Free Simple Chess version 0.27 A completely free chess program written in Java, that therefore runs on a number of platforms like Windows, Linux and Mac, but so far best on Windows. Installation Unzip the files in the desired folder. Right click on the SimpleChess.jar file and create a shortcut. Right click on the shortcut and chose properties. Change the shortcut's icon to the SimpleChess icon found in the folder. Now place shortcuts to Free Simple Chess wherever you want. Uninstall Just delete the folder containing Free Simple Chess and the shortcuts that were created.

Adjusting the program's playing strength

Click Game and then Options. Choose the playing tab. Look under level to set the program to its lowest playing strength: Uncheck the quiescence search checkbox and choose a search dept of 1 ply. On a very slow computer setting the search time to 0.1 seconds may make the program play even weaker. To make the program play stronger check the quiescence search checkbox and increase the search depth in plies or increase the search time in seconds. Quiescence search in this program is when the program looks at most piece exchanges until there is no more pieces to be taken by either side before evaluating a position.

Display options

Choose the options form's appearance tab. You can now flip the board or choose whether the last move taken shall be shown on the board. To show the programs evaluation stretch the program's board form horizontally.