Game · Puzzle, board & word games
ChessMD
ChessMD is a Qt-based chess app to play, analysis, review chess game and browse chess opening database.
- Completely free
- Linux
- Open source
Overview
ChessMD is a board game, available on Linux.
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
Excerpts that establish this information
- “The modern way to study chess” — official website, 10 November 2026
At a glance
ChessMD is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.
Its licence (AGPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.
Strengths
- Open source code
- Commercial use allowed
About
Improve your chess with unlimited game review, interactive engine analysis, and several other state-of-the-art training utilities. Play with bots - You can play with engine with different ELOs Game Review - The game review feature provides a detailed analysis of each move to help players understand the accuracies of their moves. Chess Engine Analysis - You can select a chess engine to analyze the game. Import chess.com games - You can import your chess.com games Opening Explorer - You can browse chess database move by move
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