The ChessBase 9.0 chess software program is a personal, stand-alone chess database manager that has become the standard throughout the world. Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it. With ChessBase you can: enter, annotate, and save games - including variations, text commentary, spoken comments, embedded pictures, soundtracks and even video sequences; analyze positions with GM-strength modules Fritz and Crafty (both included); retrieve games according to openings, players and tournaments; generate tournament crosstables and full graphic statistics of players or openings; merge games on-the-fly into an opening tree; generate a player's dossier containing all available information from the database; find the new move in a game with one mouse click; generate a comprehensive openings report with main and critical lines, plans and most important games; search for material distribution, positions and maneuvers, search for mates and stalemates; classify games according to self-defined middle and endgame criteria; print games in superb DTP quality with diagrams and multiple columns...and much, much more. Supports the following languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

ChessBase 9.0 has an explorer-style database browser; easy and direct access to the comprehensive ChessBase online database (updated weekly); freely configurable board and list windows, new table notation for openings repertoire; virtual sorting of database lists; optimal integration of ChessBase analysis engines; larger players encyclopedia; print preview; automatic e-mail transmission of positions, games or databases; management of team championships; intelligent search for tactical themes; search in variations; improved search speed; automatic transmission of games to Fritz6 & higher.