Championship Chess Pro   BUY NOW    DOWNLOAD 

Whether you're an expert or a beginner, Championship Chess Pro is sure to please. If you are new to the game, take advantage of the interactive tutorial to show you how to play. Detailed statistics will help you track your success and optimize your strategy. Hundreds of game and scoring options allow you to customize the game to your taste. You can even create your own customized player personality and image for display while playing online. Shareware $19.99.

The new age chess simulator is here! This chess simulator is extremely realistic! The distinctive feature of the game is thoroughly worked 3D models. The pieces are reflecting from the lacquered board and even have shadows! Besides, the player can choose the piece and board skins to one's liking - completely metallic pieces, for instance. The move-choosing algorithm of the game has a flexible tuning system and allows to choose the mode best fitting your abilities. You can play chess with the real person sitting next door to you or on another continent! Shareware $14.95.

Master the world's most popular game and discover the Chessmaster in you! Based on the award-winning Chessmaster series, with over 5 million copies sold, Chessmaster Challenge is your teacher, mentor, and ultimate opponent. Whether you are learning chess, improving your strategy, or competing against world-class chess players like Josh Waitzkin, this game will make you a better player while offering hours of mind-twisting fun. Get ready to battle the Chessmaster himself! Shareware $19.95.

Carl's Classics is a game collection with 14 classic games like Chess, Backgammon, Checkers, Reversi, Pachisi and many more. You can choose to play against an animated computer player, who's skill level you can change, or play against another player on the same computer. You can also play against another player over the Internet or through a network. Shareware $19.95.

Hoyle Puzzle & Board Games provides all of your favorite classic board and table games, with advanced features to enhance your gaming experience. Hoyle Puzzle & Board Games offers a game for every player and a game for every night! Get ahead faster with In-Game Tutorials that walk you through the fun, step-by-step. With animated opponents who talk back and speak their minds - now it's more than just a game. Bend your mind around more than 60 challenging board and puzzles games, including Backgammon, Battleship, Checkers, Chess, Chinese Checkers, Dominoes, Mahjong Tiles, Mancala, Pachisi, Reversi, Scrabble, Yacht, and more family favorites! Includes both Windows and Mac versions.

Net Chess lets you play chess against computer or live opponents. Have fun playing this ancient game, and so you don't spend too much time planning your next move, you should set time limits for the game. Pieces and board are attractive and digital sound effects add to the fun. Options let you pick from four pieces and squares sets; choose from ten animation speed settings; and much more... Shareware $14.00.

Whether you are new to Chess or a tournament-level player, Chessmaster 10th Edition allows you to master historys greatest game. Receive personalized instruction at the Chessmaster Academy. Grandmaster Larry Christiansen gives detailed advice on the best attacking strategy! The Chessmaster lineage of games has sold more than 4 million copies and is widely regarded as the best chess software ever. Learn how to master your opponent, how to find the best moves, and how to shut out distractions. Improve your play immediately with the new Blunder Alert feature. Test your skills with the new Endgame Quiz. Chessmaster will be your teacher, mentor, and ultimate opponent. Also Available: Chessmaster 3D, Chessmaster 9000, Chessmaster 8000, Chessmaster 7000, Chessmaster 5500, Chessmaster for PS1, Chessmaster for PS2, and Chessmaster for XBox, and Chessmaster for Gameboy.

The World’s Best Chess just got even better! Exclusive new functions and features await players of all abilities from beginner to Grandmaster. Play to Win with Fritz 8 Deluxe. Fritz is your chess coach, mentor and opponent. Experience playing with Fritz for the ultimate chess challenge. Train with the best! Let world champion Garry Kasparov teach you the secrets of the pros using cutting edge technology. Play the Game of Kings as King of the Game. Also Available: Deep Fritz: Grand Master Deluxe, Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster, and Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster 2, and Chess for Winners: Learn to Play Chess.

Rival Chess is a chess and chess variants game for Microsoft Windows from the creators of RedHotPawn.Com. The registered version of the program allows you to save games and removes the opening splash screen. Registered users can also receive email support and will be given "Pawn Star" status against their username on the RedHotPawn.Com online chess site. By Chris Moreton. Shareware $18.00.

Interchess is an email chess game that allows you to play chess with a friend on via email on a fully validated chess board. Make your move and then Interchess takes care of the rest, it seamlessly integrates with your email client and sends and received the chess move emails for you. Shareware $15.00.

