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Jerry - Das Schachprogramm

org.asdfjkl·asdfjkl.JerryChess

Jerry is a free chess program

Jerry is a cross-platform chess graphical user interface. based around one of the world's best chess program Stockfish - play against the computer - adjust strength levels to match your skill - enter, edit and analyse games - fully automatic game analysis - read and save games in standard PGN format - copy and paste FEN positions and pgn games from clipboard - cross-platform: modern look on Linux and Windows - handle large (i.e. 1 GB) PGN files - easy and intuitive GUI - free software (GNU GPL 2), no adware/spyware

winget install --id asdfjkl.JerryChess --exact --source winget

Latest 5.0.0·April 30, 2026

Release Notes

Changelog

  • cf. full changelog here Installation on Windows:
  • download SetupJFXChess_500_win_x64.exe and execute it
  • The executable may trigger Windows Smartscreen. On the resulting blue Smart Screen Defender window
    • click on "More info" (upper left corner) and then
    • click on "Run anyway" (lower right corner)
  • or download jfxchess_500_win_x64.zip, unzip and run jfxchess.exe Installation on Linux
  • Install from Snap Store JFXChess
  • Debian/Ubuntu: download the jfxchess_1.0-5.0_amd64.deb and install with sudo dpkg -i jfxchess_1.0-5.0_amd64.deb
  • other Linux: install Java JRE, download jfxchess_linux_generic.tar.gz, unzip and run java -jar jfxchess-5.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar. Adapt and install jfxchess-jfxchess.desktop file for inclusion in your start menu/desktop You need a 64 bit OS both for Windows and Linux!

Installer types: zip, inno

x64—zip8D6EB09460E5A78EF639A59DD0ADAB03F76D99E185B227B9FCAB102E6F177FF3
x64machineinno01023A8D5C4483100906C80386AE394B6C9995E195D345E6F5203AC407152205

Details

Homepage
https://github.com/asdfjkl/jerry
License
GPL-2.0
Publisher
org.asdfjkl
Support
https://github.com/asdfjkl/jerry/issues

Tags

chesscross-platformgamesguihighdpijavajfxchessuci

Older versions (4)

4.6.0
x86—3A5691CB9A95A0A44677183C1C4ADFE61BE6CAD0DCC8495CD46CC0BC935D0EC8
4.3.0
x86—3F0035B029E34806F1FAEB4FA04F42B2E79B9CA79B9699949533706CF39E9A96
4.2.1
x64—021DD3A00DB87225D7CAA6847E143E4467794D2B577B79127294E7CDEDFC439F
4.2.0
x64—589D69DC80DE924C7A4676439640C59FC66DCCF56F33A1CDF5CDE31CE2081EDB