Product DescriptionPurchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Software for Handling Chess Problems, Fritz, Chessbase, Online Chess Kingdoms, Lego Chess, Popeye, List of Chess Software, Phpchess, Chess on Yahoo! Games, Arena, Chess Assistant, Chess Informant Expert. Excerpt: Software for chess problems is a category of software intended for handling chess problems, usually distinct from chess playing and analyzing programs. Chess problems are based on the rules of chess, but problemists may have little use for ordinary chess playing programs. Many chess playing programs also have an option for solving directmates, i. e. mates in two, three, four, and more moves, and some of them also has support for helpmates and selfmates. Software for chess problems can be used for creating and solving problems, including checking the soundness of a concept and position, storing it in a database, printing and publishing, and saving and exporting the problem. They can solve direct mates, helpmates and selfmates and even problems with fairy pieces and other fairy chess problems. There have also been some attempts to have computers “compose” problems. Alybadix is one of the oldest software (1980) programs for chess problems. Alybadix is written by Ilkka Blom. It is proprietary software, written for DOS with a free, independent Windows interface. Alybadix supports solving classical problems: direct mates, helpmates, selfmates, many fairy pieces, and fairy piece conditions. It comes with a large problem collection. It also supports quality printing. Chloe (DOS) and Winchloe (proprietary software) are solving programs written by Christian Poisson. Winchloe not only supports classical problems direct mates, helpmates and selfmates but also many fairy pieces and conditions with different sized chessboards (up to 250 by 250 sq. . . More: http://booksllc. net/?id=6330250
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