Winning starts with what you know
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.
At the airport, in the hotel or at home on your couch: with the new ChessBase you always have access to the whole ChessBase world: the new ChessBase video library with hundreds of training videos, Training server with more than 50,000 exercises, the brand new Openings Training app, the Live Database with seven million games, Let’s Check, and, of course, web access to Playchess.com – all you need is an Internet connection and a current browser, no matter whether you use an iPad, an Android tablet, or a PC running with MacOS, Windows, or Linux.
The graphic menu you will see to choose one of the many options
Just log in to Account.Chessbase.com with your Playchess.com nickname and password
Get to know new sides of the ChessBase world! All web apps also run on mobile devices, e.g. on iPad or Android tablets. Just relax on the sofa and start your journey of discovery!
The new online ChessBase video library is a huge web archive of all chess broadcasts shown on the playchess.com server during the last years. Here you will find highlights such as Daniel King's "Power Play" show, Karsten Müller's "Endgame Magic Show" or TV ChessBase. At the moment about 300 videos are online and the number is constantly growing!
We highly recommend "Move by move". Selected grandmaster games help you to learn winning techniques move by move! Try to answer the questions of Daniel King or Simon Williams and you will understand the strategies behind the moves of the masters!
And there is more: The video library also offers you access to ten videos from the "60 minute" series - for free! Well-known players and coaches explain opening concepts and inspire you with interesting ideas that help you to broaden your repertoire.
Memorizing opening lines is often a challenging part of building one's repertoire, but not anymore thanks to the new interactive Openings Trainer! Just enter the lines of your repertoire, and then you practice the variations - move by move. Don't worry: the server automatically saves your repertoire for later sessions.
But this is not all: when you enter your repertoire you have access to the Live Book, which gives you a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of all opening systems including statistical evaluations!
You will discover alternatives (and possible improvements) to your current repertoire. Have a look! Dare to be curious and enlarge your opening knowledge in an easy, playful manner.
MyGames-Cloud offers you fast and easy access with the web browser. Just log in at "MyGames" and you will see a list of your own games. You will, for example, find all games you played under your account on the Playchess.com server. You can also open any PGN file on your computer or tablet, and if you have ChessBase 13, the databases from the ChessBase cloud will automatically be offered to you! Show your chess friends your most beautiful games. You can analyze them together or you can let Fritz-online look for improvements.
Practice makes perfect! 90% of all chess games are decided by tactics and calculation. Improve your tactical power with the Training app.
More than 50,000 training exercises are waiting for you - ranging from one-movers to more tricky combinations in which quiet moves are required! You can practice all motifs and tricks which might come up in your next game.
How good is your Training rating? Check it out and let the server calculate your current Tactics rating! Every position comes with an Elo rating and the general difficulty. After solving a problem you decide when to continue. For instance, you can replay the exercise to understand it better. Clicking "Next Position" loads another.
The "Live Database" offers access to games ranging from the beginning of chess history to the most current grandmaster games. Enter moves on the board and find out which masters played this variation. Find out which lines are main lines and discover promising sidelines!
Always up-to-date: the Live Database is updated every week with current games. You do not need to do anything, neither editing the games nor entering updates. Every year more than 200,000 games are added to the Live Database and you might not even notice!
Everywhere and anytime: no matter where and when - you always have access to the
Live-Database (if you have an internet connection).
But that's not all: you do not only have access to the whole history of chess, you can also add "Let’s Check", the world's biggest analysis database. A fantastic plus - especially for opening questions. Because "Let’s Check" has deep analyses for more than 200 million positions ready for you!
The "Live Book" is the most comprehensive and the most up to date source for opening moves played and therefore ideal for looking up variations! And because the "Live Book" is live, it changes every second: every position analyzed with Let`s Check is added including its evaluation.
And what does all this cost? If you have a Playchess account, log on to the Playchess server with your username and your password and you have immediate access to all Web Apps – without additional costs! Playchess Premium Users have full access to the Web Apps, Playchess Classic Users can use the Apps but with some limitations (ChessBase Starter Account).
Here are the details: go to https://account.chessbase.com/en/matrix New customers pay only 4.99€/month (or 49.90€ p.a.) for the Premium Account. You can test the Starter Account for three months for free, after that it costs 3.49 €/month (or 34.90€ p.a.).
