Shane'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.
Arena Alternatives
Arena is described as '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' and is an game in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to Arena for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and iPad apps. The best Arena alternative is Scid vs. PC, which is both free and Open Source. Other Arena like games are scidCommunity, ChessX, Chessmaster and XBoard.
Alternatives list
scidCommunity differs from upstream Scid by offering enhancements not present in the upstream repo. Enhancements include:
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58 Chessmaster alternativesChessmaster 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.
55 XBoard alternativesXBoard, also known as WinBoard on Microsoft operating systems, is a free graphical user interface client developed by Tim Mann that is compatible with various chess engines that support the Xboard Communication Protocol such as GNU Chess.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- PortableApps.com
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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.
33 Chess Titans alternativesChess Titans is a chess game with 3D graphics developed by Oberon Games and included in Windows 7. It is a fully animated, photorealistic interactive game with ten difficulty levels. It can be played by two participants, or one player against the computer.
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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
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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josé is a graphical Chess tool.
You can store chess games in a database (backed by MySQL).
You can view games and edit variations and comments.
You can play against a "plugged-in" chess engine and use it for analysis.
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
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