Right now I’ve got it on a 30 day trial evaluation. It displays a splash screen at the beginning and again at the end of the loop, and after 30 days it puts a banner across every page that it’s still unregistered. I’d recommend anyone who’d want to try it to do the same – install it on trial. One could even insert my test link above just to see what it would be like. (Though I’ve customized the gif pieceset, have to do a manual edit on each base file since my gif icons on the board are larger than the stock ChessBase ones, and I’ve reset the colors on the background, etc. I’d eventually like to put together an even bigger board for screensaver use. Easy to do, but have to find the time.)

Then again, I bought both After Dark and especially loved the Star Trek version of After Dark.

One limitation: In animate mode, the moves occur at the rate of one per second. If I get time I’ll email ChessBase and suggest a future improvement could be a selective time delay on the moves in animation mode.

Anyway, thanks for reading!

Not sure I would pay twenty bucks for it personally though, just because I use screen savers so rarely.