Free ChessPad AlternativesChess Databases & Chess Games like ChessPad

The best free alternative to ChessPad is Scid vs. PC, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to ChessPad and seven of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to ChessPad are scidCommunity, ChessX, eboard and ChessDB.

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    Scid vs. PC

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    • Scid vs. PC is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to ChessPad.

    • Scid vs. PC is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to ChessPad.

    • Scid vs. PC is Free and Open SourceChessPad is Free and Proprietary
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    scidCommunity

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    eboard

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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
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    ChessDB

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    ChessDB - a free Chess database for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and UNIX - like ChessBase , but better.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Chess Opener

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    Easily explore, analyse and practice chess openings.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    • Chess Opener is the most popular Web-based alternative to ChessPad.

    • Chess Opener is Free and ProprietaryChessPad is also Free and Proprietary
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    Scid on the go

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     

    • Scid on the go is the most popular Android alternative to ChessPad.

    • Scid on the go is Free and Open SourceChessPad is Free and Proprietary
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