PC Chess game
 

Can someone please reccomend a FREE chess program that I can download and run on my Windows XP machine.

Ideally it should have a nice strong engine ;)

Thanks in advnace :D

Re: PC Chess game
 

You could always try WinChess which has been around a while and is free as far as I know. How strong it is, I couldn't really say.

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Thanks for that - I'll give it a go.

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Try either of these

1) Nagasaki 3.0
http://www.geocities.com/nagaskaki/

2) GnuChess for Windows
http://sourceforge.net/project/shown...ease_id=154316

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15 day shareware (Winchess)

Winboard and some chess engines looks like the way to go
http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html
http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/

I leave you to find which engines you want to use!

http://www.mark-yatras.org/chess/ - perhaps Crafty, and a big book of openings etc. (if you want a tough game) - the mentioned "enormous" seems to be available to download

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Thanks everyone - I'll give all these a try now :)

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better link for Gnuchess
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ckage_id=80599

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....I just got chessmaster 10th edition...

I recommend this to anyone who likes a bit of chess - it's fantastic :)

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Heh, I ain't played chess in a LOOOOONG time :D :p:

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The trouble I normally have is either the game is too easy or if you put the level up it takes too long for the computer to make a move - but I'm quite impressed with chess mater 10th edition.

I also have an ongoing game at the moment with the person on the other shift to me...

I'm loosing :)

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Gameknot is great for online / correspondence chess :beer:

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Thankyou - I will have a look at this :)

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Also http://www.redhotpawn.com is a good chess site for correspondence chess or http://www.uchess.com for blitz. I play on both. Uchess is a sister site.

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I'll have a look at those later when I've woken up :)

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I used to have ChessMaster. It was very good.