| Name | Extracted | Size | Date | Description |
| CCHESS.ZIP | Yes | 145898 | 12/28/1992 | Chinese Chess and Xianqi is a set of two Chinese Chess games. Chinese Chess is similar to the standard chess game. However, the rules of the game make it faster and the outcome less predictable. Xianqi is another variation of the game. Rules for each game and more information about various East Asian games of Chess are included. (Roleigh Martin) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CHESCLK.ZIP | Yes | 49297 | 1/12/1994 | ChessClock 1.0 is a digital chess clock with a visual move counter, settings range from one minute to 99 hours, an optional low-time warning, and an optional graphic tick indicator. Player's end their moves by hitting any key. C source code is included. (Mendel Cooper) (Reg.Fee: $1) |
| CHESS88.ZIP | Yes | 4392 | 5/16/1994 | Chess88 is an amazing chess game. The program is only 9k, which is very tiny by today's standards, yet it has great graphics and plays a decent game for all but hardened tournament players. It first appeared in 1982 and for years remained the best pd/shareware chess game available. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CHESSAVE.ZIP | Yes | 93945 | 11/20/1993 | Chess Saver allows you to record and play back any game of importance to you. Each move can also be annotated with remarks. It precludes having to set up the chess board every time you want to replay a selected game. Also on the same disk: (Pep-Cal Software) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| CHESSCLB.ZIP | Yes | 63524 | 5/16/1994 | ChessClb 2.55 keeps track of a chess club's roster and statistics for two rating systems. Each rating system includes a club rating for each member, the total number of points accumulated, and the total number of games played. CHESSCLB will also keep track of who played whom, when, the result, their ratings at the time and how many rating points were earned/lost. The roster and statistics lists can be sorted by ratings, total number of games, total points scored, ID number, name, or address. The program is fast, menu-driven and easy to use. (Stephen M. Wharry) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| CHESSEDT.ZIP | Yes | 84916 | 12/7/1993 | Chessedt will allow you to build a personal database of chess games, checking for notation errors as you go. You can store the chess games as files and bring them back into the program and examine them at any position in the game, which is especially useful for postal chess players. Besides printer output, the game and annotation can be output to a normal ASCII file that can then be imported into the text editor of your choice. You can build a table of openings and your success/failure with these openings. It will allow you to build a list based on openings, score, tournament, color, date, opponent, ratings, and more. In this list you may include as few as one and as many as every game you have ever played. The program will allow up to 100 moves and replies and up to 50 annotation strings per game. Now the tricky part - it took quite a bit of head banging to figure out how to enter moves. The documentation is sketchy on this and gives no examples. To move a pawn, just give the targeve the targe (Stephen M. Wharry) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| CHESSRP3.ZIP | Yes | 76012 | 7/25/1994 | Chess Replay 3.3a allows you to store chess games on disk and have the PC display them on screen move-by-move. Requires VGA. (Peter Rixen) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| CHESTAC.ZIP | Yes | 98139 | 5/16/1994 | Chess Tactics provides examples of tactics and maneuvers seen in expert games of Chess. |
| CHS_GEMS.ZIP | Yes | 223554 | 12/7/1993 | Chess Gems & Jewels Gems is a collection of 12 chess games from the world's best players that illustrate and teach Chess tactics. The Jewels section contains 12 lessons from the best short games of postal chess players. (Pep-Cal Software) (Reg.Fee: $15 each) |
| CHS_QUIZ.ZIP | Yes | 477975 | 11/19/1993 | Chess Quiz Series is a set of quizzes designed to help make learning the game of chess fun. Quizzes include an introduction to chess, the Sicilian defense, king pawn openings, queen pawn openings, and the English opening. (Pep-Cal Software) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CHSSCORR.ZIP | Yes | 85964 | 12/7/1993 | Chess Corresponder will keep track of all your postal chess games. It maintains a game board showing the up-to-the-minute position for an unlimited number of games. You can search on a number of different index keys. (Pep-Cal Software) (Reg.Fee: $15 each) |
| CHSSNDXR.ZIP | Yes | 84529 | 12/7/1993 | Chess Indexer catalogs chess games - yours or others of interest to you. You can enter up to seven search keys, such as the name of the opening variation, type of end-game, etc. (Pep-Cal Software) (Reg.Fee: $15 each) |
| CHSSPERL.ZIP | Yes | 112980 | 11/20/1993 | Chess Pearls is a set of 12 lessons drawn from the best short games of the old masters of Chess. (Pep-Cal Software) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| CHSSTUTR.ZIP | Yes | 105311 | 11/20/1993 | Chess Tutor familiarizes you with many of the opening lines of chess. It is not a tutorial on those openings, just an overview. We recommend it for anyone just starting to study chess seriously. (Pep-Cal Software) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| DIACHES.ZIP | Yes | 109189 | 7/23/1992 | DiaChess 1.0 allows you to record and print complete chess games with a diagram for every move. It's a valuable teaching and study tool for serious players and ideal for printing a permanent record of tournament games. (Joe McElmeel) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| DNC.ZIP | Yes | 108872 | 11/21/1993 | DNC 1.02 is an excellent system for recording chess games and analysis. You can enter comments and alternative lines of play. The moves are displayed on an attractive graphical on-screen chess board as you enter them. Descriptive or algebraic notation can be used. You can load a database and step through a game a move at a time, seeing the moves displayed and reading the analysis and alternative moves. You can also add your own alternative moves and analysis to the database at the same time. (Pawn Promotions, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $40) |
