Chess Software



Chess Tiger 15.
Chess Tiger 15 combines the strong points of Chess Tiger 14 and Gambit Tiger 2 engines. Chess Tiger 15 is the long awaited successor of the REBEL 11 package. Chess Tiger 15 in a nutshell • Large opening book optimized for Chess Tiger by Jeroen Noomen • Four different playing styles: 'normal', 'gambit', gambit aggressive', and 'gambit suicidal' • ChessPartner 5.2 GUI included. • All 3 and 4 man tablebases plus the most important 5 man tablebases.   More details...
Price: $42.00 (US)     $57.43 (CAD)
          €34.82 (EUR)     £23.26 (GBP)



Chess Partner 5.2 Full Version or Upgrade CD ROM.
The Dutch Computer Chess package for everyone, novice or experienced players. ChessPartner has various levels of play and can take many challenges. Features (just to name a few) • Online play • 2D and 3D chess boards • Chess Database • PGN import/export • 100% 32-bit (Win95 / WinNT) • Strong chess engine • Nalimov tablebase support • Office 2000 like menus and toolbars • Score histogram • Winboard adapter • Print diagrams and more.   More details...
Price: $29.99 (US)     $41.01 (CAD)
          €24.86 (EUR)     £16.61 (GBP)



Deep Sjeng 1.0 Full Version or Upgrade CD ROM.
New! This program from the young talent Gian-Carlo Pascutto. Deep Sjeng is a much improved version of Sjeng that additionally supports multiprocessors. It can take advantage of up to eight processors, of course it also works fine on a single processor. The program contains many personalities that offer different styles of play and handicap modes that make human errors.   More details...
Price: $29.00 (US)     $39.65 (CAD)
          €24.04 (EUR)     £16.06 (GBP)



Chess Commander.
Chess Commander is a next generation chess game for the PC. It has many features to make the classic game of chess even more enjoyable to play - including legal move display, realistic voices, orchestral soundtrack and board annotation. Chess Commander supports multiple computer opponents, free online chess and email chess - all from a single, user friendly interface. You can also improve your game by studying 1000s of matches played by grandmasters.   More details...
Price: $19.99 (US)     $27.33 (CAD)
          €16.57 (EUR)     £11.07 (GBP)



Fritz 8 Chess Playing Software
Fritz 8 is the leading chess software opponent for beginners or seasoned players. Play chess against human opponents over the internet! It is a good first time playing program that will help you learn as well as an advanced, full-featured program with all the sophisticated features demanded by chess software experts. Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP    More details...
Price: $39.95 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Deep Fritz 8 Chess Playing Software
Deep Fritz 8 is identical to the one that fascinated the world in the man vs machine duel against the greatest chess player ever - Garry Kasparov. Millions of chess fans watched the games live on the Internet, the match ended in a 2:2 tie. \"Deep Fritz is stronger than Deep Blue,\" said world champion Vladimir Kramnik, who had carefully studied the program. But don’t be afraid, Fritz is not just a chess playing monster. It is a friendly chess partner for beginners and amateurs. It will teach you to play chess from scratch, and can automatically adjust its playing strength to suit your needs.   More details...
Price: $85.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Hiarcs 9
HIARCS has definitly re-established itself as one of the world's best chess programs. The new program has been enhanced in many ways, particularly in terms of concrete chess knowledge and positional learning. With an improved search function it is now possible to assess positions using new positional criteria such as \"typical pawn structures\", \"long term plans\" and above all \"safety of the king\". A better selection of variations provides a higher search depth, enabling HIARCS 9 to impress by its sharp powerful play against the enemy king as well as its better understanding of endgames, even with unbalanced material.   More details...
Price: $45.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Junior 8
There's nothing junior about Junior 8. The world computer chess champion of 2001, 2003, with the latest playing engine and newest Fritz style interface. Windows 98/ME/XP/2000It's big brother 'Deep Junior' won the Computer Chess World Championship in 2001 and 2002, and it can look back on a string of successes against humans in tournaments and matches.   More details...
Price: $42.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Deep Junior 8 - Multiprocessor Version
This chess program, written by the Israelis Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky, has achieved everything it could wish for. Deep Junior won the Computer Chess World Championship in 2001 and 2002, and it can look back on a string of successes against humans in tournaments and matches. This culminated in an unforgettable performance against Garry Kasparov during the \"Man vs. Machine\" match in New York in January 2003. With millions of people following on the Internet, double world champion Deep Junior played exciting and imaginative chess to hold the world's strongest player to a 3:3 draw.   More details...
Price: $85.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Shredder 8
For computer chess experts Shredder is the number one choice. Nobody can ignore its amazing five computer chess world championship titles, won at Jakarta 1996, Paderborn 1999, London 2000, Maastricht 2001 and Graz 2003. So in this box you have the reigning double world champion 2003, ready to play and analyse with you. The world champion chess program “Shredder 8” for single and multi-processor systems. You can configure the \"engine\" – the module that calculates chess move – and change the program parameters to actually improve its performance in practical games. After “tuning” your Shredder you can test the engine in Internet games played automatically on the ChessBase chess server.   More details...
Price: $45.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Big Base 2004
Contains more than 2.6 millions games from 1530 to 2003 in the highest ChessBase quality standard, with ChessBase opening classification with more than 91,000 key positions, direct access to players, tournaments, middlegame themes, endgames. With all the top tournaments of 2003, e.g. Linares, Wijk aan Zee, and Dortmund. All games from European Team Champs 2003. Current through mid November 2003.   More details...
Price: $45.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



