Chess Assistant 8.0 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess on the Internet, viewing electronic texts, studying openings, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.

Chess Assistant 8.1 In Depth:

• Database:

  Chess Assistant 8.1 includes a database of 2,710,000 games that can automatically be updated with 2,500 new games weekly on the Internet. Entering games possible, as well as adding databases in the CA, PGN or CBH formats while removing any duplicate games.

  Opening studies:

• The Chess Opening Encyclopedia 2005 mode includes rich theoretical material on all the openings, over 8,000 annotations from GM Kalinin as well as 500,000 key opening positions expert evaluations. Access to the opening encyclopedia improved thanks to a new revolutionary mode – Opening Tables, presenting theoretical material in the form of encyclopedic table and allowing to replay opening lines on chessboard. Annotating theoretic lines with the Adding\Editing variations new facility possible.

  Middlegame studies:

• For middlegame studies the program provides analysis by a wide variety of chess engines. Built-in playing programs like Chess Tiger 2004, Ruffian, Delfi, Crafty and Russian Dragon. Broad opportunities for play and analysis provided: deep automatic game analysis mode, multi-variant and background analysis, etc.

  Database and game management:

• Facilitated with an easy-to-handle drag and drop interface plus a navigation/database browser window, standard for programs of this type. Tools for keeping player and tournament names consistent and removing doubles from a player's collection at the highest possible speed and correctness, the entire Market offers at present.

  Search tools:

• All sorts of search tools at your disposal, like searches for material, pawn structures, positions, players, sacrifices, piece movements, statistical analysis, etc.

  Internet Play:

• By terms of chess related Internet play, Chess Assistant 8.1 provides you with a comfortable interface for the connect to the ICC, which has the - by far - highest membership capacity of all chess clubs on the Internet. The interface allows you to play games online, or watch the games of others and so forth.

  Playing:

• Using Chess Assistant 8.1 possible both in combination with its built-in engines (Chess Tiger 2004, Ruffian, Delfi, Crafty and Russian Dragon) and with a wide variety of separate engines (Shredder 8 and Shredder 9 UCI, Winboard engines).

• Internet access:

  Internet access to 6-piece Nalimov Tablebases. Special chess mail service. Forum and online support for Chess Assistant 8.1 customers

• Language version:

  English version available.

• System requirements:

• IBM-compatible PC, 128 Mb RAM, hard disk 2Gb, Windows 2000/NT/XP, CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.
  No additional software required.