PosBase - Positional chess database

PosBase - Positional chess database

• Quickly find all the moves made in a position
• See who played the move and when
• Quick access to all the games in which the board position occurs.
• Replay games with integrated game viewer



Current version: 1.0.5, June 2011
Platforms: Windows XP / Vista / 7
Description
With PosBase you can investigate positions and moves made in a large collection of games. A PosBase database is created by merging all the games to allow quick access to the information by position.
System requirements
To build a database for 1 million games you would need about 7 GB of diskspace.
After the database has been built, it will need around 3.5 GB of disk space.
See also

• What's new
• A case for PosBase

ChessPad 2.0.3
Windows installer (1.54MB)

PosBase 1.0.5
Windows installer (1.01MB)

Older versions:

ChessPad 2.0.2
Windows installer (1.54MB)

ChessPad 1.0.10
Windows installer (922KB)

FEN2Ascii 1.0.2
Zipped, manual install (355KB)

This is a utility that converts pasted FEN lines into ASCII formatted text:

   r1bqk2r/pppp2pp/2n1pn2/5p2/2PP4/5NP1/PP1NPPBP/R2QK2R b KQkq - 0 7

is changed to

   W-Ke1,Qd1,Ra1,h1,Bg2,Nd2,f3,Pa2,b2,c4,d4,e2,f2,g3,h2
   B-Ke8,Qd8,Ra8,h8,Bc8,Nc6,f6,Pa7,b7,c7,d7,e6,f5,g7,h7
   Black to move.

EPD2RTF 1.0
Zipped, manual install (496KB)

This is a utility that converts EPD lines into RTF formatted diagrams.
You need to have some chess font installed on your computer for it to work.