Freeware Board Games

CheckerBoard

CheckerBoard is a simple yet powerful checkers game. It comes with some very strong checkers engines, and more can be downloaded. It reads the "Portable Draughts Notation" standard for checkers games. The game also feaurues a checkers tutorial by grandmaster Richard Pask to improve your checkers skills.

FooBillard

FooBillard is a 3D pool game with realistic physics and game types including 8 ball, 9 ball, snooker and carambol. It features both single player and multiplayer modes with changeable table sizes, styles and red/green 3D stereo view!

GNU Backgammon

GNU Backgammon is a highly customizable and detailed backgammon game with superb graphics. Backgammon is a board game for two players with the objective first to remove all fifteen of their checkers. Checkers move around the board between twenty-four triangles according to the roll of two dice.

Jose

Jose is a graphical database tool for managing chess games with both 2D and 3D views. You can play against a "plugged-in" chess engine and use it for analysis, and there are many more chess engines to download. Requires Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0.

jRisk

jRisk is a clone of the strategic board game Risk. The game is played by allocating armies to the territories that you control, and then attacking neighboring territories in order to conquer them. jRisk has a simple map format, network play, single player mode, hotseat, and many more features. Requires Java 1.4 or higher.