CompoChess

Chess is a very popular board game, as it can be used both for entertainment, and for improving one’s strategic skills. Those who want to work on their abilities and have no other person to play with can rely on chess software apps, such as CompoChess.

The utility comes with a highly intuitive graphic interface so you can easily operate it, even if you are not an expert when it comes to computers.

If you want to improve your skills, you need to play a lot of games with various types of strategies and this is where CompoChess can come in handy: it can help you exercise your knowledge by simulating a real chess game where you need to move the pieces of both teams.

You can start by playing the traditional way, so that each side gets 5 minutes of thinking time, so as to assess their next move.

If you are looking for a challenge, you can move on to the next level and start a new FRC game (Fischer Random Chess) where pieces are no longer located in their traditional spots. You can also evaluate each of your moves and insert annotations according to the way they influenced the outcome of the game (compensation, counter-attack, initiative, zugzwang, time pressure and so on).

In addition to simulating a chess game, you can also import PGN files (Portable Game Notation) that you, or your friends, have created using other chess software apps so as to examine the moves or other game-related data.

You can also save the current game to an existing PGN database file, and you get to specify the players’ names, the game date and time, as well as the result.

CompoChess can prove to be a reliable and useful application for all those who want to exercise their chess skills and even improve them. The position of the pieces on the board can be exported as an image at any time, so you can ask for advice whenever you feel you get stuck.