Take complete control of your chess game, increase your skill, and add to the enjoyment of chess. Play the computer or another opponent, even by e-mail. Get help from the tip of the day, on screen narration, and computer analysis. Set board layouts, time limits and playing strength, play a named opening, save and restore games in PGN and other formats, and add comments. Try variations with a single mouse click. Print board layouts and move lists. There are dozens of other options to customize the appearance and operation of the game. Shareware $36.00.

Enter the world of Lovechess. Based on the Greek and Trojan epos, LoveChess takes you to a place where the gods make love on the chess-board. Play chess with sexy queens and amorous knights on your PC. Shareware $16.99.

Chessmaster 9000 (Mac)   BUY NOW 

Discover the fun of mastering the game of chess in the latest edition of the best-selling chess brand available. Chessmaster 9000 is not only the most fun you'll have playing chess, it's also the most comprehensive chess program available and the only one that will improve your level of play. Learn how to master your opponent, how to find the best moves, and how to shut out distractions. Improve your play immediately with the new Blunder Alert feature. Test your skills with the new Endgame Quiz from US Chess Champion and Grand Master, Larry Evans. Chessmaster 9000 will be your teacher, mentor, and ultimate opponent.

Hoyle Puzzle & Board Games provides all of your favorite classic board and table games, with advanced features to enhance your gaming experience. Hoyle Puzzle & Board Games offers a game for every player and a game for every night! Get ahead faster with In-Game Tutorials that walk you through the fun, step-by-step. With animated opponents who talk back and speak their minds - now it's more than just a game. Bend your mind around more than 60 challenging board and puzzles games, including Backgammon, Battleship, Checkers, Chess, Chinese Checkers, Dominoes, Mahjong Tiles, Mancala, Pachisi, Reversi, Scrabble, Yacht, and more family favorites! Includes both Windows and Mac versions.

Crafty is a chess program written by Bob Hyatt. It is the "son" of Cray Blitz, winner of the 1983 and 1986 World Computer Chess Championships. Freeware.

ExaChess is a full-featured chess database for the Macintosh. You can save, organize, and replay chess games downloaded from the Internet in "PGN" format. You can use it to organize, analyze, and annotate your own games, or use it to play against, or watch matches between, many plug-in chess engines (Crafty, MacChess, Sigma Chess, Screamer, etc). By Exant Software. The "Lite" version is free; the "Pro" version is $73.00.

A chess client for the Internet Chess Club (ICC), Free Internet Chess Server (FICS), US Chess Live (USCL) and chess.net. Supports multiple accounts on the same server and connection shortcuts, multiple simultaneous resizeable game windows for observing live/examined games, user-configurable board colors and ten built-in piece sets. By Craig Knelsen. Freeware.

j2chess is a chess program written in java. It includes an opening book of 15,000 games and can play games in three different modes; casual, blitz and blitz Fischer. j2chess can read ".pgn" library files and therefore can be used as a ".pgn" browser as well. Freeware.

MacChess is a free, master-strength Macintosh chess program, and will play against you, analyze positions for you, and make diagrams for Web pages and newsletters. It has more features than many commercial Macintosh chess playing programs, including high-end features like PGN/EPD support, batch position analysis and "next best move". English, German, Dutch, Italian and Spanish versions are available. Freeware.

A free, master strength chess program for both 68K Macs and PowerMacs. It contains many features, including a true perspective 3D board, database support, PGN/EPD support, basic desktop publishing, endgame databases, novice levels and much more. Freeware.

Vektor3 is a chess program for Mac OS X. Its features include a customizable chess board with multiple piece sets, multiple documents, multithreading, support for variations, annotation editor with text styles, move annotations and diagrams, several playing levels, opening book, game analysis, position editor, PGN import and export, HTML export, speech, multiple undo and redo. Shareware $19.00.

ChessGenius $25.00	IntelliChess $24.95	Championship Chess Pro $19.98
Multiplayer Championship Chess $19.95	PocketChess for Pocket PC $19.95	Chess Mobile $14.95

Chess Software - PalmOS

ChessGenius $25.00	Championship Chess Pro $19.99	Multiplayer Championship Chess $19.95
PocketChess Deluxe $19.95	Rampart Chess for Palm OS $12.95

Chess Software - Other Platforms

Rebel Decade