José (chess)
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 Screenshot of José 1.4.3 |
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| developer | Peter Schäfer |
| Current version | 1.4.4 (February 11, 2006) |
| operating system | Platform independent |
| category | Chess front end and chess database |
| License | GPL |
| German speaking | Yes |
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José is a chess front-end which is completely implemented in Java and thus runs platform-independent on different operating systems. It also offers chess database functions and is thus a free alternative to the established but proprietary products from ChessBase .
In addition to playing against various computer opponents, José also allows the analysis of chess positions and playing on a 3-dimensional game board.
Features
- Graphic front end to a MySQL database
- Writes and reads PGN files
- 2D and 3D board views
- Game editing and commenting
- Variants and lines
- Plug-in chess programs for play and analysis
- XBoard and UCI protocol
- Chess variants: Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess)
- Opening library
- ECO classification
- Position search
- Generation of HTML and PDF files
- Web servlet interface