Chess Assistant

Chess Assistant is a database program for storing chess games.

It is produced and distributed by the Moscow-based company Convekta. The first version appeared in 1990, currently is currently (December 2011 ) Version 12 After the market leader ChessBase Chess Assistant is used the most widely used program of its kind and is used by chess players, primarily for opening preparation.

The software runs under Microsoft Windows, can be used as well with Wine under GNU / Linux. The delivered with the program dataset amounts to slightly more than 5.1 million games that can be searched by many different, freely combinable criteria (player, city, year, opening, position, material distribution, etc.). An online update of the database is possible. The storage of lots shall be carried in a proprietary database format, but it can be read and exported as Portable Game Notation and data. Opening moves can be represented in a tree structure with indication of success probability and computer reviews. For the analysis of the built-in games chess program is Houdini (version 2.0 ) is available in earlier versions were Shredder or Rybka included. More chess programs can be integrated via a UCI interface by the user. With Chess Assistant also endgame databases can be used, also can connect to the chess server ChessOK Playing zone be prepared to play online games or watch.