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Before You Buy Chess Playing Software for Windows
Eight Windows programs that play chess. From your About Chess Guide.

Before You Buy Chess Playing Software (non-Windows)
Software for Macs, Linux, game consoles, PDAs, and cell phones. From your About Chess Guide

Bookup
'The world's most sophisticated chess training software.' Professional and Express versions. Click on 'Home' for more info.

Chessbase Shop
'ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database that has become the standard throughout the world.' Jam-packed with incredible features, this is the database of choice. ChessBase Light is free.

Chessmaster
The official Chessmaster site. A popular chess playing program.

Convekta
Products include Chess Assistant and CT-ART 3.0. Also has weekly news magazine.

ExaChess
Database product designed for the Macintosh. Lite and Pro versions.

Lokasoft
Develops computer chess programs for the entertainment market; established 1992. Products include Rebel, Deep Sjeng, ChessPartner, and Chess Tiger.

MacChess
'Master strength' chess engine designed to run on Macintosh computers. Free.

MobyGames Quick Search
'MobyGames is a historical archive, documentation, and review project for all electronic games (computer, console, and arcade).' Has info on many titles no longer sold in stores.

MonRoi
'MonRoi’s mission is to create new products and services tailored to the chess community worldwide. As a first step in fulfilling that mission, MonRoi’s founder has developed a new technology to record games and manage chess tournaments.'

Palview
Freeware for chess webmasters. 'Are you a chess webmaster? Do you want webpages where games can be replayed online? Do you want to broadcast games live on the Internet? With the Pal Programs you can do just that - and they are all freeware!'

PGN Utilities
PGN viewers and writers, plus freeware and shareware utilities.

Rebel
Chess engine by Schroder BV, Dutch software company.

Shredder Chess
'Shredder Classic is a professional computer chess program by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, nine times world computer chess champion. Many functions are available for analysing one's own chess games, including a built-in chess coach.'

TDX
TwinFeats simple Swiss pairing engine : 'TDX follows the basic Swiss system pairing rules...'

Think Like A King
'School Chess Software System has what you need for your chess club: Chess Club Manager and the Chess Workouts books-on-disk. Official scholastic software of the USCF.' From SchoolChess.com.

Chess Diagrams by Ken Whyld
'There appears to have been no study of chess diagrams, a topic that bears upon art, history, literature, the design of chessmen, type design, etc. After I have discussed the diagram's evolution, I hope you will agree that this is worthwhile of study.'