BookUp 2000 Professional
Bookup is the world's only positional chess database, available for Windows 95/98/NT and Macintosh. Bookup has been described as a chess book that comes to life on the screen. The most common application is quick research and training in chess opening theory. In contrast to game databases, Bookup stores each position and finds any transposition (regardless of move order) instantly. This feature makes Bookup ideal for keeping track of opening theory. Grandmaster theoreticians and skilled chess teachers have created books-on-disk about specific openings and defenses, middlegames, endgames and even tactics in the Bookup format.   More details...
Price: $179.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Chess Assistant 7.1
Chess Assistant is an advanced chess database management system, that is also easy to use and understand. CA has led the market for years in simplicity and functionality. CA is a very powerful tool comparable or better than other higher priced chess database products.    More details...
Price: $99.95 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Mega 2004
The exclusive annotated database. Contains more than 2.6 million games from 1530 to 2003 in the highest ChessBase quality. 55,000 games contain commentary from top players, with ChessBase opening classification with more than 91,000 key positions, direct access to players, tournaments, middlegame themes, endgames. The largest top-class annotated database in the world. The most recent games of the database are from the middle of November 2003. Mega 2004 also features a new edition of the playerbase. As usual, this is where most of the work was done. As the player index now contains already more than 166,000 entries, it made sense to use an adapted playerbase which includes about 166,000 names. Doing this, the photo database was extended as well to contain 16,000 pictures. System Requirements: Pentium PC, Win 98/ME/XP, 16 MB RAM, DVD-Rom Dr, ChessBase 8.0, hard disk space 580 MB.    More details...
Price: $120.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Accelerated Dragon (B34-39) Opening Training
By Claudio Minzer and Gustavo Albarran. More than 8,000 games, 15 text files introductions, and a training database. The authors explore a clear positional system after 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 g6, in contrast to other overwhelmingly tactical Sicilian variations.    More details...
Price: $27.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



