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Kapitalist is a Monopoly(R)-like board game for 2-8 players. Walk around the board, buy properties, receive rent from your competitors, try to get monopolies to build houses and hotels on them and increase your wealth.

The client is written with Qt/KDE 2.x.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: client: Qt/KDE 2.x (tested with Qt 2.2.4, KDE 2.1.1) server: console based (no special requirements)

This is a java implementation of the tile-placing board game Carcassonne.
You score points by laying tiles adjacent to each other and placing figures onto the tiles. If you close an area you get points proportional to the size of the area.

It is released under the GPL and features network play and computer players.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: JAVA 1.4 or better

CBoard (Curses/Console Board) is an Ncurses frontend to chess engines supporting the XBoard protocol. It's still in development, but has quite a few features that make it usable. Supports reading and writing PGN including roster tags, RAV, FEN, NAG and comments, board editing and lots more.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Ncurses. XBoard compatible chess engine.

ccGo is a program allows you to play go with gnugo on your computer or with other players on the IGS on the internet, written in C++ using gtkmm-2.0.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: gtkmm-2.0

cgoban is an interface to NNGS, IGS and other go servers, allowing one to play go against human opponents. NNGS runs on linux, but doesn't have as many users as IGS, which runs NT.

go is probably the deepest strategy game ever conceived, giving both hemispheres of your brain a real workout. The rules are quite simple, but it takes a lifetime to master the game.

Chess master Lasker has been quoted as saying that go is deeper than chess.

There are other interfaces to the go servers that run on unix, but cgoban is probably the best at the time of this writing (3/13/99).

If you need a lot of explosions to have fun then go probably isn't for you, but if you, for example, enjoy a life-and-death race to see who captures whom first, you might really like go.

License: free

Capable of creating and editing SGF files. This is the full-featured client to the go server KGS.

• An editor for SGF go files.
• A client for the Kiseido Go Server.

KGS is probably the most user-friendly and full-featured of the online go servers (although not the one with the strongest players). It includes a wide range of go game playing, reviewing, and teaching tools. Most recently, the capability of voice commented lessons was added, along with a pay service including frequent replayable lectures.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Java runtime environment 1.3 of later