HoiChess

🗃️ Specifications

📰 Title:	HoiChess	🕹️ / 🛠️ Type:	Tool
🗃️ Genre:	Puzzle	👁️ Visual:	Text
🏷️ Category:	Puzzle ➤ Board Game ➤ Chess ➤ Engine ➤ CECP only	🏝️ Perspective:	Third person
🔖 Tags:	Puzzle; Board Game; Chess Engine; Oriental Chess; CECP Protocol	⏱️ Pacing:	Turn-Based
🐣️ Approx. start:	2004-01-01	👫️ Played:	Single
🐓️ Latest:	2018-05-15	🚦 Status:	05. Tested & Working (status)
📍️ Version:	Latest: 0.22.0	❤️ Like it:	9. ⏳️
🏛️ License type:	🕊️ Libre	🎀️ Quality:	2. 🏅️⭐⭐⭐⭐ (it works)
🏛️ License:	GPL-2+	✨️ (temporary):
🐛️ Created:	2010-08-20	🐜️ Updated:	2024-06-22

📦️ Deliverables

📦️ Package name:	hoichess	..... 📦️ Arch:
📄️ Source:		..... 📦️ RPM:
⚙️ Generic binary:		..... 📦️ Deb:
🌍️ Browser version:		..... 📦️ AppImage:
📱️ PDA support:		..... 📦️ Flatpak:
✨️ Not use:		..... 📦️ Snap:

🚦 Entry status

📰 What's new?:		👔️ Already shown:
💡 Lights on:		💭️ New version published (to be updated):
🎨️ Significant improvement:		🦺️ Work in progress:
🎖️ This work:		🚧️ Some work remains to be done:
👫️ Contrib.:	goupildb & Louis	👻️ Temporary:
🎰️ ID:	11426

📖️ Summary

📜️[en]:	A libre & multi-platform chess AI (an AI specialized in this type of games), of a low level (power estimated at 1791 Elo for v.0.103, ranked 513th out of 693 candidates at CCRL 40/15, ranking "CCRL 404 - All engines - best versions only" of January 16, 2021), communicating with the CECP protocol (the most common protocols are CECP aka Winboard/Xboard, and UCI). It is also delivered with a Xiangqi (Chinese chess) game engine.	📜️[fr]:	Une IA de jeu d'échecs (une IA spécialisée dans ce type de jeux) libre et multi-plateforme, d'un niveau peu élevé (puissance estimée à 1791 Elo pour la v.0.103, classée 513ème sur 693 candidats au CCRL 40/15, classement "CCRL 404 - All engines - best versions only" du 16 janvier 2021), communiquant avec le protocole CECP (les protocoles les plus courants sont CECP aka Winboard/Xboard, et UCI). Elle est aussi livrée avec un moteur de jeu de Xiangqi (les échecs chinois).

🕸️ Links

🏡️ Website & videos
[Homepage] [Dev site 1 2] [Features/About] [Screenshots] [Videos t(202xxx) gd(202xxx) gu(202xxx) r(202xxx) lp(202xxx) g(202xxx) g[fr](202xxx) g[de](202xxx) g[ru](202xxx) g[pl](202xxx) g[cz](202xxx) g[sp](202xxx) g[pt](202xxx) g[it](202xxx) g[tr](202xxx)] [WIKI] [FAQ] [RSS] [Changelog 1 2 3]

💰 Commercial
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🍩️ Resources
• Xiangqiboard (a resizable board for playing Chinese Chess against the Hoixiangqi AI): [Xiangqiboard]

🛠️ Technical informations
[PCGamingWiki] [MobyGames] [Chess Programming Wiki] [Computer Chess Rating Lists (CCRL 404 - All engines - best versions only)]

🦣️ Social
Devs (Holger Ruckdeschel [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2] [Chat] [mastodon] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Interview 1(202xxx) 2(202xxx)]
The Project: [Blog] [Chat] [Forums] [mastodon] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [reddit] [Discord]

🐝️ Related
[Wikipedia (GNOME Chess) [fr] [en] [de]]
[Debian/Ubuntu] [GNU.org]

📦️ Misc. repositories
[Repology] [pkgs.org] [Generic binary] [Arch Linux / AUR] [openSUSE] [Debian/Ubuntu] [Flatpak] [AppImage(author's repo)] [Snap] [PortableLinuxGames]

🕵️ Reviews
[HowLongToBeat] [metacritic] [OpenCritic] [iGDB]

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🦣️ Social Networking Update (on mastodon)

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📕 Description [en]

📜️ "A libre, multi-platform, & low level chess AI " 📜️ .

HoiChess is an xboard compatible chess engine. It is written in C++ for GNU/Linux, but should work on most other Unix like systems.
Since version 0.2.4, HoiChess also fully supports Win32 platforms.

HoiChess was written by Holger Ruckdeschel , with some contributions by other people (see "Acknowledgments" below).

See https://www.hoicher.de/hoichess for more information and new releases.

Acknowledgments
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Special thanks go to Jim Ablett and Dann Corbit for their contributions and help in connection with the Win32 support.

Special thanks also to Leo Dijksman, for his bug reports and help in testing HoiChess in hard tournament life.

🍥️ Debian:

xboard compatible chess engine to play chess with

chess engine compatible with xboard, but may also be used stand-alone, via terminal. Hoichess is written in C++ for GNU/Linux systems, but should work on most other Unix like systems. It provides also a xiangqi ("Chinese chess") playing program.

📕 Description [fr]

Un moteur d'échecs utilisant le protocole Winboard/Xboard, par Holger Ruckdeschel.
En C ++.

HoiChess est une IA de jeu d'échecs (une IA spécialisée dans ce type de jeux) libre et multi-plateforme, d'un niveau peu élevé (puissance estimée à 1791 Elo pour la v.0.103, classée 513ème sur 693 candidats au CCRL 40/15, classement "CCRL 404 - All engines - best versions only" du 16 janvier 2021), communiquant avec le protocole CECP (les protocoles les plus courants sont CECP aka Winboard/Xboard, et UCI). Elle est aussi livrée avec un moteur de jeu de Xiangqi (les échecs chinois).

Ressources et documentations disponibles : voir les fiches "Ressources - Echecs" et "Ressources - Echecs Orientaux".

🍥️ Debian:

Moteur de jeu d’échecs compatible avec xboard

Il s’agit d’un moteur de jeu d’échecs compatible avec xboard, mais pouvant être utilisé de manière autonome à l’aide d’un terminal. Hoichess est écrit en C++ pour les systèmes GNU/Linux, mais devrait fonctionner sur la plupart des autres systèmes de type UNIX. Il fournit aussi le programme de jeu xiangqi (jeu d’échecs chinois).