Reviews Policy

Between April 2022 and January 2025, chessengeria.eu reviewed chess engines, chess software. Reviews used a five-star rating system and stated plainly whether I liked something and why.

Only retail copies, or versions identical to a retail copy, were reviewed. Pre-release debug code, alpha versions and beta versions were not.

The rating scale used in the published reviews:

1 star, avoid. A waste of time. 2 stars, just OK. Not recommended, better alternatives exist. 3 stars, good. Useful. 4 stars, great. Everyone will benefit from this. 5 stars, extraordinary. Widely appealing, innovative and worth having.

One and two stars were not given to software that simply was not to my taste, but to software with serious flaws in design, technology or concept.