I am an intermediate chess player (1400+ rating here on Standard Live) looking to improve my game. I own several instructional and game collection books and one on openings and endgames (I own fewer than 10 books in total). I am looking to possibly get a chess software program that provides game analysis, explanations and openings and any other features I cannot think of right now. Does it make sense to get any chess software programs? Or is paid membership here enough (I don't have one now)? All opinions are welcome!

Chess software training for beginners and novices, from how the chess pieces move, the chess board setup, and the chess rules. I am a novice, and I would like to find a computer program that will help me learn and improve my play. Ideally, instead of getting my clock cleaned by the chess. Can anyone suggest any good chess software that 'tutors' beginners? Chessmaster doesn't have the best chess engine. Tutorials from Josh Waitzkin on the. Shredder chess download. World champion computer chess program. Best chess software.

Diamond here probably has all you need, but I also own and use 3 relatively inexpensive chess programs. Fritz is very powerful but a little nonintuitive to learn how to use. HIARCS has very human like play and the database function easy to use, although since it's limited to PGN files, you end up shuffling DBs in and out. ChessKing is delightfully quirky, but has loads of fun exercises. You should probably google them and check out their websites. Or you might just want to go the free route. I have Scid v.

PC but I'm not motivated enough to bother learning how to use it. There is an active community of users here though if I wanted to. Lil Boosie And Trill Fam here. Lucas Chess has umpteen features that I likewise haven't explored, but I do like playing against some of the more stupid programs it contains. Sometimes if you're a little depressed it just feels good to beat the snot out of an engine! Hope that gives you some names to google, and of course you can always do a 'search forums' here. Many previous threads on the subject.

Yeah I'm always shilling for the site. I really do think that ChessMentor is a wonderful tool for learning chess and the new Tactics Trainer over at V3 has some great new features. Because I'm old and have to pound stuff into my head over and over again, I need the diamond just so I can continue to review old lessons. The 5 lesson a day limit on platinum won't do for me, but obviously your mileage may vary. And while you can find plenty of videos on youtube, these are of higher average quality by far.

I would even go so far as to say IM Danny Rensch's Live Session Videos alone are worth diamond. So yeah, I think it's well worth it. I'm not rich by any means, but I really don't mind spending a little here on chess. In truth though, for those folks just scraping by, you can find plenty of free stuff on the web to help you get better at chess.

This is just a lot more convenient, and probably more efficient as well. @baddogno's comments are helpful. He is correct to say Chess Mentor is very useful.

Also the instructional videos on chess.com are only available with a Diamond membership. These are well worth having access to. Many of them are excellent. As for game analysis using software, for any of these you have to learn how to use the programs, and if you do not already know how to use them it can be a pain, as searchng the internet to find exactly the specific instruction you need on how to perform the various tasks can be a laborious, time consuming process (this is my experience - yours may vary). Chess.com's analysis softare is ok to check for mistakes and blunders. It provides only minimal commentary in this regard (blunder, mistake, etc) but does suggest moves that it considers better in these cases.