Question.

Cimfindriel · Mar 14, 2001

Does anyone know of a good chess program, preferably free and that allows you to save? I plan to start a game soon and follow it from my board at home, but I would also like to follow it on my comp, just incase I need to use my board.

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Håkan Eriksson · Mar 15, 2001

You could try one off the games I have listed here. I do not take any responsebilety over the content off these games. And some off the maybe not free.

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<a href="http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/chess.html#GNUChess">Tim
Mann's Chess Page</a> - Crafty,
GNUchess, Winboard, and other important computer-chess information
<a href="http://www.best.com/~jdart/arasan.htm">Arasan</a>
- freeware
chess program by Jon Dart.  It has it's own user interface, but can also be
used in conjunction with Winboard.
<a href="http://www.intersrv.com/~dcross/chenard.html">Chenard</a>
- a freeware chess program written by Don
Cross (C++ source is available also) 

<a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/chenard.gif">Chenard
Screenshot

</a>

<a href="http://www.tasc.nl/products/chessica.html">Chessica</a>
- program by Tasc with free demo
<a href="http://www.datacomm.ch/m.luescher/computerchess.html">Chessterfield</a>
- a simple freeware chess program for Windows  
<a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/chessterfield.gif">Chessterfield
Screenshot

</a><a href="http://www.cHEXx.com/">

</a><a href="http://www.cHEXx.com/">cHEXx</a>
- a Bombastic 2 - 6 Player chess game for the new
Millenium. Free computer game demo available.  <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/chexx.gif">cHEXx
Screenshot

</a>

<a href="http://www.empire-us.com/chess/index.htm">Combat
Chess</a> - from Empire Interactive
Online
<a href="ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt">Crafty</a>
- popular freeware chess program.  The
readme file on this FTP site will provide instructions on how to download
<a href="http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/~coulom/">Crazy
Bishop</a> - amateur program by Rémi
Coulom
<a href="http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/Tichy/DarkThought/">DarkThought</a>
- strong chess program with information about its
code
<a href="http://www.nucleus.com/~npl/chess/chess.html">EG
Chess</a> - a 3D freeware chess game for
windows. <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/egchess.gif">EG
Chess Screenshot

</a>

<a href="http://www.exachess.com/">ExaChess</a>
- chess database program for the Macintosh. 
Free demo version available  <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/exachess.gif">ExaChess
Screenshot

</a>

<a href="http://quasar.astro.brandeis.edu/BRAG/people/dch/chess.html">EXchess</a>
- an experimental chess program by Dan Homan with
Winboard support
<a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~adrien/chessprog.htm">Faile</a>
- an amateur program



<a href="http://www.gambitsoft.com/mac.htm">Free Macintosh Chess
Software</a> - Descriptions and
download links for eight freeware Macintosh chess packages
<a href="http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/chess.html#GNUChess">GNU
Chess</a> - freeware program by Tim Mann
<a href="http://www2.prestel.co.uk/diamond/chess2.html">Green Light
Chess</a> - with descriptions of programming technique for this chess
playing program by Tim Foden
<a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/hobblefrank/">GromitChess</a>
- a freeware chess program or Windows by Frank
Schneider
<a href="http://www.acc-ltd.demon.co.uk/">HIARCS</a>
- super strong chess engine, #1 on 1/28/99 SSDF
rating list, for PC & Mac   <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/hiarcs7.gif">HIARCS
Screenshot</a> and <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/h7menus.gif">HIARCS
Menus Screenshot

</a>

<a href="http://www.jakob.at/steffen/hossa.html">Hossa</a>
- chess program by Steffen A. Jakob, can be used in
conjunction with winboard
<a href="http://members.aol.com/kenpresley/HNC.html">HyperNetwork
Chess</a> - chess program for the
Macintosh.  <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/hypernet.gif">HyperNetwork
Screenshot

</a>

<a href="http://members.magnet.at/werner.inmann/">Inmichess</a>
- program by Werner Inmann.  <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/imnichess.jpg">Inmichess
Screenshot

