Best Free GUIs to run Stockfish 13 on Windows PC?

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I think the Tarrasch GUI is pretty good, it is free and I think it is much better than Arena

Lucas Chess has an interesting feature, you can use it to get an accuracy score for a game, but it takes a while

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Another vote for Tarrasch

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Genzug wrote:

I think the Tarrasch GUI is pretty good, it is free and I think it is much better than Arena

Lucas Chess has an interesting feature, you can use it to get an accuracy score for a game, but it takes a while

wait really?

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1d31-O wrote:
Genzug wrote:

I think the Tarrasch GUI is pretty good, it is free and I think it is much better than Arena

Lucas Chess has an interesting feature, you can use it to get an accuracy score for a game, but it takes a while

wait really?

Arena has automatic analysis.  It will tell you how many times you did identical moves with engines first choice in a game.   happy.png

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Scid VS PC is a tad ugly, but excellent and very stable tool. Totally free/opensource as well.

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i still don't get why people need an engine for making openings sad.png

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Scid vs PC

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rune_raider wrote:

I have never heard anybody mention Jose Chess before, but I would consider it the best program. https://sourceforge.net/projects/jose-chess/

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I never really used Jose much. However, people just need to be aware that it requires the installation of Java Runtime Environment.

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Jose was last updated more than 8 years ago.

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JogoReal έγραψε:

Jose was last updated more than 8 years ago.

Very true.

 

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Arena, and Banksia chess gui are free and very good possible best free chess gui is Lucas chess

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The dead end. Good luck in advance soldier!

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Is there a good GUI where it's easy to turn off the 50 move rule, e.g. to opt for current FIDE basic rules?

Also is there a good GUI that will list available engine options (as sent by the engine in the option command)? I'm assuming this is where you'd turn off the 50 move rule in the engine.

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drmrboss wrote:
1d31-O wrote:
Genzug wrote:

I think the Tarrasch GUI is pretty good, it is free and I think it is much better than Arena

Lucas Chess has an interesting feature, you can use it to get an accuracy score for a game, but it takes a while

wait really?

Arena has automatic analysis.  It will tell you how many times you did identical moves with engines first choice in a game.   

I've got Tarrasch. Can you tell it to play engines against each other? (I do that in Arena, but I find Tarrasch generally easier to use.)

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ok

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Nibbler
BanksiaGUI
Cutechess
Chessbase
Scid vs. PC

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rune_raider wrote:
hpoli2000 wrote:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/chessman/9nblggh4s8dk#activetab=pivot title="surprise" src="/bundles/web/images/icons/smileys/1x/surprise.png" srcset="/bundles/web/images/icons/smileys/2x/surprise.png 2x" alt="surprise.png">verviewtab

 

can you write comments next to the moves?

 

No, you can't. And also quite a few pgn files cannot be imported succesfully.

This app is next to useless.

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@Rune_raider
…pain in the a** ??? - The PGN import is very easy. I do it almost every day. No problem at all.
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Create new database (file) and import PGN into the new database. Not open a PGN. 😉
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… you are able to add new games or edit existing games.