Chess

Chess is a board game played between two players. It is played on a chessboard, which is a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king, whereby the king is under immediate attack (in "check") and there is no way to remove or defend it from attack on the next move.
The current form of the game emerged in Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from an older game (Shatranj) of Indian origin. Aspects of art are found in chess composition. Theoreticians have developed extensive chess strategies and tactics since the game's inception.

 

The Software

This software is a graphical Chess tool. You can store chess games in a database. You can view and edit games (including variations and comments).You can play against a plugged-in chess engine and use it for analysis. You can also easily switch between 2D view and 3D view.

 

Features

* 2D and 3D view
* Edit games, insert comments, variations
* Play Fischer Random Chess / Chess 960, or Shuffle Chess
* Opening Books
* ECO opening classification
* Position Search
* Create HTML and PDF files

 

Windows and MacOS Compatible:

* Windows XP
* Windows Vista
* Windows 7
* Windows 8
* Windows 8.1
* Windows 10


Apple MacOS:

This software is compatible with all Intel based Mac computers from MacOS 10.6 Snow Leopard to the latest new release.