- easy-to-use interface with nice graphics
- 4 playing modes: play locally (against the computer or in two-player mode) or over the internet (against a chess XML Web Service or against one of your MSN Messenger buddies)
- chess engine with 6 difficulty levels
- full understanding of the chess rules: draw by repetition / by 50 move rule / by insufficient material, castling, en passant etc.
- save/load games in FEN (Forsyth-Edwards Notation) format
- automatically resumes an interrupted game
board editor
- move history in standard algebraic notation
- two image sets to choose from
- can rotate the board
- gives next move hints
- small size (under 200KB)