What's New

Jan. 2024

Arasan 24.1 released.

Aug. 2023

Arasan 24.0 released.

April 2023

Arasan 23.3 released.

Arasan is a chess program for Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

The latest version is Arasan 24.1, released in January, 2024.

Arasan has both a native user interface (for Windows only) and a console-based chess engine for use with Winboard or xboard. Arasan also works with Arena, another free chess interface, and with UCI-compatible programs like Fritz and Chessbase.

Arasan includes an opening "book" with over 900,000 moves.

Since version 14.0, the Arasan chess engine has been licensed under the MIT License.