2015-08-03

WML Software for Chess - ChessPad - PGN database

ChessPad - PGN database

Feature-rich chess game viewer and editor
Create and manage chess databases With search function and multi-game tools
Create richly annotated games and diagrams and print them, or use them in WordPad, Word, or HTML-pages
Use chess engines (Winboard/UCI) for playing and analysis

Price: Free!

Description
ChessPad 2 is a major new version of ChessPad. Many features have been added to complete the functionality of ChessPad 1.
New ChessPad 2 features include

A beautiful, fully resizable game board
A full game WYSIWYG notation view
Advanced database features including
- Search games on many criteria, including position and material patterns
- Game utilities to operating on multiple games, like settings game information
- Can handle any PGN tag, and even custom tags can be defined
- A single game list, that can be sorted on multiple columns, (e.g. sort on White, then Black)
Pretty WYSIWYG printing of games including diagrams and board marks
UCI chess engines are supported (in addition to the Winboard engines)

And many other features! You can also check this blog, where some features in ChessPad 2 are highlighted in more detail.
See also

What's new

Downloads

ChessPad 2.0.3
Windows installer (1.54MB)

PosBase 1.0.5
Windows installer (1.01MB)

Older versions:

ChessPad 2.0.2
Windows installer (1.54MB)

ChessPad 1.0.10
Windows installer (922KB)

FEN2Ascii 1.0.2
Zipped, manual install (355KB)

This is a utility that converts pasted FEN lines into ASCII formatted text:

   r1bqk2r/pppp2pp/2n1pn2/5p2/2PP4/5NP1/PP1NPPBP/R2QK2R b KQkq - 0 7

is changed to

   W-Ke1,Qd1,Ra1,h1,Bg2,Nd2,f3,Pa2,b2,c4,d4,e2,f2,g3,h2
   B-Ke8,Qd8,Ra8,h8,Bc8,Nc6,f6,Pa7,b7,c7,d7,e6,f5,g7,h7
   Black to move.

EPD2RTF 1.0
Zipped, manual install (496KB)

This is a utility that converts EPD lines into RTF formatted diagrams.
You need to have some chess font installed on your computer for it to work.