Chess Training Tools is a collection of chess training tools. It includes a chess visualization trainer that teaches chess visualization by drilling you on the color of a particular square, and also on your ability to tell if two squares are the same color, if two (or three) squares are on the same diagonal, if two squares are a knight move apart, or if two squares are two knight moves apart. It includes a weak chess program (called Vince) that lets you lag the display by several ply, hide all pieces or all pawns, and block out quadrants of the board. Furthermore, it includes an opening memorization trainer. The Palm & Pocket PC versions are missing the mate, opening trainer, and Vince.
| Tags | Games/Entertainment Turn Based Strategy |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | Java |
Recent releases


Changes: A blindfold game test was added, which allows you to enter a PGN game and then step through it move by move while being quizzed on various aspects of the current position.


Changes: This release adds a larger board display. It adds a new chess vision training tool. It improves opening play of the engine if it gets out of the book early. The opening trainer has been removed, as there are much better free tools.


Changes: This release added undo, or move takeback to the PlayTest ("Vince").


Changes: This version adds the ability to hide the center, the "big" center, and white and/or black pieces. It changes the chess pieces to a different set to avoid possible copyright issues. It shrunk the book down from the 2600 games size. The chess board view was split out and is now a library. The layout was changed a touch.


Changes: The chess board Swing component has been broken out into its own library, along with an applet to demonstrate its use.
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Recent commentsRe: Good chess program
I also liked the software very much.
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Good chess program
It helped me lot with chess playing. Thanks for developing chess program. Great for releasing it under GPL.