Chess and alternative bughouse chess mini server. You can play blitz/standard chess and bughouse chess on internet, local network, or training in hotseat with winboard bughouse chess engines. Special intuitive child chess engine also included. You can listen all players voice similar way like if You playing over the real board. User defined graphics. Run Your own multiplayer chess mini-server and play on net like in Your own chess club ...

Tired of playing chess against your computer--a near-infallible machine with no real flavor to its game? Wouldn't you rather play a human instead?

Icarus is the newest interface for the Internet Chess Club, an online group of thousands of chess players. Its beautiful, easy-to-use interface will help you get connected and playing chess in no time.

Grand Master Chess cannot possibly leave any professional or amateur chess player indifferent to all the new possibilities. The game features multi-playing; a new sound effects algorithm lets you choose your own mp3 directory. Computer intellect adjustment is capable of selecting preset installations. The scaling algorithm is so remarkable that you can actually see all the small details of the chess figures.

People tend to lose "sight" when calculating the moves in their heads.
When making a search for "blindfold chess" on the internet you soon find information that one of the most important advances in your chess life is to master the art of visualisation.

The Chess Eye gives you step-by-step exercises which help you to increase your chess visualisation.

Chess Commander is a next generation chess game for the PC. It has many features to make the classic game of chess even more enjoyable to play - including legal move display, realistic voices, orchestral soundtrack and board annotation. Chess Commander supports multiple computer opponents, free online chess and email chess - all from a single, graphically rich interface. You can also improve your game by studying 1000s of matches.

Absolut Chess (AC) is a funny and complete chess for all players. It allows battles in computers nets (LANs and Internet) where your opponent plays remotely with you, or front-to-front battles, where the two players combat in a single computer. When the choice is to face the machine, AC presents 3 levels of difficulties that will prepare you to future fights.

Play the game of chess while transforming into fantasy creatures. Choose from different character sets for your chess pieces including dinosaurs, insects, traditional pieces, and more. This chess set is excellent for learning to play chess in that moves are highlighted and the difficulty levels (ten in all) were designed for beginner chess players. Veteran players will find it a good chess set for practicing strategic moves. Published by Dataware

The King of All Chess Games! Discover a new set of friends with an exciting game of Championship Chess All-Stars! Our 24 realistic characters span across 5 levels of difficulty. Savvy Chess players will love challenging, while Checkers beginners get extra help with our personal in-game DreamCoach(TM). We'll go beyond just showing you what to play, we'll explain why you should play it. Learn the more you play!

Kata Chess is a system of basic chess positioning and movement exercises much like in karate or judo. Kata Chess focuses on pattern recognition by using a unique point and click interface. This is a serious training system for chess players who want to quickly and easily improve their game.

Email Chess allows you to play chess with a friend over standard email. By sending your moves back and forth over your email account, you can play chess with as many other friends as you wish, simultaneously. Simple and easy to play with a drag and drop interface.

This software will help you learn and remember chess opening theory faster than ever before. In addition, you can use this software to build your opening repertoire.
Unlike the other chess training software, Chess Opening Trainer does not randomly select training moves and positions. It smartly selects and serves the training move and position which you had difficulty in solving.

Play a game of chess against your PC or another player. The realistic 3D view can be rotated & zoomed and there are different sets of boards and chess pieces chooseable. Some sets of pieces are animated and displayed in a suitable environment such as dungeon, medieval and graveyard. You can watch the figures walking and fighting at every move. Network playing over LAN or Internet is supported.

NetChess is a chess program that allows
you to play with opponent over internet/intranet
or on the local 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.

Zillions of Games uses a revolutionary 'universal gaming engine' technology allowing it to play nearly any abstract board game or puzzle in the world. This makes it infinitely expandable. With the full version you can script your own games, share your games with friends, and download new games from the web.
The demo comes with 48 free games including Reversi, Checkers, Chinese Chess, Blobs, Jungle, Losing Chess, Mini-Go, Dodgem, and many more!

Arcadebox online chess is developed for chess fans.
In this game, you can compete with real players all
over the world or watch other games in progress. Play
in the practice mode if you want to play with the
computer. The ELO rating system is introduced in
this game.It features
polished 2D/3D graphics and realistic sound effect.

Shredder Classic is a professional computer chess program by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, the nine times world computer chess champion. It combines extremely powerful play with easy handling. The play of the program can be variably adjusted to any strength, so that everyone can find an adequate chess partner. Many functions for analysing one's own games as well as a built-in coach, who is alert of one's mistakes, help to improve your play.