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ChessBase, which runs under Microsoft Windows, is a popular commercial database program for storing and searching records of games of chess. Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of operating systems by Microsoft. ...
The term database originated within the computer industry. ...
Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players that is played both recreationally and competitively. ...
The database
ChessBase uses a proprietary format for storing games, but can also handle games in portable game notation. Portable Game Notation (.PGN) is a computer-processable format for recording chess games (both the moves and related data); many chess programs recognize this extremely popular format due to its accessibility by ordinary ascii editors, including word processors capable of importing and exporting plain ascii. ...
It permits searches for games, and positions in games, based on player names, openings, and features of the position. ChessBase also includes chess analysis tools based on the computer chess programs Fritz, Junior, Shredder (all Chessbase products), and the free Crafty written by Professor Robert Hyatt. This is a list of chess openings by the ECO classification: See also Chess and chess openings. ...
1990s Pressure-sensory Chess Computer with LCD screen The idea of creating a chess-playing machine dates back to the eighteenth century. ...
Fritz 8 - end of game between Fritz and Fruit 2. ...
Deep Junior is a computer chess program authored by the Israeli programmers Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky. ...
Shredder is a very strong chess program developed in Germany by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen in 1993. ...
Crafty is a term used in World Of Warcraft to describe someone who plays the game 24/7 - sometimes longer. ...
Dr. Robert (Bob) Hyatt is an Associate Professor of Computer science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. ...
ChessBase also has a free version of its ChessBase program called ChessBase Light[1]. The free version, like the commercial version, runs only under Microsoft Windows but has a limit of only 8000 per database - too few to be particularly useful since many players will have databases of 1 million or more games. (The commercial version of Chessbase has no such limit).
There are other commercial databases and Scid, a free chess database that has the benefit of running on newer Apple Macs, Linux, most UNIX versions as well as Microsoft Windows. Shanes Chess Information Database (SCID) is a popular free UNIX, Windows, Linux, and Mac database application for viewing and maintaining databases of chess games. ...
Linux, or GNU/Linux, refers to any Unix-like computer operating system which uses the Linux kernel. ...
Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ...
The company ChessBase GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) is the name of the company that markets these and other software related to chess. Some ChessBase products are released in the United States in partnership with Viva Media (USA). Hamburgs motto: May the posterity endeavour with dignity to conserve the freedom, which the forefathers acquired. ...
The Chessbase company owns the Playchess server, a European based online chess server. This is a competitor to other commercial servers and the non-commercial Free Internet Chess Server. The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) is a volunteer-run Internet chess server. ...
The company hosts a useful online database[2]. As of October 2006, this contained 2.4 million games, and growing. It used to be possible to utilise the functionality of this database from Chessbase's Pocket Fritz 2[3], which runs on PDAs, but some of this functionality was reduced in early 2006 and shows no sign of being restored - much to the annoyance of some users of the product.
See also Chess Live client version 4. ...
A chess engine is a computer program that can play the game of chess. ...
Fritz 8 - end of game between Fritz and Fruit 2. ...
The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) is a volunteer-run Internet chess server. ...
The Internet Chess Club (ICC) is a commercial Internet site devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. ...
Shanes Chess Information Database (SCID) is a popular free UNIX, Windows, Linux, and Mac database application for viewing and maintaining databases of chess games. ...
The World Chess Network (WCN) is an online chess playing site. ...
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