Other Chess Software
There are several other forms of chess-related computer software, including the following:
- Chess game viewers allow players to view a pre-recorded game on a computer. Most chess-playing programs can also be used for this purpose, but some special-purpose software exists.
- Chess instruction software is designed to teach chess.
- Chess databases are systems which allow the searching of a large library of historical games. Shane's Chess Information Database (Scid) is a good example of a chess database. Scid may be used under Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X. There are also commercial databases, such as Chessbase and Chess Assistant for Windows and ExaChess for Mac OS X.
- Software for handling chess problems
- Internet chess server and clients
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