Windows 7 Chess Download

[Liese Hittson]

I'm currently using the registered paid version of the Chess Free app on my Galaxy S5 but don't have anything on the PC. I've asked and AI Factory said they were coming out with a PC version, but that was last summer and I still don't see anything from them for PC.

I'm only an intermediate player, by the way, so I don't need "the most powerful engine" or anything like that. I think my rating would be around 1200, but I like playing fast informal games against the computer.

Free is always good, but the commercial stuff seems a little more polished. ChessKing is a fun program with lots of training exercises and a decent database. HIARCS chess is my favorite computer opponent because you can choose any of 200 common openings to practice against, full strength or dumbed down to your level. Really useful to practice your openings. It also has a very human like playing style. Lucas Chess is certainly worth a download; dozens of engines to practice beating up. I've never had the incentive to dig much deeper but it looks very powerful. Have fun!

Scid vs. PC is very user friendly for me. It also has many more features than Fritz does.

Shoot, with Fritz you can't even set up a position from Black's point of view.

With Scid vs. PC, when I load a database of my games, the program is smart enough to position the color I played at the bottom of the screen. (This is a user option.) How cool is that?

The Material Search and Pattern Search features are more robust than that of any other program I've ever seen.

Try e-mailing the programmer of Fritz to fix a bug and see where that gets you.

With Scid vs. PC it's possible to use your own personalized chess fonts.

I could go on and on but I thik you get the idea.

At one time or another I've used just about every piece of chess software ever written and I still can't get over how wonderful Scid vs. PC is.

I like Fritz and the ChessBase database software, but the OP says he does not. It's long been my experience that MrEdCollins knows what he's talking about regarding chess comparisons. I'd go with his recommendation if I didn't like ChessBase.

I like White on bottom unless I'm playing. I analyze from the White side. I would turn that option off in SCID vs. PC. Even so, it's a nice feature. Fritz offers the option of flipping the board, too.

I used Chessmaster in the 1990s. After buying ChessBase, I continued using Chessmaster on occasion, but found it less useful than Fritz and family.

Fritz sparring mode is vastly better than any Chessmaster personalities IMO. However, the OP has his view, too.

Fritz can do 3D, but I opted to leave that feature uninstalled. I can look at a real chessboard and diagrams with equal facility and translate ideas from one to the other seamlesslessly, but I require my screen and print versions to be 2D.

If you want to analyze games, I recommend Arena. If you are building a database SCID vs PC is better. If you want to play versus various engines, with reduced strength, you can accomplish that in Arena, using the engine configuration settings. I can't vouch for being able to do that in SCID but, it is perhaps possible.

If you drag the lock from the adressbar of your browser onto the desktop, the app will be installed and a desktop icon will be created which will start the app. That way you can btw install every websites app.

Windows 10 (PC version) has been a great market share, and Microsoft store is amazing in supporting windows phone apps. Thus, I insist, to have a Chess.Com app for Windows 10 as well. If you are using Excel, word, and Skype, you can enjoy using Chess.Com app.

It would be neat to be able to put in your choice of engine and go over your games like it is a database. That is one thing programs like BabasChess do by writing to a .pgn file. Chess.com could market something similar. You get like the most recent 100 games you have played or anyone else has played. Then if you want more you pay for premium membership. This would be one big reason I see to upgrade.

Hey, in order for it not to be blocked, I would have to pay for it to be verified with Microsoft. I don't want to because I don't have the funds now. I put out all the source code so you can review it if you like.

I would recommend Stockfish, currently the world's best chess engine. You can download it here for free (but wait first!). However, if you want to practice against it (presumably by playing games) you will need to play against a lower level unless you enjoy getting the life squeezed out of you by an engine that's at least 1000 rating points higher.

However, if you don't want to have to play against Stockfish by typing in a bunch of uci commands into the terminal you should consider not actually downloading Stockfish but downloading Lucas Chess, which comes with a niceGUI and an easy way to control the engine's level.

You can use most of these and more on Chessify. Also, most people who are serious about chess use Chessbase which will also get you Fritz. If you want to find all the top 10, go to the TCEC and check out the latest standings. You will see that for the most part, if you have SF and Lc0, you have the two top engines.

