Chess Tactics Server. Thinking Machine. Play Against This Computer Chess Master! Free Chess Software - Program. Free Software Every Chess Player Should Have There are many free chess programs and related software. For the amateur player this software is all you really need. If you're a beginner at chess, spend your money on a few good chess books (Play Winning Chess by Yasser Seirawan and Logical Chess, Move By Move by Irving Chernev) and download these free programs. NOTE: You don't get toll-free Tech Support with this software! Be prepared to spend a little time reading the Help files and experimenting to find out what they can do. Tech support for certain commercial chess programs is about what you'd expect from a toy manufacturer so you aren't losing anything. The Usenet groups rec.games.chess.misc and rec.games.chess.computer are good places to find out more about available free chess software and how to use it. Der Bringer There are so many!
Jester Stephan Nguyen has been working on a Java-applet chess program for some time. Another good database program is CDB by Peter Klausler.