Chessmaster Alternatives

Chessmaster has been discontinued. Similar games include Lichess, which is free and open source. Other options are Chess.com, ChessUnlock, ChessNoStress and scidCommunity. There's no shortage of Chess Games like Chessmaster, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, the web, Android, Linux and Mac.

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  1. Fritz icon
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    Fritz 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...

    55 Fritz alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. Brutal Chess icon
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    Brutal Chess Brutal Chess features full 3D graphics, an advanced particle engine, and several different levels of intelligent AI, inspired by the once popular Battle Chess.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  3. The 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...

    51 Shredder Chess alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Java Mobile
    • iPad
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  4. ChessRoots icon
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    Chess openings visualized from over 800 million Lichess games, 2 million tournament games and 1 million chess engine games.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. Tarrasch is a flexible, minimalist, and easy to use chess GUI. It is ideal for playing against and training with chess engines. Tarrasch has a built in engine but can just as easily be used with other UCI engines such as Rybka or Houdini.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Listudy icon
     3 likes

    With Listudy you can improve your chess skills with the help of spaced repetition.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. Chess incorporates our "Treebeard" Chess engine, an innovative engine using closely guarded state-of-the-art search techniques developed for our competition-level Shogi program, which twice came close to capturing the World Championship crown.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  8. World class chess database, analysis and playing software for PC and Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  9. Jin icon
     2 likes

    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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Gnome Chess icon
     1 like

    GNOME Chess is a 2D chess game, where games can be played between a combination of human and computer players. GNOME Chess detects known third party chess engines for computer players.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Linux Mobile
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  11. A good chess program that is strong on limited hardware.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
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  12. ChessCoach icon
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    ChessCoach is a neural network-based chess engine capable of natural-language commentary. It plays chess with a rating of approximately 3450 Elo, which means it should usually beat even the strongest human players at 2850 Elo, and many other engines, but will often lose to the...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Lichess
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