Play Chess Online
If you're interested in getting in your daily Chess fix and you don't want to pay anything, consider firing up your browser and heading on over to Shredder Chess Online. Shredder is a pretty powerful Chess engine. Way better than I'll ever be even at it's easiest settings. You can buy some rich GUI clients for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. They even have a mobile phone client, but this version doesn't support my mobile PDA yet.
The online version is clean, simple, and uses a well-implemented AJAX-based interface. Did I mention that it's free?
The idea of a web-based game like this is very appealing to me and
Shredder for Mac OS X provides a more advanced UI, with the ability to change many parameters of the Chess “brain” you're facing:
Here is what the GUI looks like, there are a few “themes” you can apply to the game but this one looks the best IMHO:
There are tons and tons of Chess solutions out there with zillions of ways to play. I just wanted to describe the method I've been using lately as I teach my kids how to play the game.
If you're interested in getting in your daily Chess fix and you don't want to pay anything, consider firing up your browser and heading on over to Shredder Chess Online.