cli-chess is a command-line chess program that lets you play online against human players and offline against the computer.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Chess
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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6 Best Free and Open Source FICS Chess Clients
Free Internet Chess Server is a server for chess players to play against each other over the Internet.
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Lucas Chess – play and train chess
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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Best Free Android Apps: DroidFish – Stockfish chess engine
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
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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5 Best Open Source Board Games to Play Online
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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