Houdini 2 Aquarium Pro Download
Chess Playing Software

Our Price: $95.95

Category: Chess software

Availability: Available for download within 24 hours
Product Code: HOUDINI-PRO-DL

Description

Houdini 2 Aquarium Pro Download

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Houdini 2 Aquarium Pro is a revolutionary analysis, database and chess publishing tool, combined with the world’s strongest chess playing engine, Houdini 2 Pro.

Houdini 2 Pro: The World’s strongest chess program (current CCRL rating is 3347), which supports up to 32 cores and 32 GB of hash. You can connect Houdini 2 UCI Pro engine to ChessOK Aquarium, Fritz, ChessBase, etc.

Houdini 2 Aquarium Pro offers advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing against the computer, databases, advanced publishing features and much more.

Houdini 2 Aquarium Pro includes 1 year membership at ChessOK Playing Zone. 1 Year membership at ChessOK Playing Zone provides you with full membership rights, including tournament participation, lecture creation and shared analysis of games.

Houdini 2 Aquarium Pro supports Nalimov tablebases.

Houdini 2 Aquarium Pro

Houdini 2 is rating lists leader. Houdini 2 can be also used in Fritz and other chess programs
Analyze and annotate your games with Aquarium's advanced analysis methods
The databases of 5.1 million games in total (before October 1, 2011) that can be updated from www.chessok.com each week with 2000 new games.
Powerful and fast chess trees
Playing against the computer
Publish your chess text: Print, word processor or web
Supports Chessbase/Fritz CBH format (read and convert), Chess Assistant CDP, PGN and EPD databases
One year of free membership at ChessOK Playing Zone.
Full Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit) and Vista compatibility.

Language versions: English, German, Spanish, Italian and French versions are available.

System requirements: PC, 256 MB RAM, 4GB of free disk space, Windows 7/XP/Vista.

Aquarium Interface

Aquarium is a modern graphical user interface (GUI) designed for Houdini with full support for its features, including randomizer matches, persistent hash and sampled search.

Analysis methods

New Interactive Deep Analysis (IDeA) – a new and advanced approach to analysis:
- Simultaneous analysis by multiple Rybka instances. Use 2, 4, 10, 20 or even 50 chess engines at the same time for faster results
- Use the power of multiple computers for analysis at the same time and collect all the results automatically on your own computer
- Use the computers on your home network or connect to computers over the internet to increase the analysis power
Variable multi-variation analysis (evaluation limited)
Infinite Analysis is more flexible than ever with analysis presets. Use many engines at the same time, all analyzing the same position or different games.
Game Analysis
Find Blunders
Batch analysis of selected positions

Play against computer

Play chess against the computer (any installed engine) from any position with flexible time controls
Tournament or Fun mode with hints and drawbacks
Automatic rating calculation
Material handicaps and rating handicaps (ELO 700-2400) with rating based opening book
Chess960/Fischerandom games
Blindfold and semi-blindfold games

Openings books and trees

State of the art chess trees (fast, powerful, compact)
Advanced opening book creation and modification
Fast and flexible move coloring system
User defined move color priority (play only experimental moves where available etc.)
Combine several trees into one tree configuration for unprecedented flexibility
Use a discarded moves tree to mask certain moves or opening systems from being played
Multiple, reusable discarded moves trees
Add comments to trees – even visual annotations
Build trees from a list of games

Databases

A database with over 5,100,000 games
Very fast searches.
An opening book for chess engines
A special rating handicap opening book for playing against the computer

Internet accessible data

On-line access to Nalimov endgame tablebases (3-6 pieces)
Free online play
Free Internet chess server access
Chess Resource Server
A new approach to program and database updates
Automatic program updates
Automatic database updates
Updates to other Aquarium related data

User data exchange

iBooks
A powerful system for publishing chess texts in print and on the web
Suitable for short texts (e.g. for a blog entry) as well as books containing hundreds of pages
Images, diagrams (both full and partial), visual annotations
Full flexibility in arranging order of pages, sections etc. until the document is published
Printing and web publishing
Print one or more games with annotations
Publish games on the web with JavaScript replay option
Blog export with support for Blogger.com

Chess Engines

Chess engine support: Universal Chess Interface (UCI) protocol, WinBoard protocol
There are hundreds of free and commercial chess engines are available and can be easily managed within Aquarium
Install all engines from a selected directory with the click of a button
Various engine tournaments and matches capabilities:
- Round robin and Swiss system tournaments
- Blitz, Tournament, Time/move and fixed-depth time controls
- Flexible opening book selection
- User defined starting position in tournaments and matches
- Optionally use EPD file with starting positions for matches

Compatibility