Editing Chess engine (section)

==Graphical user interfaces==
[[XBoard]]/[[Winboard]] was one of the earliest [[graphical user interface]]s (GUI).  Tim Mann created it to provide a GUI for the [[GNU Chess]] engine, but after that, other engines such as [[Crafty]] appeared which used the Winboard protocol.  Eventually, the program [[Chessmaster]] included the option to import other Winboard engines in addition to the King engine which was included.

In 1995, [[Chessbase]] began offering the [[Fritz (chess)|Fritz]] engine as a separate program within the Chessbase database program and within the Fritz GUI.  Soon after, they added the [[Junior (chess program)|Junior]] and [[Shredder (chess)|Shredder]] engines to their product line up, packaging them within the same GUI as was used for Fritz.  In the late 1990s, the Fritz GUI was able to run Winboard engines via an adapter, but after 2000, Chessbase simply added support for UCI engines, and no longer invested much effort in Winboard.

In 2000, [[Stefan Meyer-Kahlen]] started selling Shredder in a separate [[Universal Chess Interface|UCI]] GUI of his own design, allowing UCI or Winboard engines to be imported into it.

Convekta's [[Chess Assistant]] and Lokasoft's ChessPartner also added the ability to import Winboard and UCI engines into their products.  Shane Hudson developed [[Shane's Chess Information Database]], a free GUI for Linux, Mac and Windows.  Martin Blume developed Arena,<ref name="auto"/> another free GUI for Linux and Windows.  Lucas Monge entered the field with the free Lucas Chess GUI.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lucaschess.pythonanywhere.com/|title=Lucas Chess|website=Lucaschess.pythonanywhere.com|access-date=26 June 2022|archive-date=6 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706035308/http://lucaschess.pythonanywhere.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>  All three can handle both UCI and Winboard engines.

On Android, Aart Bik came out with Chess for Android,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aartbik.com/android.php|title=Aart Bik's Website|website=Aartbik.com|access-date=2018-11-29|archive-date=2018-11-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120221148/http://www.aartbik.com/android.php|url-status=live}}</ref> another free GUI, and Gerhard Kalab's Chess PGN Master<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pgnmaster.kalab.com/|title=Chess PGN Master|website=Pgnmaster.kalab.com|access-date=26 June 2022|archive-date=21 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121220222/http://pgnmaster.kalab.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> and Peter Osterlund's Droidfish<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://hem.bredband.net/petero2b/droidfish/index.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-11-29 |archive-date=2018-12-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210051755/http://hem.bredband.net/petero2b/droidfish/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> can also serve as GUIs for engines.

The Computer Chess Wiki lists many chess GUIs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list|title=Computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list - Computer Chess Wiki|website=Computer-chess.org|access-date=2018-11-29|archive-date=2018-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130071601/http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list|url-status=live}}</ref>