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17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Chess Apps

Chess is a recreational and competitive board game played between two players. It’s a very popular game, played by millions across the world.

ChessMD is a free and open source lightweight PGN database viewer and analysis tool. Here’s my verdict on this software.

Computer chess has been a phenomenal success, aiding chess analysis, and allowing players to play when no human opponents are available.

Engine Analysis is performed with Stockfish 17 with the ability to change depth.

Koivisto in itself is not a complete chess program and requires a UCI-compatible graphical user interface.

JFXChess is a cross-platform chess graphical user interface.

OChess is a chess game analysis software which is in an early stage of development.

SlugChess is an online digital chess variant with fog-of-war and double shuffled officers. It is both a rule set and an application.

Play chess (standard or Chess960) against your computer.

Chess Clock is a simple application to provide time control for over-the-board chess games. It’s written in Python.