Looking alternative soft for ChessBase.

[syouth]

Hi,

ChessBase is very hardcore chess software,database and helper. It works only for Windows. I need something running under Linux -- only very basic functionality like option to play games through and consider different variants; set up board (read SVG would be great) and then take notes about different possibilities...

What are my options?

Thanks
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psylove

[Bones McCracker]

In unix, you generally have two parts to the chess game, an interface and an engine.

Engines:
'crafty' is an excellent free chess engine that you can install from portage. http://www.craftychess.com/
'gnuchess' is a popular engine, but not as strong. also in portage. http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/

GUI:
When I was playing I was on KDE and used something called 'knights'.
The old standard is 'xboard', I can't remember if I tried it, but it probably sucks graphically.
I think I ran GLChess on gnome, but can't remember.

There is also 'chess training tools' (java-based):
http://freshmeat.net/projects/chesstraining/

To see what's available in portage you can look here and then use Google to research the apps to see what is said about them:
http://gentoo-portage.com/Search?search=chess

There is a HowTo in the Gentoo Wiki, but I don't know how up-to-date it is:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Chess

If you are serious enough you might want to buy an application, you might want to look at shredder:
http://www.shredderchess.com/linux.html

[Apatrid]

Check out scid.