Chess King 4 Tutorials (new for 2014)

Welcome to our new summer 2014 CHESS KING 4 TUTORIALS page. The full playlist contains 25 videos and over 2 hours of tutorials by 12th women's world chess champion Alexandra Kosteniuk and chess guru Steve Lopez. The link to the full Chess King 4 Tutorial Playlist is here. You can find both Mac and PC versions, DVD and download of the Chess King software at chesskingtraining.com. The videos are all in full HD resolution so you can watch them in full screen mode to see everything in great detail. If you watch all the tutorials and use Chess King I'm sure you will improve greatly at chess! [Note: these videos work for ALL versions of Chess King, i.e. Chess King 2, Chess King 3, Chess King 4, 4 Pro and Chess King 4 for Mac]. Best wishes, Alexandra Kosteniuk




(below) KOSTENIUK VIDEO #01: This is the introduction video to the 2014 DVD/Playlist "How to Improve at Chess thanks to Chess King".





(below) KOSTENIUK VIDEO #02: 12th women's world chess champion and chess queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk gives a tutorial on how to use the chess software Chess King 4 for PC or Mac. She describes in detail how she enters a chess game into the software, uses the opening tree and included engine Houdini 4, how she searches for games in the included GigaKing database to prepare for her next opponents, and how she imports chess database files and sets up positions.




(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #01: Introduction to Chess King 4 for PC/Mac. This video by chess guru Steve Lopez introduces the software and what it can do.




(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #02: Installation of the software Chess King 4 for PC/Mac.





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #03: Navigation Buttons of Chess King 4 for PC/Mac.





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #04: Quests and Puzzles in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #05: Play Classical Chess in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #06: Time Controls in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #07: Random Games in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #08: Enter and Save Games in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #09: Game Analysis with Houdini in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #10: Position Setup and Houdini Analysis in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #11: Houdini Analysis during replay in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac.





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #12: Adding Verbal Comments in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #13: Adding Variations in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #14: Adding Visual Commentary in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #15: Diagrams and Export to PDF in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #16: Import a Game Database to Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #17: Games and Searches in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #18: Using the Opening Tree in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #19: Creating a Player's Opening Tree in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #20: Setting up Endgame Tablebases in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #21: Chess960 or Fischer Random in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #22: Publishing Games to a Blog in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #23: Rewards and Graphic Hints in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac





That's it! We hope you liked the videos. If you have any questions about Chess King, feel free to write to Alexandra or Diego.

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Chess King 4 Tutorials

Welcome to our new summer 2014 CHESS KING 4 TUTORIALS page. The full playlist contains 25 videos and over 2 hours of tutorials by 12th women's world chess champion Alexandra Kosteniuk and chess guru Steve Lopez. The link to the full Chess King 4 Tutorial Playlist is here. You can find both Mac and PC versions, DVD and download of the Chess King software at chesskingtraining.com. The videos are all in full HD resolution so you can watch them in full screen mode to see everything in great detail. If you watch all the tutorials and use Chess King I'm sure you will improve greatly at chess! [Note: these videos work for ALL versions of Chess King, i.e. Chess King 2, Chess King 3, Chess King 4, 4 Pro and Chess King 4 for Mac]. Best wishes, Alexandra Kosteniuk



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Theory and Practice of Chess Endings (PDF)

The author of the book is the Grandmaster and honored Russian coach who headed the All-Russian chess school. At his lessons Alexander Panchenko, following the advice of world champions J.R.Capablanka and V.V.Smislov, placed the highest emphasis on endgame (without neglecting the other stages of a chess game, for sure).

The result surpassed all expectations: dozens of grand masters and masters graduated from the school – Sergey Rublevsky, Alice Galliamova, Ruslan Scherbakov, Svetlana Prudnikova, Tatiana Shumjakina and many others.

The well-known lectures of Panchenko’s school have underlain the basis of this fascinating book on the endgame that will help to increase playing skills and to achieve higher practical results both for amateurs and professionals.

Moreover, it is an indispensible assistant for coaches-teachers. Besides theoretical material, the book contains numerous examples from the practice of the classical and modern chess players and the tasks for the independent solving and playing.

Vol. 1 Contents:

  • PAWN ENDINGS
  • KNIGHT ENDINGS
  • BISHOPS OF OPPOSITE COLOR
  • OPPOSITE COLORED BISHOPS WITH ROOKS OR QUEENS ON THE BOARD
  • BISHOPS OF THE SAME COLOR
  • BISHOP AGAINST KNIGHT
  • BISHOP PAIR IN THE ENDGAME
  • Solutions to the Contest Tasks

160 pages, 2009 year

Vol. 2 Contents:

  • Extra Exchange
  • Rook Against Pawns
  • Rook Endings
  • Endings with Four Rooks
  • Queen Endings
  • Queen Against Two Rooks
  • Multi-Piece Endings
  • Solutions to the Contest Tasks

176 pages, 2009 year

Price: $19.00

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Chess King TV – 6 Courses Fundamental Video Download Pack

>The following 6 complete courses from ChessKing.tv:

3 Complete Chess Course
3 Chess Opening Ideas

For Beginner and Advanced Beginners to become Intermediate Level players.
Covers everything from opening principles to strategy and tactics, endgames,
and the best way to play the openings.

Approximately 12 hours of video.
Each course approximately 300-500 mb in size.
Possible to download individually each course.
Format is unprotected MP4 files, can use in any media player.

Old Price: $49.95

Price: $39.95

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Chess King TV – 7 Courses Tactics in the Openings Video Download Pack

>The following 7 complete courses from ChessKing.tv:

Most important to watch if you want to master the tricks, traps, and tactics ideas behind the openings:
Ruy Lopez, Scotch, Philidor, Giuoco Piano (Italian), and the King's Gambit.

For Advanced Beginners and Intermediate Level players.

Approximately 14 hours of video.
Each course approximately 300-500 mb in size.
Possible to download individually each course.
Format is unprotected MP4 files, can use in any media player.

Old Price: $69.95

Price: $49.95

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Chess King TV – 4 Courses Openings Video Download Pack

>The following 4 complete courses from ChessKing.tv:

4 Chess King Openings (Sicilian, French, Caro-Kann, Ruy Lopez).
A must watch if you want to understand the ideas behind those openings.

For Advanced Beginners and Intermediate Level players.
Covers the basics and key ideas in today's most popular chess openings.

Approximately 8 hours of video.
Each course approximately 300-500 mb in size.
Possible to download individually each course.
Format is unprotected MP4 files, can use in any media player.

Old Price: $39.95

Price: $29.95

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Chess King 23 for PC (Download)

Chess King 23 Windows Version Download [New for 2023]

Chess King 23 PC
 

Includes a 3-month pack of 90 courses of Chess King Learn (all platforms, PC/mac/Android/iOS), a $39.99 value

 
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Introduced December 2022: New Chess King 23 for Windows

The new Chess King 23 is considerably improved from the original Chess King or from any of the previous versions of Chess King. It is compatible with Windows 10 and 11 (or any previous version Windows) and has an updated GigaKing database with games till end of November of 2022, a full opening tree, and many playing modes. For analysis, it includes the Grandmaster engine Rybka with a rating of 2961 ELO and an automatic installer for the engine Stockfish with a rating above 3400 ELO. It’s the perfect tool for any chess player to improve at chess, by playing, analyzing one's games, solving thousands of chess exercises. Provides a complete chess program at an unbelievably low price.

 

Note! This product is the Windows version only. We have a separate Mac version in our shop.

If you own a previous version of Chess King you can use the discounted upgrade option to buy Chess King 23. Mention your previous Chess King Serial number to qualify.

 

BONUS: To help you improve faster, we include a 3-month Free Pack to 90 Complete Chess King courses from Chess King Learn. Don't worry it's a pack and not a subscription, it will not renew.They can be used on any computer browser (Mac or PC), and on any portable device (iOS or Android). The courses can also be downloaded to your device and used offline.
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Includes the Grandmaster engine Rybka (ELO 2961) and an automatic installer for Stockfish with ELO over 3400.
The PC version is compatible with all windows versions from XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 to the most recent Windows 11.
It can be installed and use in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian.
Internet connection required only to download the program.
Chess King will help you improve at chess. It’s complete with all the best tools, and it’s easy to use for all levels. Play, learn, analyze, prepare for your opponent, store your own games and share them to the world.

 

Main features of Chess King 23

 

• Grandmaster engine Rybka
• Automatic installer for Stockfish engine
• Huge opening tree with evaluations and success for each move
• GigaKing 2022 games database of over 8 million games
• Classical (any level), Random, Puzzle (1500 puzzles) and Quest modes (100 games)
• Prepare for your opponent, opening and custom trees

 

Description of Chess King 23

 

Chess King 23 is a new and versatile tool for chess players and is an ideal introduction for the beginner, a challenging opponent for the practiced amateur, and an invaluable coach for the aspiring master. Chess King 23 emphasizes simplicity of use in training players. However, it is more than just a traditional training program as it includes an extremely strong chess engine and a huge professional database. It is also a convenient tool for analyzing and studying one's opponent before facing them at a tournament. Buying Chess King 23 is like getting several products and paying only for one, a professional chess software playing and analysis system, the largest game database available GigaKing, the grandmaster chess engines Rybka and Stockfish, 1500 chess puzzles for all chess levels, a unique random playing mode, and much, much more. Included: Rybka, GigaKing Database of over 8 million games, Full opening tree, Chess puzzles, over one hundred opening positions, Photos of over 1600 chess players. Rybka - a chess engine rated well above 2900 Elo is a good choice for analysis. Considering such a strong engine can be frustrating to play against, Rybka includes various kinds of handicaps that can be set up using the Chess King interface. The GigaKing database is updated up to the end of 2022 and includes a full opening tree. Full Chess960 support. The program is very easy to use, with several video tutorials available on the publisher's site and a possibility to send questions and feedback to the manufacturers.

 

Get yourself Chess King or surprise a loved one with the best chess gift of the year.

 

Play in Classical Mode

 

You can play at any level you choose, from a rating of 800 to 3200, either with white or black, and either for fun (not counting for rating, you can take back moves), or in rated mode. Your games will automatically be saved in your games database and you will be able to analyze them in detail with the Grandmaster engine to see what mistakes have been made.

 

Have fun in the Random Mode

 

The Random Mode is exclusive to Chess King, in which you can choose what advantage you want to start the game with and the number of pieces you want to have on the board. For example suppose you want to start with an advantage of +6 (the equivalent of 6 pawns advantage), Chess King will randomly select a starting position with the characteristics you decide and then you will play that position against Rybka for Chess King or Stockfish if you installed it, at the highest level. Anybody should win with such a crushing starting advantage, but you’ll see it’s not that easy!

 

Setup any position

 

You can set up any position you like and then analyze it or even play it.

 

Search in the GigaKing Database

 

Look out for games of your favorite players in the GigaKing database. For example a search for Magnus Carlsen will give more than 2,000 games including all the games he played in official tournaments and many of his published exhibition matches and simultaneous exhibitions.

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Learn with the Puzzle Mode

 

You will learn with the puzzle mode, with hundreds of exercises from beginner level until Grandmaster level. Chess King 23 will congratulate you for your success and tell you where you went wrong.

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Huge Opening Tree

 

In the Analysis pane at the beginning of the game, either while analyzing some master game or when entering your own games in your own games database, you can follow the opening tree move by move to see what moves have been played in the whole history of chess and how much success they have had. It’s now easy to study a whole opening just by browsing opening moves, selecting lines, watching games of interest, and learning the ideas behind the opening moves.

 

Whole Game Evaluation graph and Engine Analysis

 

In the Analysis Pane after the opening stage one sees the game notation and comments, the whole game evaluation graph and below the best lines calculated by the engine. In this position below black could have taken the advantage by taking the pawn on e5, giving an evaluation of -0.86 (Black would have an advantage of close to 1 pawn equivalent), and instead played a bad move a4, which gave an evaluation of +0.49, which means white is up the equivalent of 1/2 pawn. With Chess King 23 you will know the best moves in each position.

 

We also just published a very complete manual for Chess King that you can download here (23 MB):
http://chessking.net/manuals/ChessKingManual201512.pdf

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Bonus: Free Access to Chess King Learn Online

 

When you buy the Chess King 23, you get 3 month free access to dozens of high quality online chess courses at learn.chessking.com as well as all those courses in either iOS or Android Apps on your iPhone/iPad/phone or tablet. That's an enormous amount of chess educational material at your fingertips during the free subscription period.

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Check out the free tutorial videos on Chess King 4 (applicable also to the new Chess King 23)
by Alexandra Kosteniuk and Steve Lopez, that’s over 2 hours of training, at this link.
After you successfully pay you should get an email with all links and instructions within 1-3 hours, no later than within 24 hours. If you have any questions about your order, email Diego to support

Price: $69.95

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Chess King 24 for PC (Download)

Chess King 24 Windows Version Download [New for 2024]

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Includes a 3-month pack of 90 courses of Chess King Learn (all platforms, PC/mac/Android/iOS), a $39.99 value

 
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Introduced December 2022: New Chess King 24 for Windows

The new Chess King 24 is considerably improved from the original Chess King or from any of the previous versions of Chess King. It is compatible with Windows 10 and 11 (or any previous version Windows) and has an updated GigaKing database with games till end of November of 2022, a full opening tree, and many playing modes. For analysis, it includes the Grandmaster engine Rybka with a rating of 2961 ELO and an automatic installer for the engine Stockfish with a rating above 3400 ELO. It’s the perfect tool for any chess player to improve at chess, by playing, analyzing one's games, solving thousands of chess exercises. Provides a complete chess program at an unbelievably low price.

 

Note! This product is the Windows version only. We have a separate Mac version in our shop.

If you own a previous version of Chess King you can use the discounted upgrade option to buy Chess King 24. Mention your previous Chess King Serial number to qualify.

 

BONUS: To help you improve faster, we include a 3-month Free Pack to 90 Complete Chess King courses from Chess King Learn. Don't worry it's a pack and not a subscription, it will not renew.They can be used on any computer browser (Mac or PC), and on any portable device (iOS or Android). The courses can also be downloaded to your device and used offline.
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Includes the Grandmaster engine Rybka (ELO 2961) and an automatic installer for Stockfish with ELO over 3400.
The PC version is compatible with all windows versions from XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 to the most recent Windows 11.
It can be installed and use in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian.
Internet connection required only to download the program.
Chess King will help you improve at chess. It’s complete with all the best tools, and it’s easy to use for all levels. Play, learn, analyze, prepare for your opponent, store your own games and share them to the world.

 

Main features of Chess King 24

 

• Grandmaster engine Rybka
• Automatic installer for Stockfish engine
• Huge opening tree with evaluations and success for each move
• GigaKing 2022 games database of over 8 million games
• Classical (any level), Random, Puzzle (1500 puzzles) and Quest modes (100 games)
• Prepare for your opponent, opening and custom trees

 

Description of Chess King 24

 

Chess King 2 is a new and versatile tool for chess players and is an ideal introduction for the beginner, a challenging opponent for the practiced amateur, and an invaluable coach for the aspiring master. Chess King 24 emphasizes simplicity of use in training players. However, it is more than just a traditional training program as it includes an extremely strong chess engine and a huge professional database. It is also a convenient tool for analyzing and studying one's opponent before facing them at a tournament. Buying Chess King 24 is like getting several products and paying only for one, a professional chess software playing and analysis system, the largest game database available GigaKing, the grandmaster chess engines Rybka and Stockfish, 1500 chess puzzles for all chess levels, a unique random playing mode, and much, much more. Included: Rybka, GigaKing Database of over 8 million games, Full opening tree, Chess puzzles, over one hundred opening positions, Photos of over 1600 chess players. Rybka - a chess engine rated well above 2900 Elo is a good choice for analysis. Considering such a strong engine can be frustrating to play against, Rybka includes various kinds of handicaps that can be set up using the Chess King interface. The GigaKing database is updated up to the end of 2022 and includes a full opening tree. Full Chess960 support. The program is very easy to use, with several video tutorials available on the publisher's site and a possibility to send questions and feedback to the manufacturers.

 

Get yourself Chess King or surprise a loved one with the best chess gift of the year.

 

Play in Classical Mode

 

You can play at any level you choose, from a rating of 800 to 3200, either with white or black, and either for fun (not counting for rating, you can take back moves), or in rated mode. Your games will automatically be saved in your games database and you will be able to analyze them in detail with the Grandmaster engine to see what mistakes have been made.

 

Have fun in the Random Mode

 

The Random Mode is exclusive to Chess King, in which you can choose what advantage you want to start the game with and the number of pieces you want to have on the board. For example suppose you want to start with an advantage of +6 (the equivalent of 6 pawns advantage), Chess King will randomly select a starting position with the characteristics you decide and then you will play that position against Rybka for Chess King or Stockfish if you installed it, at the highest level. Anybody should win with such a crushing starting advantage, but you’ll see it’s not that easy!

 

Setup any position

 

You can set up any position you like and then analyze it or even play it.

 

Search in the GigaKing Database

 

Look out for games of your favorite players in the GigaKing database. For example a search for Magnus Carlsen will give more than 2,000 games including all the games he played in official tournaments and many of his published exhibition matches and simultaneous exhibitions.

Screen001

 

Learn with the Puzzle Mode

 

You will learn with the puzzle mode, with hundreds of exercises from beginner level until Grandmaster level. Chess King 24 will congratulate you for your success and tell you where you went wrong.

Screen003

 

Huge Opening Tree

 

In the Analysis pane at the beginning of the game, either while analyzing some master game or when entering your own games in your own games database, you can follow the opening tree move by move to see what moves have been played in the whole history of chess and how much success they have had. It’s now easy to study a whole opening just by browsing opening moves, selecting lines, watching games of interest, and learning the ideas behind the opening moves.

 

Whole Game Evaluation graph and Engine Analysis

 

In the Analysis Pane after the opening stage one sees the game notation and comments, the whole game evaluation graph and below the best lines calculated by the engine. In this position below black could have taken the advantage by taking the pawn on e5, giving an evaluation of -0.86 (Black would have an advantage of close to 1 pawn equivalent), and instead played a bad move a4, which gave an evaluation of +0.49, which means white is up the equivalent of 1/2 pawn. With Chess King 24 you will know the best moves in each position.

 

We also just published a very complete manual for Chess King that you can download here (23 MB):
http://chessking.net/manuals/ChessKingManual201512.pdf

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Bonus: Free Access to Chess King Learn Online

 

When you buy the Chess King 24, you get 3 month free access to dozens of high quality online chess courses at learn.chessking.com as well as all those courses in either iOS or Android Apps on your iPhone/iPad/phone or tablet. That's an enormous amount of chess educational material at your fingertips during the free subscription period.

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Check out the free tutorial videos on Chess King 4 (applicable also to the new Chess King 24)
by Alexandra Kosteniuk and Steve Lopez, that’s over 2 hours of training, at this link.
After you successfully pay you should get an email with all links and instructions within 1-3 hours, no later than within 24 hours. If you have any questions about your order, email Diego to support

Price: $69.95

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CHESSOK AQUARIUM 2024

Aquarium 2024

Fast, strong, solid!

What's new in ChessOK Aquarium 2024:

  • 3-month pack for 100 courses of Chess King Learn
  • Updated databases
    now contain 8.9 million games in total!

Quick Overview

ChessOK Aquarium 2024 offers advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing, databases and much more.

Interactive Deep Analysis is the the most advanced chess analysis method available today.

Infinite Analysis is more flexible than ever with analysis presets.

Find Blunders and Game Analysis for analyzing whole games.

ChessOK Aquarium 2024 can auto-find chess programs (including the strong Stockfish 16 engine) on the Internet, download and install them - all in a couple of clicks.

Play against the computer
Choose from three different strength handicap methods, material handicap or time handicap. You can also
just set the ELO level
you want to play against!

Publish your games, analyses or even whole chess books! Publish as Aquarium iBook, on the web/blog or in print.

Compatibility with major opening book and database formats.

Databases of about 8.9 million games in total (up to December 1, 2023) that can be
updated from www.chessok.com each week with 1500 new games for free.

Language versions:
English, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Russian.

System requirements
: PC, 256 MB RAM, 4GB of free disk space, Windows Vista/7/8/10/11.

ChessOK Aquarium - Ultimate Analysis and Playing Tool

ChessOK Aquarium is a revolutionary analysis, database and chess publishing tool,
fully compatible with the world’s strongest chess playing engines, including Houdini 6 and Stockfish
. ChessOK Aquarium combines an easy-to-navigate interface with advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing against the computer, databases, advanced publishing options and many other features.

One of its unique features, Interactive Deep Analysis, is the most advanced chess analysis method available today. The purpose of IDeA is to analyze a position deeply and return as much information about it as possible to enable the user to get a better understanding of the nuances of any position. Its unique approach makes it an essential weapon in the arsenal of every serious player and analyst!

ChessOK Aquarium was developed by Convekta Ltd, widely known for such famous programs as Chess Assistant and CT-ART. Those of you who never used Aquarium should definitely consider trying out this most advanced chess interface.

