

• N-Board Chess with 16x16

• Nebula

• Nemorino

• neuroGrape

• neuroStock

• NuclearChess, whenever a piece is captured, both pieces and all pieces on neighbour fields die - Harald Bartel / Holger Bartel / Karl Bartel / Ulf Bartel

• Oberon for Spartan Chess

• Ouk Chaktrung - plays Khmer Chess by Andy (“asreng”) / samauch / Yakasan

• Pako Shako - plays a variant where pieces will embrace each other (not WinBoard compatible yet) by H.G. Muller

• Patzer

• Pharaon

• Portfish

• Postduif - plays Grande Acedrex (on a 12×12 chessboard), Shatranj and Courier Chess by Evert Glebbeek

• primitivo - plays Atomic Chess by atomictheory

• Punica - modified Fruit edition for Twilight Chess by C. Anzio and A. Barjon / P. Durand - Twilight Chess by Frédéric Prost

• Rainbow Serpent

• RamJet

• RataAeroespacial

• Rival Chess (GUI-version)

• Robocide

• Roce

• RUDOLF - hexagonal chess games

• Rybka

• Sangga for Spartan Chess by Ferdinand Mosca

• Sapeli - plays Chess 960, Normal Chess and Shuffle Chess (w/960 castling)

• Schooner

• Shredder

• Shuriken - plays Capablanca / Caparandom / Falcon / Gothic (10×8 variants))

• Sigla for Seirawan Chess by Ferdinand Mosca

• Silangan for Asean by Ferdinand Mosca

• simplemente - plays Atomic Chess by atomictheory

• Slow Chess

• Smaug

• SMIRF plays Gothic Chess (10 x 8), too by Reinhard Scharnagl - SMIRF FullChess FEN-Editior / Positions-Generator (FRC) by Reinhard Scharnagl

• Son of Maniac plays 6 x 6 chess by Malcolm Reid

• Spike

• Starchess plays variant on a hexagonal board by László Polgár

• Sugod for Berolina Chess by Ferdinand Mosca

• Sunsetter Bughouse / Crazyhouse - GitHub - Zhouse / Crazyhouse Challenger by WhoAmI

• Taktix

• TeleSpace for Grand Chess by Ferdinand Mosca

• The Baron

• Tinapa

• Tiyaga for Shatranj Chess by Ferdinand Mosca

• TJchess - plays Bughouse, Crazyhouse, Standard Chess and TJ10x8 by Tony Hecker

• Toga CMLX

• Tornado

• TSCP
  • TSCP Crazyhouse for Crazyhouse by Ferdinand Mosca
  • TSCP Gothic for Gothic Chess by Michel Langveld
  • TSCP Knightmate for Knightmate by Tony Mokonen
  • TSCP Shatranj for Shatranj by Jaro Gress
  • VSCCP - Very Simple Chinese Chess Program for Xiangqi by Pham Hong Nguyen

• Ufim

• Ultrachess - plays 10 x 10 chess with two pawns more on each side and four additional pieces by Andreas Rosa (derwolof)

• Ummite Chess - plays Double Chess and is fully user configurable by Philippe Boucher

• Viper

• Zillions of Games by Zillions Development Corporation

• zurirk - plays Racing Kings variant by goracingkingsengine