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Engine GUI List
Here is a list of standalone engines that support WinBoard/UCI protocol, have their own built-in GUI (respectively are delivered with other interfaces) and do not require additional front-ends - see Chessforeva with a collection of well-known programs (Javascript)
Alphabetical Index
- Absolute Zero - proprietary interface without commandline parameter -u (for UCI-protocol)
- Acqua - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- AICE - GUI is Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- Alaric - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Alfil
- Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- GUI is WinBoard by Alessandro Scotti / H.G. Muller / Tim Mann
- Amyan
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Andscacs - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Animats Chess - SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- AnMon - GUI is Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- Arabian Knight - SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- Arasan
- Arminius
- Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Bagatur - GUI is Chess Art for Kids - SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- Beowulf
- LiliaChess by Carlo Bellentani
- Net Blitz II by Sébastien Lachance and Yannick Létourneau
- Betsy - GUI is Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- BikJump - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Cave Chess - SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- CDrill - Python Easy Chess GUI by Ferdinand Mosca
- Cheng - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Chess-at-nite - GUI is WinBoard by Alessandro Scotti / H.G. Muller / Tim Mann
- ChessBot by Alexander Soto - Java Edition by Alexander Hörtenhuber - SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- Chispa
- Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Cinnamon
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Tarrasch Chess GUI by Bill Forster
- Clarabit - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Crafty
- Aquarium - Chess Assistant by Convekta Ltd
- Chess Giants (with an appearance like Chess Titans) by Pierre-Marie Baty
- Chess Informant Expert Lite by Sahovski Informator
- ChessRally by Ingenuware Ltd
- Crafty Chess Interface by Valters Baumanis
- FBChess by Chessforeva
- fl Chess by Falco Software
- Gambit for Mac PPC (not supported since Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion") by Aqueous Software LLC - no longer available at Kagi supplier store
- Haundrix Chess by Alex Ignácio da Silva
- LiliaChess by Carlo Bellentani
- PGN Mentor by 64 Squares
- Crazybot - Zhouse / Crazyhouse Challenger by Zon Juan Jan
- Critter
- Chesster - Google Drive by Michael Goode
- Ethereal Chess 3D by Jordan Sparks
- LiliaChess by Carlo Bellentani
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- CuckooChess - SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- Cyrano - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Daydreamer - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- DeepBrutePOS - SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- Deep Bug - Zhouse / Crazyhouse Challenger by Zon Juan Jan
- DeepDuke - GUI is WinBoard by Alessandro Scotti / H.G. Muller / Tim Mann
- DeepFish - GUI is Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Defeo - GUI is Double Chess Board by Dušan Škaloud
- Delfi
- Aquarium - Chess Assistant by Convekta Ltd
- GUI is ChessPeer by Sezgin Serin
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Demolito - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Detroid by Viktor Csomor
- Deuterium - Python Easy Chess GUI by Ferdinand Mosca
- DiscoCheck - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Dragon - GUI is Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- Easy Peasy” - Mayura Chess Pro
- Faile - PouetChess - Frédéric Martin
- Fairy-Max / MaxQi / ShaMax
- ChessV by Gregory Strong
- GUI is WinBoard by Alessandro Scotti / H.G. Muller / Tim Mann
- Fire - GUI is HFT-Stuttgart GDV 2013 Schach by Stefan Buettner
- Fischerle - proprietary interface requires DadaChessfield CB-Compatible, a font for creating chessdiagrams by Daniel Kopp - SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- Frank Walter - SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- Fritz by ChessBase GmbH
- Fruit
- Chess Giants (with an appearance like Chess Titans) by Pierre-Marie Baty
- Eschecs by Roland Chastain
