Top 10 Free Linux Chess Apps

Chess is played between two players and is considered to be an entertaining and cutthroat board game. The chess software developed by Linux is of two types- chess engine and front end application. Top ten chess applications tools are developed by Linux for playing computer chess games.

• PyChess: It is the kind of chess client which got inspired by Gnome and is written in Python. It is the objective of PyChess to offer totally featured, good looking, simply used chess client for the desktop of Gnome.

• Jin: Jin is written in the application of Java. It is used as a graphical client for chess servers. Jin is also an open source and cross platform. Chatting along with playing chess is allowed by the software. It can be used as a separate application or like the one in a web browser.

• Decaf: The Java-based chess client of Decaf is used for the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). Attractive piece sets and board is used to play the game. An optional speak pack is also available to play the game.

• SCID: SCID is the abbreviation for Shane’s Chess Information Database. It is a database application for playing chess and uses graphical interface. Scid can be used for playing the game on internet chess servers. Also it is used for playing against a chess program. A database of the game of chess can be maintained by Scid. It is also used for searching games using many criteria, observe graphical style, and create printable information on the players and openings.

• ChessDB: It is a popular database for playing free chess. So a database of chess games can be kept along with searching the game by different criteria. At the same time the games could be searched by various criteria by the use of ChessDB. It can also be used to analyze graphical style and create reports on players and openings in printable form.

• Jose: Innovative graphical chess expediency is known as Jose. It helps the player to store their games of chess within a MySQL database by the use of a graphical front-end. It offers the chance to the players to view as well as edit games.  The game could be played against a plugged in chess engine and it could be used for analysis. A 3-D view of the board can also be viewed by this software.

• Toga II: Toga II is only an UCI chess engine and is a derivative of the chess engine of Fruit. Superior chess understanding and an enhanced search algorithm is offered by Toga II as it is improved on Fruit. Toga II is dependent on such chess interface like xboard or knights to offer an attractive front-end.

• Glaurung: Glaurung is an incomplete chess program and a free chess engine. Universal Chess Interface or UCI is used by Toga II for their chess engines as a tool for their communication. For playing against the engine a person needs to use a UCI enabled interface like knights or just an xboard adaptor like polyglot.

• Crafty: Crafty is a chess engine and has a very strong chess program. It is only concerned with playing chess. And is not concerned with offering an interface for graphical users. Every search algorithms are being used by Crafty and offer the best starting point so that original extensions for search could be tried by the user.

• SOSS: SOSS is a kind of software used for pairing of players in a chess tournament. Attention is paid on the whole event and not only on the pairing. For SOSS’s graphical platform, Allegro is used.

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