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Chess

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Chess

July 1, 2022 Steve Emms Games, Software

Apple Chess is a traditional chess game played on a well rendered board with a set of realistic 3-D pieces. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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FICS Internet Chess Clients

6 Best Free and Open Source FICS Chess Clients

July 15, 2021 Steve Emms Games, Internet, Software

Free Internet Chess Server is a server for chess players to play against each other over the Internet.

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Chess Engines

12 Strong Free and Open Source Chess Engines

July 10, 2021 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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Linux Chess Apps

10 Best Free Linux Chess Apps (Updated 2021)

July 3, 2021 Steve Emms Games, Software

Linux chess software generally is separated into a “front end” application and a “chess engine”. There is a wide range of chess-playing software for Linux which can defeat most master players under tournament conditions.

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Lucas Chess

Lucas Chess – play and train chess

July 2, 2021 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software

Lucas Chess is a chess GUI. It lets you play against lots of chess engines and train to improve your game.

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DroidFish

Best Free Android Apps: DroidFish – Stockfish chess engine

February 12, 2021 Eilidih Parris Android, Games, Reviews, Software

DroidFish is an Android port of the Stockfish chess engine, combined with a feature-rich graphical user interface.

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StingRay – simple chess graphical user interface

September 3, 2018 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software

StingRay is a new entry in the field of Linux-based chess software. It’s billed as a simple chess graphical user interface with basic functionality to run against UCI and XBoard engines.

The software is designed to be lightweight and not burden the chess player with features they’ll never use.

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TripleA

5 Best Open Source Board Games to Play Online

December 30, 2017 Steve Emms Games, Software

I had a panache for abstract strategy games such as chess and draughts, as well as word games. I can still never resist a game of Escape from Colditz, a strategy card and dice-based board game, or Risk; two timeless multi-player strategy board games. But Catan remains my favourite board game.

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