Exa Chess Lite

Stuffed and BinHexed file, with abstract, attached. - Richard ExaChess 2.1 Lite is a freeware version of ExaChess, a full-featured chess database for the Macintosh. You can save, organize, and replay chess games downloaded from the Internet in "PGN" format, such as the week's grandmaster games at and many other sites. You can use it to organize, analyze, and annotate your own games, or use it to play against, or watch matches between, many plug-in chess engines (Crafty, MacChess, Sigma Chess, Screamer, etc). These free plug-ins can be downloaded at . Version 2.1 adds over 120 features to version 1.2. These are detailed in the "What's New 2.1" file. They include: automatic annotation of games by chess engines, colorized text to distinguish main lines from variations, and the ability to set up multigame matches between engines. The features of ExaChess include: - Direct support (without conversion) of ChessBase, NICBase, and PGN databases, as well as ExaChess's own database formats. - Search across all databases or just a single database file by player name, event, year, result, ECO code, opening name, position, partial position, material, special game features, or any combination of these. - Shows ECO code and opening name for each game and statistics for all matching games. - Finds and allows easy removal of duplicate games from any database. - Resizable, customizable 2-D color board with smooth animation. - Flexible game parser that handles free-form text input, both algebraic and descriptive, including move and position evaluations, variations and text comments. - Records full tree of moves. Switch to variation or return to main line. - Shows opening tree (next moves for any opening position) with stats from the database. Quickly find matching games for any opening position. - Supports play against the database or against external 'chess engines' via Apple Events, including ZZZZZZ (supplied), Crafty, MacChess, Sigma Chess, Screamer, and GnuChess (download from www.exachess.com ) ExaChess Lite omits a few features of ExaChess and is restricted to showing the first 256 or 128 games only of larger databases. Permission is granted for ExaChess Lite to be included on the Info-mac CD.