diff --git a/pkgs/games/eboard/default.nix b/pkgs/games/eboard/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0250208fd48a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/games/eboard/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, perl, pkg-config, gtk2 }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "eboard";
-  version = "1.1.1";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/eboard/eboard-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0vm25j1s2zg1lipwjv9qrcm877ikfmk1yh34i8f5l3bwd63115xd";
-  };
-
-  patches = [ ./eboard.patch ];
-
-  buildInputs = [ gtk2 ];
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ perl pkg-config ];
-
-  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
-
-  env.NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-fpermissive";
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "http://www.bergo.eng.br/eboard/";
-    description = "Chess interface for Unix-like systems";
-    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/games/eboard/eboard.patch b/pkgs/games/eboard/eboard.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f80c1b2f78d7..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/games/eboard/eboard.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- a/cimg.cc	2014-05-25 02:41:58.000000000 -0500
-+++ b/cimg.cc	2014-05-25 02:42:31.000000000 -0500
-@@ -94,11 +94,11 @@
-       ct == PNG_COLOR_TYPE_GRAY_ALPHA)
-     png_set_gray_to_rgb(pngp);
-
--  alloc(pngp->width,pngp->height);
-+  alloc(png_get_image_width(pngp, infp),png_get_image_height(pngp, infp));
-   if (!ok) { fclose(f); return; }
-   ok = 0;
-
--  for(i=0;i<pngp->height;i++) {
-+  for(i=0;i<png_get_image_height(pngp, infp);i++) {
-     png_read_row(pngp, (png_bytep) (&data[i*rowlen]), NULL);
-   }
-
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index beb3c5c040f1..93dc1667e46b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ mapAliases {
 
   EBTKS = ebtks; # Added 2024-01-21
   eask = eask-cli; # Added 2024-09-05
+  eboard = throw "'eboard' has been removed due to lack of maintenance upstream. Consider using 'kdePackages.knights' instead"; # Added 2024-10-19
   ec2_ami_tools = throw "'ec2_ami_tools' has been renamed to/replaced by 'ec2-ami-tools'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17
   ec2_api_tools = throw "'ec2_api_tools' has been renamed to/replaced by 'ec2-api-tools'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17
   ec2-utils = amazon-ec2-utils; # Added 2022-02-01
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3e409e7916fd..31e50735f328 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -34494,8 +34494,6 @@ with pkgs;
     inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) Foundation AudioUnit AudioToolbox;
   };
 
-  eboard = callPackage ../games/eboard { };
-
   ecwolf = callPackage ../games/ecwolf { };
 
   egoboo = callPackage ../games/egoboo { };