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The ChessBase Account is a useful tool for every chess player, whether solving tactics, analysing games, preparing against the next opponent or playing chess online.

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ChessBase 17 not running smoothly? – Try this first!

9/1/2024 – 'Update' is the magic word. Time and again we receive enquiries from users, and the solution is often simple: regular updates keep the programme running smoothly. You can find out how to do this - if you are logged in - in the article.
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Mega Database - Every user needs to know this!

3/16/2024 – No tournament player can do without the ChessBase Mega Database. But what do you need to know when setting it up on your PC? ChessBase expert Thomas Stark and Arne Kaehler show you everything you need to know about the new Mega Database 2024: Finding the best games, annotated games, and ChessBase magazine articles.
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Mega Database - Essential wisdom!

1/19/2024 – No tournament player can do without the ChessBase Mega Database. But what do you need to know when setting it up on your PC? ChessBase expert Thomas Stark and Arne Kaehler show you everything you need to know about the new Mega Database 2024: Download, installation and, above all, the weekly game update, in which 5,000 new games are imported every week.
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Mastering openings using Fritz 19

11/25/2023 – At first glance, Fritz 19 is all about fun, with its quirky opponents and trophies. But there's also highly useful new functionality for serious opening training. Now, any database, opening article, or your own opening analysis can be loaded directly as an opening book to play against.
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Collecting excitement at cards.chessbase.com

11/24/2023 – Players who earn trophies in Fritz 19 are rewarded with digital collectible cards. These cards cover a variety of chess themes: World Champions, famous players, major tournaments, training materials, chess stamps, chess art, and rating lists. A series on famous chess books is currently in development. What's exciting is that cards can be traded on a market or offered in exchange for ducats.
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The exciting world of achievements in Fritz 19

11/22/2023 – Playing against Fritz is enjoyable because the program incorporates hidden errors. There could always be a tactical strike against it. However, Fritz 19 adds a new exciting dimension to your games: The hunt for "achievements". There's a competition for 136 different chess achievements, testing your tactical and strategic versatility. And there are rewards for it too.
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How to play online on Playchess with video

8/24/2023 – Chess is the most delightful and truly comes to live, when you can sit across from each other, engaging in a face-to-face match with a physical chessboard in between. The thrill of an evening at the club, playing blitz chess, maneuver the pieces, and indulge in lively conversation with your club-mates, surpasses the quiet solitude of playing online, isolated in front of a computer screen. However, the Playchess chess server offers a refreshing alternative. It introduces video and audio features that can be effortlessly activated, bringing the essence of in-person play to the virtual realm. With just one click, you can generate a private virtual gaming space, packaged as a simple URL, and swiftly share it with your friends. Embracing this method couldn't be more straightforward. Allow ChessBase expert Martin Fischer to walk you through the mechanics in this short tutorial!
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ChessBase 17 Tutorial: Optimizing the screen

8/15/2023 – The flexibility of ChessBase shows in the variety of functions. It starts with the recording of games and continues with the analysis of games, the building of an opening repertoire or the preparation for an opponent. And sometimes you want to work no engine, sometimes with one, sometimes with two engines at the same time. Whatever you do, you want to see it on the screen. This tutorial shows you how to master your screen with the help of ChessBase.
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ChessBase in Minutes! Learn how grandmasters use Chessbase to study endgames! (video)

7/19/2023 – In just five minutes, learn how grandmasters use ChessBase 17 to quickly get similar endgames so they can study deeper and learn from others. Whether an amateur or one of the world elite, these easy but powerful tools can help you raise your game and do wonders for your rating! Don't miss this lightning video lesson!

Why do we need the ChessBase clip database?

6/26/2023 – Have you noticed: the clip database is the only database which is already present during a first installation of ChessBase? It is a useful tool, and we will show you how to work with it efficiently. And do you know how to compile games from several databases to filter and save them? This is a typical task of team managers and coaches who compile material about other teams. This is where the clip database comes in handy - ChessBase expert Martin Fischer shows how to use it.

Where are my analyses?

6/20/2023 – You are the kind of chess player who likes to analyse passionately, perhaps directly on the screen, using ChessBase. You regularly save your analyses and to make sure that you can find them again you have a list of 30 chapters which systematises the games with the help of a text entry on the first move. In spite of this loving care it still happens that analyses disappear. How can this be? What has gone wrong? ChessBase expert Martin Fischer has the answer!
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Explained by the engineers! - Analyzing endgames with Buddy!

5/1/2023 – Today: Matthias Wuellenweber shows us how to use Buddy for analyzing tablebase endgames. In our new video series, our developers personally explain the new features they have developed themselves. From the new data format to the beauty index. In no time at all, you'll learn how it's done.
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