What
is CHESSeCLOCK?
CHESSeCLOCK
is a chess clock software which can be used
on PCs and Laptops where the mouse left/right
buttons function as time switch buttons. In
addition to it's basic chess clock functionality,
CHESSeCLOCK makes possible to write your games
without using paper and pen. By using MOVePAD
you will be able to adjourn or archive your
games, as well as loading them to your chess
play software for after game analysis.
Many
chess player would probably tried to use it's
chess software as a chess clock. But as you
may also experienced, especially in blitz
game, this is not a solution, because there
is no enough time for players to make moves
on software board (which is a must to switch
time). On the other hand,
in heavy parties you should be very close to computer
to see the clocks which is not designed for distant view.
So,
we created CHESSeCLOCK to use on our personal
computers and played many games with it's
earlier versions among friends. But, especially
after laptop computers begun to be used widely
and wireless mouse and keyboards become almost
standard equipments, we thought to improve
CHESSeCLOCK to make possible for all chess
players carry their chess clock without physically
carrying it, bundled to their laptop computer.
Real
chess clock prices were another supportive
criteria for us. Nowadays cheapest real chess
clock price is around 25-30 US$, almost 3
times higher than CHESSeCLOCK and for a chess
clock with similar timer functionalities with
CHESSeCLOCK, prices increase to around 100
US$ (and without the ability of writing, archiving
games).
After
the earlier versions of CHESSeCLOCK which
is not a commercial product used in our friend
circle, requests for installation increased
rapidly. Then of course support and reinstallation
neccessities followed. So we understood that
CHESSeCLOCK is really a functional utility to
be professional software for chess players
and we decided to deal seriously with it's
distribution.
Although
it's design basics didn't changed much since
the beginning, we made many improvements and
added many specifications. So how the MOVePAD
borned and now
it is possible to save/load and archive games as well as
analysis them on other chess softwares which accept PGN file
format.
CHESSeCLOCK makes possible to play chess with
almost all known and much preferred timer choises
without having a real chess clock.
We
hope you will enjoy with CHESSeCLOCK.
CHESSeCLOCK
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