Icarus is a chess game that allows you to play chess against other opponents online. Tired of playing chess against your computer--a near-infallible machine with no real flavor to its game? Wouldn't you rather play a human instead? Icarus is the newest interface for the Internet Chess Club, an online group of thousands of chess players. Its beautiful, easy-to-use interface will help you get connected and playing chess in no time.Icarus makes it really easy to get started playing chess over the internet--even if you've never done so before. Icarus has wizards and tutorials to help you every step of the way. Once you get connected, Icarus helps you learn about the Internet Chess Club, guiding you through getting a game started, talking with others and seeing what's happening at the club.With over a dozen playing boards and over a dozen playing piece sets, Icarus has the most attractive graphics you've ever seen in a chess program. But Icarus also has great sounds: alerts that warn you when you're low on time, over 20 customizable sound events--even background music that adjusts based on what's going on (faster music when you're playing fast games and so on)! With so many different graphics and sounds, you could spend forever choosing your favorite combination. To help you out, Icarus comes with several themes combining different graphics and sounds--you can change themes with just the click of a button. Icarus has all this and more--but even with feature after feature its most important aspect still stands out: Icarus was designed from the ground up to be easy to use.