Any chess composition software out there for Windows, where the main goals are.
Searchable database
Allow the user to try and solve the problems.
Sadly, the only one I came across was one that runs on Android (and possibly the iPhone).
But that one suffers severe simplicity problems. Mainly the problems are completely random, and if you select the wrong move, it immediately spits out the correct move. The program has a database of games well over 100k games, and I guess represents over 99.9% of the compositions that have ever been composed up to the point when the software was created.
Rather sucks that out of over 100,000 games, you don’t have any sort of search function. Just 100,000+ random compositions.
Have you tried a general “google” search on the subject? I believe that somewhere on the internet there is a free download of Maxim Blokh’s “Combinational Motifs”. I do not know if there is an interactive version of this available anywhere. I do like that the positions are both White to move and win, as well as Black to move and win.
I went to this website: http://www.wfcc.ch/ which is the World Federation of Chess Compositions.
Wasn’t really sure how to google chess composition software, since the wfcc listed several programs, but none seem to quite fit what I was looking for.
But looking at your example, it only lists 1200 or so tactical problems. I was looking for something more alone the lines of having all compositions in a database and being able to try and solve them.
There are composition databases on the internet, but they leave nothing to the imagination, having the key move listed next to the board. I’m not looking for tactical problems, but actual composition that come from an amazing variety of historical literature. If you go to http://www.yacpdb.org/#static/home and search for compositions, you’ll see that they’ve accumulated an amazing amount of compositions from the entire history of chess. I can imagine some of these composers in the 1800’s puzzling out a composition for a prize in a tournament, or just sending in one to a magazine to tease the readers.
I got a new phone recently, so I found that program and downloaded it. It’s called Chess Puzzles, Chess Tactics by Kruber Entertainment. (That’s the program I was referencing earlier). I have an android phone.
The 2 biggest categories are Expert collection - Chess Endings with 67,345 puzzles
and
Expert collection - Mate in 2 with 130,720 puzzles.
I looked up some of the positions on Yet Another Chess Problem Database and all of the white puzzles were on the Yet Another Chess Problem Database.
-I do take a bit of issue with the title though, since they’re true compositions with a key move.
One thing though is that some of the problems have black moving first, which is against regulation composition rules. Maybe in the older days, some composers made “black moves first” puzzles for variety. I guess I never looked up any of the compositions where black moves first.