Top 15 Pure Chess Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

1. 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

2. 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

3. Chess Walk Rebirth

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

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. Clue: The Classic Mystery Game

Join Miss Scarlet, Colonel Mustard and the rest of the gang from the classic, murder mystery board game, revitalized for mobile....... TpSort Score | 8,210,000

6. Royal 3D Chess

As the name, as is the look and feel, Royal 3D Chess is provides you the real 3D look and feel. Play like you are playing in reality.Chess games always need some strategies to develop. Develop you own strategies to solve this check and mate puzzle in 3D view.Game Features:1)3D...... TpSort Score | 267,000

7. Chess Walk

Chess Walk is an Android chess application allowing offline and online (via FICS) play....... TpSort Score | 51,600,000

8. 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

9. 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 million units sold as of 2002....... TpSort Score | 144,000

10. 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

11. 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

12. RISK: Global Domination

Play the classic board game that took the world of strategy by storm. RISK: Global Domination is the official, digital version brought to mobile by Hasbro. Along with classic gameplay including pass-to-play feature, you can also take the battle online with Global Domination mode (must be over 13)!FEATURES• Multiple game...... TpSort Score | 461,000

13. Mobialia Chess

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

14. 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

15. 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