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eboard is a chess interface for Unix-like systems (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc.) based on the GTK+ GUI toolkit.decaf is a Java based chess client for FICS (not yet reported as being tested by any wiki writer under openSUSE).Useful for playing freeware MS-Windows chess engines Typically to run, just navigate to Arena directory and type "wine Arena.exe" Arena is a freeware MS-Windows GUI front end that works under wine.In which case one can go to the appropriate Packman web page and install them via the one click install, or one can add the Packman repository to one's PC's repository list and then install the applications via zypper or YaST. This openSUSE chess game guide provides a list of some of these chess applications.Ī number of these applications are available on the Packman repositories (for openSUSE-11.x). While only gnuchess and phalanx "chess engines", and xboard & knights chess "front ends", and scid "chess database" come with openSUSE, there are many "chess engines" that run under openSUSE. Linux chess software generally is separated into a "front end" application and a "chess engine".
![Spark 1.0 Chess Engine](https://kumkoniak.com/61.jpg)