What's New

Dec. 2025

Arasan 25.3 released.

July 2025

Arasan 25.2 released.

May 2025

Arasan 25.1 released.

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

The latest version is Arasan 25.3, released in December, 2025.

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.