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At the turn of the century, Fritz fascinated the chess world with victories over Garry Kasparov and then-reigning World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. The "most popular chess program" (according to German magazine Der Spiegel) offers you everything you will need as a dedicated chess enthusiast, with innovative training methods for amateurs and professionals alike, plus access to the full suite of ChessBase web apps, including the Playchess playing server.
Fritz 17 Chess Playing Software Program
Regular Price: $89.95
Special Price $79.95
The magician is back! With the latest version of his top chess program, Houdini 6, Robert Houdart has succeeded in catapulting himself back into the inner circle of computer chess, all while managing to maintain the unique and individual character of his engine. Houdini 6 continues where its predecessor left off, and adds solid 60 ELO points to this formidable engine, once again making Houdini the strongest chess program currently available on the market.
Houdini 6 Chess Playing Software - STANDARD EDITION with Powerbook 2019
Regular Price: $142.90
Special Price $89.95
A World-Class Player Explains
In short, this trilogy not only provides the viewer with a complete premium Ruy Lopez repertoire, but also with fascinating insights into the mindset and chess understanding of a World Championship contender. Epiphanies guaranteed!
Fabiano Caruana - Navigating the Ruy Lopez - Volumes 1-3
The magician is back! With the latest version of his top chess program, Houdini 6, Robert Houdart has succeeded in catapulting himself back into the inner circle of computer chess, all while managing to maintain the unique and individual character of his engine. Houdini 6 continues where its predecessor left off, and adds solid 60 ELO points to this formidable engine, once again making Houdini the strongest chess program currently available on the market.
Houdini 6 Chess Playing Software Program - STANDARD EDITION
64 Bit Multiprocessor Version
The new version, Komodo Chess 13, is even stronger than its predecessor. The improved multiprocessor engine can utilize up to 64 cores for calculating variations, weighing in at over 50 Elo points more compared to its predecessor Komodo 12.
Komodo Chess 13 with Powerbook 2019
Regular Price: $146.89
Special Price $89.95
WinTD is designed to make running a chess tournament as painless as possible. Thanks to its intuitive graphical interface, all of the information you need to run a tournament is presented in a convenient, easily accessible fashion. Operations such as pairing rounds, entering game results, and printing charts require just a few mouse clicks or keystrokes. The program is also very flexible, giving you a great deal of control over all aspects of the pairing process, including drop/raise decisions, interchanges of players to improve color assignments, and more. You can also customize the displays and printed output to suit your preferences or the particular task at hand, such as displaying a list of all the players in the tournament who haven't paid the entry fee, or who haven't checked in to the tournament. The Windows version of WinTD runs under any recent version of Windows, from 95/98 through System 7.
WIN - WinTD Tournament Director Software
Since 1988, SwissSys has been the choice of tournament directors who want to devote their energies to making events more enjoyable for the players -- not to wrestling with uncooperative software.
SwissSys Tournament Director Software
6680 Opening Surveys, 1136 Special Theory Databases & 20 High-Class Opening Videos
Be as prepared as you can be with the new Opening Encyclopaedia 2019! Whether you would like to build up a reliable and powerful opening repertoire or you want to find new opening ideas for your existing repertoire, the Opening Encyclopaedia covers the entirety of opening theory on one DVD or Download and is the optimal start for your opening training. Many new articles enrich current theory with new or revisited ideas.
Opening Encyclopaedia 2019
In standard computers that have multiple CPUs, Komodo 13 MCTS is the world's best engine for analysing with two or more variations. In addition, Komodo 13 takes on a very human character. In balanced positions, where other engines evaluate as "0.00", Komodo looks more closely: The engine gives preference to the side that has the easier game, for instance, when the opponent must find a whole series of difficult moves to remain equal.
Komodo Chess 13
Includes both Fritz 17 and Big Database 2019! When is chess the most enjoyable? When you win! When Fritz entered his first tournaments some 25 years ago, humans still had a real chance of taking the engine down. Only a few years down the line, Fritz was already beating grandmasters left, right and center, but ever since his 4:2 victory over Kramnik in 2006, Fritz has been considered unbeatable. Who would want to play against him? In the case of Fritz 16, however, playing against an engine is now once again the very definition of fun! A host of features, including "Assisted Analysis", which gives you discreet visual hints as you move, and emoticons, which show Fritz's mood, are there to help you. Big Database 2019 is even better now – a lot of functions are easier to use but most important: there are fantastic new possibilities to help you analyse and search for relevant games.
