anyone know any good ones? i'll need something good for 1 player that has a useful tutorial as well.

How good of a player are you?

give gnuchess (http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/) a try.

I play Fritz 8 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000959L9/qid=1093998878/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1_etk-vg/102-0691148-6009751?v=glance&s=videogames&n=468642).

How good of a player are you?

not good - i used to play a little as a kid, but never really grasped it.

You should be able to find a used Chessmaster cheap at a software store. It'll prob be Chessmaster 7000 give or take a thou. I had one once, it has a tutorial. There are a bunch of stand alone chess playing machines; they usually have tutorials, some quite good.
There are websites, with reviews, dedicated to them.

Chessmaster is very good

Have you looked at Tucows? There are quite a few decent games here with tutorials;

http://games.tucows.blueyonder.co.uk/board_chess_default.html