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Arman's Chess Software Site
links to chess software sites, both commercial & freeware

Anti-Computer Chess
Articles, advice & game collections on beating computer chess programs.

BabasChess
FICS interface for Windows

Chessmaster 8000 in Fritz
Instructions & files for running Chessmaster's The King engine in the Fritz interface.

Chess Pages - Free Chess
This site is addressed to chess players that decided to find out what nowadays the computer can offer to them to improve their chess playing, as well as to be able to view, store and analyze chess games. All suggested software here is Free to use and unlimited.

Comprehensive site with computer program reviews, rating lists, games, etc., plus a store specializing in sets, software & stand alone chess machines.

Large collection of links & articles about computer chess. Also includes links to several software sites & programs.

Czech
low cost shareware for publishing games of chess on the WWW

Delfi4
Winboard chess engine, designed to emulate the human chess play. Delfi was written to achieve a good positional play (example: it cares about good and bad bishops) but currently it's much stronger at tactics.
The current version is 4.1 [2003/03/08].

align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 10"> News, forums, info, downloads, links, etc., concerning Winboard & the free chess engines that run within it.

Hotbabe Chess
complete chess engine and chess GUI. It runs on windows platforms

How To Beat Chess Computers
how it "thinks", what openings to use, middlegame & endgame advice, etc.

The International Computer Games Association.

Wide range of articles, programs, programming theory, tournaments, rating lists, and many other things having to do with computer chess.

Lokasoft
Lokasoft is a company that develops computer chess programs

Saitek
Dedicated chess computers.

Computer chess games, engine & program reviews, news, etc.

Thinking Machine 4
explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. Play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process visible on the board before you.

This is THE site for Winboard, XBoard and all the engines that run within them. Includes tons of information, FAQ's, and downloads.

Yahoo 2 PGN Converter
This javascript will take a chess game notated in Yahoo format and convert it to PGN

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Software

Arena

Chess GUI.

Aristarch

a free chess engine that you can use for example with Fritz, Shredder, Arena or WinBoard. ICC standard rating (as of 11-15-03) is 2419

Beowulf

Free Winboard compatible chess program.

Site of Bookup chess products, specializing in chess openings

Database, playing & training software company

Chess and Data
tips when you are mixing Internet with chess, many utilities and specialized programs

Homepage of Convecta, including Chess Assistant software, which includes the Chess Assistant database program & CT-ART tactical training program.

The site of Chessbase software, which includes Chessbase, Fritz, Hiarcs, and several other engines, as well as numerous training & reference programs. Site also includes articles, game downloads, news, etc.

Detailed help files & tutorial for Chessbase 8.

Don Maddux's ChessBaseUSA site which includes Chessbase, Fritz, Hiarcs, and several other programs, as well as numerous training & reference software packages.

Chess playing program for Palms & Pocket PC's.

Homepage of Chessmaster playing program.

Free downloadable .pgn reader & database program.

Chess Pairing Program

Freeware Windows program.

Chess Tutor

The ChessTutorTM applet was developed to provide a graphical method of displaying Chess games, and game fragments over the web from a centralized database. This Web site and the ChessTutorTM software are offered as a free service to the Internet Chess community.

Convekta
Homepage of Convekta, including Chess Assistant software, which includes the Chess Assistant database program & CT-ART tactical training program.

DiagTransfer
a chess position editor (fen/EPD); 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

ExaChess

ExaChess is a powerful chess-database program for the Macintosh with many features. You can use it to manage a database of hundreds of thousands of master games, as a chessboard to play through games, and as a tool to record and annotate your own games, to play games against the computer, or to play perfect endgames.

Makers of several models of dedicated chess computers

Intellichess
Pocket PC chess game with a strong engine and ability to play over the Internet, using ChessClub.com

Frank's Chess Page

Dealing mainly with free amateur chess programs, especially Winboard.

The very strong freeware chess engine. Goliath is very tactical and extremely fast. Free download of several versions of this engine available.

