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ChessPartner,
a fully developed, commercial Windows chess GUI market by Lokasoft, incorporating its native chess engine LChess and supporting any WinBoard or UCI compatible chess engine via its internal adapter. ChessPartner evolved from the LChess GUI by Lex Loep and Ger Neef, ported to Windows 3.0 in 1991 ¹.

Online Client

ChessPartner features as client for online play with various Chess Server to challenge and play against other human players or engines.

Databases

ChessPartner has its own proprietary database format and also supports Portable Game Notation. Its opening book manager handels up to eight books in parallel and supports book learning. Further, ChessPartner can query Nalimov endgame tablebases

GUI

The ChessPartner GUI consists of a frame window, with caption-, status-, and customizable menu- and toolbar, and a workspace with multiple views on the current game document, board window, optionally a 3D Board with 3D-piece bitmaps, notation-, score-history-, search- and book statistics, chess clock-, and chess server console windows.

Screenshots

ChessPartner 6, 3D pieces ²

See also

• Aquarium
• Arena
• ChessGUI
• Engine Testing
• Fritz GUI
• jose
• Protocols
• Shredder GUI
• UCI
• WinBoard

Forum Posts

1998 ...

• ChessPartner 4.0 available by Lex Loep, rgcc, October 09, 1998
• ChessPartner 4.1 released by Lex Loep, CCC, March 31, 1999
• ChessPartner 4.2 available by Lex Loep, rgcc, October 11, 1999

2000 ...

• ChessPartner 4.2 interface by Robert Hyatt, CCC, January 17, 2000
• ChessPartner Summer updates + Java chess by Lex Loep, CCC, July 11, 2000 » Java
• ChessPartner 5.0 available by Lex Loep, CCC, November 19, 2000
• ChessPartner 5.1 released by Lex Loep, CCC, October 08, 2001
• Pocket ChessPartner 1.0 released by Lex Loep, CCC, November 25, 2001
• Chesspartner and other GUIs by Russell Reagan, CCC, September 20, 2003
• ChessPartner 6 released by end of January by Marek Soszynski, CCC, January 09, 2009
• Opinions of ChessPartner 6.0 by Ted Summers, CCC, February 05, 2009

2010 ...

• Chess Partner GUI by Fernando Villegas, CCC, January 05, 2011

External Links

• ChessPartner - Lokasoft - Home of ChessPartner
• ChessPartner 6.0: online manual
• History of ChessPartner - Lokasoft - Home of ChessPartner
• Mobile ChessPartner - Lokasoft - Home of ChessPartner
• ChessPartner ios - Lokasoft - Home of ChessPartner
• Chesspartner stuff by Fonzy Bluemers

References