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Linux Chess Apps

18 Best Free and Open Source Linux Chess Apps

October 12, 2026 Steve Emms Games, Roundup

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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Chess

Python Easy Chess GUI – graphical frontend for UCI chess engines

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Python Easy Chess GUI lets you play UCI engines, review PGN games, analyse positions and maintain chess repertoires.

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Chess

Focalors – offline chess engine and learning application

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Focalors is an offline chess engine and learning app with game reviews, readable explanations, personal puzzles and statistics.

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Chess

Pawn Appétit – modern chess analysis and training application

September 18, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Pawn Appétit is a modern chess GUI with engine analysis, game management, opening repertoires, puzzles and position search.

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Linux Chess Apps

Obsidian Chess Studio – chess analysis platform

May 10, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Obsidian Chess Studio is a modern chess analysis application designed for players who want to study games, explore positions.

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Chess

BBP Pairings – Swiss-system chess tournament engine

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Games

BBP Pairings is an engine for pairing players in a Swiss-system chess tournament.

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Chess

Fastchess – manage chess games with engines

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Fastchess is a command-line tool designed to manage and orchestrate chess games between engines.

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Lucas Chess

ChessMD – lightweight PGN database viewer and analysis tool

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI, Reviews

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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Chess Engines

25 Strong Free and Open Source Chess Engines

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games, Software

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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FICS Internet Chess Clients

Atom Chess – chess engine built using Stockfish and Electron

August 31, 2025 Steve Emms Games

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

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Chess

Koivisto is a strong chess engine

June 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games

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

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Chess

JFXChess is a JavaFX Chess GUI

June 16, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

JFXChess is a cross-platform chess graphical user interface.

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FICS Internet Chess Clients

OChess – chess game analysis software

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

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

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Chess Engines

SlugChess – chess with Fog-of-War and shuffled officers

June 10, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

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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FICS Internet Chess Clients

CoreChess – chess GUI for chess engines

June 9, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Play chess (standard or Chess960) against your computer.

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Linux Chess Apps

Chess Clock – time games of over-the-board chess

January 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

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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Chess

En Croissant – GUI chess toolkit

August 6, 2024 Steve Emms Games, Reviews

En Croissant is a cross-platform chess GUI that’s billed as powerful, customizable and easy to use.

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Linux Chess Apps

chess-tui – text-based chess game

March 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Games, Reviews

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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Linux Chess Apps

Knights – chess game for KDE

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games, GUI

KNights is KDE’s chess application with engine and online play, legal-move guidance, PGN support, themes and configurable time controls.

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Linux Chess Apps

Scid – manage databases with millions of chess games

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Shane’s Chess Information Database (SCID) is a chess database application with a graphical user interface.

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