HIARCS
World Championship winning chess software engine, now available for Palm, PC and Macintosh computers and PDAs

Misty Beach PGN Viewer Applet

Java applet that takes a chess Portable Game Notation (PGN) file in "reduced export format" and displays a chess board with buttons allowing a viewer to step through the game

MyChess Viewer

Java PGN viewer. It supports RAV (Recursive Annotated Variations), comments, FEN tags, "puzzle mode", etc.

Dedicated chess computers.

Chess database program. There's a free trial version for download.

Rebel Software's home page. Includes product descriptions, ordering info, news, computer tournaments, articles, etc.

Scid Chess Database
A free chess database program.

SCID Database Forum
Bulletin board for SCID database users

Shredder
Home of the 8-time World Computer Chess Champion

Sigma Chess
Mac freeware chess playing program that can play, import pgn, analyze games, etc. Versions for PowerMacs and non-PowerMacs. Plus other stuff.

Swiss Perfect International
Swiss tournament software. A free trial version is available for download.

Swis-Sys
Swiss system tournament pairing software. There's a free trial version available.

Tournament Director
software to organize, run and report on chess tournaments, includes swiss & round robin pairings

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Software Info & Reviews

Arena GUI
A graphical user interface for use with Winboard and other chess engines.

Aaron Tay's excellent site with virtually everything you could ever want or need to know about Winboard and the free engines that run within it.

Computer Chess Ratings
by Eric Hallsworth, who runs the Selective Search magazine

2001 tournament between 26 of the top chess programs, all running on identical hardware and at classical time controls. Very informative and all games are available for download.

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Downloads

Project involving Chess Artificial Intelligence.

Excellent collection of links to various chess programs, utilities & graphics that can be downloaded.

Bookup Lite along with several sample databases, patches & utilities.

CEBoard 2.0
a chess tool for Pocket PC

Checkmate!

Interface for playing at online chess servers such as ICC & FICS.

Includes downloads service packs, help files, upgrades, CBLite, Fritz 6 demo, and several free engines.

Excellent interface for playing chess at FICS & ICC.

A huge collection of the free engines that run in Winboard or XBoard.

Several dozen free downloads of chess programs, from engines to utilities, graphics, chess variants, etc.

Convert Yahoo Chess Game Notation to PGN format

Der Bringer's User Guide

Downloadable chess program.

Excellent (and huge) collection of links to free downloads of all types of chess programs & utilities.

Excellent free chess diagram maker for download. Also includes several TT chess fonts.

Fritz 6 Patch (from ChessBase)

Several chess utility programs by Odd Gunnar Malin, that can be downloaded for free, including InBetween, which allows several engines to function within GUI's they weren't originally designed for. Also includes links to a large assortment of sites related to computer chess.

ÁNemesis

If you like CClient try this interface. It's built on CClient 2.0 and contains LOTS of new features

Free trial version of the database program.

Large assortment of freeware & shareware .pgn utilities.

Free chess engine that runs in Winboard or Fritz.

Free versions of Rebel software, plus several opening books, game collections, utilities, etc.

Ruffian

Download the Ruffian chess engine.

Pairing software for Swiss tournaments. There's a free trial version available.

Alternate site to download the popular chess interface.

Download the two popular interfaces.

Downloads of several extensions & drivers for chess programs, including Auto232, InBetween, and several others.

Free demo version of a tournament management program.

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Chess Graphics

Chess Graphics
Huge collection of chess images, icons, cartoons, photos, screensavers, etc.

Several chess related icons.

Enormous collection of chess graphics, ranging from clipart, to wallpaper, screensavers, images from stamps, books, movies, etc. Link to this collection is near the bottom of the page.

Chessviewer

ICC program allows use to paste pgn into the web page, then creates a viewer the user can incorporate into their own site for that particular pgn

Small collection of chess icons & clipart.

Excellent free chess diagram maker for download. Also includes several TT chess fonts.

A pgn to html conversion utility.

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