is a compact but high-powered application for solving and creating chess problems.
Problemist can handle most problem types up to six-movers, has an excellent user interface, and is packed with features -- most notably the ability to generate complete and properly annotated solutions that you can save as plain text files. Its only minor weakness is that its analytical engine is a bit slow compared with high-end chess software, but this is only really apparent when solving six-move problems.
Other features include powerful search tools, diagram printing, position export in EBD and PGN formats for use in other chess programs, a visual index tool for problem files (like thumbnails for an image viewer), and very thorough documentation.
Problemist runs on
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Shareware
license
— the installer is 235 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Chess.
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