XBoard Alternatives
XBoard has been discontinued. Similar games include Lichess, which is free and open source. Other options are Chess.com, ChessNoStress, scidCommunity and DecodeChess. There's no shortage of Chess Games like XBoard, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, the web, Android, Linux and Mac.
Alternatives list
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
Germany
EU
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- itch.io
France- EU
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Magic Chess 3D is a magical game of kings and queens of England that will teach you how to play chess. Tap a chess piece to make a move. Attack the opponent’s pieces to capture the king. It's as simple as that! The more you play, the sooner you'll become the chess master!
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Android
PyChess is a swift chess client originally developed for Gnome, but running well under any other linux desktops. As far as we know of. PyChess is pure, delicious Python code, from the top of the UI to the bottom of the chess engine, and all under GNU General Public License for...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
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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
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Global
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33 Chess Titans alternativesChess Titans is a chess game with 3D graphics developed by Oberon Games and included in Windows 7. It is a fully animated, photorealistic interactive game with ten difficulty levels. It can be played by two participants, or one player against the computer.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
United States
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5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's the first ever chess variant with multiverse time travel!.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
- United States
55 Fritz alternativesFritz 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...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Germany
- EU
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.
Platforms
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
Raptor is a cross platform chess interface and pgn viewer for the free internet chess server: FICS. It has the following features:
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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