Chess - Looking for recommendation

[sbrener]

Hi - Can anyone recommend a good chess app that is available for MX Linux that doesn't require additional supporting apps to work...and where to find it and how to install it? (Newbie to linux here.)

Thanks

[danielson]

Used to play chess online...

Found PyChess through Alternativeto.net and it looks good:
https://pychess.github.io/download/

/a perennial newbie (should be my alias here).

[tony37]

Best way to install pychess is from the normal repos.
There's also Arena: http://www.playwitharena.de That one isn't in the repos, the 3.10beta version works fine for me (has some improvements compared to the 1.1 version).

[genericmeatsack]

Dreamchess is my go-to. In the debian stable repo.

[sbrener]

Well, Dreamchess was easy enough to find and install.

Since I'm such a noob, maybe I'll grab one of the other ones too so I can lean how to download and install items that aren't in the repo.

Thanks!

[Davo]

Surely you can just use an online Chess tool?
Lichess is simply superb and offers all types of match-ups (based on online ELO ratings rated to whatever time interval, say 2(minutes initial) +12(seconds per move and this is own favorite mode of play) or 2+0 (more bullet style) or whatever time limit you want to set or to challenge others to a game (25+2 maybe). Up to you really.
Eventually you gravitate to more often facing challengers who are more-or-less similar strength. Also has superb analysis modes etc. In the good (bad!) old days you would sign up for a physical Chess club and meet maybe 30 people and maybe 3 at your own level and all others either way above or below that level.
Nowadays so many online Chess communities that offer you far more challenging match-ups across all levels and lengths of match duration - at least 100 people broadly comparable at any moment of any day, all online all over the world.

For stand-alone Chess, then maybe download SCIDvsPC (Debian) allied then with the Stockfish engine for letting an engine loose on Chess openings/ positions/ problems or even GM play. You can face it yourself, but may find the need to tone it's aggressive ply-depth search down a little bit, to give you more a chance in game play. I don't like so much to play against an engine, because it just does not make an obvious mistakes. Therefore you then take the whole element of psychology out of Chess (which is quite major in human-to-human games) and instead more focus on only not making mistakes, which kind of cripples your own creativity.

Anyway success in your endeavors. You could explore Chesstempo (which gives you situational and tactical practice templates to explore) The very recent Netflix smash hit of 2020 "Queen's Gambit" has very rightly positioned Chess front-and-center stage at this moment (long overdue as well). It is a simply wonderful pastime to explore. I do love to play on Lichess myself from time to time, it has countless numbers of members and always one close to own level of play to compete against.

[Pierre]

there is an small collection of Chess games , there are available through the repository,
and also some that are on-line, as well.

the Chess games, that are available these days, are usually quite good,
and most will support the ELO rating system, if you wish to utilise that.