A couple of months ago and two years after the previous version ChessX has released a new version. This is version 0.6, which can be downloaded for Windows and Mac on the download section of the ChessX site.
I decided to try this version and I started by saving the games of the IJ105 database as [...]
As a kind of follow-up on the previous post I’ll have to show you this picture from Cindy Seigle. This is one of the many beautiful chess sets set up in the atrium at the West Baden Springs Hotel in Orange County, Indiana.
Chess set at the West Baden Springs Hotel by cindy47452
Chess is often played with beautiful pieces. This is one of the reasons to start playing chess. We like the pieces and we like the game. The picture below illustrates some of this beauty.
Chess by frankblacknoir
Tag Galaxy is a 2008 diploma thesis project by Steven Wood that enables you to browse through the galaxy of pictures by entering tags. After entering a tag related tags are shown visualized by other planets in an orbit around the “world” of selected tags.
You’ll have to see it for yourself.
The picture above is the [...]
In some of my previous posts I have mentioned the ChessDB chess database program, but you may also want to use one of the other free available chess databases.
Scid (Shane’s Chess Information Database) was written by Shane Hudson. He started Scid in 1999, but the development stopped in 2004.
December 2006 the development of Scid continued [...]