Easy-to-Use Interface

Despite having numerous functions and customization options, Aquarium is easy to use navigate - thanks to a modern interface employing the Ribbon - an element you may be familiar with from the latest Microsoft Office products and some other modern programs. It provides means to make all options easily accessible without limiting the number of options.


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The Ribbon

Aquarium comes with a good selection of graphical customization options, allowing you to choose styles for board and pieces.

Visual annotations are an effective tool to recall your thoughts about a position and quickly remind you of its most important features. They are also essential for creating video lectures and very useful for live commentary.

Infinite Analysis Trees

One of the unique features of Aquarium is that it stores your infinite analysis results. If you run into the same position, even in a different database and even if it came up through a different move order, you can see that you have analyzed it before. Besides examining the result you can insert the variation and evaluation into the game you are currently viewing. You can also add a column with the infinite analysis tree to a tree configuration, so you can always see the evaluation of the different moves in the tree window.

If you use multiple chess engines, the analysis results and trees can be stored separately for each engine.

Interactive Deep Analysis (IDeA)

IDeA is one of the most advanced methods available for analyzing chess positions. In fact, it is more of an analysis environment rather than a simple analysis feature. Similar to “infinite analysis,” IDeA continues analyzing until you decide to stop it; however, the similarities end there.

Instead of analyzing the same position forever, IDeA behaves like a strong chess player analyzing a position. If you ever studied Kotov’s Think Like a Grandmaster, you no doubt remember his well known advice to identify candidate moves and methodically examine them to build an “analysis tree.” This is how IDeA works.

The purpose of IDeA is to dig deeply into a position and return as much information about it as possible. IDeA keeps its analysis in a tree structure which is unlimited in size and the user can browse at will, even while the analysis is in progress.

Besides having a live view of how the analysis is evolving the user can also direct the analysis into the most interesting positions by excluding or adding positions and variations to the analysis queue.

In short IDeA is a highly selective search controlled by Aquarium (and by the Aquarium user). Interesting lines are analyzed deeply but weak moves are only considered briefly or not at all.

There is no doubt that Interactive Deep Analysis is a very powerful tool in the hands of the serious chess player.

Integration of IDeA and Infinite Analysis

The biggest news introduced in Aquarium is the improved integration of IDeA and infinite analysis. The first steps in this direction were taken in Aquarium 4. The most important of those was the introduction of IDeA game links (see IDeA Master Trees and IDeA Game Links), which added a new level of convenience by creating an "analysis center" where IDeA is accessible along with other Aquarium analysis tools such as infinite analysis, without the need to switch back and forth between the game and IDeA.

Aquarium takes the integration one step further by sending infinite analysis results automatically to the IDeA queue or even directly to the IDeA project tree without the need to re-analyze the positions in IDeA. This means that if you run infinite analysis in a game linked to a project, the variations produced by the engine will be compared to the positions in the project tree; and if they haven't been analyzed, they will be sent to IDeA.

For the Infinite Analysis Users

The infinite Analysis in Aquarium is as solid as ever. In fact the users that gain most from the improved analysis features in Aquarium 2024 are those who use infinite analysis. With the improvements in Aquarium 2024 you can automatically keep track of all your infinite analysis broken down by chess engine. If you want to check a previously analyzed position at a later time, you can see how it was evaluated by each of the chess engines used to analyze the position.

Even if you prefer infinite analysis and never use IDeA, additional options give you a good reason to look into IDeA once more. At no extra cost in time you will get a tool to monitor your infinite analysis and permanently record the results in a way that makes them easy to access and view in the Tree window.

After some brief customization IDeA will not generate any positions on its own and the only positions it will process are positions that you send to it, either manually or automatically from infinite analysis using one of the options described above. In this case you would add the infinite analysis positions directly to the project tree.

Easy HTML Export of iBooks and Games

Exporting iBooks and games in Aquarium is a matter of few clicks if you need to do it fast, but also allows for advanced customization in case you want to adjust the design for your site or blog. You can save your custom settings.

For more information and detailed guides, refer to the related articles at
chessok.com
.

ChessOK Playing Club

The
ChessOK Playing Club
(also known as Chess Planet or ChessOK Playing Zone) client is included in the basic Aquarium installation package.

