Chess

Play

• Rating of several chess engines on wikipedia.org

Any platforms

• Shredder

Android

• Chess Free by AI Factory Limited

Play in PRO mode (no undo). Excellent for beginner, each level gives an average of computer strength. Sometimes computer makes "mistake" moves a bit like beginner human would do.

Windows

• Rybka (windows) (best chess engine as of 2010 along with Rybka)
• Houdini (windows) (best chess engine as of 2010 along with Rybka)
• Fritz (windows)
• ChessMaster (windows) (en) (best seller)

Linux

• Crafty (linux)

Analyze

General game

Online

• http://en.lichess.org/paste

Excellent. Very fast. Easy to browse, play variation, etc. Also local computer analysis.

• https://nextchessmove.com/

Enter a position and ask to get the next best move. Based on GNU Chess and Stockfish engines.

Android

• DroidFish

Powerful and easy to use chess engine, with clear analysis. Show 2-depth moves with green/red arrows.

• Chess Analyze This by Asim Pereira

Awesome game analyzer, with indication of blunders, bad moves. Analysis takes quite some time though.

Endgame

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_tablebase

Online

• Endgame database on shredderchess.com

Easy to use endgame database (6 men or less).

• Analysis board on lichess.org

Very powerful analysis board, including complete endgame database. Position are encoded in the URL (e.g. https://en.lichess.org/analysis/8/8/5k2/8/8/2P5/3K4/8_w_-_-)

Android

• Lomonosov Tablebases

Perfect endgame analysis, up to 7 men.

History

• Kasparov versus the World

Theory

• Chess-End Game

Problems

• Chess Problem Database

Tips & Pits

• (Frequent mistake) In start position, b2 and g2 are only protected resp. by Bc1 and Bf1 → move these Bishops only if these pawns are not threatened / protected by other pieces!