HOXChess is a cross-platform, open source Xiangqi (aka. Chinese Chess) client, capable of working with multiple online Xiangqi sites. It is a traditional desktop application, developed mainly in C++ using wxWidgets. Two servers are supported so far: PlayXiangqi and Chesscape. There are a number of Artificial Intelligent (AI) engines included. Recently, the App has also been ported to iPhone/iPod touch using Apple's native iPhone SDK.

Latest News

Oct 27, 2010

• Released a new update iPhone/iPod touch HOXChess-1.1 to the AppStore.
• Fixed the sound effects issue in iOS 4.0

Mar 25, 2010

The iPhone/iPod touch HOXChess-1.0 App is approved by the AppStore.

Mar 23, 2010

• Merged the iPhone/iPod touch source code from NevoChess to this project.
• Submitted to the application to Apple's AppStore under the same name HOXChess.

Dec 23, 2009

• Released version 1.0.0 with binary packages for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
• The new features are:
• Implement a new Click-N-Click move mode
• Implement the 'highlight' of a next position when moving a Piece
• Implement a Popup Private Chat window
• Enable Copy/Paste option with the Chat window
• Add a new 3D Piece set from Eurasia-Chess
• Some fixes are:
• Fix the King-facing-King bug in the Referee
• Fix the crash if an AI Plugin's name is invalid
• The Linux binary package has been tested on the following distributions:
• CentOS 5.4 (32-bit)
• Ubuntu/Kubuntu 9.10 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Fedora 12 (32-bit)
• openSUSE 11.2 (32-bit)
• Debian 5.0.3 (32-bit)
• Mandriva 2010.0
• Gentoo 2008.0 (32-bit)

Jul 25, 2009

• Released version 0.8.0.0 with binary packages for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
• The new features are:
• Add Play with yourself (or Human vs. Human) feature
• Support Difficulty Level when playing against AI
• Add Author-name and Web site of the AI's author on the Practice table
• Add the basic Check for Updates feature
• AI Folium: synced up the source code with http://folium.googlecode.com
• Add the Clear button in both the Activities and Messages dialogs
• Improved localization in Chinese, French, and Vietnamese with help from native speakers
• Some fixes are:
• Mac OS X: Optimize the Move-handling code to speed up image drawing.
• Allow to open the Practice table from everywhere
• Fix the message-being-cut-off issue when username contains a space
• Fixed the blank-Chat-window issue when the window is full
• Fix the crash when a List-of-tables is displayed while the Site is closed
• The Linux binary package has been tested on the following distributions:
• CentOS 5.3 (32-bit)
• Ubuntu/Kubuntu 9.04 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Fedora 11 (32-bit)
• openSUSE 11 (32-bit)
• Debian 5.0.2 (32-bit)
• Gentoo 2008.0 (32-bit)
• Mandriva 2009.1 (KDE, 32-bit)

Old Release Notes can be found here...