An open-source, cross-platform chess GUI that aims to be powerful, customizable and easy to use.

The best open source alternative to ChessBase is En Croissant. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to ChessBase and seven of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to ChessBase are Scid vs. PC, scidCommunity, ChessX and ChessDB.
An open-source, cross-platform chess GUI that aims to be powerful, customizable and easy to use.

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.

scidCommunity differs from upstream Scid by offering enhancements not present in the upstream repo. Enhancements include:











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.



With Scid on the go you can browse and search chess databases created with the free chess database application Scid (http://scid.sourceforge.net/).
Does most of what chess base does.