Data Chess 2 is much more than a simple chess program, it's a complete system of chess analysis because it consists of a complete suite of programs instead of a single chess playing game program. In fact, you can't use Data Chess 2 to play games at all; the main purpose of Data Chess 2 is to analyse the strategy of your own games and so improve your game. To do this you input details of games you have played and use the program functions to lean more about the way you play. Other features of the software include the ability to store details of over 2,700 games, print moves, replay games and print out full statistics games for detailed analysis.

This is an interesting departure from the usual chess software available and is potentially very useful, mainly because there are details of over 1,000 games supplied on a separate data disk. The software is designed to run in both medium and high resolution using a separate version of the program for each resolution and needs 1MByte of RAM to work correctly.