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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

Arena
'Arena is a FREE available Graphical User Interface (GUI) for chess programs (engines) by Martin Blume; runs on Win95, NT4 or higher Microsoft OS versions.'

Bookup Chess Opening Software
'Chess openings software for research and training in chess openings, endgames and tactics.' Professional and Express versions.

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.

ChessUp.net
'Chess diagram tool and blog.'

Chess Position Trainer (CPT)
'CPT is state-of-the-art chess software with a focus on chess opening, training and repertoire management. Is both free and priceless at the same time. What you use when you want to learn and train your chess opening repertoire, not fight it.'

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.

HIARCS
'World Championship winning chess software engine available for Palm, PC and Macintosh computers and PDAs.'

JBF Software
Sevilla: tournament management software; Montreux: chess game viewer.

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.

Rybka
'A standalone UCI chess engine programmed by IM Vasik Rajlich.'

Scid (Shane's Chess Information Database)
'Maintain a database of chess games, search games by many criteria, view graphical trends, and produce printable reports on players and openings; free but a donation is encouraged.'

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.'