scidCommunity differs from upstream Scid by offering enhancements not present in the upstream repo. Enhancements include:
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Games Like Chessmaster for LinuxSimilar Chess Games like Chessmaster
Chessmaster is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is scidCommunity, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Chessmaster and 17 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Chessmaster are Scid vs. PC, KNights, ChessMD and ChessX.
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25 scidCommunity alternatives
25 Scid vs. PC alternativesShane'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.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Flathub
- Flatpak
KNights is a chess game. As a player, your goal is to defeat your opponent by checkmating their king.
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Improve your chess with unlimited game review, interactive engine analysis, and several other state-of-the-art training utilities.
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.
Lucas Chess vs Chessmaster Comments
- Lucas Chess is Free and Open Source
XBoard, 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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- PortableApps.com
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26 Arena alternativesArena is a 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.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Windows
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- Free
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48 Shredder Chess alternativesThe 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...
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Online
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- Java Mobile
- iPad
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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.
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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).
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Most of chess software lacks of good training features but lucas chess have great training features