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BabasChess
     FICS interface for Windows

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.

Chess Program Screenshots
     A handy visual guide to many of the more popular chess programs.

Chess Town -- Homepage of Arman
     Very thorough personal site devoted to computer programs, engine, tutorials, utilities, etc.

ChessVU
     ChessVU for Windows offers a comprehensive set of viewing and editing functions for chess data bases, in the two most common formats (PGN and CBF). It is a powerful viewer, and also a tool for game analysis, thanks to the interface to UCI engines.

     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.

     Games & results from several computer chess tournaments

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].

     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.

Jim's Chess Strategy
     A personal web site offering advice for defeating chess computers

Lokasoft
     Lokasoft is a company that develops computer chess programs

Portable Games Notation
     Reference article on the popular PGN format.

Saitek
     Dedicated chess computers.

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

Swedish Chess Rating Agency
     The Official One!

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.

     Computer chess with test positions, databases, links, etc.

     Excellent article about the Turing test and computer chess. Also includes links to several related articles.

Windboard.Info

     A Winboard-related discussion forum.

     Forum devoted to Winboard & the freeware engines it supports. Also includes links to related sites.

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

9.95 Chess

     chess program for the Palm OS

     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.

     Description of Pocket Fritz, the chess program that runs on handheld computers.

     Steve Lopez's T-Notes on using Chessbase products. Also includes various articles on chess in general.

Chess Clock
     shareware program

     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.

     Free e-mail chess program for playing and managing e-mail games.

Chess Tutor

     The ChessTutor^TM 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 ChessTutor^TM software are offered as a free service to the Internet Chess community.

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

     Interactive chess books in text & .cbh format for use with Chessbase products. Some of these books are classics that have had their positions and games converted to .cbh format, while others are totally new books.

     Utility to manage e-mail or correspondence chess games. Free trial version available.

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

     Program for managing correspondence chess games.

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.

Nagaskaki

     A free chess program for Windows.

     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.

Reindeer
     Reindeer is a program that connects to chessclub.com that allows you to chat easily, play chess and more. Think of Reindeer as a duplicate program of Blitzen.

     Dedicated chess computers.

SCID Database Forum
     Bulletin board for SCID database users

Sendgame
     create game-pages and send games in PGN-format.  This can be useful for chessclubs, tournaments and players etc.

Shredder
     Home of the 8-time World Computer Chess Champion

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

     Site of one of the strongest free Winboard engines. Includes engine download, opening book, tips, etc.

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Software Info & Reviews

     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.

Chess Reviews
     Robert Pawlak's site devoted to reviews of chess software & products

     Reviews, comparisons, and information on the handheld & stand alone chess computers.

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

Chess Engine Rankings
     Lyapko George runs game in 30 minute tourneys & rates 201 different engines

The Nolot Suite
     A famous series of test problems posted in 94, it was claimed that no computer can ever find the answer within a reasonable time

     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.

Winboard FAQ
     Just like it sounds . . .

     News & updates about Winboard & Winboard engines.  Doesn't appear to be active anymore, but still has interesting information.

     Lyapko George's overview of Winboard. Includes FAQ's, links, utilities, etc.

     Just about everything you could want to know about these programs.

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Downloads

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

     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.

     Excellent interface for playing chess at FICS & ICC.

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

     CM 8000 patch 1.04

     Screensaver that will replay any .pgn file you load into it.

     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.

     Free .pgn Java viewer that can be used on your own site or by loading .pgn files into it at it's own site.

Fritz 6 Patch (from ChessBase)

Icarus

     Random Software: Icarus is the newest interface for the hugely popular Internet Chess Club. Its beautiful, easy-to-use interface will help you get connected and playing chess in no time.

     Free java .pgn viewer for websites.

     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.

¡Nemesis

     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.

     A Winboard engine. Free download, plus an excellent overview of most available Winboard engines.

     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.

     Free software program & system for playing e-mail chess.

     Use their search engine to find dozens of free chess programs of all types to download.

     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.

     Large list of downloadable freeware & shareware chess & chess variant programs & utilities.

     Site of one of the strongest free Winboard engines. Includes engine download, opening book, tips, etc.

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Chess Graphics

     Several chess related icons.

     Chess diagram program with free demo download.

     Free downloadable chess screensaver.

     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.

     Small selection of chess screensaver programs.

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 collection of chess cartoons.

     A pgn to html conversion utility.

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