Top 15 BrainyChess Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

1. 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

2. Chess Walk Rebirth

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

3. 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

4. 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, club player or professional – Fritz has everything that chess players could want: automatically adjusting playing strength, handicap and coaching functions, explanation of positions, coloured danger...... TpSort Score | 11,800,000

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Mobialia Chess

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

9. Scid vs. PC

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...... TpSort Score | 13,900,000

10. 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...... TpSort Score | 283,000,000

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. OCC

Online Chess Club (OCC) is a small PHP chess game. It is not meant for public use but rather for playing with friends. Any number of games can be opened and the idea is to check once in a while (like once a day) whether somebody has moved and if...... TpSort Score | 2,410,000

13. Phpchess

phpChess is a private project involving a few developers who got together because we like technology and we like chess. Chess is great for the mind, it instills the ideal of resolving conflicts without violence, it helps children to think ahead and it teaches everyone that a life is full...... TpSort Score | 289,000,000

14. 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

15. 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...... TpSort Score | 13,000,000