ChessRally   
http://www.ingenuware.com

Play chess with new and old friends alike over the Internet, your local network, through Email (correspondence games), or play against several challenging computer opponents. Meet up with people and make new friends in the Online Rally Rooms (a chat and game service) to chat, play, or just be a spectator. ChessRally is a full-featured game for beginners and masters alike, with robust graphics and sound, fun characters, a customizable interface with free downloadable themes (skins, sets and sounds), smooth animation, a complete User's Guide, and free technical support. ChessRally contains full support for rated games, timed games, all internationally accepted rules, computer move suggestions, a risk indicator, "Experimenting Mode", loading, saving, printing, PGN and FEN import/export, an interactive Move History window, unlimited undo, and more. This download of ChessRally contains both the Free Edition, a free full-featured email chess game, and the Gold Edition with all of the other features mentioned above, which you get to try for free for 15-days. At the end of the Gold Edition features trial, if you choose not to upgrade to the Gold Edition, the Free Edition is yours to use for as long as you like for playing email chess entirely free, without restrictions or nag screens. Upgrading to the Gold Edition is easy with a fast, self-patching upgrade process (no new downloads to get) and costs $19.99.

Jo-Go   
http://www.livingtreesoftware.com

Jo-Go is the ultimate tactical board game. If you like chess, you'll love Jo-Go. If you hate chess, you'll still love Jo-Go. The game is deceptively simple, yet complex enough to stimulate your visual skills for ages to come. There's even a handicapping system to let beginners play advanced players and compensate both fairly. Fun, stimulating, and educational, Jo-Go is perfect for visual skill development with the pattern recognition used in the moves. Some believe it to be the perfect "off-season" trainer for games such as chess since it teaches you to position your pieces for both offensive and defensive action and quickly shows you the consequences of a misplaced capture of an opponent's piece. But it's much more than that. It's a thinking game that will get your right and left brain working together. Both players receive eight pieces with 1-5 beads on each piece's pole. Each piece moves in a set pattern. If your opponent passes one of their pieces over you in the course of it's assigned movement pattern, you lose 1 bead. If they land on you, you lose 2 beads and you switch places if your piece still has beads remaining. If the players are at different playing abilities, you can even handicap the more experienced player by giving the newcomer 1 or 2 extra beads on each piece at the start of a game. The computer has 3 levels of difficulty to play against and with the unique handicapping system you can try out the harder levels with a little extra help in the form of extra beads for your pieces. Beginners can use this system to play advanced players by taking an extra bead and then adjusting the ratings calculation as if the player with more beads was actually higher ranked to begin with. This is featured in the PBEM (play-by-email) system. Come sign up for a free account today and play anyone in the world. Jo-Go really is a better game!

Email Chess   
http://www.magi-au.com

Email Chess allows you to play chess with a friend over standard email. By sending your moves back and forth over your email account, you can play chess with as many other friends as you wish, simultaneously. Simple and easy to play with a drag and drop interface.

ChesseR   
http://www.ponderlabs.com

ChesseR is an application that allows you to play correspondence chess with anyone that has an email address. Visually the chess board is very easy to look at. The chess pieces are not all cluttered together as I have seen with other programs. This is important for tough moves that require you to study the board. There is an optional "piece trail" feature that displays legal moves for a piece when the mouse cursor is placed over it. The chess board can be resized. A neat feature is the use of color tinting. This allows you to change the color of an item, yet retain its shading. All the colors of the "ChesseR Desktop" can be "tinted" to your liking. Current game information is in plain view listing total moves, game length (in days), last move, captured pieces and so on. You can send and receive moves directly with your email account or simply cut and paste your moves from your email application. A POP3 email account is NOT required to use this program. A message to your foe can be sent along with your move if you wish. This is a blue jeans program for people that want to play a nice game of chess with their friends. No time limit on moves. Just bat your moves back and forth till someone wins.

GameList Plus   
http://www.wakefieldsoft.com

GameList Plus is your complete video and computer game organization software for handheld PDAs, and it includes PC companion software! Keep track of video or PC games that you own, that you have played, that you have rented, that you want to play/buy, and more. Determine if you already own a game before you buy or rent it! Game List has a simple and straightforward interface, and offers numerous useful features, including: PC Companion Software - Included for easy access to Game List data on your desktop, including import, export, printing, and more! Internet Data Lookup - Lookup and download video game information from the internet, including cover graphics! Comprehensive Field List - Large number of fields allow for detailed information for each record. Search - The versatile searching in Game List allows you to search on many different fields. Sort and Filter - Sorting and filtering on the handheld and PC allow you to quickly narrow the list of records to easily find certain ones. Import - Export Records - Import and export records from tab and comma delimited (CSV) files for convenient conversion from other applications. Password Protection - optional password protection prevents other people from viewing your data. Customizable Master Lists - Define your own list of categories, ratings, formats, and more for easy dropdown access. Download the free trial to see all of the features! Includes optional handheld software for Palm OS and Pocket PC / Windows Mobile.