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Freeware - Games Board - Chess

José is an Open Source, graphical, Chess tool - you can store chess games in a database, view and edit games (including variations and comments) read and write PGN (Portable Game Notations) files. Features: graphical frontend to MySQL database: 2D and 3D view; plug-in chess engine for play and analysis; supports both XBoard and UCI protocol. Play Fischer Random Chess / Chess 960, or Shuffle Chess; ECO opening classification; Position Search; Create HTML and PDF files. Web Servlet interface.

VS ChessMania, we are proud to launch Version 2 of our Chess game, play online with your buddy anywhere around the world. Customize the Game interface with your favorite User Interface color theme or Chess board Background.

Easy Chess is a free chess game to play chess with the computer, it is based on several Open Source chess algorithms. If you are bored with FreeCell and Hearts, install this game!

HellChess is a multiple platform chess engine with network/chat option and a nice graphical interface with smooth screen swap. This AI engine will make your single player experience quite challenging, you can also play Chinese chess, Japanese chess and Checkers. A book of rules is built into the application so that users can read all about the game types and how to play them. Lots of tutorials to make you better at chess every time. Every setting of the game is configurable through the user-friendly interface. Play online with your friends or total strangers via Direct Connect or the HellHound Masterserver. Versions available for: Windows/Linux, Amiga, Palm, PocketPC, GBA.

AlphaChess is a superb chess game, you can play a local game (two player on the same computer), host a network game or join a hosted game online. AlphaChess has a very sleek game board which is 100% color customizable so it can suit your mood, 10 cute color schemes are already installed with the game, and you can easily save your own schemes. You can also choose from 20 chess sets to play with, or easily create your own chess sets and add them to the game by puting them in the "Sets" folder.

DiagTransfer is a chess position editor (fen/EPD) with special features. Copy diagrams from another program or a web page using a semi-transparent window to overlay the diagram and "trace" the pieces. Change pieces with drag 'n drop and print very high quality diagrams.

Pawn was designed to be a light program especially for beginners so that they don't get frustrated right from the beginning if they can't win a game every now and then. Pawn has an adjustable beginner's mode which lets the computer make mistakes. There are two versions available, the classic v1 and the new v2 featuring two different styles of HiRes board graphics and voice output. The strength of the program should be sufficient for most players. Have fun trying to beat the program and don't forget to play against some real persons from time to time ;-)

ChessWorks is a multiplayer chess game that is playable over the internet or a LAN. Multiple games and trackers can be opened at anytime. Other features include Full PGN compatibility, resizable board and piece graphics, Game clocks and more. ChessWorks at this time is strictly multiplayer and does not offer a computer opponent. Meet people to play all over the world by connecting to a tracker.

Solve the Knight's tour problem, place all of the Knights on the board traversing from first place to 64th place with valid moves.

To solve the 8 Queens problem you must place 8 Queens on the board without any of them being in another Queen's moving area.

This is a two player (no computer AIs) variation on chess, designed to run on 2 computers over the Internet, where you can only see the places where your pieces can move or attack. There are some exceptions to this, full information is provided in the rules which will also appear on the opening screen when you run the game. More information and instructions are available on the website.

"The Genius" is a chess engine complete with its own user interface, game saving and reopening capability and more. It can be used to play against humans and uses Artificial Intelligence (AI)techniques to select the best moves. It can play at four different levels, with each level increasing the thinking time of "The Genius", thereby enabling it play better moves. Other Features; Customizability of board, including board rotation, changing square colors. Background music. This is an OpenSource project.

Soft Chess is a compact program comprising the chess engine and the user interface. Features include - Adjustable computer skill, Help for beginners, Ability to take moves back, Ability to adjust parameters of the scoring function.

NagaSkaki is a free chess program for Windows, with its own graphical interface. Features include - Opening Book, Levels (Seconds/Move, Blitz, Tournament and Beginner), Chess Clocks, Load/Save pgn files, Hash table, Shows best move and evaluation of position. New in version 2: 3 Different chess sets, Shows moved piece, Load FEN positions, Help files, Winboard compatable.

Chess is the game I used to play when I was young! Fantastic, relaxing, intriguing, and annoying at times, it is a game for all ages, and better yet, this version is 2 player.

A chess puzzle consisting of 24 numbered knights randomly distributed among 25 chessboard squares, the object is to move the nights into numerical order in the fewest possible moves. The puzzle may appear easy at first since many of the knights are already in their correct position, but solving it in the fewest number of moves will prove challenging.

NetChess is a chess program that allows you to play with an opponent over internet/intranet or on your own computer. You can load or save game. The built-in chat provides a quick and efficient solution to essential communication between players. This software will verify your moves according to chess rules. Features include chess-clock, move logging, coordinate system, and much more.

Chess lovers, I propose you to download a program that plays around 2100 Elo thinking no more than one second by move, that is to say good enough, I hope to put you in trouble and to make you progress (author).

Net Blitz is a freeware chess program running on Windows 95/98 and NT 4 - Allowing for either LAN or Internet Multiplayer Chess games (also known as bughouse chess).