Chess Programs for Linux Ubuntu

Do any of the Linux interfaces support bughouse/crazyhouse?

XBoard supports about anything under the Sun:

Chess, Chess960, Xiangqi, Shogi, Makruk, Suicide/Giveaway, Losers, Crazyhouse, 3Check, Twokings, Atomic, Cylinder, Shatranj, Courier, Capablanca/Gothic/CRC, Seirawan, Janus, Falcon, Spartan, Berolina, Knightmate, Superchess, Grand Chess, Great Shatranj, Mighty Lion, Elven Chess, Chu Shogi. And as if that is not enough engines can now define their own variants and configure XBoard to know the rules. E.g. with the fairymax engine it also does King of the Hill, Charge of the Light Brigade, Bifurcator Chess, Team-Mate Chess, Ouk and Ai-Wok. And many flavors of Chess with different Armies (all playable as variant 'fairy' with an engine option to select the setup for that).

Bughouse is a 4-player game, and can only be played through an Internet Chess Server to connect two XBoards (as XBoard is a two-player interface). XBoard has an extra board window to show the partner game, though.

Crazyhouse

Spartan Chess

Excellent, thanks @HGMuller.

Is it somehow possible to get chessbase videos running under Linux?

By "chessbase videos" i meant the training DVDs that you open inside chessbase. I have installed chessbase under wine but videos don't run. I can of course open the video outside of chessbase but then there is no sync with the moves.

Hi all, in case any of you are still looking around for Linux Chess GUIs, I have developed a new one.

It is not so much an analysis tool but a basic, simple to use Chess GUI.

It supports XBoard and UCI and has most basic options.

I feel it works best on Ubuntu 14, but is okay on other versions, Debian, Fedora etc and also I have a Raspberry Pi version.

Give it a try if you get the chance, download it from www.StingRayChess.org

It is just a simple GUI, for your average user, but easy to use with the basics.

Ta,
     Sean.,

If you're looking for Linux chess engines to go with your favourite Linux chess GUI, I'll point you here:

https://linuxchess.richardlloyd.org.uk/

Bet you didn't know there's 47 chess engines stronger than Magnus Carlsen that will run on Linux!

Sorry but for now I don't know how to install Critter, and it seems like it's fairly unknown when I look for help.

Bump, also make this avaible in arch btw pls

Arena, Lucas Chess, PyChess, and BanksiaGui are also now available for Linux.

do you know you have to know this trick in chess

Use gnome chess!

I run Linux Mint exclusively. Under wine the following Windows chess programs run flalwlessly. There are others also.

SlowChess Blitz

https://3dkingdoms.com/chess/slow.htm

Tarrasch GUI

https://www.triplehappy.com/

Nagaskaki Chess

https://mayothi.com/nagaskaki.html

Chess Genius Classic for PC's if you have an old copy of it.

http://chessgenius.com/pc/