Chess is a recreational and competitive board game played between two players. It’s a very popular game, played by millions across the world.
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ChessMD – lightweight PGN database viewer and analysis tool
ChessMD is a free and open source lightweight PGN database viewer and analysis tool. Here’s my verdict on this software.
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25 Strong Free and Open Source Chess Engines
Computer chess has been a phenomenal success, aiding chess analysis, and allowing players to play when no human opponents are available.
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Atom Chess – chess engine built using Stockfish and Electron
Engine Analysis is performed with Stockfish 17 with the ability to change depth.
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Koivisto is a strong chess engine
Koivisto in itself is not a complete chess program and requires a UCI-compatible graphical user interface.
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JFXChess is a JavaFX Chess GUI
JFXChess is a cross-platform chess graphical user interface.
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OChess – chess game analysis software
OChess is a chess game analysis software which is in an early stage of development.
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SlugChess – chess with Fog-of-War and shuffled officers
SlugChess is an online digital chess variant with fog-of-war and double shuffled officers. It is both a rule set and an application.
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CoreChess – chess GUI for chess engines
Play chess (standard or Chess960) against your computer.
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Chess Clock – time games of over-the-board chess
Chess Clock is a simple application to provide time control for over-the-board chess games. It’s written in Python.
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En Croissant – GUI chess toolkit
En Croissant is a cross-platform chess GUI that’s billed as powerful, customizable and easy to use.
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chess-tui – text-based chess game
There are many open source chess clients for Linux. What’s unusual about chess-tui is that the program has no fancy graphics.
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Knights – Chess game for KDE
Knights is an open source chess game. Play chess against a fellow computer, chess engine, or on the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS).
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Scid – manage databases with millions of chess games
Shane’s Chess Information Database (SCID) is a chess database application with a graphical user interface.
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Cute Chess – chess graphical software, command-line interface and library
Cute Chess is an open source graphical user interface, command-line interface and a library for playing chess. It offers a good range of features.
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Nibbler – chess analysis GUI for UCI engines
Nibbler is a real-time analysis GUI for Leela Chess Zero (Lc0) constantly displaying opinions about the current position.
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GNOME Chess – chess game
GNOME Chess is a 2D chess game, where games can be played between a combination of human and computer players.
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Combusken – UCI-compliant chess engine
Combusken is a UCI-compliant open source chess engine using Alpha-beta algorithm. The software saw its first release in 2020.
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Halogen – analysing and playing chess
Halogen is a powerful, world-class program capable of analysing and playing chess.
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Arasan – cross-platform chess engine
Arasan is a chess engine, that is, a console-based program that plays the game of chess.
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