Friday, March 06, 2026

Chess UCI tools

UCI = Universal Chess Interface - Wikipedia

The Universal Chess Interface (UCI) is an open communication protocol that enables chess engines to communicate with user interfaces.[1][2]


cutechess/cutechess: Cute Chess is a graphical user interface, command-line interface and a library for playing chess. @GitHub

c++, gpl3

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Arena Chess GUI

Arena is a free Graphical User Interface (GUI) for chess. Arena helps you in analyzing and playing games as well as in testing chess engines. It runs on Linux or Windows. Arena is compatible to UCI and Winboard protocols. Furthermore, Arena supports Chess960, DGT electronic chess boards & DGT clocks and much more.



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