What's New

Dec. 2020

Arasan 22.2 released.

June 2020

Arasan 22.1 released.

Dec. 2019

Arasan 22.0 released.

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

The latest version is Arasan 22.2, released in December, 2020.

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 750,000 moves.

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