• ChessBase Light 2009

Freeware version of the ChessBase chess database manager. The version is fully operational but limited to 32,000 games.
(Windows - 77.4 Mb)

• Chess Assistant 7 Light

Demo version of the Chess Assistant chess database manager (with 5,000 games). Without engines, databases, etc.
(Windows - 12.5 Mb)

• Scid 3.6.1 for Windows

Shane Hudson Freeware Chess Database Manager for Windows. Read PGN and EPD formats. You can use Crafty as an analysis module. Sourceforge open source program, where you can download opening books, photos, ratings, etc.
(Windows - 2.59 Mb)

• Scid 3.6.1 for Unix

Shane Hudson Freeware Chess Database Manager for Linux. Read PGN and EPD formats. You can use Crafty as an analysis module. Sourceforge open source program, where you can download opening books, photos, ratings, etc.
(Unix - 2.16 Mb)

• pgnRead 1.52

Free Keith Fuller program to read files in PGN (Portable Game Notation) format. It can also be used with the browser.
(Windows - 72 Kb)

• Format Converters (chess databases)

Utilities to make conversions between different database formats. The following are included:
ca2pgn3.zip: Chess Assistant to PGN
cb2pgn.zip: ChessBase to PGN
cb2nic.zip: ChessBase to NicBase
nic2cb.zip: NicBase to ChessBase
nic2ca.zip: NicBase 2 and 3 to Chess Assistant
nic2pgn.zip: NicBase to PGN
pgn2ca.zip: PGN to Chess Assistant
pgn2cb.zip: PGN to ChessBase
pgn2nic.zip: PGN to NicBase 3
(Windows - 230 Kb)

PGN Notation Language Converter

This freeware utility was been coded by Dimitris Siskopoulos based on an idea of Andreas Prapopoulos.  The aim of this software is to convert Chess Notation between English and French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish and Spanish.. An attempt is made to make the conversion similar to the pgn notation standards in order the converted notation in English language can be readable by a chess playing software. 

Deep Rybka Aquarium 2011 offers advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing, databases and much more.

Short description:

• Deep Rybka 4.1 engine - World Computer Chess champion and rating lists leader. 
• Deep Rybka 4.1 can be also used in Fritz and other chess programs
• Analyze and annotate your games with Aquarium's advanced analysis methods
• Databases with fast searches
• Powerful and fast chess trees
• Play against the computer
• Publish your chess text: Print, word processor or web
• Database: 4,700,000 games (up to April 1, 2011).
• Supports Chessbase/Fritz CBH format (read and convert), Chess Assistant CDP, PGN and EPD databases
• One year free membership in ChessOK Playing Zone.
• Full Windows 10, 8, 7 (32 & 64 bit) and Vista compatibility.

What's new in Deep Rybka Aquarium 2011 compared to Deep Rybka Aquarium 4:

• Updated Deep Rybka 4.1 engine
• Up to date (April 2011) databases, trees and CAP evaluations.
• IDeA is much faster and more intellectual.
• Infinite analysis and IDeA are integrated to work together in the games.
• Result of infinite analysis of different engines can be stored in different trees.
• ChessOK Playing Zone client for playing chess by network is integrated into installation package. It includes one year free membership is provided to Aquarium 2011 owners.

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Download ChessBase Light 2007

ChessBase Light is a database program which gives you access to games collections and allows you to manage them with ease. Retrieve games according to openings, players and tournaments Generate tournament cross tables Full graphic statistics of players or openings Merge games on-the-fly into an opening tree Export games to html, JavaScript replay pages Print games Freely configurable board and list windows Automatic email transmission of positions, games or databases; Includes the latest playchess.com client Fritz Engine included for analyzing games ChessBase Light is limited to 32000 games per database English Version: International Version: Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Slovenian Swedish

