FYI if anybody’s looking for a chessbase alternative I use a combination of SCID vs. PC, Caissabase, and Stockfish to roughly clone it. I’m sure chessbase has a lot more features but these alternatives are good enough for an amateur like me. https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

The command line interface is designed for interoperability with chess GUIs according to an informal standard called UCI. UCI is sufficiently simple that you can talk to the engine manually if you really want to but it is much (much) easier to use a chess GUI. For example Tarrasch https://triplehappy.com (shameless plug for my chess GUI). - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

A lesser known but still useful chess database GUI is Tarrasch from triplehappy.com. Comes bundled with Stockfish, and I believe you can hook up other UCI engines. Source: about 3 years ago

I use wxWidgets for my chess GUI Tarrasch https://triplehappy.com I am not sure if the glacial release schedule these days is a strength (it's stable, there's not much left to do), or a weakness (the project is dying). The various V3.1.x releases all say please use this release for production, even though in theory it's the even number releases that are supposed to be production worthy. Waiting for V3.2.0 (by some... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago