Chessbase online database access software#
Chessbase online database access series#

Eventually, ChessBase commissioned world champions Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik and Rustam Kasimdzhanov to produce DVDs using the new format. In 2003, ChessBase introduced the Chess Media System, allowing players to produce videos with them playing out moves that can be seen on the user's chessboard within a ChessBase program. In the early 2000s matches were held pitting world champions Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik against versions of the Fritz or Junior engines. Christophe Theron's engines Chess Tiger and Gambit Tiger were also released as ChessBase engines that month. In April 2000, ChessBase released a Young Talents CD featuring the engines Anmon, Goliath Light, Gromit, Ikarus, Patzer, Phalanx and Rudolf Huber's SOS.

Meyer-Kahlen's contract with Millennium 2000 expired in June, and ChessBase immediately snapped him up, adding Shredder to their product line under a Fritz style GUI, and giving their new GUIs the ability to import UCI engines. In April, Meyer-Kahlen and Huber released the Universal Chess Interface (UCI) protocol for engines to communicate with GUIs, to compete with Winboard and ChessBase's. In 1999, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's Shredder had won the world computer chess championship. In November, ChessBase started offering trainer CD-ROMs by such GMs as Robert Hübner, Rainer Knaak and Daniel King. In 1998, ChessBase took their database of chess games online. This remains a feature of all of ChessBase's Graphical User Interfaces even now. Also that year, ChessBase released Fritz 5 including a 'friend mode' which would automatically scale its strength of play down to the level that it assessed the player was playing. In March 1998, ChessBase added Junior 4.6 and Dr. In December 1996, ChessBase added Mark Uniacke's Hiarcs 6 chess engine to its product line up, selling it inside the existing Fritz graphical user interface (GUI).

Chessbase online database access series#

released a series of print books in the ChessBase University Opening Series, including Anatoly Karpov and Alexander Beliavsky's The Caro-Kann in Black and White. In the mid-1990s, R&D Publishing in the U.S. British GM Daniel King was another early author of such CD-ROMs which eventually grew into the Fritztrainer series of multimedia DVDs. In 1994, German GM Rainer Knaak joined ChessBase as a full-time employee, annotating games for the ChessBase magazine, and soon authoring game database CD-ROMs on topics such as the Trompowsky Attack or Mating Attacks against 0-0. Mathias Feist joined ChessBase, and ported Fritz to DOS and then Microsoft Windows. This program was marketed initially as Knightstalker in the U.S., and Fritz in the rest of the world.

Chessbase online database access software#

The August 1991 issue of Computerschach & Spiele announced that Dutch programmer Frans Morsch's Fritz program would soon be available, sold as software for PCs unlike all of the dedicated chess computers which at the time dominated the ratings lists. The February 1987 issue of Computerschach & Spiele introduced the database program as well as the ChessBase magazine, a floppy disk containing chess games edited by GM John Nunn. Friedel began working with Bonn physicist Matthias Wüllenweber who created the first such database, ChessBase 1.0, as software for the Atari ST. In 1985, he invited then world chess champion Garry Kasparov to his house, and Kasparov mused about how a chess database would make it easier for him to prepare for specific opponents. Starting in 1983, Frederic Friedel and his colleagues put out a magazine Computer-schach und Spiele covering the emerging hobby of computer chess.