</a>

<a href="http://www.cyberus.ca/~csbruce//chess/">KC
CHESS: Kevin & Craig's Chess Program</a> -
chess program and somewhat interesting term paper these two wrote for a class of
theirs
<a href="http://samba.anu.edu.au/KnightCap/">KnightCap</a>
- free chess program for unix with 3-d interface. 
<a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/knightcap.gif">KnightCap
Screenshot

</a>

<a href="http://members.aol.com/Macchess/index.html">MacChess</a>
- excellent freeware chess playing program for the
Macintosh.  <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/macchess.gif">MacChess

 Screenshot</a> and <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/mc5menus.gif">MacChess
Menus Screenshot

</a>

<a href="http://www.math.jyu.fi/~huikari/">Nero</a>
- chess program by Jari Huikari.  <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/nero.gif">Nero
Screenshot

</a><a href="http://home.seol.net.au/luke/Octavius/">Octavius</a>
- A playable/trainable Neural Network chess program
<a href="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/1219/">Pierre</a>
- amateur program 
<a href="http://www.sierra.com/attractions/titles/powerchess/index.html">Power
Chess</a> - claims to adapt to your
level of play to provide a challenging game - from Sierra
<a href="http://www.rebel.nl/">Rebel</a>
- very
strong chess program from Schröder BV - can also download their Rebel Decade
program for free.  <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/rebel10.gif">Rebel
10.0 Screenshot

</a><a href="http://home.att.net/~glazarou/skaki.htm">Shaki</a>
- freeware chess program for Windows
<a href="http://users.cybercity.dk/~bst10651/">Sigma
Chess</a> - Master-strength, free
Macintosh chess program. 3D board.  <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/sigma.gif">Sigma
Screenshot</a>  and <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/sigmenus.gif">Sigma
Menus Screenshot</a> and <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/sigma3d.gif">Sigma
3D Screenshot

</a>

<a href="http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/slutzksn/chess.html">SSEChess
Home Page</a> - with versions for
various PC operating systems and can be used in conjunction with Winboard
<a href="http://www.tasc.nl/">The Tasc
ChessSystem</a> - Demos of Chessica,
TascBase, and Chess Tutor.  <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/chessica.gif">Chessica
Screenshot</a> and <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/tascbase.gif">TascBase
Screenshot</a> and  <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/chess_tutor.gif">Chess
Tutor Screenshot

</a>

<a href="http://ucsu.Colorado.EDU/~kerrigat/">Tom
Kerrigan's Web Site</a> - with
information about his program named Stobor
<a href="http://home.fda.net/~wzrdking/software.htm">Tristram
Home Page</a> - free chess program
for 32 bit Windows systems which may be used in conjunction with Winboard
<a href="http://www.interplay.com/games/uscf.html">U.S.C.F.
Chess</a> - from Interplay,
apparently sanctioned by the USCF.  It has received poor reviews.   <a href="http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/uscf.jpg">USCF
Screenshot

</a>

<a href="http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e8925162/ychess.html">YChess</a>
- a chess program by Roman Antonczyk



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Algernon Pondlife · Mar 14, 2001

If you only want to look at the games and not play against the computer you should get "chessbase light" which is free. It lets you put in variations and jump between them easily. you can get it from http://www.chessbase.com/
I'm using it to track all the games on this board (I could send you my database to get you started?) and to create a library for every competitive game I've ever played (except the ones I've lost of course).

Go to http://www.chessmail.com/links.html#Software
to look at some other software lists.

Also http://www.stansco.com/netchess/index.html
for something completely different which has lots of links to chess things. You will find me there if you look hard enough.

These are all free sites.

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stormerne · Mar 15, 2001

Wow Håkan! That's an awesome list. Where did you get all that information from? And which program(s) would you recommend?

The images I've put in my games on this forum were done with Chess Helper http://fyi.net/~abass/domino/misc.htm#chess . There's no game playing mechanism included and no analysis tool. It just lets you move pieces about and can save an image to a GIF file.

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