
Progress Chess is the most powerful chess simulator and chess competitions that take place in realistic 3D spaces: from a home apartment to a chess club! Playing in tournaments and analyzing games, go from a beginner to a world champion!
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Progress Chess is a whole chess world on your computer, with its own clubs, tournaments, chess players and awards, where you can study chess and improve your skills, along the way making a virtual career as a chess player from a complete beginner to a master, and maybe even to the World Champion. In this game, chess players of absolutely any level will find suitable opponents.
Here you can compete with more than 80 virtual human chess players of different levels and playing styles: from a beginner who has just learned the rules to an international grandmaster with an ELO rating of over 2700. You can play training games, random games for rating, or you can take part in full-fledged tournaments held according to the round robin, Swiss, or Olympic systems and win virtual awards. Games take place in realistic virtual locations, such as a restaurant, a children's room, a school, or a chess club.
As your skill grows, you will be assigned ranks and an ELO rating. If you are just starting to learn chess, you have several training modes available: a basic course for beginners, where you will master the rules of the game and the basics of chess theory, as well as an advanced course for solving combination problems and studies.
You will find computer models of all past and current world champions plus a huge collection of their games available for study and computer analysis. You can play a game with a virtual model of the champion in the corresponding historical location, for example in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in Moscow!
More than 80 voiced virtual chess players from beginners to grandmasters, each with their own character and playing style.
Extensive training mode capabilities: setting a given position and arbitrary time control: blitz, fast chess, classic, etc.
Play in chess tournaments and cups, move from the beginners club to the amateur and then professional league.
Win virtual prizes and place them in your room.
Detailed analysis of your games with AI comments and showing mistakes made! All your saved and tournament games are available in pgn format.
Take training courses at the chess school and receive virtual diplomas.
More than 40 unique realistic 3D locations where games are held. Play in the historic Column Hall of the House of Unions and feel the atmosphere of epochal matches at the world championships.
Over 20 different sets of 3D chess boards and pieces, from classic Staunton to bizarre ancient Chinese ones.
Three in one: you can develop your chess career in any of three possible modes: classical chess, Fischer chess and transform-chess.
The project is constantly evolving: players can expect free updates, including new chess sets, locations, virtual chess players and much more!
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Languages: English*, Russian, French, German*languages with full audio support
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Ein wunderbares Spiel, schöne 3D-Bretter, viele Modelle und Arenen zur Auswahl, Turniere gegen den Computer, und Bots, die eine gewisse Persönlichkeit haben (Spieler seufzen, jubeln leise, kitzeln Notationen, haben ein paar gesprochene Sätze zu den Spielsituationen drauf, Konkurrenten sagen in Textfenstern nach dem Spiel kurz Hallo oder gratulieren), wunderbare Musik (die manche Spieler auch mal an bestimmten Stellen mitsummen, großartiges kleines Detail :D ), und zu den "normalen" Bots gibt es noch in einem Extra-Modus ein Dutzend Klassik-Weltmeister zur Auswahl, zum Beispiel, wenn man nach einem gewonnen Anfänger-Turnier mal so richtig im Ansturm Tals untergehen möchte. Ansonsten fallen vor allem die vielen unterschiedlichen Umgebungen, Bretter etc auf, es gibt einen Analysemodus, PGN-Export, Schachtraining (mit Eröffnungstraining), etc pp. Das Spiel ist so ein richtiges Komplettpaket, um in schöner 3D-Umgebung gegen simulierte menschliche Gegner langsam besser zu werden.
I believe this game is truly outstanding — it’s clear that the design team has put a lot of thought into many aspects. In the past, I mainly used GM11 and customized several engines, but having too many features often meant spending excessive time on parameter settings and opening book creation, which took away from the joy of simply playing chess. One moment that impressed me was my first game in the train scene: despite the noisy environment, I unexpectedly felt relaxed. From the engine perspective, I hope future development moves toward more human-like play. There are already plenty of “god-like” engines, but what makes the experience engaging are the occasional mistakes and the brilliant recoveries. On the graphics side, some reflections on my computer are too strong. I would like to see options for adjusting color saturation and contrast. After changing the perspective and camera angle, I also hope each scene can be saved and reset individually. In addition, I’d love to see a new gameplay feature: a scene where identical opening lines can be assigned to different characters. For example, I could set the same opening sequence but choose different characters, so the game feels unique depending on who is playing. The opening line could be selected from any node in the tree-structured opening book. Once the game begins, both sides must play through the designated moves, rather than starting directly from the chosen position. The selected node could be saved to a character, with each character able to store multiple nodes. I could also move or copy opening lines between characters. When editing, the interface would automatically expand to the previously saved node, making it easier to continue from where I left off.
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Hours played at review time, across 27 reviews with recorded playtime.
Endlich das Schachprogramm auf Steam, das ich lange gesucht habe. Lass mich erklären: Ich besitze heute noch auf DVD "Grandmaster 10th Edition" von Ubisoft (mein aktueller PC hat kein DVD-Laufwerk mehr). Was mir an Chessmaster gut gefallen hat, waren die simulierten menschlichen Gegner mit unterschiedlichen Spielstilen und Elo-Wertungen, sowie die Möglichkeit von Wertungsspielen, aus denen sich dann im Laufe der Zeit eine eigene Elo-Wertung ergibt. Genau das ist "Progress Chess". Zusätzlich gibt es Analyse- und Trainingsmodi, Turniere, Partien werden gespeichert und können ausgegeben werden. Für mich als Gelegenheitsspieler, den Online-Partien mit menschlichen Gegnern stressen und der keine nervigen Werbeeinblendungen mag, genau die richtige Lösung zu einem fairen Preis, klare Empfehlung!
Очень понравилась.
Great chess game
Trop gourmand pour un jeu d'echec
The meat of this game works quite well, the bots actually take time to think, and the amount of backgrounds and sets is really good. Tournaments are a really sweet idea too. However! The ai art for every character and achievement is slightly sickening to look at. Strange and inconsistent with the style of slop used. Bit odd considering it looks like a decent amount of time and effort went in to other aspects of the game. I mean jee this man in the second achievement is shaking a right hand with his left, could we not have another look at that maybe? Despite that, it's on the cheaper side and honestly one of the better of these types of solo chess games, so I would say buy!
Many faults but the main one is an awful chess engine, seems to have to actual levels simple/master and just flips between them no matter what the player elo is.
Spielstärke und Sprache sollten einstellbar sein. Deutlich mehr Schachstellung bezogene Kommentare wären schön. Ansonsten gefällt mir das Programm ganz gut.
Шахматы я люблю. Учился и у учусь играть сам. Игра понравилась. Приятная и ламповая. Боты играют интересно. Иногда не хватает счетчика взятых фигур. Стоит игра копейки
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