chess

100% Free Chess Board Game for Windows provides users with challenging chess matches and also works as a teacher. This program's helpful tutorials and easy game play will make users of all skill levels happy.

We had an easy time navigating through the program's cartoonish interface, thanks to its well-labeled command buttons and onscreen instruction. The Help file comes to users as an excellent text-based tutorial, which explains rules and strategy. We liked the program's cast of opponents, whose skill level is noted next to their animated image, because each proved to offer different strategies and ability … Read more

Championship Chess All-Stars offers to help users have fun and improve their chess game. With a great selection of ways to play and many helpful tools, this is a fantastic choice for chess players of all skill levels.

The program's interface is highly intuitive, thanks in part to its well-labeled and cartoonish, but professional, design. Users will not need to utilize the Help file, because on-screen direction is so helpful. Users begin their play by selecting a game style: untimed, speed play, suicide play, progressive, or customized. From there, gameplay is remarkably simple: users click on a piece and … Read more

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Falco Chess offers users an opportunity to play digital chess against a computer or an online opponent. While this game looks great and has many helpful features, one addition makes play slightly annoying.

This program has a top-notch appearance with a three-dimensional board and pieces, and a changeable background. Its added features are clearly laid out and the Help file defines them all, though it does not offer any tutorial in the rules of chess. While the Falco Chess' interface was great, we found the rapidly changing advertisements for other games annoying and actually slowed gameplay a little. Aside from … Read more

If you're interested in a chess game for the iPhone or iPod Touch, look no further than the App Store. I just searched for the keyword "chess" and found more than 10 entries, most of which were actually chess games.

With so many chess games to choose from, why would a developer want to release another into such a crowded market? Well, obviously they think they can do chess better than the next guy.

99Games must be pretty confident in its product, as it's going one step further. On Wednesday, it announced the availability of two … Read more

Voting--it's the cornerstone of our democracy. But in recent years, both the systems we use and the trust we have in the accuracy of our votes have been challenged.

A new report (PDF) looks at all the systems currently in use--from paper ballots to Direct-Recording Electronic machines--and the issues that surround them. Researchers at Fortify analyzed threats against three phases of an election (voter registration, casting votes, and tabulating votes), highlighting specific ways voting systems have been compromised, summarizing the strengths and weaknesses of current voting techniques, and then providing guidance for voters to ensure their votes are handled … Read more

LAS VEGAS--Black Hat 2008 is bigger, and some might say better. Occupying most of the third and fourth floors of the convention hall at Caesars Palace, the conference started on Saturday with two- and four-day training sessions that continue through Tuesday.

The "public" part of Black Hat runs Wednesday and Thursday and features speakers in 15 separate tracks. One of the tracks will consist of Turbo talks of 20 minutes each. After those, there will an opportunity for the audience to talk with some of the speakers in a another room.

Wednesday starts with a bang with … Read more

Iron Chef returns to Black Hat. No, its not the Food Network import from Japan broadcasting live, but the Fortify edition featuring lead security researchers as they struggle against the clock to find vulnerabilities. This year, the secret ingredient is open-source code.

Brian Chess, chief scientist at Fortify Software, and Jacob West, who manages Fortify Software's Security Research Group, tell CNET's Robert Vamosi that one team will use static analysis while the other will use fuzzing. Chess confirmed that Charlie Miller and Jacob Honoroff will be on the fuzzing team, and Sean Fay and Geoff Morrison from Fortify … Read more