Lichess is the most complete chess experience, with a simple interface that focuses on the game, a massive array of game related tools and a huge, worldwide community.
- Chess Game
- Free • Open Source
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- F-Droid
+3Play chess online with millions of players around the world! Enjoy free unlimited games and improve your chess rating with 50,000+ tactics puzzles, interactive lessons and videos, and a powerful computer opponent. Unlock your inner chess master today!
- Chess Game
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Android Wear
+6Analytics for Chess Players: Played games, openings, win rates, ratings, opponents and more statistics for chess players.
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- Lichess
+4ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database that has become the standard through the world.
- Chess Database
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
Chessmaster is a chess playing computer game series which is now owned and developed by Ubisoft. It is the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five million units sold as of 2002.
Discontinued- Chess Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
The 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.
- Chess Game
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- PortableApps.com
Echo Chess is the viral daily puzzle game: you become what you eat. Play Classic, Epic, Zen Mode, for free. Transform as you capture in this mobile web chess variant.
- Chess Game
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
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.
- Chess Game
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+2Fritz is the world’s most popular chess program, developed by ChessBase, “the world's leading chess software company” (Washington Post). Whether you are a beginner, club player or professional – Fritz has everything that chess players could want: automatically adjusting...
- Chess Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
SimpleChessBoard is simple chess position and game analysis tool available as browser extension for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and as a web page.
- Chess Game
- Free • Open Source
- Online
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
Chess openings visualized from over 800 million Lichess games, 2 million tournament games and 1 million chess engine games.
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
CT-ART is considered the best and most effective chess tactics course by many experts.
- Chess Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Winboard works more as a graphic front-end for several different chess engines included with the game, as well as for several chess game modes. These include not only player vs player or human vs computer competitions, but also games played online and even by email.
- Board Game
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Linux