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- MasterChess 8000 by Mike Leahy
- Schach3D - Chess3D by Thomas Schwab Softwareentwicklung
- WinBoard by Alessandro Scotti / H.G. Muller / Tim Mann
- Gaïa - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Gambit Fruit - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- GarboChess
- Javascript Edition by Gary Linscott
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Gaviota
- Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Glaurung
- Glaurung (Mac OS X version) - Download by Tord Romstad
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- MacBoard 2010 by Wolf Stephan Kappesser - no longer available
- Schach3D - Chess3D by Thomas Schwab Softwareentwicklung
- GNU Chess
- 3dMChess by Alessandro Musacchio
- AmyBoard by Jochen Wiedmann
- Chess Giants (with an appearance like Chess Titans) by Pierre-Marie Baty
- Chesstacular by Art aka atimes
- chessxtra by Alec Vance / Rob Terrell
- Ceibal-Chess by Alejandro Segovia Azapian
- CLIM by Stas Boukarev
- CSBoard by Nickolay V. Shmyrev
- eBook SDK by Leopoldo Bueno Castillo
- FreeChess4 by Renaud Helias
- GALBoard by Maurizio Galeone
- GNU Chess (Old versions) for Windows ports by Conor McCarthy / Daryl Baker
- glutboard - OpenGL / GLUT chess board (for GNU Chess) by Burns Ethan
- Haundrix Chess by Alex Ignácio da Silva
- LiliaChess by Carlo Bellentani
- Next Chess Move by Next Chess Move LLC
- SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- Gödel Engine - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Golem - GUI is LiliaChess by Carlo Bellentani
- GreKo - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- GullChess - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Hamsters - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Hermann - GUI is Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- Horizon Chess - GUI is LiliaChess by Carlo Bellentani
- Houdini
- GUI is Ethereal Chess 3D by Jordan Sparks
- MasterChess 8000 by Mike Leahy
- IntelliChess - GUI is WinBoard by Alessandro Scotti / H.G. Muller / Tim Mann
- Irina - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Junior
- Bobby Junior GUI by World Chess Live / Internet Chess Club, Inc - no longer available
- K2 - GUI is Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- KMTChess - GUI is WinBoard by Alessandro Scotti / H.G. Muller / Tim Mann
- Komodo
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- LeelaChessZero
- Nibbler by fohristiwhirl
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- Chess Tiger (Native/UCI) by Christophe Théron - no longer available - Chess Light Tiger
- Deep Sjeng (UCI/WinBoard) by Gian-Carlo Pascutto - no longer available - Sjeng (WinBoard)- Haundrix Chess
- Gandalf (Native/UCI/WinBoard) by Steen Suurballe - Dutch website of Schröder B.V. - no longer available - Frank´s Chess Page
- Ktulu (UCI/WinBoard) by Rahman Paidar - no longer available - Freeware
- Rebel (WinBoard) by Ed Schröder - no longer available - Freeware
- SmarThink (UCI/WinBoard) by Sergei Markoff - no longer available - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge - Russian main page - SDChess
- Magnum Chess - SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- Mediocre Chess - SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- Monarch - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Mustang
- LiliaChess by Carlo Bellentani
- Net Chess by NetIntellGames
- NapoleonPP
- Scid by Shane Hudson and Pascal Georges
- Tarrasch Chess GUI by Bill Forster / Triple Happy Ltd
- Naum
- Chess Coach - discontinued
- FBChess by Chessforeva
- MasterChess 8000 by Mike Leahy
- Nejmet
- Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- Onno Chess - development of this project ended
- Pandora Chess (not stable edition) - Balázs Csanád Csáji
- Phalanx
- Scid by Shane Hudson and Pascal Georges
- Scid vs. PC by Steven Atkinson
- PicoLisp Chess (text-based interface) by Alexander Burger, type to obtain an ASCII board the command $ pil /usr/share/picolisp/games/chess.l -main
- Presbyter - GUI is SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- Pulsar - GUI is WinBoard by Alessandro Scotti / H.G. Muller / Tim Mann
- Punica UCI - GUI is WinBoard TC by C. Anzio and A. Barjon
- PyChess (Engine - Client - GUI) by Thomas Dybdahl Ahle / Tamás Bajusz
- PyTuroChamp - Python Chess by Martin C. Doege / Niklas Fiekas
- Quark - GUI is LiliaChess by Carlo Bellentani
- RapChess - RapShort - RapSimple - RapChessGUI
- ROCE - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Rodent
