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Problemist is a shareware program written by Matthieu Leschamelle for Windows and Windows Mobile. [10] Problemist solves direct mates, helpmates, selfmates and reflexmates. It can rotate positions, print diagrams and much more. With Problemist come two TrueType chess fonts, and from its web page one can download more than 100,000 problems.
Chess Assistant is a commercial database program produced by Convekta, Ltd. The company started in Russia, but also has offices in England and the United States. The software is a management tool for organising chess information (databases of millions of games), opening training, game analysis, playing against the computer, and viewing electronic texts.
A chess engine generates moves, but is accessed via a command-line interface with no graphics. A dedicated chess computer has been purpose built solely to play chess. A graphical user interface (GUI) allows one to import and load an engine, and play against it. A chess database allows one to import, edit, and analyze a large archive of past games.
Originally developed by Tim Mann as a front end for the GNU Chess engine, XBoard eventually came to be described as a graphical user interface for XBoard engines. [2] It also acts as a client for Internet Chess Servers, [3] and e-mail chess, [4] and can allow the user to play through saved games.
Computer chess IC bearing the name of developer Frans Morsch (see Mephisto). Chess machines/programs are available in several different forms: stand-alone chess machines (usually a microprocessor running a software chess program, but sometimes as a specialized hardware machine), software programs running on standard PCs, web sites, and apps for mobile devices.
Chessmaster 2000 is a chess engine made for chess players from novice to professional skill levels. Players choose from 12 different skill levels to play against, and can have aides in game to assist them, such as hints offered by the CPU.
Shredder is one of the few commercial chess programs which is available not only for Windows and Mac OS, but also for Linux. Shredder is also available on the iPhone , the iPad [ 2 ] and Android . [ 3 ]
Shane's Chess Information Database (Scid) is a free and open source UNIX, Windows, Linux, and Mac application for viewing and maintaining large databases of chess games. [3] It has features comparable to popular commercial chess software. [4] Scid is written in Tcl/Tk and C++.