ChessBase 17 - Mega package - Edition 2024
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 is the personal chess database that has become the standard worldwide. It's for everyone who enjoys chess and wants to continue playing successfully in the future. This applies to the world champion as well as the club player or the chess friend next door. ChessBase 17 brings many new functions and is
faster and easier to use.
Fritz 18 marked the beginning of a new era, and Fritz 19 is consistently driving this development forward: a game against the programme should be more than just a game - it should be an experience. At a time when online chess dominates, a chess programme has to offer something special in order to be a real alternative to human opponents.
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New in ChessBase 17:
New data format: fewer files, more features, more convenience, more speed
Engine analysis revamped: Variations are automatically annotated, forced continuations are detected, buddy heuristics create more computational depth faster!
Pearl search: Discover spectacular games at a glance! Marking of beautiful games in the database list
The new search mask
That is new:
Fritz 18 marked the beginning of a new era, and Fritz 19 drives this development onward: a game against Fritz should be more than just a game - it should be an experience. In a time when online chess dominates, a chess program has to offer something special to be a real alternative to human opponents.
In Fritz 19 it works like this:
The character Allrounder is probably the strongest opponent for every level of play. It is a development of “Easy Game” from Fritz 18.
Collectible cards as a reward: Fritz 19 celebrates your good moves. When playing against Fritz 19, you can acquire 136 different trophies. Some are quite simple, like Closed Centre or Bishop Pair. You will swiftly grab them. Others don’t just happen by themselves: the advance of a passed pawn, a knight outpost, an unsafe opponent’s king position, space advantage or a sharp position. The crowning glory are trophies such as queen sacrifice, mate with knight, and many more.
There is a ranking list for each of these trophies. That should be reward enough for chess players, but we have come up with something very special, the description of which would go beyond the scope of this article: Winning trophies is rewarded with the distribution of digital trading cards in your ChessBase account. Do you recall Panini sticker albums? Then you know the score.
We all manage our opening repertoire in variation trees, stored in databases. If you want to play against it, it gets technical: opening books have to be converted. On today’s powerful computers, this has become obsolete. In Fritz 19, you play directly against databases, your own repertoire, or an opening article from the ChessBase Magazine!
If the White player, the Black player, the tournament title, or the source begins with “White” or “Black”, then all the moves in this game belong to this colour. Fritz will then only play these moves. A repertoire is always rather narrow from the point of view of one’s own colour and broad for the opponent’s moves. Try it out: Your Najdorf repertoire with Black against the “aggressive” player! Tip for ChessBase users: Save a generated opening survey from ChessBase and play against it immediately.
The new engine in Fritz 19 is the Computer Chess World Champion for 2023. The Calculation Training has been extended, especially in the important preliminary query of candidate moves. The Buddy Engine and the annotated engine analysis from ChessBase 17 have found their way into Fritz. The notation (and the whole program interface) has been enormously enhanced in places. Tactical Analysis, the important full commentary of your games, has been improved and much more!
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