Chessmaster Alternatives

Chessmaster is described as 'Chess playing computer game series which is now owned and developed by Ubisoft. It the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five million units sold as of 2002' and is a Chess Game in the games category. There are more than 50 games similar to Chessmaster for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, Linux, Web-based and Mac apps. The best Chessmaster alternative is Lichess, which is both free and Open Source. Other Chessmaster like games are Chess.com, Scid vs. PC, DecodeChess and Take!.

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  1. 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
     
  2. Jin icon
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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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  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
     
  5. Listudy icon
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    With Listudy you can improve your chess skills with the help of spaced repetition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    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
     
  7. 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

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Lichess
     
  8. Gnome Chess icon
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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
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    World class chess database, analysis and playing software for PC and Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    Chess Meister provides a simple and beautiful interface for playing chess. Share the board with another player, and the pieces turn to face the player whose turn it is for lively two-player action.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPad
     
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    A good chess program that is strong on limited hardware.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
     
  12. WinBoard icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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