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Chess E-Book Information

What is a Chess E-Book?

ChessCentral is pleased to introduce chess e-books, electronic chess books that can be downloaded now! E-books are like regular paper books...only better! Convenient, portable, interactive - the bottom line is that e-books are FUN to use. Employing the latest in ChessBase technology, these books are a far cry from the simple databases of old. Now opening manuals, tournament books, even past classics can be presented with fully integrated text and graphics. No more fumbling to find a page or setting up the board - everything's a click away!

At ChessCentral you'll find new and interesting e-book titles released regularly. Try one. Begin building your own digital library of high-quality chess books and articles today!

What's an Chess E-Book Like?

The best way to get a feel for chess e-books is to try our articles. You'll see many of the same elements found in e-books - and they're free for the taking! The article below commemorates the 150th anniversary of Chigorin's birth, and you can get many others on a variety of topics in our Member's area (click here for more information).

VictorVision Issue #4
107KB

The article (Vch_4.cbv) is in a self-extracting Zip file, so nothing is needed except ChessBase, Fritz, or ChessBase Light. If you're new at downloading or need more instructions Click Here.

How Do I Get My Chess E-book?

Ordering an e-book from ChessCentral is easy. Here's how it works:

1.) From our catalog pages add the e-book you want to your shopping cart like any other item.
2.) When you check out and fill in your contact information, be sure to give us your correct e-mail address. E-mail is how we will send you your receipt and password information to download your e-book
3.) Immediately after checkout (usually within seconds) you'll get an e-mail with your password, along with a hyperlink to the correct download page.

What Else Do I Need?

Like a file that can't be read without a word processor, the E-Books NEED OTHER SOFTWARE IN ORDER TO BE USED. Chess e-books are read by ChessBase 6.0 and higher, or Fritz5 and higher, or the freeware ChessBase Light. If you do not have ChessBase Light it is available for free download. Click here to download ChessBase Light. After you have downloaded and installed ChessBase Light, you're ready to enjoy any ChessCentral e-book or Member download.

Putting it all Together

1) First extract the ".cbv" file from it's zip file (ebookname.exe) you downloaded. It's self-extracting, so just double-click the file you downloaded and retrieve the "ebookname.cbv" file. That's the ChessBase file you'll use.

2) Place "ebookname.cbv" into a folder by itself - say, "ChessCentral" (C:\ChessCentral) - where you'll put our other e-books someday! To make a new folder go to MY COMPUTER, C DRIVE, FILE (on the top menu), NEW, FOLDER, then right click on the NEW FOLDER icon to rename it.

3) Now you're ready to start ChessBase Light. After the program loads up, you go to the DATABASE menu and select OPEN. There will be a little browser to your right where you can direct the program to head for the folder containing "ebookname.cbv".

4) After you open the folder (double-click it's name), then the name "ebookname.cbv" will appear to your left - in the file list. Any other databases you have there (probably zero) would appear also. Anyway, highlight "ebookname.cbv". Before clicking "OK" there's a box below that says "file type". You might as well tell the program that you're about to open a ".cbv" file. Then click "OK"

5) The database will open - probably to the first text document. At this point you're in the book, so look around and enjoy!.