Fritz 17 + BIG DATABASE 2019 Bundle
with Houdini 6 Pro for Chess King and GigaKing 2018 Database Containing over 6 Million Games
Chess King Diamond Pro is a new and versatile tool for chess players and is an ideal introduction for the beginner, a challenging opponent for the practiced amateur, and an invaluable coach for the aspiring master. Chess King Diamond Pro emphasizes simplicity of use in training players. However, it is more than just a traditional training program as it includes an extremely strong chess engine and a huge professional database.
Chess King 2018 - DIAMOND Pro Edition
Chess Assistant 19 with Houdini 6 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess through the Internet, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.
Chess Assistant 19 with Houdini 6
The magician is back! With the latest version of his top chess program, Houdini 6, Robert Houdart has succeeded in catapulting himself back into the inner circle of computer chess, all while managing to maintain the unique and individual character of his engine. Houdini 6 continues where its predecessor left off, and adds solid 60 ELO points to this formidable engine, once again making Houdini the strongest chess program currently available on the market.
Houdini 6 Chess Playing Software - PROFESSIONAL EDITION with Powerbook 2019
Regular Price: $172.90
Special Price $119.95
The magician is back! With the latest version of his top chess program, Houdini 6, Robert Houdart has succeeded in catapulting himself back into the inner circle of computer chess, all while managing to maintain the unique and individual character of his engine. Houdini 6 continues where its predecessor left off, and adds solid 60 ELO points to this formidable engine, once again making Houdini the strongest chess program currently available on the market.
Houdini 6 Chess Playing Software Program - PROFESSIONAL EDITION
Upgrade from ChessBase 14 to ChessBase 15
ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database 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. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy your chess even more.
CHESSBASE 15 - Upgrade Edition
Chess Informant - 1965-2017 - Issues #1 through #138
With a grand total of 118,201 games (73,052 full games and 45.149 game fragments), in numerical terms it is the biggest collection of annotated games on the market. In contrast to the commercial databases which offer millions of freely accessible games with no analysis, Quality Base is a triumph of quality over quantity.
Chess Informant Quality Base 2019
Paramount is a unique historical collection of annotated chess games which will serve as a premium quality database for daily use by competitive players. While it is not intended to match the massive amount of material offered by similar databases on the market, it is the jewel that will differentiate your preparation from a great many others.
Paramount Chess Database
Six Piece SYZYGY Tablebases
Perfect endgame analysis and a huge increase in engine performance: get it with the new Endgame Turbo 5! Thanks to a new format the Endgame Turbo 5 is smaller, faster and yet has more scope. The USB 3.0 flash drive (128 GB) covers 143 of the most important six piece endgames, allowing top engines such as Fritz, Komodo Chess and Houdini to play these endgames perfectly. But they also generally play the endgame much better because they can access the perfect knowledge of the Endgame Turbo in the search! A powerful tool for anyone who wants to study the endgame, for correspondence players, endgame theoriticians and friends of engine matches!
Endgame Turbo 5
Chess Assistant 19 Professional with Houdini 6 PRO is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess through the Internet, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.
Chess Assistant 19 Professional with Houdini 6 PRO
ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database 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. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy your chess even more.
CHESSBASE 15 - STARTER Edition
Includes Endgame Turbo 4 **A $69.95 value** FREE with ChessBase 15 Starter Edition!
CHESSBASE 15 - STARTER Edition + ENDGAME TURBO 4 Bundle
Regular Price: $269.95
Special Price $199.95
Chess Assistant 18 with Houdini 6 PRO is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess through the Internet, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.
Chess Assistant 18 Mega package with Houdini 6 PRO
1.6 Million Games & 14 Video Analysis by Top Players
The new Corr Database 2020 is a large ChessBase collection of correspondence games from the period from 1804 to 2019. With more than 80,000 tournaments and over 1.6 million correspondence games, the Corr 2020 is a must for all correspondence chess fans. But the Corr Database is very popular even among many grandmasters and trainers, since correspondence games are often the forerunners of development of opening theory!
