Chess Playing Programs

   Download Chess playing programs, with different skill levels, freeware and shareware. You can download also some graphical interfaces to play online, by email, etc.
Chess Downloads ChessGenius Classic 7.1
  Chess Genius Classic demo for all Windows versions. A World Championship chess playing program (the first program to beat Kasparov at serious playing levels). Packed with features for experts and beginners. In this version some functions are disabled.
(Windows - 576 Kb)
Chess Downloads Winchess 2.023
  Fully functional version of the shareware program Winchess 2 by Frank Richard. 3D chess game. After 15 days of trial, some functions are disabled.
(Windows - 3,37 Mb)
Chess Downloads Free Chess 1.2.0
  Free program with high quality graphics and an easy to use interface, two game modes (2D and 3D), seven difficulty levels, and online games.
(Windows - 1,62 Mb)
Chess Downloads Shredder Classic 4
  Slightly restricted test version of the world champion chess program Shredder Classic 4. Try it out for 30 days.
(Windows - 20,5 Mb)
Chess Downloads Rebel Decade 3.0
  Rebel Decade 3.0 is a full playing chess program for free. Estimated ELO rating of 2300 on a Pentium 333. Estimated ELO rating of 2500 on a Pentium 333 on each friday. Comes with a 4500 games database and an opening book. Doesn´t work in XP or higher versions.
(DOS - 2,49 Mb)
Chess Downloads Arasan 7.4
  Freeware program for Windows by Jon Dart with an opening book with 35.000 positions.
(Windows - 4,31 Mb)
Chess Downloads Crafty 19.15
  Freeware program for Linux by Robert Hyatt (the creator of the world champion program Cray Blitz). You can use XBoard as graphical interface.
(Unix - 384 Kb)
Chess Downloads WinBoard 4.2.7
  Graphical interface for some freeware programs and chess engines for Windows. Necessary to play chess online on multiple servers, as FICS. With PGN viewer.
(Windows - 5,36 Mb)
Chess Downloads XBoard 4.2.7
  Graphical interface for some freeware programs and chess engines for Unix systems. Necessary to play chess online on multiple servers, as FICS. With PGN viewer.
(Unix - 1,25 Mb)
Chess Downloads Chess Tool 2000
  Free program to play chess by email. It uses PGN format to save the games.
(Windows - 1,49 Mb)
You can also download Chess Databases and Utilities and Chess for Pocket PC.