Houdini 2 Aquarium Standard
Chess Playing Software

Our Price: $62.95

Category: Chess software

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

Description

Houdini 2 Aquarium Standard
Chess Database Management Software

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

Houdini 2 is now the world's strongest chess playing program (current CCRL rating is 3347), which supports up to 6 cores and 4 GB of hash. You can connect the Houdini 2 UCI chess engine to ChessOK Aquarium, Fritz and other chess software, etc.

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

Houdini 2 Aquarium includes 1 year membership at the ChessOK Playing Zone. This 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 Chess Software

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
Database of 5.1 million games (as of October 1, 2011) that can be updated each week with 2,000 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 chess software 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 chess rating calculation
Material handicaps and rating handicaps (ELO 700-2400) with rating based opening book
Chess960 (Fischerandom) chess game support
Blindfold and semi-blindfold games

Openings books and trees

State of the art chess trees (fast, powerful, compact)
Advanced chess 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 chess trees into one tree configuration for unprecedented flexibility
Use a discarded moves tree to mask certain chess 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 chess games

Chess 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 chess computer

Internet accessible data

On-line access to Nalimov chess endgame tablebases (3-6 pieces)
Free online chess play
Free Internet chess server access
Chess Resource Server
A new approach to program and database updates
Automatic chess program updates
Automatic chess 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, chess diagrams (both full and partial), visual annotations
Full flexibility in arranging order of pages, sections etc. until the document is published
Printing and web chess publishing
Print one or more chess 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 chess tournaments
- Blitz, Tournament, Time/move and fixed-depth time controls
- Flexible chess opening book selection
- User defined starting chess position in tournaments and matches
- Optionally use EPD file with starting positions for matches

Compatibility