ChessBase Opening Encyclopedia 2004
The ChessBase Opening Encyclopaedia 2004 features the complete coverage of all opening secorts, offering an optimal start for opening training. Many well-known specialists have made contributions in their field of expertise, such as Anand, Bareev, Dautov, Dr Huebner, Jussupow, Kortschnoj, Krasenkow and Ribli. For each of 500 opening sectors according to ECO standard there is at least one opening survey, so that the database is the ideal tool for building up a complete opening repertoire. The game database includes 1.8 million games, about 68.000 of them with annotations. The new opening key has been considerably enhanced, providing even more depth (84.000 single keys) and clarity. Furthermore, the CD contains a separate directory with 86 special theory databases from the CBMs.    More details...
Price: $89.95 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Chess Endgame Training
The program designed to teach you different endgame methods. Material written by IM ICCF Alexander Alpert. Includes: More than 2450 endgame exercises taken from practical games, endgame studies Training examples, all classified according to no less than 500 endgame themes. A built-in playing program Crafty to analyze or train. While solving exercises, you are shown refutations of wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help and find the correct answer. The program also keeps track of your rating and adjusts it after each exercise Several languages supported: English, Spanish, Italian, French, German and Swedish.    More details...
Price: $26.10 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Dvoretskys Endgame Manual (CD)
Russian International Master Mark Dvoretsky is perhaps the most respected chess instructor in the world today. His latest work, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual, is sure to become a classic reference book on one of the most difficult and subtle phases in chess. \"I am sure that those who study this work carefully will not only play the endgame better, but overall, their play will improve. One of the secrets of the Russian chess school is now before you, dear reader!\" From the book's Foreword by Grandmaster Artur Yusupov. \"Going through this book will certainly improve your endgame knowledge, but just as important, it will also greatly improve your ability to calculate variations… What really impresses me is the deep level of analysis in the book\".    More details...
Price: $27.95 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Fritz Endgame Turbo II
The Fritz Endgame Turbo contains four database CDs with Nalimov Tablebases. With the help of the Endgame Turbo, endgames with five or less pieces will be played dramatically better, since the programs can use the Endgame Turbo in their search. System requirements: The Endgame Turbo works together with Fritz, Nimzo, Junior, Hiarcs, Shredder and as analysis engine in ChessBase. Languages: English and German.    More details...
Price: $45.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



1000 x Checkmates
The first part of the CD consists of a small database explaining all possible mate motifs in 15 themes. The main database contains 1000 mating tasks in 1, 2 or 3 moves, all stemming from actual games. Each move of the mating side is connected to a training question. Entering the right move will gain you a certain amount of points. Apart from the competitive access struggling for points, it is also possible to approach the subject mate via the theme key. languages: English and German.    More details...
Price: $25.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players
This program is a sequel to the popular Chess Tactics for Beginners. It is a Windows based chess tactics testing and training program for intermediate players rated from 1400-2000. Among the topics there are mating combinations, pinning combinations, decoying, blockade, exchange, etc. The exercises are arranged into 19 sections according to level of difficulty. More than 1,170 tactical problems.    More details...
Price: $25.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Killer Moves
If you study games, variations, endgames etc. - you store a lot of pictures in your memory, consciously or subconsciously. The more of these you can retrieve during a game, the better you play. Of course, there are also a number of additional factors determining the successful realization of this theory in practice. Still, learning pictures and motifs is the essential thing for having success in chess. And the most effective method of doing is to study tactical positions and combinations.    More details...
Price: $25.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Secrets of the English Chess School
Only a few top chess players know how to share their grandmasterly thinking with others. Without any doubt, English grandmaster Daniel King is one of them. Apart from the introduction, the CD at hand contains 29 Databases issued between 1995 and 2000 when King was in charge of the \"Strategy\" column of the ChessBase Magazine. His broad theme spectrum reaches from king marches via opposed castlings to shifting rooks. From King’s database one always derives double benefit: firstly, each article reveals secrets of mind of a grandmaster and outstanding representative of the English chess school, and secondly, his videos and texts are highly entertaining.    More details...
Price: $25.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Total Chess Training
Openings – Learn to play by learning the opening mistakes and traps that've been discovered over time with Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders
Middlegame – Become a wizard in the art of combinations with the intensive course on tactics, CT-Art 3.0, and learn the positional methods used by grandmasters in Strategy 2.0. Study typical middlegame structures and their plans, arranged depending on the openings they come from, with Encyclopedia of Middlegame.
Endgame – Instead of boring lectures, learn endgame technique with the use of breathtaking artistic endgame compositions, chosen for their relevance to real play, with Studies 2.0.    More details...
Price: $80.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out



Winning in 20 Moves
Many games are over before they have even started - so its important to sit on the right side of the board! In 333 very instructive short games Lubomir Ftacnik shows typical traps and mistakes in the opening phase. With many explaining introduction texts, video clips, Middlegame theme keys and training keys and trainings tasks for each games. Available in the following languages: English and German.    More details...
Price: $25.00 (US) Other currencies calculated at check-out