Arena is a free Graphical User Interface (GUI) for chess. Arena assists you in analyzing and playing games as well as in testing chess engines. It runs on Windows XP or higher or on Linux with Wine 1.0 or higher. Arena is compatible to Winboard protocol I, II and UCI protocol I, II. Furthermore, compatible to Chess960, DGT electronic chess board & DGT clock XP, Novag Citrine, Autoplayer, ICS (chess servers) and much more.

The complete Chess Assistant Light Package, based on CA 7.1, hosted at Convekta.

Feature-rich chess game viewer and editor. Create and manage chess databases With search function and multi-game tools Create richly annotated games and diagrams and print them, or use them in WordPad, Word, or HTML-pages Use chess engines (Winboard/UCI) for playing and analysis. Price: Free!

Fritz 5.32 Version.

Jose is a graphical Chess tool.You can store chess games in a database.You can view and edit games (including variations and comments).You can play against a plugged-in chess engine and use it for analysis. Features 3D board view.

You can download a slightly restricted test version of the world champion chess program Shredder Classic FREE of charge and try it out for 30 days without obligation. Shredder Classic runs on various platforms.

XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms, including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi (Japanese chess) and Makruk, in addition to many minor variants such as Losers Chess, Crazyhouse, Chess960 and Capabanca Chess. It displays a chessboard on the screen, accepts moves made with the mouse, and loads and saves games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:

Chess engines that will run on your machine and play a game against you or help you analyze, such as GNU Chess, Crafty, or many others.

Chess servers on the Internet, where you can connect to play chess with people from all over the world, watch other users play, or just hang out and chat.

Correspondence chess played by electronic mail. The CMail program automates the tasks of parsing email from your opponent, playing his moves out on your board, and mailing your reply move after you've chosen it.

XBoard runs on Unix and Unix-like systems that use the X Window System.