Chess Programs

J2Chess

Price: Free

Operating Systems: Every Windows except Vista and 7.

Publisher: J2Chess

A chess program written in Java, includes a huge book of openings which contains around 15,000 different games. You can play the games in three different fast paced modes.  Casual which is like classical, Blitz Chess which is real fast paced chess and the special Blitz Fischer. The cool thing about this is, it’s a web application but you can upload pgn files from your computer. So this could be called a PGN browser.

ChessPartner

Price: 24.99$, 30 day trial

Operating Systems: Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98

Publisher: Lokasoft

This program might be just the thing for someone who has a chess site or a following.  You may play regular vs program’s built-in engine or vs human’s using the online capabilities. The program leaves lots of room for customization like chess pieces sets, 2D/3D and many others. You can write , read PGN, EPD files, play a match and print the moves diagram.  Create books and insert your game clipboards into them for instructions. There is also blitz chess , with a clock for fast paced matches both online and offline. You may also view a game histogram which show’s your most recurring moves. With this you may realize the errors you may have done in your past games. Also contains a book with a list of opening moves like many modern chess programs. Last but not least it has a huge database so you may store millions of games without worrying.

Product Name: ChessGames 1.3

Price: Free

Operating System: Windows XP, Windows 2000

Publisher: Tornamodo

This isn’t a chess program, but a small plugin that will help you discover the world of great Chess Matches. From the biggest Grandmaster’s of chess. To a newly promoted one. When you want to active  the plugin you click on the new knight icon that will appear on your browser then from there on you can search the grandmaster’s matches that you have been looking for the most.

You will have the ability to stop the game , skip the parts you have seen, slow it down and many other commands. There is also the feature to chat with other chess fanatics whom are too using this plugin. This way you can find some games and people who share your interest.