Exachess Lite

ExaChess Lite is a freeware version of ExaChess, a full-featured chess database for the Macintosh. ExaChess Lite provides most of the features of ExaChess in a version suitable for maintaining a personal games collection, and is free. This release, version 1.2, adds several new features and fixes a number of bugs. The new features include a Copy Position command to copy the current board position as a picture, and a facility to search a database for games between players over a particular Elo rating. See the Release Notes for full details. ExaChess now has its own web page! For the latest information about ExaChess visit . 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, GnuChess, and MacChess (available at Mac and chess Internet archive sites). ExaChess Lite omits a few features of ExaChess and is restricted to showing the first 256 or 128 games only of larger databases.