XBoard Alternatives
XBoard is described as ', 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'. There are more than 50 games similar to XBoard for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, Linux, the Web and Mac. The best alternative is Lichess, which is both free and Open Source. Other XBoard like games are Chess.com (Freemium), Scid vs. PC (Free, Open Source), Lucas Chess (Free, Open Source) and Chessmaster (Paid).
- The complete chess experience, play and compete with friends and others around the world. View 52 alternatives to Lichess
- Play chess for free with millions of players worldwide on the #1 most popular chess app. View 41 alternatives to Chess.comNo screenshots yet
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Android Wear
- 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... View 21 alternatives to Scid vs. PC
- The 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. View 25 alternatives to Lucas Chess
- Chessmaster is a chess playing computer game series which is now owned and developed by Ubisoft. View 42 alternatives to Chessmaster
Discontinued
No new releases since 2008. But the old games get some solid praise for teaching features—might be worth a try.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- PyChess is a swift chess client originally developed for Gnome, but running well under any other linux desktops. As far as we know of. View 11 alternatives to PyChess
- Fritz is the world’s most popular chess program, developed by ChessBase, “the world's leading chess software company” (Washington Post). View 34 alternatives to Fritz
- Consolidated view of all your chess games from chess.com, lichess, grandmaster games or custom pgn. View 8 alternatives to OpeningTree
- 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. View 10 alternatives to DreamChess
- (In beta) The complete shogi experience, play and compete with friends and others around the world. View 2 alternatives to Lishogi