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looking for a good open source chess game that also has online play and i would like the if the app is actively in development but not a must

I'm not a chess fan... but this one seems to fit you description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBoard

I play using PyChess:
http://pychess.org/

If Dream Chess ever gets FICS support, I will try that:
http://www.dreamchess.org/

Jin Chess is also very good:
http://www.jinchess.com/

All 3 are open source.

I only use two, lichess.org (webapp) for playing and ChessX for when I want to do more substantial analysis. I have tried all the forks of SCID (including the original), and ChessX is the absolute best and most intuitive fork of them all

yeah i want a desktop chess game that i can download and easly play online with other people and if you can point me to the winboard download i'll try that again

DGMurdockIII {l Wrote}:yeah i want a desktop chess game that i can download and easly play online with other people and if you can point me to the winboard download i'll try that again

PyChess works a treat. It is easy enough to use. You just need a FICS (www.freechess.org) account.

PyChess look ok but still dream chess look really good but only if it FICS support or other online play for the game

If anyone has any other ones you can still suggest them because I still haven't found the perfect one yet going to try PyChess for a while if i cant find anything better then I'll stick with that