Games like ChessBase'26 SE
If ChessBase'26 SE is your kind of game, the closest matches are ChessBase 18 Steam Edition, Fritz 18 Steam Edition and Lazy Chess — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About ChessBase'26 SE: ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database that has become the standard throughout the world. Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it.
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Steam players who put hours into ChessBase'26 SE also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
ChessBase 18 Steam Edition
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Top pick for ChessBase'26 SE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Education with ChessBase'26 SE.
ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database that has become the standard throughout the world. Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it.
Fritz 18 Steam Edition
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Second-strongest match for ChessBase'26 SE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
At the turn of the century, Fritz fascinated the chess world with victories over Garry Kasparov and then-reigning World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. The "most popular chess program" offers you everything you will need as a dedicated chess enthusiast.
Lazy Chess
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Third-strongest match for ChessBase'26 SE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
Lazy Chess is a new non-profit chess game that narrows your choices down to the best 2 possible moves per turn. The moves provided can always win the game, but how strong are your decisions? Fewer moves. More fun.
Radial Chess
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Ranked #4 for ChessBase'26 SE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
Radial Chess is a chess game that preserves all traditional rules and mechanics while reimagining the board as a radial spatial structure, where players compete against AI or locally in a transformed geometric interpretation of classic chess.
Chess Exerciser
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Ranked #5 for ChessBase'26 SE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
Become a better chess player with learning by repetition. Exercise from 3.000+ opening lines and discover their best continuation. Learn tactics from millions of puzzles split into 38 categories and 11 difficulty levels. Master 18.000+ endgame positions sorted by category and difficulty.
Super X Chess
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Ranked #6 for ChessBase'26 SE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
A chess game where you can combine your own pieces by capturing them. The combined piece moves as both pieces that got combined or with new rules when combining two pieces of same type. It's improving chess by making it more exciting & dynamic.
ChessBase 17 Steam Edition
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Ranked #7 for ChessBase'26 SE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database that has become the standard throughout the world. Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it.
Fritz - Your chess coach
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Ranked #8 for ChessBase'26 SE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
Fritz. Your chess trainer! Chess is fun with me! With AI help you learn to play brilliant winning games even as a beginner. Or play at professional level without help. Always with a humorous commentary. I also find opponents for you on the chess server and give you tactics training.
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one night, hot springs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
AdVenture Capitalist
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
Dota Underlords
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
FPS Chess
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
Battle a friend in this fast paced 1v1 class-based first-person shooter. Chess takes a back-seat to FPS as you win duel after duel and capture the opponent's pieces until you've beaten their king and won the game.
Clicker Heroes
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Bloons TD Battles
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.
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FritzChess 15
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Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase'26 SE. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
What does the modern chess player need? A sparring partner, a trainer, an up-to-date database and access to an online chess server! Fritz, probably the world’s most popular chess program (think back to FRITZ’s unforgettable victories against Kasparov, Kramnik & Co) offers just that for beginners and tournament players alike: it plays...
Fritz Chess 16 Steam Edition
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Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase'26 SE. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
When is chess the most enjoyable? When you win! When Fritz entered his first tournaments some 25 years ago, humans still had a real chance of taking the engine down. Only a few years down the line, Fritz was already beating grandmasters left, right and center, but ever since his 4:2 victory over Kramnik in 2006, Fritz has been considered...
Fritz Chess 17 Steam Edition
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Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase'26 SE. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
At the turn of the century, Fritz fascinated the chess world with victories over Garry Kasparov and then-reigning World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. The "most popular chess program" offers you everything you will need as a dedicated chess enthusiast.
ChessBase 16 Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase'26 SE. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database that has become the standard throughout the world. Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it.
Fritz 18 Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase'26 SE. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
At the turn of the century, Fritz fascinated the chess world with victories over Garry Kasparov and then-reigning World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. The "most popular chess program" offers you everything you will need as a dedicated chess enthusiast.
Fritz&Chesster - Learn to Play Chess
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Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase'26 SE. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
The chess classic: This is how children learn chess through play! Strategic thinking, tricky brain training, exciting competitive situations, lots of fun and a good portion of chess knowledge - all this and more is contained in this unusual chess adventure!
ChessBase 17 Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase'26 SE. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database that has become the standard throughout the world. Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it.
Fritz - Your chess coach
WHY THIS
Another title from ChessBase GmbH, the studio behind ChessBase'26 SE. Shares Strategy with ChessBase'26 SE.
Fritz. Your chess trainer! Chess is fun with me! With AI help you learn to play brilliant winning games even as a beginner. Or play at professional level without help. Always with a humorous commentary. I also find opponents for you on the chess server and give you tactics training.
Frequently asked about ChessBase'26 SE
- What games are most similar to ChessBase'26 SE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ChessBase'26 SE are ChessBase 18 Steam Edition, Fritz 18 Steam Edition, Lazy Chess.
- Who developed ChessBase'26 SE?
- ChessBase'26 SE was developed by ChessBase GmbH.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on ChessBase'26 SE.
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