Rybka 3 is certainly the strongest playing program in the world (World Champion 2008) with a unique game style. The main developer of the program - international master Vasik Rajlich - has inserted the algorithms of positional estimation into it which are as close to the chess player's style of thinking as possible.
Chess Opening Encyclopedia 2009 includes rich theoretical material on all the openings, more than 8,000 annotations from GM Kalinin and 500,000 expert evaluations to key opening positions. The theoretical material is presented in a familiar form of the encyclopedic table and allows you to replay the opening lines on the chessboard.
In addition, you can add the engine Rybka 3 UCI from this DVD to main chess programs e.g. Fritz, ChessBase 9, etc. Rybka 3 UCI includes versions for 32 bit and 64 bit processors.
Rating according to CEGT as of December, 2008 (40 moves in 20 minutes) are as follows:
1. Rybka 3 - 32032. Deep Fritz - 30293. Zappa - 3022
This DVD additionally includes the bonus program ChessOK Aquarium Basic compatible with Rybka 3 UCI. ChessOK Aquarium offers advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing and much more.
Language versions on DVD: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian
System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 128 MB RAM, Hard Disk (1 GB of free disk space), VGA graphics, Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista.
