Xboard

Chess Game

Games

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Xboard in Breadstick

Breadstick runs Debian's own xboard package for ARM64, the build a Debian 13 computer with an ARM processor installs, so Xboard should look and behave as it does on a Linux PC. On Samsung DeX, Floating mode opens it as its own window beside your Android apps, and Desktop mode runs it on a full Linux desktop.

Breadstick draws graphics with the processor rather than the GPU, so 2D, puzzle, card and board games suit it best, and fast 3D games run slowly. More about games in Breadstick.

About Xboard

From Debian's package description

XBoard is a graphical chessboard that can serve as a user interface for chess programs, for the Internet Chess Server, or for electronic mail correspondence chess. It supports all major forms of chess, such as international chess, xiangqi and shogi. XBoard can also be used by itself as viewer for stored chess games.

XBoard uses the Helvetica font (located in the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages) by default. However, other fonts can be specified via a command line option or an X resource.

From Debian's description of the xboard package, under that package's license.

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Board games, Games

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Sources and licenses

  • Name and summary: the desktop entry in Debian's xboard package, under that package's license.
  • Description: Debian's description of the xboard package, under that package's license.
  • Icon: the project's own, from Debian's AppStream icon cache for the xboard package.
  • Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
  • Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.

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