Kata Chess
Kata Chess is a system of basic chess positioning and movement exercises much like in karate or judo. Kata Chess focuses on pattern recognition by using a unique point and click interface. This is a serious training system for chess players who want to quickly and easily improve their game.
http://www.katachess.com/kata.exe - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

Chess Eye
People tend to lose "sight" when calculating the moves in their heads. When making a search for "blindfold chess" on the internet you soon find information that one of the most important advances in your chess life is to master the art of visualisation. ... The Chess Eye gives you step-by-step exercises which help you to increase your chess visualisation.
http://chesseye.alexander-fleischer.de/chesseye_setup.exe - 894Kb - Download - Screenshot

Fantasy Chess
Play the game of chess while transforming into fantasy creatures. Choose from different character sets for your chess pieces including dinosaurs, insects, traditional pieces, and more. This chess set is excellent for learning to play chess in that moves are highlighted and the difficulty levels... Veteran players will find it a good chess set for practicing strategic moves. ... There's also an option for setting up the board with situations. ... Play against another person or the computer.
http://www.datawaregames.com/download/chesspk.exe - 797Kb - Download - Screenshot

Icarus
Tired of playing chess against your computer--a near-infallible machine with no real flavor to its game? Wouldn't you rather play a human instead? Icarus is the newest interface for the Internet Chess Club, an online group of thousands of chess players. ... Join an online chess community that offers lectures, lessons by grand masters, over a hundred IRC-like chat channels, tournaments, simul exhibits, chess variations, and more! ... Its beautiful, easy-to-use interface will help you get connected and playing chess in no time.
http://www.randomly.com/pub/icarus.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Chess Commander
Chess Commander is a next generation chess game for the PC. It has many features to make the classic game of chess even more enjoyable to play - including legal move display, realistic voices, orchestral soundtrack and board annotation. Chess Commander supports multiple computer opponents, free... 20 adds access to the new online service "Chess Planet" - search for opponents by skill level and play them live online, with built in instant messaging. ... You can also improve your game by studying 1000s of matches played by grandmasters, or create your own game databases for future reference.
http://www.chesscommander.com/files/ChessCommanderLite.exe - 6Mb - Download - Screenshot

Email Chess
Email Chess allows you to play chess with a friend over standard email. By sending your moves back and forth over your email account, you can play chess with as many other friends as you wish, simultaneously. Simple and easy to play with a drag and drop interface.
http://www.magi-au.com/files/echess26.zip - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Orneta Chess for Smartphone 2002
Orneta Chess is the classic strategy game of Chess for Windows Mobile based Smartphone devices. With multiple difficulty levels this game appeals to everyone from the novice chess player to the advanced chess player. The game automatically save the state of the game so that the player can come... Orneta Chess is multi threaded so that the cursor can move and the menu is accessible even while the game is thinking. ... The game prepares for it's next move in the background. ... A game can be played incrementally over as much time as needed, months or even years.
http://www.orneta.com/srvc/dl/chess_sp_2002.exe - 111Kb - Download - Screenshot

Little Chess
Little Chess is a simple free chess program.
http://www.myaddictinggames.com/littlechesssetup.exe - 402Kb - Download - Screenshot

Chess Tools
Downloadable chess-related shareware and freeware for the chess student. The main feature is the 'game library' for chess textbooks, organized by chapters, then games. Includes an editor, and a Personal Game Viewer for these books. Other utilities include a diagram program, a free PGN viewer,... Chess Tools also includes self-improvement programs, including drills for board coordinates, game notation, and a 'pattern recognition' drill to assist you in improving visualization.
http://www.tombstonesky.com/chess/download/zips/ctsetup.zip - 7Mb - Download - Screenshot

Chess Marvel
Play a traditional game chess against a computer opponent, or play against another human player. Set up the game board for practice play. Play at different levels, for beginning or experienced players. Change the colors of the chess pieces.
http://members.aol.com/agcrump/chess.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot