===== Software (including user interfaces) for solving chess problems / puzzles / endgame studies =====

=== Alphabetical Index ===

* **[[http://www.ankona.ch | Ankona - create diagrams, store and solve chess problems]]**

* **[[http://jens-musik.dk/skak.htm | Brutalis - Chess / Skak]]**

* **[[http://chessarchive.ru | Chess Archive - creating a personal database of chess compositions]]**

* **[[https://web.archive.org/web/20180128202959/http://chessexplorer.republika.pl/chexp63.zip | ChessExplorer]]** 

* **[[https://sourceforge.net/projects/chess-problem | Chess Problem Solver]]**

* **[[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.lrstudios.android.chess_problems | Chess Tactics Pro - Puzzles]]**

* **[[http://www.chess-wizard.com | Chess Wizard]]**

* **[[https://web.archive.org/web/20170201172332/http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/Chess/chest.html | Chest]]** - **[[http://fhub.jimdo.com/ | ChestUCI (including database)]]** - **[[http://www.chessdiagrammer.com/cdg_startpage.html | Ekkehard May´s Chessdiagrammer]]**

* **[[http://lestourtereaux.free.fr/euclide | Euclide]]**

* **[[http://www.wfcc.ch/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/fancy.zip | Fancy]]**

* **[[http://www.freezerchess.com | Freezer]]**

* **[[http://www.goliathchess.de/goliath/download/GoliathMateBeta3.ZIP | Goliath Mate UCI]]**

* **[[https://sites.google.com/site/fredm | Guess the Move]]** - **[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LNm8WrWNYW0WgsSvLGeW-g2BW91PgGGU3Xid3C78Fvo/edit?pli=1 | User´s Guide]]**

* **[[http://www.schachversand.de/e/detail/software/474.html | Gustav for Windows 7]]**

* **[[http://www.matemaster.de | MateMaster]]**

* **[[http://fhub.jimdo.com/ | MaterUCI]]** 

* **[[http://www.schweikhardt.net/index.html#programming | Matesolver (section "Programmieren in C")]]**

* **[[http://natch.free.fr/Natch.html | Natch (DOS commandline stand-alone application)]]** - **[[http://natch.free.fr/iNatch/iNatch.html | iNatch (Java graphical interface)]]**

* **[[http://sourceforge.net/projects/popeye-chess | Popeye]]** -  **[[http://fhub.jimdo.com/ | Franz Huber´s Program Projects]]**  - ** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110727124544if_/http://www.bauer-schweitzer.de/index.html?minimax/index_minimax.html | Olive (link "Shareware")]]** - **[[ http://web.archive.org/web/20040926135132/http://www.blanco-y-negro.de | PyWinShell]]** -  **[[http://www.winposh.de | Windows Popeye Shell]]**

* **[[http://pagesperso-orange.fr/problemiste | Problemist for Palm Pilot / PC / Pocket PC]]**

* **[[http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~hwatheod/Retractor | Retractor]]**

* **[[http://www.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vaeth/download/schach.zip | Utilities and Programs by Martin Väth]]**

* **[[http://pdb.dieschwalbe.de | Schwalbe - Chess Problem Database Server]]** - * **[[http://www.dieschwalbe.de | Deutsche Vereinigung für Problemschach]]**

* **[[http://web.archive.org/web/20150707000002/http://web.telecom.cz/vaclav.kotesovec/vksach.zip | VKsach]]** 

* **[[http://web.archive.org/web/20081208015339/http://www.geocities.com/rba_schach2000/overview_english.htm | Wilhelm]]** - **[[http://web.archive.org/web/20040502105911/http://www.geocities.com/rba_schach2000/index.html | Older Edition]]**

* **[[http://winchloe.free.fr | WinChloe and WinChloe Light]]**

* **[[https://sites.google.com/site/fredm | Yatt - Yet Another Tactics Trainer]]** - **[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/17PpDWe9YKXQRHhuK7MpG2XXExTAcihliydOqLysXLvo/edit?pli=1 | User´s Guide]]** 


===== Examples of chess problems / puzzles / endgame studies =====

=== Survey ===

* **[[http://www.onkoud.com | Abdelaziz Onkoud (French)]]**

* **[[http://anselan.com/chess.html | Andrew Buchanan]]**

* **[[http://www.arcamax.com/chess | ArcaMax Publishing Inc]]**

* **[[http://www.arves.org/arves/index.php/en | ARVES - Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor SchaakEindspelStudie]]**

* **[[http://echecs.ance.ch/probleme-d-echecs.php | Association Neuchâteloise des Clubs d´Échecs, Switzerland (with comments in French)]]**

* **[[http://www.berlinthema.de | Berlinthema - Schachproblem und Problemschach (German)]]**

* **[[http://www.bstephen.me.uk | Brian Stephenson´s BDS Website]]**

* **[[http://www.theproblemist.org | British Chess Problem Society]]**

* **[[http://chessproblem.my-free-games.com/chess/games/Chess-Figures.php | Bruno Berenguer´s checkmates / chess problems]]**

* **[[http://www.jurajlorinc.com/chess/chess.htm | Chess Composition Microweb by Juraj Lörinc]]**

* **[[http://www.jaroslav-stun.eu/ChessProblems | ChessdBase by Jaroslav Stun]]**

* **[[http://elearning.usm.md/endgame | Chess Endgame Study Database Moldova]]**

* **[[http://www.chessproblems.com | Chess Problems by James Acres / Aaron Cronan / Dave Gertler / Shelley Knowlton / Adam Miller]]**

* **[[http://www.wtharvey.com | Chess Puzzles by GMs]]**

* **[[http://chesstempo.com |Chess Tempo -  website dedicated to helping chess players improve their game]]**

* **[[http://www.echecs.ance.ch/probleme-d-echecs.php | Club d´Échecs de la Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland - problèmes (PDF) - solutions (PGN)]]**

* **[[http://chessok.com/?page_id=359 | Convekta - chess puzzles]]**

* **[[http://www.problemskak.dk | Dansk Skakproblem Klub - Danish Chess Problem Society]]**

* **[[https://web.archive.org/web/20161221071341/http://dejascacchi.altervista.org/exercises.htm | DEJASCACCHI edited by Michele Deiana]]**

* **[[http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/index.html?whichScript=dhtml-chess | DHTML - a collection of tools like PGN viewer / opening and tactic training / chess puzzles]]**

* **[[http://sites.google.com/site/edusadier/theartofdirectmateintwomoves | El arte del mate en dos by Eduardo Sadier]]**

* **[[http://glareanverlag.wordpress.com/category/schach | Glarean Magazin]]**

* **[[http://chess-problems-gr.blogspot.de | Greek Blogspot - chess problems]]**

* **[[http://www.problemschach.de/harmonie | harmonie-aktiv - Zeitschrift für Problemschach]]**

* **[[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pereira.ichess.paid&feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLnBlcmVpcmEuaWNoZXNzLnBhaWQiXQ.. | iChess - Chess Tactics]]**

* **[[http://www.ideachess.com | Ideachess - chess tactics training]]**

* **[[http://postino.free.fr | Il Matto del Postino (Italian)]]**

* **[[http://www.goja.sk/index2.htm | Ján Golha´s Chess Composition]]**

* **[[http://chesspuzzles.com | John Bain´s Chess Puzzles]]**

* **[[http://www.bertvandermarel.nl/mastermove/index.html | Mastermove by Bert van der Marel]]**

* **[[http://problemiste.pagesperso-orange.fr/collecto.html | Matthieu Leschemelle´s Problemist Collections - fichiers de problèmes à télécharger]]**

* **[[http://eloliste.chess.at/dailyst/kubbel.php | Österreichischer Schachbund (Chess Fedeartion from Austria)]]**

* **[[http://www.p-roesler.de/schach.html | Peter Rösler´s Schachaufgaben (German)]]**

* **[[http://www.pevomuc.de | Peter Vogel - section Schach (German)]]**

* **[[http://www.phenix-echecs.fr | Phénix - a French review (several editions) of chess problems]]** 

* **[[http://probechecs.free.fr | ProbÉchecs including analysis and combinations (French)]]**

* **[[http://www.probleemblad.nl | Probleemblad - Nederlandse bond van schaakprobleemvrienden, schaakproblemen etc.]]**

* **[[http://problemasajedrez.blogspot.com | Problemas de Ajedrez (Spanish)]]**

* **[[http://lestourtereaux.free.fr/chess | Problèmes d´échecs by Étienne Depuis (French)]]**

* **[[http://www.schach-udo.de | Problemschach (German)]]**

* **[[http://www.problemschachbuch.de | Problemschachbuch.de - link "Nachrufe", an obituary for Dr. Werner Speckmann (German)]]**

* **[[http://sachmatija.puslapiai.lt | Sachmatija, a website from Lithuhania]]**

* **[[http://schachblaetter.de/category/hefte-raus-klassenarbeit | Schachblätter by Stefan Kalhorn]]**

* **[[http://scleinzell.schachvereine.de/so_dia/dia.shtml | Schachclub Leinzell (German chess club) - link "Diagramme" (with date)]]**

* **[[http://www.horizon.ebbs.be/database.html | Solving Tourneys Database - Belgian and Dutch competitons by Luc Palmans]]**

* **[[http://www.xs4all.nl/~dsu | Studies and Problems - composed by J.T. Sanderse]]**

* **[[http://www.sci.fi/~stniekat/st | Suomen Tehtäväniekat - Finnish Chess Problem Society (website particulary in English)]]**

* **[[http://www.contestcen.com/chess.htm | The Contest Center - Chess Puzzles]]**

* **[[http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess/prb.html | Tim Krabbé´s Website "de problemen"]]** - **[[http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess/chess.html | Chess Curiosities]]**

* **[[http://www.wfcc.ch | World Federation for Chess Composition - Official Website]]**

* **[[http://www.yacpdb.org/#SearchHelp | Yet Another Chess Problem Database by Dmitri Turevski]]**

* **[[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zelosoft.zchess101&feature=also_installed#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEwNCwiY29tLnplbG9zb2Z0LnpjaGVzczEwMSJd | Z-Chess 101]]**