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Playing Zone ChessOK v.287
Do you want to play chess and communicate through the Internet using your PC ? If so ? then this program is meant especially for you. Unlike similar programs you needn`t pay annual fees ? you can play through the Internet at the portal chessOK, using the most advanced interface for PC that includes the following modes : - Free playing at the portal chessOK for the unlimited period under the login chosen by you with rating calculations for each type of time controls. - Game mode. User-friendly interface of the board and pieces. A move is made by two clicks: the first click to highlight a piece, the second one ? to select a square to move it. The opponent`s move is shown automatically. The convenient use of a stylus and extra buttons . - Wide choice of players. At chessOK 400-500 players of different levels are playing at once. You can always find an equal opponent for your favourite time control. - Viewing the list of players that mentions login, rating for different controls, status. You can sort and filter any list at your option. The list, rating and players` status are constantly updated as they change - Auto compensation of time delays. - Searching and challenging an opponent based on the rating and time control . View personal and general challenges received by you and accept/decline them. - Chat communicating both with the selected player and with the group of players. - Watching games being played . You can view the list of all games being played by mentioning opponents` names and rating and time control. Any of the games being played is available for watching with automatical display of the moves.
Chess Assistant Light v.7
Chess Assistant Light for Windows 2000/NT/XP is a unique chess program for managing chess games and databases, playing chess on the Internet, viewing electronic texts, studying openings, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer. CA Light possibilities: 1) Database and game management: facilitated with an easy-to-handle drag and drop interface plus a navigation/database browser window, which really ? should be ? standard for programs of this type. 2) Search tools: all sorts of search tools at your disposal, like searches for material, pawn structures, positions, players, sacrifices, piece movements, statistical analysis, etc. 3) Internet play: for chess related Internet play, Chess Assistant 7 Light provides you with a comfortable interface for playing on the ICC, which has the ? by far highest membership capacity of all the chess clubs on the Internet. The interface allows you to play games online, or to watch other games etc. 4) Playing and analysis: you can use Chess Assistant 7 Light in combination with its built-in engines Crafty and Dragon or with a wide, additional variety of Winboard engines. Infinite Analysis and Blunder Search are available. 5) Export: from the print mode one can export to RTF, HTML and Dynamic HTML Beside CALight.zip it is recommended to download documentation for working that is situated to the following address: http://www.convekta.com/downloads/Manuals/Chess_Assistant-8.ZIP