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New: CORR Database 2022 with 2 million games!

12/3/2021 – The new Corr Database 2022 is the large ChessBase collection of correspondence games from the period from 1804 to 2021. With more than 80,000 tournaments and over 2 million correspondence games, the Corr 2022 is a must for all correspondence chess fans. But the Corr Database is very popular even among many grandmasters and trainers, since correspondence games often herald the development of opening theory!

The Origins of the Database with Frederic Friedel

10/2/2020 – Some might think that ChessBase was the inventor of the chess database. That is true to some degree, but there is a predecessor, and Frederic Friedel was a part of it. In the video we talk about one of the very first commercially available chess database systems, called "Intelligent Chess", and we opened our little ChessBase museum to present to you, the original prototype including a database on audio cassette.

Help! My databases disappeared!

7/31/2018 – You look in ChessBase 14 in the folder "My Databases", but there are no databases that you have definitely created! They're just gone! What now? Don't panic Here are some tips on where to find them. File this away for that rare occasion you may need it. Of course you'll find tons more help in our FAQ, Wiki and Support pages.
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BritBase – the British Chess Game Archive

5/10/2016 – What makes a chess game interesting to read in a book or a magazine and exciting for an online spectator? In CHESS Magazine John Saunders writes about changes in taste as more of us get our ‘chess fix’ from watching everything in real-time. He goes on to consider how our appreciation of the talents of old-time players is growing, and how he maintains a database of British games

ChessBase's Tactics Training revisited

6/30/2015 – Among the various new free Web apps created by ChessBase, the Tactics Training is probably the one that promises the most immediate benefit for your play, whether you’re a master or an amateur. Since it first came out, it has undergone several refinements, making it a must for any student of the game working seriously, or just for fun, automatically calibrating the difficulty.

ChessBase apps for the web

4/30/2015 – Over the last couple of years, ChessBase has been releasing a series of apps that run exclusively in the browser, and thus on any operating system, whether it be Windows, MacOS, or Linux. These powerful tools have a few things in common, notably they are all free, and they all have addresses that end in chessbase.com. Here is a detailed overview.

Introducing the online ChessBase database

1/17/2014 – Fairly recently, a new online tool was released by ChessBase with little if any fanfare, but that is of no small use for casual users: an online searchable version of the ChessBase database, accessible from your browser, and free. It brings well over 6.5 million games, includes the playerbase pictures, move statistics, and even the Let’s Check computer evaluations. Here is a tutorial.
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