Chess Assistant
6.0 + 1,500,000 games (up to 1st January 2001, 7500 Games commented) (Price 129USD / 86GBP)
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CHESS ASSISTANT PRODUCTS
Chess Assistant
6.0 + 1,500,000 games (up to 1st January 2001, 7500 Games commented)
(Price 129USD / 86GBP)
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version is available
Chess Assistant 6.0 incorporates all the features of its predecessor, Chess Assistant 5.1, and much more, including:
First-rate ICC support – CA 6.0 was tested, certified and highly recommended by ICC along with its own Blitzin.
Chess Assistant
5.1 + 1,160,000 games (up to 1st January 2000, 4650 Games commented) + E-mail
Games Service 2000 for free
(Price 129USD / 86GBP)
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German, French, Italian, Spanish versions are available
Chess Assistant 5.1 incorporates all the features of its predecessor, Chess Assistant 4.0, and much more, including:
Built-in Chess Tiger 12.0 rated 2696 on a K6-2/450 computer. Program
No.1 in November SSDF list.
Compatibility with the Millennium Chess System engines (Shredder 3 and 4, Nimzo 2000,
Zarkov & WChess) and the Winboard engines (Crafty, Comet etc.). .
Improved analysis mode.
Encyclopedia Chess Openings 2000
New features in Tree mode.
Automatic preparation for your tournament games.
New chessboard colors and backgrounds.
Export and import of chess data in the PGN and EPD formats via the Windows clipboard.
Export to HTML.
Free download of 1,000 new games weekly from http://www.chessassistant.com with automatic
update of your database.
1,160,000 game database (up to Jan. 1, 2000). 4,650 commented games.
E-mail Game Service 2000 for free
Compatible with all major database formats: CA DOS, CBH, CBF and PGN.
E-Mail
Game Service 2001 , by e-mail weekly. CA format, PGN format
(Price 59USD / 40GBP)
1,500 - 2,000
new games per week to upgrade your current database.GREAT PLAYERS GAME COLLECTION
Alexander Alekhine - 4th World Champion
(Price 29USD / 20GBP)
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1300 commented games played by the 4th World
Champion Alexander Alekhine.
The annotations of Alekhine and his contemporaries have been revised and enlarged by IMs
J. Ulko and A. Mitenkov. 600 games are annotated for the first
time.
The complete tournament results plus rare photos. 200 of the most
interesting and instructive positions from his games in the additional program: “Play as
Alekhine”. Built-in playing programs: Dragon and Crafty. No additional software is
required.
“The chess games of Alekhine – one of the foremost chess artists of the past –
will live on for centuries. Chess players will always enjoy playing over Alekhine’s
games and marvel at his genius”.
(M. Botvinnik, The 6th World Champion).
Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion
(Price 29USD / 20GBP)
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The most complete collection of Tal’s games ever compiled.
Contains 2,592 games, covering entire career of the most brilliant
attacking chessplayer in history.
All the games are deeply annotated by GMs Khalifman, Kochiev, Makarichev, Yudasin,
and Petersburg IMs.
Includes a biography, tournament and match record, and 45 rare photos.
A special tutorial section, «Play As Tal», includes 260 quiz positions
in which you can try to find strong and beautiful moves played by Tal in his games.
Multiple users are allowed. Statistics are stored. Built-in playing engine Crafty.
OPENING ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Encyclopedia of Semi-Closed games Vol.1
(Price 26USD / 18GBP)
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Fashionable openings are investigated by well-known grandmasters.
Includes Gruenfeld Defense (by GMs Bagirov, Gipslis, Mikhalchishin, Sakaev,
Zaitsev), Modern-Benoni (by GM Shipov), Trompovsky attack,
Benoni, Old Indian Defense and Queen’s Pawn Opening (by GM Gufeld).
Thorough and convenient classification
Chess Assistant Openings program is included.
You can add comments and print games
Built-in chess playing program Dragon.
Database with openings in question is enclosed (50,000 games)
Chess Openings 2000
(Price 29USD / 20GBP)
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Detailed theoretical material that covers all 500 ECO indexes.
Staff of GMs and IMs contributing and GM Andrey Kharitonov
acting as editor-in-chief.
Information up to 01.01.2000. Convenient classification.
Database of 300,000 games played by the world's top players (ELO>2300)
is included.
CHESS ASSISTANT OPENING program is included therefore no additional software is required;
this allows one to perform searches, move along the Tree of positions, annotate games,
print games and comments, etc.
Built-in playing program CRAFTY.
Perfectly compatible with the MCS engines (SHREDDER, NIMZO, WCHESS &
ZARKOV). You can analyze with all of these programs within CHESS OPENINGS 2000.
TRAINING COURSES
TOTAL CHESS TRAINING (CT-ART 3.0,
Strategy 2.0, Encyclopedia of Middlegames, Studies 2.0, Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders)
(Price 99USD / 68GBP)
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Total Chess Training
consists of five magnificent educational programs (Chess Tactics Art 3.0, Strategy 2.0, Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders, Studies 2.0), covering every phase or aspect of chessEncyclopedia of Opening
Blunders
(Price 29USD / 20GBP)
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The chess material of the “Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders” was prepared by IM Yaroslav Ulko and IM Aleksey Mitenkov, both of whom are experienced coaches and players in Russia.