| EDCHESS.ZIP | Yes | 60973 | 5/16/1994 | Ed's Chess 2.3 was at one time the very strongest pd/shareware chess game available. It can give a hard time to the retail-only game Chessmaster and to most tournament chess players. PowerChess seems to be just as strong and has excellent graphics. Ed's Chess is still a good game and its board makes very good use of ASCII graphics. Since it does use ASCII, it will run on any type of video. The game has many features, including saving/restoring games, move take-back, choice of colors, varying levels of play, recorded time for each move in saved games, board and game editing, printed game reports, and much more. (David and Bell, John T. Hendricks) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| FISCHR.ZIP | Yes | 237698 | 5/16/1994 | Fischer-Spassky 1992 lets you replay all the games that were played in the Fischer-Spassky chess match in Yugoslavia 1992. The games are heavily annotated, making this a good learning tool as well. Also included is COACH, a tutorial on the rules of Chess. (Pep-Cal Software) (Reg.Fee: $15 each) |
| K_VS_K.ZIP | Yes | 135266 | 5/16/1994 | Kasparov-Karpov 1990 displays the 24 games of the 1990 World Championship of Chess. This is Garry Kasparov's and Anatoly Karpov's monumental and decisive match in which Kasparov won. The program lets you step back and forth through each move. The games are heavily annotated. (Pep-Cal Software) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| KASPRV.ZIP | Yes | 147791 | 5/16/1994 | Games of Garry Kasparov contains the best and recent games of the current World Champion Garry Kasparov. The games reflect his current ideology and position about the various openings and how he plays them. All games are annotated. (Pep-Cal Software) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| KCHESS15.ZIP | Yes | 144606 | 4/14/1994 | K-Chess 1.5 is a chess game that shows its own calculations as you play. It includes a hint mode that calculates the best line of attack for several moves ahead. Play against someone else or challange the computer to a match. K-Chess can be controlled by keyboard or mouse. (Ark Angles) (Reg.Fee: $18-20) |
| NIGEL.ZIP | Yes | 145401 | 5/16/1994 | Games of Nigel Short is a replay of recent chess games played by the August 1993 world challenger, Nigel Short. (Pep-Cal Software) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| PERCENT.ZIP | Yes | 86640 | 5/16/1994 | Percentage Chess and Chess Tactics is a study aid for developing the playing skills of Chess and a winning Praxis (method of play). The program traces the most common opening moves, 1.e4 and 1.d4. (Pep-Cal Software) (Reg.Fee: $15 each) |
| PWRCHESS.ZIP | Yes | 119168 | 12/3/1993 | PowerChess is a powerful, full-featured chess program with excellent graphics. Features include save/restore games, board edit, opening move library, take back moves, print move sequences, play black or white, hints for learning game, set up checkmate puzzles, and the ability to adjust the computer's playing strength by varying its response time from 10 to 300,000 seconds. We experienced some oddities on our VGA system: the first time we ran it, the Hints and the Information screens were both blank. The next time we ran it, they displayed information, but both screens were the same. We had no problems with the actual play of the game, however. The author is no longer at the address listed in the documentation. (W. and Heiss, H. Wild) (Reg.Fee: $35) |
| QUEENS8.ZIP | Yes | 3429 | 5/16/1994 | Queens8 is an ancient chess puzzle that requires placing 8 queens on a chessboard in such a way that none threatens another. (Two queens on the same row, in the same column, or on the same diagonal `threaten' each other) You don't have to know anything about chess to try to solve the puzzle. All necessary instructions will appear in the form of messages and prompts. (Sidney Hack) (Reg.Fee: $7) |
| SIMUL.ZIP | Yes | 190989 | 1/20/1994 | Simultaneous Match Player lets you experience putting on a simultaneous chess exhibition by playing ten different computer opponents at once, alternating one move in each game at a time. The purpose is to let you try out a whole series of opening strategies at one time. (Pep-Cal Software) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| TAKEN671.ZIP | Yes | 72454 | 9/15/1993 | TakeNote 6.7.1 is a study tool for chess. It allows you to enter multiple lines of play in one game and easily switch among various lines. You can also add notes and go through notes of the game without losing the original position. A tutorial is included. (David Katelansky) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| TCCR.ZIP | Yes | 45177 | 5/16/1994 | The Correspondence Chess Recorder 1.0a helps you keep track of postal or Email correspondence chess games. Features include game printing, several options for stepping back through a game, three different forms of chess notation, and more. (Eric Churchill) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| TELCHES.ZIP | Yes | 40856 | 5/16/1994 | Telechess lets two people play chess over the phone. The opponent's move is automatically displayed on the screen. |
| TRANSLAT.ZIP | Yes | 90319 | 11/20/1993 | Chess Translator translates opening moves into both the descriptive and the algebraic equivalents as well as showing the moves on screen. The Pep-Cal chess programs use ASCII characters to display the board and pieces, so they do not look impressive, but they will work on any monitor. (Pep-Cal Software) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| TRID.ZIP | Yes | 4055 | 5/16/1994 | Tridemensional Chess tells you how to construct a 3D chess set like the one on the old Star Trek series and how to play the game. (David E. Rutan) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| WAXMAN.ZIP | Yes | 29153 | 5/16/1994 | WaxMan 1.1 is a surprisingly strong pop-up chess game. Since it is a TSR, you can pop it up at any time to play a few moves. Its use of ASCII characters to represent the pieces is clever and very well done. (Ivan Bacigal) (Reg.Fee: $10) |