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The new version 18 offers completely new possibilities for chess training and analysis: playing style analysis, search for strategic themes, access to 6 billion Lichess games, player preparation by matching Lichess games, download Chess.com games with built-in API, built-in cloud engine and much more.
The new ChessBase office building, all thirty storeys of it, in Hamburg, Germany
Just kidding – we are in the brick building, the three ground floor windows on the left
Christian Warneke (of the German Chess Federation's Youth program), Bjoern
Lengwenus (co-autor of Fritz and Chesster) and ChessBase webmaster Ben Bartels
Our printer Ulli Leuelt and the Playchess tournament director Martin Fischer
Creative partner Olaf Oldigs and commercial CEO Rainer Woisin. We are eternally grateful to Olaf for
suggesting the name "Fritz" – we had been considering "Grandmaster Chess" or something to that effect.
Thomas Meyer and Holger Winterstein, who run the shipping department
Mira Kowalski (finances) and GM Rainer Knaak, editor of ChessBase Magazine
Programmers: Mathias Feist (Fritz & Co), Jeroen van den Belt (Playchess, multimedia)
Journalists: Wolfram Runkel, Frederic Friedel. Wolfram wrote the first major article on computer chess in a national broadsheet close to thirty years ago, Frederic read it and produced the first TV documentary on national television on the subject. Frederic is one of the founder of ChessBase.
The other founder: Matthias Wüllenweber, CEO of ChessBase and head of programming
and development. In 2011 ChessBase will celebrate its 25th anniversary
Frederic, special guest Vaile, and Holger Lieske, SysOp on Playchess
Staff and visitors at ChessBase prepare for a very special presentation...
...which will be shown in part two of this report!
Nadja Wittmann, who runs the Spanish newspage of ChessBase
