Top 15 Fritz Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

1. Chess Walk Rebirth

Smart & elegant chess realization. Play chess online with real people or offline with artificial intelligence....... TpSort Score | 1,140,000

2. 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....... TpSort Score | 29,300,000

3. Pure Chess

Experience one of the oldest known boardgames on the advanced technology of today. With ultra-realistic and unparalleled beautiful visuals you can almost reach out and touch the pieces. Created under the watchful eye of a fully-fledged Grandmaster; Pure Chess allows players to experience the traditional game like never before, showcasing...... TpSort Score | 261,000

4. 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...... TpSort Score | 282,000,000

5. WinBoard

Winboard works more as a graphic front-end for several different chess engines included with the game, as well as for several chess game modes. These include not only player vs player or human vs computer competitions, but also games played online and even by email. WinBoard also lets you save...... TpSort Score | 165,000,000

6. HIARCS Chess Explorer

World class chess database, analysis and playing software for PC and Mac...... TpSort Score | 176,000

7. Mobialia Chess

Play against AI or online at FICS or ICC....... TpSort Score | 15,700,000

8. Lucas Chess

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.Also included are thousands of training positions such as different types of endgames, tactical combinations and chess problems (mate in 2,3,4 and more).The...... TpSort Score | 854,000

9. 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...... TpSort Score | 11,800,000

10. Battle vs. Chess

Battle vs. Chess is a computer game version of chess developed by Targem Games and Zuxxez Entertainment and published by TopWare Interactive. It was released on May 17, 2011 for PC (Windows and Mac), PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360 and Wii in Europe. The U.S. version of...... TpSort Score | 174,000

11. 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....... TpSort Score | 9,580,000

12. ChessBase

With ChessBase chess becomes even more fascinating and all the more exciting. In the new ChessBase program the Microsoft Office based interface ensures the key information quickly appears on screen. The new function “Fashionable Variation” kills two birds with one stone: ChessBase shows you which continuation is currently fashionable. Frequently...... TpSort Score | 293,000

13. 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...... TpSort Score | 29,300,000

14. 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...... TpSort Score | 11,500,000

15. Tarrasch Chess GUI

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....... TpSort Score | 563,000