
ChessBase 16 - Mega package Edition 2021
Your key to fresh ideas, precise analyses and targeted training!
Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy the game even more.
ChessBase 9 contains the full functionality of our new Chess Media System, which allows you to play Windows Media files in very high quality from within the program. The point is that these WMV files contain instructions that ChessBase can execute on the board, so that the pieces move in sync with the speaker in the video.
ChessBase Magazine 102 media files as they appear in ChessBase 9.0
The recording is done in ChessBase as well. One can film a commentator or chess teacher, who moves the pieces on the board while he or she is speaking, drawing arrows and colouring squares. Replaying the recording in ChessBase 9.0 faithfully reproduces what went on during the recording session. All this is possible with plain audio files as well. Due to the excellent compression huge amounts of data can be stored on a simple CD.
Chess lecturers and lessons by Garry Kasparov, recorded in the Chess Media
System
Garry Kasparov has recorded chess lessons in the Chess Media System format, which will be available on DVDs later this year. These products will run in ChessBase 9, Fritz 8, with a special reader or on your TV set if it is connected to a DVD player.
Vishy Anand talks interviewed immediately after winning the Dortmund 2004
tournament
The Chess Media System can be used – and is indeed being used – to produce a new generation of chess lessons and lectures, where top players and coaches are able to move the pieces around while they are speaking. The lessons can be viewed with the latest Fritz programs, but with ChessBase 9 you have a lot of additional functions, like the ability to pause and analyse with chess engines, that make the process even more productive.
Minimum: Windows 98 (not Win95 or NT 3), 64 MB RAM, 300 MHz, DVD drive.
Recommended: Windows XP or better, 256 MB RAM, 1 GHz or better. Modern graphics adapter for fast 3D display. Windows Media Player 9 for video lectures.
Starter Package (with Big Database 2004*): €154.90 incl. VAT, €133.53 without VAT*, US $158.91 without VAT**.
Mega Package (with Mega Database 2004*, ChessBase Magazine subscription), players encyclopedia with 20,000 photos and 180,000 players, Correspondence database 2004, Endgame Turbo with five DVDs: €359.90 incl. VAT, €310.26 without VAT*, US $369.21 without VAT**.
Upgrade: only from CB8/CB7 (send in your CB7/8 registration number) to CB9 on DVD, incl. 2.6 million games and players encyclopedia: €99.90 incl.16% VAT.
* Free upgrade (with voucher) to Big 2005 or Mega 2005 ** Only for Customers outside the European Union
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