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* http://christian.poisson.free.fr/winchloe
* http://wwwchristian.multimaniapoisson.com/cpoissonfree.fr/problemesis/
 
== Explorer ==
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MatPlus Librarian also include "books" with more than 5000 problems from articles published in [[Mat Plus]] chess magazine (1994-1999), ''Anthology of 2345 Problems'' (2345 problems) and many more problems.
 
Web page: http://www.matplus.org.yu/mpl/Mplib.htm
 
== Natch and iNatch ==
Both are freeware written by [[Pascal Wassong]] for DOS/Linux. Natch solves [[retrograde analysis]] problems by constructing "[[proof games]]" - the shortest possible game leading to a certain position. Natch is a command line utility, but there is a [[Java programming language|Java]] based graphical interface. iNatch which also provide playing moves with fairy conditions: [[monochrome chess]], [[Einstein chess]], vertical cylinder.
iNatch also provide playing moves with fairy conditions: [[monochrome chess]], [[Einstein chess]], vertical cylinder.
 
Web page: http://natch.free.fr/
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* http://perso.easynet.fr/~mleschen
* http://www.problemist.com
 
== Popeye ==
[[Popeye (chess)|Popeye]] is probably the most widened chess problem solving software. Itself has no graphical interface, can be used in DOS, Windows, [[Linux]], [[MAC]] and many OS other since it comes with source code in [[C programming language]] which can be compiled. Popeye it is one of the best solving programs. It can solve problems with many fairy pieces and conditions, it has also output to [[LATEX]].
The original author of Popeye was Philippe Schnoebelen, first version was written in [[COMAL]] (around 1989). Later a group of people convert and rewrite code to C and maintain new versions, main contributors were [[Elmar Bartel]], [[Norbert Geissler]], [[Thomas Maeder]], [[Torsten Linss]], [[Stefan Hoening]], [[Stefan Brunzen]], [[Harald Denker]], [[Thomas Bark]] and [[Stephen Emmerson]].
 
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== Problem Data Base ==
Problem Data Base is a interactive [[database]] of chess problems with 140.000 problems maintained by [[Gerd Wilts]]. Problems are represented also graphically with solutions and commentary.
 
Web page: http://www.softdecc.com/pdb/index.pdb?langt=EN&langn=EN
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== VKsach ==
VKsach is freeware written by [[Václav Koteševec]], it has only Czech interface. It is suitable for solving and composing problems.
 
Web page: http://web.telecom.cz/vaclav.kotesovec/index0.htm