Comprehensive Chess Openings

Comprehensive Chess Openings 

Means an Expert Advantage

Russia’s top chess masterminds have collaborated to create one of the most powerful tools for intermediate and advanced players who want to strengthen their opening play. You’ll find an encyclopedia that boasts over 500,000 opening moves and 8,000 key positions, evaluated with text annotation by renowned GM Alexander Kalinin and includes detailed theoretical material in all the chess openings through January 1, 2005. Besides locating data on any particular opening position, this innovative program gives you the ammunition to prepare for tournament games, analyze positions and add variations from your opening repertoire.

Comprehensive Chess Openings 2005 is in a class by itself with its superior player-friendly capabilities. More revolutionary chess game management and playing features include:

• You can generate a detailed report - in an encyclopedia table format - for any opening position. Then easily edit or expand to your needs.

• Since the system was developed for every opening, it automatically extends as you examine the opening at progressively deeper levels.

• All the information on your completed work is stored in the system.

• References to Grandmaster and Master games are provided. These use a 1 million-game database which also comes with the program and allows you to perform various searches.

• Delphi and Crafty, two strong playing engines, are included for playing against your computer or analyzing openings.

System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 128 Mb RAM, Hard Disk with 700 Mb of free disk space, Windows 2000/NT/ME/XP, CD-ROM drive. No additional software required.