Chess.com Alternatives

Lichess

The complete chess experience, play and compete with friends and others around the world.

Features:

• Ad-free
• Gaming
• Multiplayer
• Patron
• Study Mode

XBoard

XBoard, also known as WinBoard on Microsoft operating systems, is a free graphical user interface client developed by Tim Mann that is compatible with various chess...

Features:

• Linux
• Gaming
• Gui
• Portable

Chessmaster

Chessmaster is a chess playing computer game series which is now owned and developed by Ubisoft. It is the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five...

Fritz

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...

Brutal Chess

Brutal Chess features full 3D graphics, an advanced particle engine, and several different levels of intelligent AI.

Features:

• Gaming
• Portable

AI Factory Chess Treebeard

Chess incorporates our "Treebeard" Chess engine, an innovative engine using closely guarded state-of-the-art search techniques developed for our...

Jin

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...

Chess Tempo

A website dedicated to helping chess players improve their game.

Features:

• Education
• Gaming
• Multiplayer

Chesser

Chesser is a smart chess game with powerful AI capabilities. You can play against the game artificial intelligence engine (AI) or also against another real player on the...

Gnome Chess

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...