This program is designed for studying blunders in different openings. “Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders” presents a table of contents on common openings and has over 1,250 instructive exercises of varying difficulty from practical games.
CT-ART 3.0
(Price 26USD / 18 GBP)
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are available
Contains about 1,250 exercises
Convenient prompt system. Help features include: marking the most important squares,
illustration of ideas with more simple examples (more than 1,000
subsidiary exercises).
Detailed statistics.
Tests and ELO estimation modes.
Playing program Crafty.
Chess material was prepared by ICCF Grandmaster Maxim Blokh.
Strategy 2.0
(Price 29USD / 20 GBP)
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French, Spanish, Italian versions of Strategy 2.0 are available
This chess program presents 1800 instructive positions with 18 the
most important strategic themes.
250 extensively annotated examples for self-study. 1100
selected exercises for solving.
On line help markers. User statistics gathering and ELO calculating.
Playing programs Dragon and Crafty.
Chess material was prepared by ICCF Grandmaster Maxim Blokh.
Encyclopedia
of Middlegame
(Price 29USD / 20 GBP)
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Contains detailed material on two courses: typical structures of middlegame and
playing technique in most popular openings.
Training material contains more than 600 examples and is subdivided into themes
according to typical methods and ideas of playing.
The program contains about 1000 exercises formed by real games.
At any moment you can call an external chess playing program (Hiarcs, Genius, Rebel,
MChess Pro). Besides, the program contains about 400 typical positions for playing
against internal playing engine Dragon.
ELO and statistics can be estimated for each user. Statistics is presented in a convenient
graphic form.
Chess School for beginners
(Price 26USD / 18 GBP)
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Intended for beginners, both children and adults.
The course was written by GM Yury Razuvaev, who was one of Anatoly
Karpov’s coaches in 1973-1978.
“School” is divided into 3 large sections: Chess rules. Development of intellectual
abilities. Playing.
Unlimited number of pupils can work with this program. Statistics in a convenient graphic
form can be presented for each user.
The program is recommended for schools. (The Italian version is used in all Italian
schools, and thousands of Italian children are learning to play chess working with this
program).
Advanced
Chess School
(Price 26USD / 18 GBP)
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It is an interactive instructive tutorial for those inexperienced players, both
children and adults, who have already learnt the chess rules. Thus it can be considered as
a continuation of Chess School for Beginners by GM Yury Razuvaev.
The chess material for Advanced Chess School was prepared by Nikolay Zhuravlev,
chess master from Latvia, famous trainer and author of many books for beginners and
intermediate players.
Over 1,200 instructive examples.
This course makes an intermediate player from a beginner!
The program contains 2 large courses, “Theory – Essential Chess Knowledge” and
“Playing Instructive Examples"
I. Theory - Essential Chess Knowledge. A lot of theoretical material with
easy-to-learn explanations.
II. Playing Instructive Examples. To improve your chess knowledge, play
selected instructive positions against the built-in playing program.
After you have solved a problem, you are given an ELO rating.
Multiple users are allowed, with independent ratings for each. The resultsof solving
exercises are stored and can be compared for different students.
The program automatically selects test positions for every student depending on his level
and the problems solved previously.
The Help file is detailed, as well as the manual.
Chess Tactics for beginners
(Price 26USD / 18 GBP)
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This program is based upon a bestseller by the experienced coach Sergey
Ivashchenko. Over 200 thousand copies books were sold in the
Soviet Union in the late 1980’s!
It is a Windows based chess tactics testing and training program intended for beginners,
both children and adults. The themes are: Mate in one, Mate in two, Win a rook, Win a
piece, Draw, etc. This program is designed for chess players with ELO from 900
to1500 points.
The program includes more than 1,300 tactical problems classified
according to themes and difficulty. You have to find the most important moves. When you
try to solve a problem and propose a wrong move, the program helps you with various visual
hints (such as arrows showing key lines of attack), and, at last, it shows the piece which
is to move.
The program comes with the built-in playing engine “Dragon” which can be
called upon to analyze the problem in more detail than the provided solution.
Studies 2.0
(Price 26USD / 18 GBP)
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Training course based on best chess studies.
Contains 950 studies and 900 subsidiary exercises.
The exercises are subdivided into 4 independent parts: Studies by theme; Ending studies;
Gallery of Chess Compositions; Various grades by difficulty.
Test mode
There is a possibility to change colors and sides in all the studies.
Built-in chess playing program.
Compatibility with top playing programs (Hiarcs 3-6, MChess Pro 5-7, Rebel 7-9,Genius 4-5,
Crafty, Generic EPD).
User statistics gathering and ELO calculating.
There is a possibility to set up styles for game elements, to choose color, font and size
of main text and subvariation symbols for display.