eboard is described as 'Chess interface for Unix-like systems (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc.) based on the GTK+ GUI toolkit. It provides a chess board interface to ICS (Internet Chess Servers) like FICS and to chess engines like GNU Chess, Sjeng and Crafty' and is an game in the games category. There are more than 10 games similar to eboard for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, Linux, Mac and iPad apps. The best eboard alternative is ChessBase. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try XBoard or Arena. Other eboard like games are EazeGames, Chess Titans, ChessPad and Chessquid.