The Best Chess Software

1.Don't Know How to Play Chess?
2.Why Chess Software is Useful
3.Popular Chess Software
----1.Fritz
----2.Chessmaster
4.Best Chess Software for Kids
----1.Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chess...
5. ChessBase
----1.ChessBase: Opening
----2.ChessBase: The Middlegame
----3.ChessBase: The Endgame
6. Other Software
----1.Chess Tactics
----2.How to Use Chess Analysis Software
7.A Final Word..

Chess software is widely used in the chess communities, from beginners learning the basic rules through the software, to chess grandmasters who are analyzing their play. Chess software is used for a variety of reasons,

1. To learn how to play chess

Self explanatory

2. To analyze your games

Identifying and correcting your mistakes is key to improving your chess game at any level. Through you yourself can analyze your games, with a computer you can find more of your blunders as well as the best corrections. All top level players use chess analysis software to study their games.

3. To improve a specified area of chess

A portion of chess software is dedicated to a specific area of the game of the chess game. If you need to increase your knowledge of a weak area you have (ex. the endgame), this software can be useful.

4. To examine other master games

Some chess programs a database with over a million master related games with hundreds of annotated games. One can examine their games to learn the reasoning beside their moves and gain a greater chess understanding. You can also search certain openings, find all master games that contain the opening, and find various continuations.

This chess of software is used by beginners, intermediate, and advanced players. It contains a very wide variety of material suitable for all over the age of 15.

Fritz Chess Twelfth Edition

Fritz chess software is a software more suited to intermediate and advanced players. It can be useful to beginners though if properly applied.

Fritz is widely regarded as the best chess software by many chess experts. It offers many benefits to players of all level. Some features it offers are
- Adjustable computer rating w/ handicaps
-coaching and analyzing of positions
- help in game as the highlighting of dangerous squares for pieces.
- Openings statistics, training modules for the opening and a database of over 1 million games
-Comprehensive game analysis
-Tactics and Endgame Positions
-Over 11 hours of Chess videos written by strong grandmasters

Whole Sale Chess Review

Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition

Chessmaster is a computer game owned by UbiSoft and is available on the PC, Xbox, and DS.It has sold more than 5 million units as of 2002. It is certainly one of the oldest programs dating back to 1986. If you are a young adult or older who is a inexperienced,completely new, or an intermediate player this software is suitable for you.

The first section of Chessmaster is known as Learning Chess. It contains tutorials from both Grandmaster Larry Christansen on his section "Attacking Chess" and International Chess Master Josh Waitzkin about his book the Art of Learning, both which are very useful to beginning and intermediate players. It also contains 900 famous games analyzed as well as a database of over 600,000 games. Chessmaster's last part of the Learning Chess is the explanation of book openings and modern variation. It also lets you create your own opening books which helped me immensely in learning a standard way of opening a chess game against both white and black.

The second section of Chessmaster is the single player. There are over 150 computer personalities you can play against whose strength ranges from a starting playing to an International Grandmaster. Chessmaster has also assembled personalities from chess legends such as Grandmasters: Alexander Alekhine, Bobby Fischer, and Mikhail Botvinnik, as well as many more.These personalities are identical to the grandmaster's playing style and well as his choice of openings so that the it makes you feel like you are plating the chess legend himself. There is also a training mode where you can analyze and try to improve your chess game and a tournament mode where you compete in a tournament with preset rules determined by the player.

The last section is the the multiplayer section. Here you can play rated and unrated games, tournaments, ladders, simultaneous exhibitions, and watch other matches.

There are many puzzles, as well as over 50 different boards and chess sets in both in 2 and 3-D.

Chessmaster 10th Edition holds an 84% rating on review aggregator site Game Rankings.
IGN gave Chessmaster 10th Edition a score of 8.4/10

You can directly download this product on Amazon for only $19.99 right now.

MetaCritic Review
Chess.com Review

If you have a young child 5-8 years old and who would like to learn chess this software is probably for them.

Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster

Before I begin to explain this software, know it is for children of a young age 5-13. Do not be discouraged if your an adult and would like to learn the rules as well as common tactics, basic endgame knowledge etc, the majority of chess software listed in this article is is for you.

Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster is a award winning game based on a story of how a king and queen go on vacation and leave their son Prince Fritz in charge. Unfortunately he is challenged to a duel by the evil black king. He travels around the countryside learning the basic rules of chess. The program uses positive encouragement, humor, and simple lessons to teach your child the basics of chess.

The number of positive reviews I have seen of this software is amazing and it is the Winner of the 2003 Bologna New Media Prize. It has a 4 star rating on Amazon.

Also there are additional versions of Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster if you would like the to order the complete set for your child.

Discovery Education Review of Chessmaster
Review of Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster

ChessBase 11 Starter Package, Chess Database Management Software

ChessBase 11 Mega Package, Chess Database Management Software

ChessBase products usually specify in the opening, middlegame, or endgame. Grandmasters commentate and teach about specific parts of the chess, usually a certain opening or type of endgame. The very popular Chessbase package is one of the few wide known products I have not bought yet one of my friends says it is great if you are an advanced or intermediate player.

Reviews of Chessbase 11:
Chess.com International Master Review
Whole Sale Chess Review

These are just a small sample of the highly rated Chessbase products specifying in the opening.


A Modern Way to Play the King`s Indian - Dejan Bojkov

Unorthodox Chess Openings &

The Sicilian Kan Variation Chess Opening Software

Bundle - 2 Items: Black Chesss Repertoire against 1.e4, Vol. 2: Open Games & Common Sense in Chess E-Book

Chess Tricks & Traps, Vol. 2: Queen's Pawn (1.d4) Openings & ChessCentral's

1.d4 - a Classical Repertoire for White, Chess Software DVD

French Defense Strategy Chess Opening Software



The Scheveningen Sicilian Chess Opening & ChessCentral's

Fritz Trainer: Power Play 1 (Mating Patterns)

Fritz Attacking Chess, Vol.2

Power Play 10: Calculation - Chess Software DVD

Power Play 7: Improve Your Pieces

Power Play 11: Defense, Chess DVD by GM Daniel King

Chess Endgames 1: Basic Knowledge for Beginners


Chess Endgames 2: Rook Endgames

Chess Endgames 3: Major Piece Endgames

Chess Endgames 4: Strategical Endgames

Chess Endgames 5: Endgame Principles - Activity & Initiative Chess Software

I don't have a mac computer but here is a list of computer programs for the mac

Chess Software for the Mac

These programs focus on one area of chess and are very beneficial if you need help in one part of the game.

CT-ART 4.0 Chess Tactics Training Software

Chess Tactics ART or CT-ART is a successful chess program specializing in tactics. It's newest version CT-ART 4.0 has recently been released. It builds on the foundation of the previous three chess versions offering over 4,000 tactical programs to beginners, intermediate, and advanced players. Taking full use of CTR-ART's extensive features you begin first by doing a series of practice problems which determine your relative ratings. You can then do other tactical puzzles relating to your rating over many different areas of tactics from overloaded pieces to the destruction of defenses. If you are stuck on a problem do not worry, there are many hints if you choose to enable them for example showing the identical tactic in a less complicated problem. You can track your increasing success rate through the use of graphs and multiple users can use this software independently. For teachers it allows you to track your student's strength and find select problems to make sure they learn the most from this software. Overall if you are a teacher or student looking or a software designed for increasing tactical strength this is the software for you.

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Once many people buy chess software, they are confused about how to use it effectively. The simplest solution is to read the instruction manual but if you are still baffled or are not sure you are using the software to the best of your ability, check out this book



Modern Chess Analysis

It not only shows you to how your chess software effectively but also explores differences about how humans and computers function while playing chess.