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... Play against another person or the computer. ... 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.
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

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

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

Chess Game Notation File Converter
Chess games in electronic form (usually downloaded from Internet sites) are written in algebraic notation and in accordance with the PGN Standards (Pgn=Portable Game Notation). The chess games are thus given in files with the extension pgn, e. g. kasparov. ... Chess Playing software as FRITZ, ARENA, WINBOARD and other in order to play a chess game they need it in algebraic notation -in English Language- and better in pgn standards, otherwise the file does not open. ... The aim of this software is to convert Chess Notation from a language to another.
http://www.code.gr/chess-converter..._Game_Notation_File_Converter.zip - 68Kb - Download - Screenshot

ChessSuccessSecrets
Chess Success Secrets ! Discover How To Dramatically Improve Your Chess Skills and Start Whipping Your Opponents In Less Moves Than Ever Before ! You Will Discover How To Improve Your Skills and Start Winning More Games... Guaranteed ! Discover exactly how grand masters effortlessly win nearly... Here are the six main components of the "Chess Success Secrets" package: Component #1: Before You Begin In this section, you will discover what you should do BEFORE you ever even think about playing your next chess match !
http://www.softoasis.ndo.co.uk/ChessSuccessSecrets.zip - 17Kb - Download - Screenshot

Shredder Classic
The Shredder chess programs by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen have already won nine titles as World Computer Chess Champion, are leading in all important computer chess rating lists and are accepted as the best chess programs for PCs. They combine extremely powerful play with easy handling. ... The play of the program can be variably adjusted to any strength, so that everyone can find an adequate chess partner. ... Many functions for analysing one's own games as well as a built-in coach, who is alert of one's mistakes, help to improve your play.
http://www.shredderchess.com/Setup/SetupShredderClassic.exe - 6Mb - Download - Screenshot

dfg ChessExpert XP
Chess software programs for playing chess are fun and help you improve your chess game. d. f. g ChessExpert XP  is not just a chess playing monster, it is a friendly chess partner for beginners to professionals. Many of the world's strongest players already use d. ... A complete description (tutorial) of Chess Rules & Tournament Rules as well as Basic Strategies are included in the d. ... g ChessExpert XP is a very powerfull chess playing and training program. ... The operation is clear and simple, while at the same time giving you a large number of options for computer chess.
http://dfg1.netfirms.com/bin/a_chess.zip - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot