
ChessBase Light 2009 Premium
ChessBase is the personal chess database which has become
the standard throughout the world. It is the program of choice for all those
who love chess and who also hope to play successfully in the future.
With ChessBase Light 2009 Premium we enter a new era of chess databases. The program gives you access to a new integrated online database with millions of games. In this
new version, waiting for search results is just as much a thing of the past
as is the worry about your database being up-to-date and complete. Instead of
that, the whole chess cosmos is at your fingertips with ChessBase: almost four
million games from the start of the history of chess until the top tournament
played just a week ago – whatever you would like to know, it’s
all there and only the press of a button away.
With ChessBase Light 2009 Premium you are in the
heart of things straight away. The online database, which has been totally restructured, shows
you at a glance all the games of a specific player or the 1000 most recent games
involving any specific board position.
The online database is blindingly fast: it will retrieve the required
information in less than a second (on DSL). Even the super-functions such as
opening reference, opening report and dossier come up with the results at lightning
speed.

ChessBase Light 2009 Premium openings reference

Openings reference
Further innovations in ChessBase Light 2009 Premium : If you wish, ChessBase
will show you only the top level games from a particular position, meaning you
can get to the key games without hesitation. The extended opening reference
lists frequently played variations, meaning that the theory can be grasped much
more quickly than simply with individual moves. This improvement also helps
the player dossier. The evaluation lists your opponent’s opening
repertoire at the same time. When kibitzing on the chess server (on one game
or many), the online database can be called up with a single click. So with
live broadcasts, you always have a complete overview of the opening.

Online database accessible for kibitzers on Playchess
Openings books provide, should you wish it, the replies to every move and thus
give you a deeper insight into the position. For correspondence players, ChessBase Light 2009 Premium offers a direct link to the ICCF server. In addition: extended engine functions,
improved window management, new features on the Playchess.com server, and much,
much more.

Openings books with instantaneous display of replies
Summary: what you can do with ChessBase
- Enter, annotate and save games, including variations, text commentary, spoken
comments, embedded pictures, soundtracks and even video sequences;
- analyse position with GM-strength chess engines Fritz and Crafty (both included);
- retrieve games according to openings, players and tournaments;
- generate tournament cross tables and full graphic statistics of players
or openings;
- merge games on-the-fly into an opening tree;
- generate a player’s dossier containing all available information from
the database;
- find the new move in a game with one mouse click;
- generate a comprehensive openings report with main and critical lines, plans
and most important games;
- search for material distribution, positions and manoeuvres, mates and stalemates;
- classify games according to self-defined middle and endgame criteria;
- print games in superb DTP quality with diagrams and multiple columns; automatic
email transmission of positions, games or databases;
- team championship or correspondence chess management;
- integrated Chess Media System.
New in ChessBase Light 2009 Premium
- New integrated online database with millions of games, kept topical and
up-to-date by ChessBase;
- split-second online search results (DSL);
- display of games and moves with statistics in tree style;
- optional restriction to quality games in all searches;
- openings references include an overview of common variations;
- new search booster for super-fast results;
- openings books with instantaneous display of replies;
- fast-and-easy preparation for any specific players, with tree display and
games;
- player dossier with improved openings references;
- direct access to the ICCF server for correspondence chess games;
- new engine functions, e.g. display of discarded lines;
- new functions for the chess server: e.g. online database accessible for
kibitzers, ECO codes in the games lists, tactics training, full Chess 960
support.
- In addition: new look with high-resolution pieces, improved window management.
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Windows Requirements: Windows7, Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2, 256 MB RAM, 1 GHz or better, Windows Media Player 9 or later for ChessMedia System.
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