LiGround

A free, open-source and modern Chess Variant Analysis GUI for the 21st century

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Binaries

We provide binary releases for the following plattforms:

Operating System | Version --- | --- Linux | liground-0.6.0-linux.AppImage Windows | liground-Setup-0.6.0-win.exe
Mac | liground-0.6.0-mac.zip

The current LiGround release and all its previous versions can also be found at releases.

Supported Games

Regional and Historical Games

• Chess
• Janggi
• Makruk
• Shogi
• Xiangqi

Chess Variants

• Antichess
• Atomic
• Chess960
• Crazyhouse
• Horde
• King of the Hill
• Racing Kings
• Three-check

Build Instructions

Build Setup

# install dependencies
npm install

# run dev server with hot reload at localhost:9080
npm run dev

# build electron application for production
npm run build

# lint all JS/Vue component files
npm run lint

Post-Installation Actions

LiGround ships with preincluded engine binaries. By default all engines are downloaded automatically into the ./engines/ folder as postinstall action. However, if no prebuilt binaries are available for you system or something goes wrong, please go ahead and build/download them manually:

• Stockfish 17: download the archive for your platform (Linux AVX2, Windows AVX2, macOS universal), extract it, and copy/rename the binary to stockfish (or stockfish.exe).
• Download Multi-Variant-Stockfish 10 and rename it to multi-variant-stockfish
• Download Fairy-Stockfish 14 Largeboard and rename it to fairy-stockfish

Libraries

The following libraries or assets are used in LiGround:

Library | Description | Usage --- | --- | --- ffish.js | A high performance WebAssembly chess variant library based on Fairy-Stockfish. | Used in the GUI for legal move generation, FEN parsing & validation, pocket pieces, etc. ChessgroundX | A free/libre open source chess UI developed for lichess.org and pychess.org. | Used as the main UI board element. ornicar/lila | The forever free, adless and open source chess server | Many high quality assets from lichess.org (e.g. piece styles, board styles, chess fonts, ...) are used within this GUI. Vue.js | The Progressive JavaScript Framework | Used as the main JavaScript Framework. Electron | Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS | Used for exporting the GUI to the desktop. electron-vue | An Electron & Vue.js quick start boilerplate | Used for the boilerplate code.

Related

Projects that influenced the creation of LiGround:

Project | Description --- | --- tinyChessServer | An xboard server for playing bughouse games via websockets lichess.org/analysis | The forever free, adless and open source chess server vue-chessboard | Chessboard vue component to load positions, create positions and see threats cutechess | A graphical user interface, command-line interface and a library for playing chess. XBoard / WinBoard | A graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms. Nibbler | Leela Chess Zero (Lc0) interface. chess.js | A Javascript chess library for chess move generation/validation, piece placement/movement, and check/checkmate/draw detection

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This project was generated with electron-vue@45a3e22 using vue-cli. Documentation about the original structure can be found here.