ChessDog for Windows

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffJuly 15, 2015

Playing chess against the computer is good practice, but for purists, it's no substitute for a game against a live opponent. This small piece of freeware sets up games between real players over the Internet, automatically searching for available opponents online. The flaw here, of course, is if no one else is online, there's no computer opponent to play while you're waiting and indeed, when we first tested the software, we found no one available to play. The software itself has a fairly primitive interface, with few options, and only one available set of chess pieces. It can certainly work to set up games between two friends who are in different places, but players looking for a pickup game may be better served by going to one of the many free chess sites available online.