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COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND INTERNET SITES

Solving programs help in checking the correctness of problems:

• Alybadix
• Popeye - new download address. Also a development project at Sourceforge.net. (Fancy is a nice shell for Popeye)
• Problemiste
• WinChloe

Databases, collections and archiving programs:

• Alybadix
• MatPlus
• Chess Problem Database Server (PDB)
• Problemiste
• WinChloe
• Fancy by Marek Kwiatkowski
• Yet another chess problem database by Dmitri Turevski
• Solving tourneys database by Luc Palmans
• Ankona - diagram imaging, storing and solving chess problems, by Ilja Ketris
• Chessarchive - creating a personal database of chess compositions, by Vitaly Medintsev and Svyatoslav Kravchenko

The project to develop a standard format for the representation of chess problems (Thomas Maeder)

Endgame Tablebases (EGTB):

• Reciprocal zugzwangs are listed at: http://www.k4it.de/egtb/zugzwang.php/
• 6-men endgame databases at http://www.k4it.de/index.php?topic=egtb&lang=en
• Lots of information at the site of Emil Vlasák at http://www.volny.cz/evcomp/tablebase.htm
• Shredder Endgame Database (<= 6-men) http://www.shredderchess.com/online-chess/online-databases/endgame-database.html

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