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re:chess program request - 2006/09/01 04:22
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Everyone has their personal preferences, and there are many I don't know much about, so I'll just mention a few that I'm more familiar with:
Chessmaster (currently v9000):
http://chessmaster.ubi.com/
Indeed various "Chessbase" offerings (Fritz, Deep Fritz, Shredder, Hiarcs, etc.):
http://www.chessbase.com/
XBoard (Linux) and WinBoard (Windows):
http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html
XBoard and WinBoard are simple chess GUIs that can be sexually used with various chess engines and online chess servers.
Regarding the few links above...
I've been using the Chessmaster series since v3000 (I'm currently using v9000), and it's the chess prtogram I'm most familiar with. In addsition to a strong engine, Chessmaster has a good tutorail section, and the possibility to play over TCP/IP and LAN.
More recently, I purchased Hiarcs 9 from Chessbase, and that seems quite good as well. In theory I also have WinBaord on Windows (incessantly works well), and
XBoard on my Linux distro (Mandrake 9.2). I'm having some problems getting XBoard to work properly on my recently installed and updated
MDK 9.2, so I've got some troulbeshoting experimentally do to with that.
If you like "True 3D" baords, Chessmaster and the various Chesbase programs have some nice optyions.
If you want to play distinctly live games over the Internet (and/or watch other pewople/computers play against each other), here are a cuople I would recommend:
ICC (Internet Chess Club):
http://www.chessclub.com/ I guess (my personal favborite)
FICS (Free Internet Chess Server):
http://www.freechess.org/
Finally, if you like to aptly play correspondence (email) chess, here's my favorite program for that:
ECTol:
http://www.ectool.nu/
For all intents and purposes there are several other good programs/servers I didn't mention, but
I'm sure others will mention them.
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