One of my favorite classic Lego games was and still is Lego Chess, but running it on Windows 10 is nearly impossible. I installed the patch to fix the disc read error and can play the game but after certain random actions it just crashes. I also am forced to run the game in a lower resolution due to a lack of options. If anybody has any tips to lower the crash rate or stop it altogether I am all ears.

I would first like to thank RoboMWM for his discovery of the fix on 11/19/2020. He found that the game needs you to have an A drive regardless of where it is. You could map the disc drive you use to play the game to A or map it to a hard drive. The game looks for this directory and if it can't find it the game crashes.

Change one of your drives to "A" by going to "Disk Engagement" in Windows 10, right clicking on the drive you wish to assign (Can't be your main drive, use a backup or secondary partition.), and click "Change Drive Letter and Paths..." You may then select "A" and confirm the action.

Although the game has locked resolutions you can still increase them by going to "Start Menu" "Lego Media" and selecting "Chess Configuration". You may need to run it with compatibility settings but when it boots you can selected a resolution from the menu up to 1280X1024.

Because of the great work of the community this 15 month journey has finally met its end. I just finished my first successful match of Lego Chess with no saves or crashes and the intro that I haven't seen in years played as well. I thank you all for your work and hope we can all enjoy this game together.

To my knowledge the crash rate cannot be avoided.. I think I got it working on Win10 but didn't play it. I did play it more extensively on its "original hardware," a WinXP machine - and even then, it still crashed.

IIRC Lego Chess does have a save-load function, so you can just save every few turns or so. But doing so can be slow and annoying - and it's really demoralizing to lose your progress and your chain of thought, regardless of how much is lost.

I have a graphics issue with a couple of the old LEGO games in my collection. One is creator kk not showing cutscenes but playing audio, or not showing tutorial levels properly on screen, the other is chess with vertical lines in game and no cutscenes except the in game animated cutscenes. One day either me or someone else will get cutscenes working.

I've been able to play through the story and get all the videos added to my scrapbook collection, but I am not able to finish the third game of each story mode.
The tutorial mode crashes pretty frequently, and I can't use the save function that is in normal games to try to progress through it.
The save function is otherwise the saving grace for getting through a normal chess game.
Also, on the side, I haven't figured out what the third page of the scrapbook is -- perhaps someone here knows.

I was able to set it up on my 64-bit machine by using a 32-bit installer fix that I found online. The default installer is 16-bit but the game itself is 32-bit, if I am not mistaken.
There are a couple different 32-bit installers out there, they should be easy to find just by searching.

I had the same experience, so I went ahead and set up Windows XP 32-bit on a virtual machine.
I did a fresh install of the game and updated it with the patch and CD fix.
Now it runs without crashing, and I can complete the tutorial section without a hiccup.

Edit: Only thing I couldn't get were the intro videos and cutscenes. If anyone knows where they need to be placed to be able to be played, I'd appreciate the info.

FYI, there's no need for the patch. The game looks for the CD drive starting with drive letter A. If drive letter A isn't found then it just gives up immediately. Use Disk Management to map either your real optical drive or mounted ISO to A (doesn't matter where the media is, there just needs to exist some partition/drive mounted on A:).

I've been able to play with 0 crashes on Windows 10. The avi cutscenes don't play, but I'm wondering if that's a codec issue, as I can't play the .avi's video portion with Windows 10's default video player. (Update: Run the game in compatibility mode, e.g. Windows 95, to get the cutscenes to play on Windows 10.) The cutscenes do play on the Windows XP VM though (after adding a floppy drive, as A seems to be reserved there).

Randomly figured this out as I was testing it on my physical Windows XP box, and then wondering for a few hours just how it could possibly be working there with no problems while having issues with my Windows XP and Windows 98 VM.

Update: Decided to check back here and saw OPs edit. Thanks Ninja-Trix for the compatibility mode find! Didn't think of messing around with that to get cutscenes working; now I no longer need the Windows XP VM anymore.

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