Chessmaster Alternatives

Chessmaster is described as 'Chess playing computer game series which is now owned and developed by Ubisoft. It the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five million units sold as of 2002' and is a Chess Game in the games category. There are more than 50 games similar to Chessmaster for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Android, Linux and Mac apps. The best Chessmaster alternative is Lichess, which is both free and Open Source. Other Chessmaster like games are Chess.com, ChessUnlock, scidCommunity and Scid vs. PC.

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  1. Fritz icon
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    Fritz is the world’s most popular chess program, developed by ChessBase, “the world's leading chess software company” (Washington Post). Whether you are a beginner, club player or professional – Fritz has everything that chess players could want: automatically adjusting...

    51 Fritz alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Brutal Chess icon
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    Brutal Chess Brutal Chess features full 3D graphics, an advanced particle engine, and several different levels of intelligent AI, inspired by the once popular Battle Chess.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  3. Jin icon
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    Jin is an open source, cross platform, graphical client for chess servers, written in Java. Jin can run either as a standalone application (available at this website) or as an applet, directly from your browser (available at the chess server's website).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Tarrasch is a flexible, minimalist, and easy to use chess GUI. It is ideal for playing against and training with chess engines. Tarrasch has a built in engine but can just as easily be used with other UCI engines such as Rybka or Houdini.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. ChessRoots icon
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    Chess openings visualized from over 800 million Lichess games, 2 million tournament games and 1 million chess engine games.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Chess incorporates our "Treebeard" Chess engine, an innovative engine using closely guarded state-of-the-art search techniques developed for our competition-level Shogi program, which twice came close to capturing the World Championship crown.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  7. Gnome Chess icon
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    GNOME Chess is a 2D chess game, where games can be played between a combination of human and computer players. GNOME Chess detects known third party chess engines for computer players.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Linux Mobile
     
  8. Listudy icon
     3 likes

    With Listudy you can improve your chess skills with the help of spaced repetition.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. World class chess database, analysis and playing software for PC and Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  10. ChessCoach icon
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    ChessCoach is a neural network-based chess engine capable of natural-language commentary. It plays chess with a rating of approximately 3450 Elo, which means it should usually beat even the strongest human players at 2850 Elo, and many other engines, but will often lose to the...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Lichess
     
  11. Chess Meister provides a simple and beautiful interface for playing chess. Share the board with another player, and the pieces turn to face the player whose turn it is for lively two-player action.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPad
     
  12. A good chess program that is strong on limited hardware.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
     
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