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AlphaChess - Developer's Site Description: AlphaChess has a unique, fully customisable game board. You can change every single colour of all of its components. The game comes with 10 colour themes and you can easily add or remove your own themes. You can also choose within 20 chess sets to use, for which you may also choose the colours. Price: Free Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Download: http://www.marcandre.info/alphachess.php Size: 653 KB

BattleShips - Developer's Site Description: BattleShips is a game where you play against a computer or a networked human player attempting to destroy their fleet of ships before they destroy yours. Price: Free Platform: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP Download: http://www.jonorossi.com/products/battleships/ Size: 1.49 MB

Connect Four - Developer's Site Description: Play Connect Four on your Mac Price: Free Platform: Mac OS X 10.3 Download: http://rsu.rs.funpic.de/rsudeveloper/applications.html#connectfourv1.0 Size: 219 KB

j2chess - Developer's Site Description: j2chess includes an opening book of 15,000 games and can play games in three different modes: casual, blitz and blitz Fischer. Price: Free Platform: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP Download: http://www.j2chess.com/ Size: 2.83 MB

Mystic Match - Developer's Site Description: Mystic Match takes the classic collapse game to completely new heights. Create blocks and strings of two or more identical images and then remove them to light the squares that make up the level. Price: Demo Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP Download: http://www.suricate-software.com Size: 3.86 MB

Nova Chess 1.1 - Developer's Site Description: Not a particularly sophisticated chess program, but sometimes simple is all you need. With varying levels of difficulty and the ability to take moves back, it’s easy to use and well suited to teaching an absolute beginner the rudiments of this noble game. Designed as a promotion for Novabit’s software services, but a nice freebie anyhow. Price: Freeware Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP Download: http://www.novabit.ch/index2.html Size: 198 KB

Parmen - Developer's Site Description: 2D Classic / 3D Star Trek Tridimensional Chess. Can you win on Spock's board? Price: Free Platform: Windows 98/Me/XP Download: http://www.hemptrek.com/parmen/parmen.html Size: 509 KB

Pawn - Developer's Site Description: Pawn is an excellent small, free program for people new to chess. The program has an adjustable beginner's mode, which ensures that you don't get frustrated because you never win a game. However, the program is strong enough to give intermediate players a good game too, because you can set the length of time the program thinks. If you're unsure about the next move, the program can even make a move for you. You can review your play, and can save games. Price: Free Platform: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP Download: http://www.pawnchess.com/4668.html Size: 666 KB

The 2nd Dimension of Mastermind - Developer's Site Description: The 2nd Dimension of Mastermind is based on the board game Mastermind. Though it is played in two dimensions, it is a mind game for one person. The goal of the game is to figure out all nine colours. After a player has entered some colours, hints are given as to which colours are already correct. Price: Free Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server Download: http://www.andreaspaul.claranet.de Size: 700 KB