scidCommunity differs from upstream Scid by offering enhancements not present in the upstream repo. Enhancements include:
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XBoard Alternatives for Linux
There are many alternatives to XBoard for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is scidCommunity, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to XBoard and 17 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to XBoard are Scid vs. PC, KNights, ChessMD and Lucas Chess.
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25 Scid vs. PC alternativesShane's Chess Information Database is a powerful Chess Toolkit, with which one can create huge chess databases, run engine analysis, or play casual games against the computer or online with the Free Internet Chess Server.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Flathub
- Flatpak
KNights is a chess game. As a player, your goal is to defeat your opponent by checkmating their king.
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Improve your chess with unlimited game review, interactive engine analysis, and several other state-of-the-art training utilities.
38 Lucas Chess alternativesThe aim is to play chess against the computer with increasing levels of difficulty and with a limited number of hints that are given by a chess tutor.
26 Arena alternativesArena is a free Graphical User Interface (GUI) for chess. Arena helps you in analyzing and playing games as well as in testing chess engines. It runs on Linux or Windows. Arena is compatible to UCI and Winboard protocols.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Windows
- Linux
PyChess is a swift chess client originally developed for Gnome, but running well under any other linux desktops. As far as we know of. PyChess is pure, delicious Python code, from the top of the UI to the bottom of the chess engine, and all under GNU General Public License for...
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
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eboard is a 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
- BSD
DreamChess is an open source chess game featuring "Dreamer", a moderately strong engine. Any XBoard-compatible chess engine (Crafty & GNU Chess) will work for varying degrees of difficulty. Includes 3D OpenGL graphics and various board sets.
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11 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel alternatives5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's the first ever chess variant with multiverse time travel!.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
48 Shredder Chess alternativesThe Shredder chess programs by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen provide a game playing and analysis tool for everybody and are accepted as one of the best chess programs of the world. Since 1996 Shredder has won thirteen titles as World Computer Chess Champion which makes Shredder the most...
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Windows Mobile
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- iPhone
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- iPad
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Jin is an open source, cross platform, graphical client for chess servers, written in Java. Jin can run either as a standalone application (available at this website) or as an applet, directly from your browser (available at the chess server's website).
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