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Top 23 C++ Chess Projects
- Project mention: Building a Chess App: Efficient Real-time Move Validation Using Bitboards in React Native | dev.to | 2025-10-10
Stockfish Source Code - Study how the world's strongest engine uses bitboards
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Fairy-Stockfish
chess variant engine supporting Xiangqi, Shogi, Janggi, Makruk, S-Chess, Crazyhouse, Bughouse, and many more
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cutechess
Cute Chess is a graphical user interface, command-line interface and a library for playing chess.
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MicroChess
A full featured chess engine designed to fit in an embedded environment, using less than 2K of RAM!
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I’ve been using hacks to do this for a long time. I wish it was simpler in C++. I love C++ typing but hate the syntax and defaults. It’s so complicated to get started with.
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- Project mention: Chessdom: Open-source web-based chess application | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-26
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Chess projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stockfish | 14,318 |
| 2 | Fairy-Stockfish | 772 |
| 3 | cutechess | 720 |
| 4 | stockfish.wasm | 324 |
| 5 | chessx | 178 |
| 6 | chess-library | 158 |
| 7 | Gigantua | 140 |
| 8 | Winter | 93 |
| 9 | 4ku | 61 |
| 10 | Realtime-OpenCV-Chess | 58 |
| 11 | Stockfish | 48 |
| 12 | ocgdb | 42 |
| 13 | Trollfish | 36 |
| 14 | MicroChess | 24 |
| 15 | libchess | 21 |
| 16 | libchess | 17 |
| 17 | codfish | 15 |
| 18 | pawn | 12 |
| 19 | horowitz | 11 |
| 20 | OmegaZero | 9 |
| 21 | Chess | 7 |
| 22 | chess-deep-rl-cpp | 7 |
| 23 | chessdom | 6 |
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