Dr. Chess Alternatives

Dr. Chess is described as 'Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in homes, parks, clubs, online, by correspondence' and is a Chess Game. There are more than 50 alternatives to Dr. Chess for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, Linux, Mac and Web-based apps. The best Dr. Chess alternative is Lichess, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Dr. Chess are Chess.com, scidCommunity, DecodeChess and Scid vs. PC.

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  1. Lucas Chess icon
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    The aim is to play chess against the computer with increasing levels of difficulty and with a limited number of hints that are given by a chess tutor.

    40 Lucas Chess alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
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  2. Arena icon
     13 likes

    Arena is a free Graphical User Interface (GUI) for chess. Arena helps you in analyzing and playing games as well as in testing chess engines. It runs on Linux or Windows. Arena is compatible to UCI and Winboard protocols.

    26 Arena alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Shotgun King icon
     2 likes

    Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • itch.io
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  4. Open Chaos Chess is a variation of chess where you can pick the piece that moves, but the moves are random. As such, you no longer win by checkmates. Instead, you win by eliminating your opponent's pieces.

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    • Android
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  5. Ti chess icon
     3 likes

    Using barely 200 Kilobytes of ram of the calculator (or the emulated calculator) the chess engine provides:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Magic Chess 3D is a magical game of kings and queens of England that will teach you how to play chess. Tap a chess piece to make a move. Attack the opponent’s pieces to capture the king. It's as simple as that! The more you play, the sooner you'll become the chess master!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
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  7. Echo Chess icon
     1 like

    Echo Chess is the viral daily puzzle game: you become what you eat. Play Classic, Epic, Zen Mode, for free. Transform as you capture in this mobile web chess variant.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  8. eboard icon
     4 likes

    eboard is a chess interface for Unix-like systems (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc.) based on the GTK+ GUI toolkit. It provides a chess board interface to ICS (Internet Chess Servers) like FICS and to chess engines like GNU Chess, Sjeng and Crafty.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. Chess Titans icon
     10 likes

    Chess Titans is a chess game with 3D graphics developed by Oberon Games and included in Windows 7. It is a fully animated, photorealistic interactive game with ten difficulty levels. It can be played by two participants, or one player against the computer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. ChessDB icon
     2 likes

    ChessDB - a free Chess database for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and UNIX - like ChessBase , but better.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  11. PyChess icon
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    PyChess is a swift chess client originally developed for Gnome, but running well under any other linux desktops. As far as we know of. PyChess is pure, delicious Python code, from the top of the UI to the bottom of the chess engine, and all under GNU General Public License for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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