Correspondence Database 2020
ChessBase 15 ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database 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. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy your chess even more. CB 15 – Starter Package ChessBase 15 ChessBase PREMIUM Account (6 months) ChessBase Big Database 2019+ automatic update until 31 December 2019 ChessBase Magazine subscription, half year: 3 issues DVD + print Language: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, German Mr. Kasparov - How I Became World Champion Volume 1 Garry Kasparov is the best player in the history of chess. His rise to the top was meteoric and at his very first attempt he managed to become World Champion – if one does not count the aborted title match of 1984 as a failure. He is the youngest World Champion of all times. His model for selecting the games is Bobby Fischer and his book "My 60 Memorable Games" – like Fischer, Kasparov does not only select games he had won.This DVD – containing 16 chapters and running for more than six hours – gives you an opportunity to follow the development of the best player in the history of chess, all told and explained by the champion himself. You get a first-hand account of crucial events from recent chess history, while at the same time you can improve your chess understanding and enjoy explanations and comments from a unique and outstanding personality on and off the chess board.
CHESSBASE 15 - STARTER Edition & Mr. Kasparov: How I Became World Champion Bundle
Regular Price: $259.95
Special Price $199.95
Contains More Than 8 million Games from 1560 to 2019 in the Highest ChessBase Quality Standard
The ChessBase Mega Database 2020 is the premiere chess database with over eight million games from 1560 to 2019 in high quality. Packing more than 85,000 annotated games, Mega 2020 contains the world‘s largest collection of high-class analysed games.
Mega Database 2020
Includes Fritz 17, Fritz Powerbook 2019, and Endgame Turbo 5! When is chess the most enjoyable? When you win! When Fritz entered his first tournaments some 25 years ago, humans still had a real chance of taking the engine down. Only a few years down the line, Fritz was already beating grandmasters left, right and center, but ever since his 4:2 victory over Kramnik in 2006, Fritz has been considered unbeatable. Who would want to play against him? In the case of Fritz 17, however, playing against an engine is now once again the very definition of fun!
Fritz 17 + Fritz Powerbook 2019 + Endgame Turbo 5 - Ultimate Fritz Chess Software Bundle
Regular Price: $329.95
Special Price $229.95
Includes both Fritz 17 and ChessBase 15!
When is chess the most enjoyable? When you win! When Fritz entered his first tournaments some 25 years ago, humans still had a real chance of taking the engine down. Only a few years down the line, Fritz was already beating grandmasters left, right and center, but ever since his 4:2 victory over Kramnik in 2006, Fritz has been considered unbeatable. Who would want to play against him? In the case of Fritz 17, however, playing against an engine is now once again the very definition of fun! A host of features, including "Assisted Analysis", which gives you discreet visual hints as you move, and emoticons, which show Fritz's mood, are there to help you.
ChessBase 15 is even better now – a lot of functions are easier to use but most important: there are fantastic new possibilities to help you analyse and search for relevant games.
Fritz 17 + CHESSBASE 15 STARTER Bundle
Regular Price: $299.95
Special Price $239.95
Includes both Komodo 13 and ChessBase 15! Thanks to a host of extensive improvements and fine tweaking, the latest version of Komodo has again gained over 60 Elo points on its predecessor. The changes cover several areas: the evaluation function has been significantly sharpened, particularly with respect to king safety and endgame positions, and the search algorithm has been improved and optimized to run on multiple processors. Komodo 13 is also better at managing its time, and just generally calculates faster. ChessBase 15 is even better now – a lot of functions are easier to use but most important: there are fantastic new possibilities to help you analyse and search for relevant games.
Komodo 13 and CHESSBASE 15 Starter Bundle
Regular Price: $309.95
Special Price $239.95
Contains Houdini 6 and ChessBase 15 Starter!
Houdini 6 Standard and ChessBase 15 Starter - Bundle
Regular Price: $309.95
Special Price $239.95
Roman’s training courses cover the entire spectrum of modern chess theory – from openings to tactical play, strategic mastery, endgames and much more. You get every single lesson Roman used to coach pupils like Gata Kamsky to 2700 Elo!
The Complete Roman's Lab on DVD - VOLUMES 1-117 - 5 DVDs
Regular Price: $1,749.15
Special Price $249.95
Houdini 6 Houdini 6 continues where its predecessor left off, and adds solid 60 Elo points to this formidable engine, once again making Houdini the strongest chess program currently available on the market. With Houdini 6, you not only gain in terms of computing power, but also in terms of time! The new engine delivers better performance even if you only let it calculate for half as long as the previous version! Houdini 6 has been put to the test in various areas and thoroughly refined in all the right places: position evaluation, search, time management and use of the endgame tablebases have been improved, as has parallel processing.
