Chess Assistant 9.1
Professional Package

Chess Assistant 9.1
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Chess Databases DVD

Chess Assistant 9

Chess Assistant 9 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess through the Internet, viewing electronic texts, studying openings, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.

Chess Assistant 9 Starter package includes a strong game engine Shredder (ELO rating 2750), a convenient mode of entering and analyzing games, Chess Opening Encyclopedia 2006 , powerful search system, unique Tree mode, the database of 1,000,000 games played by masters and grandmasters that can be automatically updated through the Internet each week with 3,000 new games (for free till the end of 2008).

Rybka can be hooked up to Chess Assistant for the strongest analysis available. Data from DVDs, Chess Databases and Advanced Chess Data can be opened and edited. PGN and CBH formatted databases can be added or viewed.

The Chess Opening Encyclopedia 2006 mode includes rich theoretical material on all the openings, with more than 8,000 annotations by GM Kalinin plus evaluations of 500,000 critical positions. In addition, Chess Assistant gives you the power to customize this opening material  by editing this material. The new Test Opening mode tests your knowledge of and skill in opening play.

Chess Assistant includes a convenient interface for playing at Internet Chess Club .

Chess Assistant 9, Starter package includes: CD, printed manual 112 pages and box

System requirements: IBM-PC compatible computer, 128 Mb RAM, 4 Gb free space on hard disk, DVD-ROM, Windows 2000/NT/XP

Chess Databases

DVD presents the best chess databases of games in two formats - PGN and Chess Assistant, which can be used in the popular programs Chess Assistant, Chess Base, Fritz , Shredder, Junior, Hiarcs and etc.

The database HugeBase includes 3,002,000 games from the beginning of the chess history right up until the 1st of April 2006.

It is one of the cleanest and most approved databases - no duplicates! The number of games with less than 10 moves is just 0.8%. The players' library consists of more than 200,000 chess players with unique names. More than 50,000 of these are rated by FIDE . Each game has exhaustive information including participants, date of the game, place, tournament class and opening index. 36,000 of these games are annotated.

The database Corr 2006 includes 376,450 correspondence games from 1973 to 2005. The players' library contains more than 50,000 chess players with unique names.

Besides there are following useful chess data on DVD:

• Encyclopedia of players: 950 photos of the famous chess players in JPEG format, the list of the tournaments where the player participated, change of the ELO rating in the course of years.

• MegaCAP (for Chess Assistant users) – 36,000,000 computer evaluations.