Chess Assistant

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Chess Assistant is a database program for storing chess games .

It is manufactured and sold by the Moscow- based company Convekta . The first version appeared in 1990, the current version is version 19, which was published in 2018. After the market leader ChessBase , Chess Assistant is the most widespread commercial program of its kind and is primarily used by chess players to prepare for the opening .

The software runs under Microsoft Windows , but can also be used with Wine under GNU / Linux . The database delivered with the program amounts to a little over 7 million games, which can be searched according to many different, freely combinable criteria (player, location, year, opening, position, distribution of material, etc.). An online update of the database is possible. The games are saved in a proprietary database format, but data can also be read and exported as portable game notation . Opening moves can be displayed in a tree structure with details of the probability of success and computer ratings. The built-in chess program Houdini (currently version 6) is available for analyzing games ; Shredder and Rybka were included in earlier versions . Further chess programs can be integrated by the user himself via a UCI interface . With Chess Assistant, endgame databases can also be used, and a connection to the ChessOK Playing Zone chess server can be established in order to play or watch games online.

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