[ajbaker]

Yes I know this is not the most appropriate thread for this message but I was hoping for a quick answer; and therefore a large audience.

I am looking for a freeware, shareware or cheap commerical chess game for Windows 2000. All those I have seen so far by googling (or VersionTracker) have either been very simple 2d implementations or overly complicated 3d versions that take over the entire screen with a low res and poor mouse control.

Aesthetics are important. I'm an Apple owner after all.

A version of the Chess game that comes with OS X would be perfect. Is there anything similar out there?

Regards,

Andrew

[Millennium]

You might want to look into frontends for GNU Chess. GNU Chess is a command-line program, but many frontends exist; in fact, the Chess program that comes with OSX is just such a frontend, and so any frontend you would find on Windows would play pretty much the same way at given difficulty levels.

One example would be [url=http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html]WinBoard[url]. This is probably one of the "very simple 2D implementations" you were talking about, and indeed the GUI is simplistic, but underneath it's the same chess code that OSX uses.