Which programs support the DGT e-board?
- Boards with 3rd Party Software
- Monday, 22 September 2008 14:05
DGT Projects' professional chess tournament broadcasting software. Great for live tournament broadcasting, but also for publishing existing games. A free trial version is available here.
Free and priceless program for training your chess opening repertoire.
Free program for playing against a computer with hints and training with the computer.
Linux / MacOS support
EBoard Chess GUI and dgtnix
A POSIX driver has been developed by Pierre Boulenguez. This driver enables the EBoard Chess GUI to work together with the DGT electronic board. For details, see: http://eboard.sourceforge.net/ and http://dgtnix.sourceforge.net/index.html
BabasChess - The Free Internet Chess Client
BabasChess is a new revolutionary Internet Chess Client for Windows. A beta version with DGT E-board support is available now. If you want to see the latest developments and contribute as a beta tester, you can download the latest beta version here.
Shredder Classic,
Shredder 9 UCI,
Deep Shredder 9 UCI
Shredder Classic is a professional computer chess program by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, the eight times world computer chess champion. Direct board and clock support by use of DGT Projects' board driver DLL.
ChessMaster 10th Edition
and ChessMaster 9000
Play against ChessMaster with the DGT e-board. By using the proxy-engine named GameKeeper, developed by Gang Chang, moves made by Chessmaster are intercepted and taken into account. The level of integration is pretty good, almost as if Chessmaster supports the DGT board natively.
Play against internet opponents with the electronic board! Download the free WCN software here.
- ChessBase 9, 10, 11
- Fritz 12, Fritz 11, Fritz 10, Fritz 9, Fritz 8, Fritz 7, Fritz 6, Fritz 5.32, Fritz 5
- Hiarcs 7.32, Hiarcs 9
- Junior 5
- Nimzo 99
Direct board support by use of DGT's board driver DLL.
Arena (all versions)
A graphical user interface to play with many chess engines like Crafty, GNUChess, LambChop and many, many more!
Internet Chess Club (ICC)
Play live online chess with BlitzIn + the WoodIn plugin.
Use US Chess Live to play on the game site, using the DGT Electronic Chess Board. Please see the website of US Chess Live or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Online chessclub. Play online for free. Sherlock 21(analyzing and playing with Crafty) supports input from the DGT board.
Also with Internet Chess Club support.
The program that uses the very strong Rybka engine from ChessOk
For Palm handheld: ChessPad 3.03 Beta
Rebel 11 (free update required; see the Rebel homepage). Rebel 12 supports the USB version of the board too.
PGN2JS
Mailchess from Uwe Auerswald
