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ChessBase 10

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. Spanish version available from 28 August 2008, French, Italian, Dutch available from September 2008 What you can do with ChessBase: Enter, annotate and save games, including variations, text commentary, spoken comments, embedded pictures, soundtracks and even video sequences; analyse position with GM-strength chess engines Fritz and Crafty (both included); retrieve games according to openings, players and tournaments; generate tournament cross tables 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 manoeuvres, mates and stalemates; classify games according to self-defined middle and endgame criteria; print games in superb DTP quality with diagrams and multiple columns; automatic email transmission of positions, games or databases; team championship or correspondence chess management; integrated Chess Media System; and much, much more...


  Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

  Commercial




Chess Assistant 11

Chess Assistant 11 Professional – the most advanced chess database system. Lightning fast searches in databases with millions of games. Automatic weekly updates with thousands of new games. Advanced analysis functions, built-in CQL search and much more. Starter package includes Deep Rybka 4 engine and 4,600,000 (up to Aprial 1st, 2010) game database.


  Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

  Commercial




Free Databases

 
ChessBase Light 2009
http://www.chessbase.com/download/cblight/index.asp

ChessBase Light is a database program which gives you access to games collections and allows you to manage them with ease.

Retrieve games according to openings, players and tournaments
Generate tournament cross tables
Full graphic statistics of players or openings
Merge games on-the-fly into an opening tree
Export games to html, JavaScript replay pages
Print games
Freely configurable board and list windows
Automatic email transmission of positions, games or databases;
Includes the latest playchess.com client
Fritz Engine included for analyzing games
ChessBase Light is limited to 32000 games per database


  Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

  Freeware





Scid http://scid.sourceforge.net/index.html
by Shane Hudson
last stable version: 4.2.2

Welcome to the website for Scid ("Shane's Chess Information Database"), a chess database application for Windows, Linux and Mac OS operating systems.
With Scid you can maintain a database of chess games, search games by many criteria, view graphical trends, and produce printable reports on players and openings. There are many more features as well; the screenshots show just some of what Scid can do. With Scid you can also play against various engines, or on Internet (FICS).
Most menus and messages in Scid are available in 13 languages;

  Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP  Freeware
  Linux/Unix
  Mac Os
  Pocket Pc




Chess DB
http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/
by Dr. David Kirkby
last version: 3.6.12-beta8

ChessDB is a free chess database which can be used on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macs running OS X, FreeBSD, as well as most if not all modern UNIX versions. The program has translations into English, Spanish, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian and Swedish. The documentation is excellent, although currently most is only in English, but this situation is changing rapidly. If have any questions after reading this web page, please subscribe to the Chessdb-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list (you will need to subscribe before you can post to the list). In the same way that to play online bingo succesfully one needs to keep track of all the information involved in the game, so too chessDB will allow you to keep track of all your chess information, helping you to master the game. Additionally if you ever choose to play at an online casino you'll find that they all generally offer tracking info that let's you view the logs of each gaming transaction that you commit to. This helps to instill confidence in players but more so allows players to go back and look at each single game they've ever played.

  Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP  Freeware
  Linux/Unix
  Mac Os X




ChessX
http://chessx.sourceforge.net/
last version: 0.7

ChessX is an Open Source chess database. With ChessX you can operate on your collection of chess games in many ways: browse, edit, add, organize, analyze, etc.
ChessX is cross-platform. It works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

  Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP  Freeware
  Linux/Unix
  Mac Os X



José
http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/index.html
by Dr. David Kirkby
last version: 1.4.4

José is a graphical Chess tool.
You can store chess games in a database (backed by MySQL).
You can view games and edit variations and comments.
You can play against a "plugged-in" chess engine and use it for analysis.

  Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP  Freeware
  Linux/Unix



Utilities

 

Chess Game Notation File Converter
http://www.code.gr/chess-converter/
by Dimitris Siskopoulos
last stable version: 1.0.0

Chess games in electronic form (usually downloaded from Internet sites) are written in algebraic notation and in accordance with the PGN Standards (Pgn=Portable Game Notation). The chess games are thus given in files with the extension pgn, e.g. kasparov.pgn (all chess games of Kasparov). Chess Playing software as FRITZ, ARENA, WINBOARD and other in order to play a chess game they need it in algebraic notation -in English Language- and better in pgn standards, otherwise the file does not open.


  Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

  Freeware



PGN-Extract
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/djb/pgn-extract/
by David Barnes
last stable version: 15.0

There are several ways to specify the criteria on which to extract: textual move sequences, the position reached after a sequence of moves, information in the tag fields, and material balance in the ending. The program includes a semantic analyser which will report errors in game scores and it is also able to detect duplicate games found in its input files.


  DOS/Unix/Linux

  Freeware



Chess Converter Programs
ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/CONV/
University of Pittsburgh FTP server

ca2pgn3.zipChess Assistant to PGN, version 0.2 upgrade. Despite the file name (named for technical reasons), this is version 0.2, which is the latest oneas of 9/21/97.
cb2ca.zipChessBase to Chess Assistant.
cb2pgn.zipChessBase to PGN.
cba16.zipCBASCII v. 1.6 (16-bit version). ChessBase to PGN & back. Unpack with pkunzip -d switch.
cba3216.zipCBASCII v. 1.6 32-bit version for Win 95/NT. Unpack with pkunzip -d switch.
cbasc-am.lhaCBASCII ported to Amiga.
convert.zipOverview of Database/PGN Formats & Conversions.
dots_2.zipLinux perl script to convert PGN files written by Chess Asst. into PGN files ChessBase can understand. See README.TXT, included in archive.
edsold12.zipConverts old Internet move format to PGN (MS-DOS).
eds-old.zipVersion 1.72, posted 12/30/98. Various users may find one or the other their best choice, though this one is the newer.
README-extractDocs for EXTRACT.
extract.tgzUnix version of Extract.
extract.zipDavid Barnes' PGN Extract Utility.
fbk2rbm.zipFritz Power-Books to Rebel 7.
ficspgn2.hqxFICS to PGN Converter for Macintosh.
ficspgn2.txtDescription of figspgn2.hqx.
nic2ca.zipNicBase 2 or 3 to Chess Assistant.
nic2pgn.zipNicBase to PGN.
nict2pgn.zipNicBase-generated Text to PGN.
pgn2ca.zipPGN to Chess Assistant.
pgn2cb.zipPGN to ChessBase.
pgn2nic.zipPGN to NicBase 3.
rebopen.zipFree opening books for Rebel transposed to Chessbase, for making Fritz, Genuis & some other books. Unpack with pkunzip -d switch.
yai2pgn.zipICS to PGN Converter.


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