Whats the best Chess freeware out there?

[spaceman]

if any?
just vs. pc is fine.
something with eye candy would be nice too
must work under xp.
any ideas.been playing chess again recently and am taking a liking to it

 

[Comp625]

I play Chess on Yahoo. It's a java version and it's pretty fun. You pretty much play against other people (all for free) and it keeps track of your Win/Loss record and your Overall Rating. It beats any offline chess game that I've played.

 

[Electrode]

I use gnuchess. It's free, open source, and built in such a way that you can play it by itself, or with any of the multitude of frontends. Supports you vs. ai, ai vs. ai, and multiplayer by hotseat, e-mail, or network.

And I'm pretty sure it works on windows. I will attempt to find a link.