Upgrade to ChessBase Light Premium Save,edit and copy games Create and edit Datatabases Get program Updates for ChessBase Light Premium No database limit Search position in Online Database with 4,2 million games Multiboard kibitzing on playchess Extended engine interface for Fritz 10 and UCI engines Price 49,99 Euro  Buy Last version Commercial of ChessBase / Comparar ultima Version Comercial de ChessBase

 

About ChessX

ChessX is an Open Source chess database. With ChessX you can operate on your collection of chess games in many ways:
browse, edit, add, organize, analyze, etc.
ChessX is cross-platform. It works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Current Features

• Multi-platform. Supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
  
• Load and save PGN files
  
• Work with multiple databases simultaneously
  
• Browse games, including variations
  
• Enter moves, variations, comments
  
• Play games in training mode or play out games against an engine
  
• Setup board, copy/paste FEN, merge games
  
• Search header (click on columns in GameList header)
  
• Display opening tree for current position
  
• Analyze using UCI and Winboard/Xboard Chess engines
  
• Observe and play games on FICS

Feature fantasy:

• Perform advanced search (board, header, material)
  
• Store games in native binary format
  
• Fix spelling in databases
  
• Play/train against engine
  
• Calculate tournament tables
  
• Calculate ELO performance 

• Windows 32 bit - MD5: 8ef9decef59cbaca96cdf12e8ad9e801
• Windows 64 bit - MD5: c88873f78a613ead88c2a54265c7f4e1
• Mac OS X - Intel 64-bit - MD5: 52008f9bfbdefa871e45edc96b06b9d9
• Sources for Linux (tgz) - MD5: 457a98a307f218418af62955693a2214 

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Some sample databases from German Bundesliga:

• Big database

• Small database

 

Opening book for chesspartner 5.x / 6.x.
Book built on 5-19-09.
Book format (.bk) native gui opening book format for chesspartner 5.x /6.0
Book depth of 30 moves / 60 ply max.
Book built from pgn database derived from a hybrid of human GM games rated over 2700+ as well as a comp vs comp database rated over 2800. and a few secrets not to be expressed here.




Source: archive.org Usage Attribution 3.0 United States

Chessmaster, a series of chess programs developed and released by Ubisoft. It is the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five million units sold as of 2002. Due to its sophisticated GUI, graphics and animations, adjustable playing strength and countless features, Chessmaster is dedicated to the mass market, and due to the strong engine with configurable "personalities", integrated database support, annotated games, and chess lessons and tutorials, also interesting for advanced users.

Chessmaster XI, released in 2007, is the most recent version. Dedicated for chess beginners and casual chess fans, Chessmaster Challenge differs from Chessmaster 10th Edition in its simplified interface, and scaled-down tutorials. It’s a non-retail product available for trial and purchase through download only.

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Chessmaster 10th

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Chess Engines

 

MyChess II

Chessmaster was first released as Chessmaster 2000 in 1986 by Software Toolworks, Inc., a software and computer game publisher located in Los Angeles, co-developed by its founder Walt Bilofsky and Michael E. Duffy, with a chess engine by David Kittinger, loosely based on MyChess II published by the same vendor since 1984. CM 2000 was released for various 8- and 16-bit home computer platforms based on 6502, Z80, 68000 and 8086 processors, such as Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Macintosh, and DOS PCs. The PC version was a rewrite in C based on the 6502 assembly version, which also went into Novag's dedicated Constellation some years before, as mentioned by Larry Kaufman in the USOCCC 1986 tournament report:

 Novag's programmer Dave Kittinger also was the programmer of the three PC software entries under the name "Chessmaster". As they employ a version of the rather dated "Constellation" program they were not expected to be competitive with the dedicated units, except for "Chessmaster 2000 Apple" which employed extensive technology to run at high speed.

Sargon 3

After a deal with Fidelity Electronics in 1988, Software Toolworks continued the Chessmaster series for Apple computers with a Sargon III based program by Kathe and Dan Spracklen, market as Fidelity Chessmaster 2100. PC versions of CM 2100 were based on a Kittinger program.