Houdini 6 delivers particularly exceptional results on systems with a large number of CPUs, and can run up to 128 threads on high-end hardware. The enhanced "Tactical mode" transforms Houdini 6 into the most ingenious position solver of all time and improves again on the records held by previous versions in tactical benchmark tests. In addition, "Tactical mode" can now also be assigned an exact number of threads, giving you additional flexibility. Despite all the detailed technical improvements, Houdini has kept its creative and imaginative style of play, and where other programs see no future or are locked into a draw, Houdini delivers surprise after surprise with hidden resources. You can certainly look forward to using this latest version of the true wizard among the chess programs!
HOUDINI 6 PRO SPECS Houdini 6 PRO engine: The engine can support up to 128 processor cores and 128 GB of hash memory Fritz 15 user interface Premium membership for playchess.com and your ChessBase Account (6 months) Online access to the world’s largest analysis database, “Let’s Check”, with over 200 million deeply analyzed positions (6 months) Chessbase 15
ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database 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. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy your chess even more. CB 15 – Starter Package Includes:
ChessBase 15 ChessBase Database-Update-Service through end of 2019 ChessBase Big Database 2019 Language: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, German ChessBase 15 is even better now – a lot of functions are easier to use but most important: there are fantastic new possibilities to help you analyse and search for relevant games.
Houdini 6 Pro and ChessBase 15 Starter - Bundle
Regular Price: $339.95
Special Price $259.95
ChessBase 15 ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database 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. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy your chess even more. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH CHESSBASE: Retrieve games according to openings, players and tournaments; generate tournament cross tables and full graphic statistics of players or openings Similarity search: shows all games with similar pawn structures, sacrifice patterns, endgame positions, etc Let’s check: access the world’s largest database of in-depth analysis (more than 200 million positions) And Much more! CB 15 – Premium Package Includes: ChessBase 15 ChessBase Mega Database 2018 Mr. Kasparov - How I Became World Champion Volume 1 Garry Kasparov is the best player in the history of chess. His rise to the top was meteoric and at his very first attempt he managed to become World Champion – if one does not count the aborted title match of 1984 as a failure. He is the youngest World Champion of all times. His model for selecting the games is Bobby Fischer and his book "My 60 Memorable Games" – like Fischer, Kasparov does not only select games he had won.This DVD – containing 16 chapters and running for more than six hours – gives you an opportunity to follow the development of the best player in the history of chess, all told and explained by the champion himself. You get a first-hand account of crucial events from recent chess history, while at the same time you can improve your chess understanding and enjoy explanations and comments from a unique and outstanding personality on and off the chess board.
CHESSBASE 15 - MEGA Edition & Mr. Kasparov: How I Became World Champion Bundle
Regular Price: $389.90
Special Price $319.95
Includes Endgame Turbo 4 **A $69.95 value** FREE with ChessBase 15 Mega Edition!
CHESSBASE 15 - MEGA Edition + ENDGAME TURBO 4 Bundle
Regular Price: $389.95
Special Price $319.95
ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database 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. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy your chess even more.
CHESSBASE 15 - Mega Edition
Includes both Komodo 13 and ChessBase 15 Mega! In computer chess there is no getting past Komodo: Komodo is a triple TCEC Champion. Last year Komodo won the computer rapid chess world championship with an incredible score of 96%! ChessBase 15 is even better now – a lot of functions are easier to use but most important: there are fantastic new possibilities to help you analyse and search for relevant games.
Komodo 13 and CHESSBASE MEGA 15 Bundle
Regular Price: $419.95
Special Price $339.95
Includes both Fritz 17 and ChessBase 15! When is chess the most enjoyable? When you win! When Fritz entered his first tournaments some 25 years ago, humans still had a real chance of taking the engine down. Only a few years down the line, Fritz was already beating grandmasters left, right and center, but ever since his 4:2 victory over Kramnik in 2006, Fritz has been considered unbeatable. Who would want to play against him? In the case of Fritz 17, however, playing against an engine is now once again the very definition of fun! A host of features, including "Assisted Analysis", which gives you discreet visual hints as you move, and emoticons, which show Fritz's mood, are there to help you. ChessBase 15 is even better now – a lot of functions are easier to use but most important: there are fantastic new possibilities to help you analyse and search for relevant games.
Fritz 17 + CHESSBASE 15 MEGA Bundle
Regular Price: $429.95
Special Price $349.95
