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DreamChess
DreamChess is an open source chess game. Our primary target platforms are Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. DreamChess features 3D OpenGL graphics and provides various chess board sets, ranging from classic wooden to flat figurines.
A moderately strong chess engine is included: Dreamer. However, should this engine be too weak for you, then you can use any other XBoard-compatible chess engine, including the popular Crafty and GNU Chess.
Other features include music, sound effects, on-screen move lists using SAN notation, undo functionality, and savegames in PGN format.
The DreamChess team currently consists of only a handful of people. We could use help in many areas, such as programming, graphics, sound and testing. If you're interested in helping out, please send an email to feedback at dreamchess.org.
Latest News
The mysterious case of the spinning chess board
Several linux users have reported that the chess board in DreamChess keeps spinning around on its own. We'd really like to fix this bug, but unfortunately we cannot reproduce this problem. We're looking for someone to help us out with this, so if you have the spinning board problem and are able to build DreamChess from source, please contact us (feedback at dreamchess.org). Thanks!
Moving to SourceForge
Due to the closure of BerliOS at the end of this year, we have moved the project to SourceForge.
Status update
A lot of people emailed us recently inquiring about the future of DreamChess. This has shown us that there's still a lot of interest in the game. We can tell you that DreamChess is not dead, and that we're planning to release a version with networking support "soon". Stay tuned!
