Top 15 Scid vs. PC Alternative and Similar Games | Sep 2024

Shane's Chess Information Database is a powerful Chess Toolkit, with which one can create huge chess databases, run engine analysis, or play casual games against the computer or online with the Free Internet Chess Server. It was originally written by Shane Hudson, and has received strong contribution from Pascal Georges and others.

Scid vs. PC is a usability and bug-fix fork of Scid. The project is maintained by Stevenaaus, and has been tested with the four million game ICOfY database.

1. Mobialia Chess

Mobialia Chess Play against AI or online at FICS or ICC.......

2. jose

jose josé is a graphical Chess tool.You can store chess games in a database (backed by MySQL).You can view games and edit variations and comments.You can play against a "plugged-in" chess engine and use it for analysis.......

3. eboard

eboard 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.The primary purpose of eboard is serving as interface to......

4. LightFICS

LightFICS LightFICS is a FICS/freechess,org Mac OS X application to play chess online. The app has automatic login and automatic game search (aka quickplay). It's very easy to setup and play for beginners using a single-click to play. The chess games can be copy-pasted from the LightFICS app to an external......

5. Raptor Chess Interface

Raptor Chess Interface Raptor is a cross platform chess interface and pgn viewer for the free internet chess server: FICS. It has the following features:Games tab with a settings and table view, Seek Tab with a settings, table, and graph view, Bugwho tab with adjustable settings for partners,teams, and games, Speech support for......

6. Chess Walk

Chess Walk Chess Walk is an Android chess application allowing offline and online (via FICS) play.......

7. BrainyChess

BrainyChess BrainyChess is a chess app that caters to both the amateur and the master! Enjoy online game play, a huge puzzle database, a personal cloud game database, and puzzle and game ratings to gauge your strength. Become a better player while having fun!INTERNET GAMEPLAY (NEW!)- Play chess against your friends......

8. Grand Master Chess 3

Grand Master Chess 3 Grand Master Chess III will help to improve your chess skills and become a better tournament or casual player. You can either have friendly competitions against friends and family members or try solo mode against the computer. Listen to your own music as you play! An incredible level of detail......

9. GameKnot

GameKnot Play chess online! The premier online chess battleground - play a friendly chess game online or compete in chess tournaments, chess teams, solve chess puzzles, FREE!......

10. Thief

Thief Thief is a free chess client written by Zon Jan to play on chess servers like the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). Thief can be customized and supports regular chess and all variants like bughouse, crazyhouse, Losers, Suicide, Kriegspiel and others. It is the the preferred client of Bughouse Players.......

11. ChessX

ChessX ChessX is an Open Source chess database. With ChessX you can operate on your collection of chess games in many ways:browse, edit, add, organize, analyze, etc.......

12. Pawn2

Pawn2 A nice freeware chess program with 3D pieces and variable levels of difficulty. Can be quite strong, with customizable setting for number of moves for the AI to look ahead, and for the AI to use known openings. Is quite fast as well.......

13. Compochess

Compochess CompoChess is a very effective PGN-editor for chess games with a Fischer-random-chess option and many useful database features including interfaces for Winboard-engines and CQL (Chess Query Language).......

14. Chess Walk Rebirth

Chess Walk Rebirth Smart & elegant chess realization. Play chess online with real people or offline with artificial intelligence.......

15. PyChess

PyChess 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......