Incredible free chess software!!!!!!!!!!!!!

strav100

I have discovered a great free chess program that plays superb chess beating many commercial offerings. The way to do it is first to download a GUI which shows the chess pieces, moves etc. and then a chess engine which is the brain that calculates all the moves. Currently, Spike 1.2 which is free is the 5th strongest chess engine in the world at the WCCC 2006 in Torino.

There are many GUIs - I use Arena but there is also WinBoard

http://www.playwitharena.com/

Then you install the chess engine - there are loads on the net but Spike is the best free one

http://spike.lazypics.de/dl_index_en.html

plus you can download 100,000s of classic games (search in google) and watch them being played on the board

DrBenway

i'm too crafty

chuckles1066

strav100 wrote:

I have discovered a great free chess program that plays superb chess beating many commercial offerings. The way to do it is first to download a GUI which shows the chess pieces, moves etc. and then a chess engine which is the brain that calculates all the moves. Currently, Spike 1.2 which is free is the 5th strongest chess engine in the world at the WCCC 2006 in Torino.

There are many GUIs - I use Arena but there is also WinBoard

http://www.playwitharena.com/

Then you install the chess engine - there are loads on the net but Spike is the best free one

http://spike.lazypics.de/dl_index_en.html

Posted dozens of times before?

Just go to

http://www.playwitharena.com

and download 1.1 setup 2

chuckles1066

Al_Mac wrote:

Being cynical, first time poster, what is the catch

no catch, it's free software!

No spyware, viruses or otherwsie.

DrBenway

Al_Mac wrote:

Being cynical, first time poster, what is the catch

There is no catch. Just a guy pushing spike which is a chess engine.

GreenNotM

Check mate then ......