Net Chess

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Net Chess is a powerful and flexible program that lets you play chess against a lot of computer players (chess engines), with friends and family on the same computer, via email or online directly connecting your computers over a local network or the Internet.

Play against the computer or live opponents in this ancient skill game. If chess normally takes a little too long for you, one great feature of Net Chess allows you to set time limits on the moves. If you master the computer chess opponent, you can change chess engines (computer intelligence) and let your brain get stretched in new directions. Built in online help, great sound effects, choice of 4 types of chess pieces, animations, and a built in chat feature make this one cool game.

Net Chess features:

Net Chess has gained popularity among the computer chess fans and respect from the experts. The main reason for this is its simplicity, which is important with complicated things like the game of chess.
You can quickly setup and initiate the game session, whether online or offline, with computer or human opponent. Moreover, you can play several chess games simultaneously, for example, one online against the human opponent and one offline against the computer. Computer chess fans will surely appreciate the fact that Net Chess supports all WinBoard compatible chess engines – there are several ten of those with different skill levels and most of them are free.
Net Chess is fully compatible with Windows XP and can support themes, Net Chess is very “option rich” and contains a number of great chess features. It provides time control (conventional chess clock, incremental clock and special modes) and ability to limit chess engine decision making time without limiting yours.
It supports click-and-drag or click-and-click move options, board rotation and interactive move list. You can copy and paste the game with the help of clipboard, you can save it in PGN/FEN format. It means that you can play via e-mail with other chess fans all over the world who have chess software that supports these formats – your opponents don't have to buy Net Chess and your don't have to buy software they use for playing chess.
Other convenient options are animation of the match, highlighting last move, IP address detection, several boards to choose from, different sound and color schemes, and so on.