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- SimpleChess by Europe Échecs
- Ruffian
- Aquarium - Chess Assistant by Convekta Ltd
- Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- Chess Informant Expert (Lite) by Sahovski Informator
- Rumney Chess - GUI is SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- Rybka
- Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- CheekyChess by bingojamigo
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- MasterChess 8000 by Mike Leahy
- Multiprocessor version - Singleprocessor version - GUIs by Chessbase GmbH
- Peshk@ Training Courses - GUI by Convekta Ltd
- Schach3D - Chess3D by Thomas Schwab Softwareentwicklung
- Tarrasch Chess GUI by Bill Forster / Triple Happy Ltd
- Saruman - Gandalf Chess GUI by Terry Bolt / Conor Griffin / Darragh Griffin
- ScalaChess - ScalaChessGUI by scalachessgui
- Scidlet
- Scid by Shane Hudson and Pascal Georges
- Scid vs. PC by Steven Atkinson
- Shredder
- Simplex - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Sjaak
- ChessV by Gregory Strong
- Own Interface by Evert Glebbeek
- PyChess (Engine - Client - GUI) by Thomas Dybdahl Ahle / Tamás Bajusz
- Sjeng
- BPGN Viewer by Zon Juan Jan and Sergiy Vasylkevych
- GUI is Double Chess Board by Dušan Škaloud
- Haundrix Chess by Alex Ignácio da Silva
- Suicide / Giveaway Challenger by Zon Juan Jan
- Zhouse / Crazyhouse Challenger by Zon Juan Jan
- SOS - GUI is Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- Spark
- MasterChess 8000 including Spark UCI by Mike Leahy
- GUI and WinBoard Engine written in Adobe Actionscript 3 - Media Division srl, Romania
- Spike
- Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- GUI is José Chess Database by Peter Schäfer
- Stockfish
- Analyze This Chess by Asim Pereira
- Arena by Martin Blume / Michael Diosi
- Chess Application by Laurent Bernabé
- Chess Giants (with an appearance like Chess Titans) by Pierre-Marie Baty
- Chess Hero by Innokuo
- Chess Insight for Mac by Sergii Guslystyi
- Chessrock by andreyskv
- Chesster by Basti Tee
- Chess Wizard by Shanghai Xianqu Info-Tech Co., Ltd
- CoffeeHouse by Wolf Stephan Kappesser
- Deep Chess for Windows by Lachezar Balgariev
- DirtChess by David Lewis
- droidmate - Android Chess GUI by andreyskv
- Fancy by Marek Kwiatkowski
- Forward Chess by WiTechnoME LLC
- HFT-Stuttgart GDV 2013 Schach by Stefan Buettner
- ICC Dasher by Internet Chess Club
- Jerry by Dominik Klein
- kivy-chess by Shivkumar Shivaji
- Kvetka by Dimitry Bodiagin
- Lichess by Thibault Duplessis
- LiliaChess by Carlo Bellentani
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- MasterChess 8000 by Mike Leahy
- MinkiChess by MinkiChess.com - Balachandran Subramaniam
- Next Chess Move by Next Chess Move LLC
- PyChess (Engine - Client - GUI) by Thomas Dybdahl Ahle / Tamás Bajusz
- Raptor Chess Interface - GitHub by Carson Day
- Scid by Shane Hudson and Pascal Georges
- stockfisher by Burak Ogan Mancarci
- Stockfish-GUI for Mac OS X by Daylen Yang
- Web GUI for Stockfish Chess - GitHub by Dr. R. Urban
- Strelka - MasterChess 8000 by Mike Leahy
- Sunsetter
- BPGN Viewer by Zon Juan Jan and Sergiy Vasylkevych
- Double Chess Board by Dušan Škaloud
- Zhouse / Crazyhouse Challenger by WhoAmI
- Surprise - GUI is LiliaChess by Carlo Bellentani
- Tao - Chess Buddy by Play Buddy, LLC
- Tarrasch Toy Engine
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Tarrasch Chess GUI by Bill Forster
- Texel - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- The Baron - GUI is LiliaChess by Carlo Bellentani
- The Crazy Bishop - The Chess Level 100 by Rémi Coulom / UNBALANCE Corporation
- Toga
- José Chess Database by Peter Schäfer
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Scid by Shane Hudson and Pascal Georges
- Scid vs. PC by Steven Atkinson
- TRACE - GUI is WinBoard by Alessandro Scotti / H.G. Muller / Tim Mann
- Tri-language Open Source Chess - SJCE by Roman Koldaev a.k.a harp07
- TSCP
- ANS Forth Chess by Ian Osgood
- ChessApp - Java applet by Peter Hunter
- Chessboard Component by Daniel Terhell
- TwistedLogic - GUI is Schach3D - Chess3D by Thomas Schwab Softwareentwicklung
- Ufim - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Umko - Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Weini - GUI is WinBoard by Alessandro Scotti / H.G. Muller / Tim Mann
- Yace Paderborn - GUI is ChessPeer by Sezgin Serin
===== Contributors =====
Thanks to Norbert Raimund Leisner for creating this list! Additional information from: Lex Domingo.