Chessmaster 3000

The Chessmaster 3000 was released in 1991 for MS-DOS and Windows 3.x PCs, as well for Apple Macintosh, based on a Kittinger program as confirmed by John Merlino, and mentioned in CCR 5.1:

 Kittinger's first program for personal computers was incorporated into the popular program Chessmaster 2000 developed by Software Toolworks. Kittinger's program was then modified and used in some of the versions of Chessmaster 2100 and Chessmaster 3000.

The King

With the release of Chessmaster 4000 Turbo in 1993, The King by Johan de Koning became the CM engine until the present, with annual, biennial and triennial releases for major Windows versions until Chessmaster XI in 2007, incorporating the The King 3.50 with a parallel search able to support multiple processors. The King Version 3.12 has become a WinBoard engine within the ChessMaster 8000 and newer versions.
Some versions were also made available for Mac OS computers, and the Xbox Live Arcade.

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Hiarcs Chess Explorer, a sophisticated, commercial chess GUI for PC or Macintosh computers to run under Windows or Mac OS, designed and developed by Michal Rudolf and Mark Uniacke. It is sold in bundle with the Hiarcs 14 engine based on the program which won the WCSC 2011, and is able to use any UCI compatible chess engine. Chess Explorer provides a tabbed document interface, one document associated with a chess game in playing or analyzing mode, either started from the initial position or selected from a list of games, the universe or subset from a query result of a PGN database, for re-play with further analysis with new variants and editing annotations. A tabbed window consists of tiled areas with sub- or child windows, the chess board, notation, opening book statistics, analysis, and database list or query result windows. The surrounding frame window uses the classical title-, menu- and toolbar at the top of the frame and a status bar at the bottom.

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Study Chess Like You Mean It

Scid is a chess database application (cross-platform, for Unix/Linux and Windows) with many search and database maintenance features.

Manage databases with millions of games, analyze using UCI or Winboard engines, prepare for your next opponent, and much more.
And it's Free and Open Source (GPL Licensed).

 Scid is a powerful chess database application with many search features. Its GUI makes entering chess games fast and easy, and you can search games by exact position, material, player names, and many other criteria. It does not come with any actual file of chess games, but it can convert databases to/from the popular PGN format which is widely used for chess games.

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SCID, (Scid, Shane's Chess Information Database) a multi-platform, open source chess database under the GNU Lesser General Public License, to view, edit, and manage collections of chess games, initially developed by Shane Hudson, who worked from 1999 to 2003 on it, the back end written in C++, the GUI in Tcl/Tk. Pascal Georges worked on SCID from December 2006 until January 2010 and added UCI, FICS and Novag Citrine support, and ported SCID to the Pocket PC. Further contributors were Marc Lacrosse, Michal Rudolf, Hans Ericson, Franz Nagl and Alexander Wagner, et al.. SCID can read PGN and EPD files (and export to PGN, LaTeX and HTML) and uses its own database format for fast database search and queries by position, material, pattern, players, and opening, etc., and can use XBoard and UCI compliant chess engines to analyze games, and further supports mining of 5-man Nalimov Tablebases. The SCID library was used by Gady Costeff and Lewis Stiller to implement the Chess Query Language.

GUI chess

The SCID GUI, written in Tcl, evolved to a sophisticated multiple purpose tabbed document interface, with game lists of databases and game windows with board and tabbed notation, opening tree, and analyze panes as document views. Database queries and transactions are initiated via modal dialog boxes .

Chess Database Format

SCID Databases consist of three kind of files, index files (.si4), name files (.sn4) and game files (.sg4), the latter containing the moves, variations and annotations of each game. The compact move encoding requires an incremental updated board representation aka piece list, and therefor takes only one byte for most moves (except diagonal queen moves), using a nibble as piece list index, determining from square and piece to move, and the second nibble as enumeration index of possible target squares.

SCID for the Chess Student 2: Plugging in Databases and Engines 

To download the chess engine, Critter, go to http://ouo.io/0hfYA

To download Stockfish go to http://ouo.io/C2o3ZJ

Source: https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/SCID