ChessOK Playing Club is a chess server where you can play opponents all over the world for free. Besides offering the usual time-controls for shorter games, this site has great support for correspondence chess with new tournaments starting all the time. New in this version is support for Fischerandom or Chess960 games.

Most its features are completelty free, but buying Aquarium also gets you one year of free membership in ChessOK Playing Zone.

CAP

I've been looking at the CAP analysis that comes with Aquarium 2024. For those who are not familiar with the CAP project, it is a chess tree (position database) with chess engine evaluation of fifty-five million positions. Each position is analyzed for one minute and the results are minimaxed. IDeA users will probably realize that the quality of such analysis can be quite good and in general the CAP evaluations after the early opening seem to reflect the possibilities of both sides quite well.

One of the features of the Aquarium 2024 CAP database is the analysis of the first twenty-five moves of all high-rated correspondence games from the ICCF game archive. Therefore, it is worth keeping an eye on the CAP scores while browsing the games.

Naturally, a high rated correspondence player can't rely entirely on CAP evaluations when selecting moves. Move selection in correspondence games requires much deeper analysis. However, a key factor in modern correspondence chess is to find positions that are initially evaluated favorably by chess engines, but can be shown to be dangerous after deep and careful analysis. CAP can be helpful in picking out such positions.

Learn more about Aquarium

A detailed overview of the previous instalment of Aquarium:
Part 1

Part 2

Learn more about Aquarium and read comprehensive guides to its numerous features in the
Articles section
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Price: $49.95

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Chess King 23 for Mac (Download)

Chess King 23 for Mac Download [New for 2023]

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AVAILABLE TODAY: New Chess King 23 for Mac

 

3-monthPack
 

INCLUDES a 3-MONTH PACK of Chess King Learn 90 courses ($39.99 value), works on all platforms (PC/Mac/Android/iOS)

 

We finally have the new Chess King for Mac, it works on all Macs with Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave, 10.15 Catalina, Mac OS 11 Big Sur, Mac OS 12 Monterey and even Mac OS 13 Ventura. It also works with both Intel and the brand new M1 Macs. After Apple changed its OS and stopped supporting 32-bit programs, we had to work hard to make Chess King compatible, here it is!

 

The new Chess King 23 is considerably improved from the original Chess King or from any of the previous versions of Chess King. It has an updated GigaKing database with more than 8 million games, a full opening tree, and many playing modes. For analysis, it includes the Grandmaster engine Rybka with a rating of 2961 ELO and an automatic installer for the engine Stockfish with a rating above 3400 ELO. It’s the perfect tool for any chess player to improve at chess, by playing, analyzing one's games, solving thousands of chess exercises. Provides a complete chess program at an unbelievably low price.
This product is the Mac version only.

 

NOTE: If you have a previous version of Chess King, you can buy an upgrade to Chess King 23 at a lower price.

 

BONUS: To help you improve faster, we include a 3-month Free Pack to 90 Complete Chess King courses from Chess King Learn. Don't worry it's a pack and not a subscription, it will not renew. They can be used on any computer browser (Mac or PC), and on any portable device (iOS or Android). The courses can also be downloaded to your mobile device and used offline.
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Includes the Grandmaster engine Rybka (ELO 2961) and an automatic installer for Stockfish with ELO over 3400.
The Mac version is compatible with all recent past versions of the Mac up to the current Mac OS 11 Big Sur, Mac OS 12 Monterey and even Mac OS 13 Ventura. (on Intel or M1 Macs).
 
It can be installed and use in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian.
Internet connection required only to download the program.
Chess King will help you improve at chess. It’s complete with all the best tools, and it’s easy to use for all levels. Play, learn, analyze, prepare for your opponent, store your own games and share them to the world.

 

Main features of Chess King 23

 

• Grandmaster engine Rybka
• Automatic installer for Stockfish engine
• Huge opening tree with evaluations and success for each move
• GigaKing 2022 games database of over 8 million games
• Classical (any level), Random, Puzzle (1500 puzzles) and Quest modes (100 games)
• Prepare for your opponent, opening and custom trees

 

Description of Chess King 23

 

Chess King 23 is a new and versatile tool for chess players and is an ideal introduction for the beginner, a challenging opponent for the practiced amateur, and an invaluable coach for the aspiring master. Chess King 23 emphasizes simplicity of use in training players. However, it is more than just a traditional training program as it includes an extremely strong chess engine and a huge professional database. It is also a convenient tool for analyzing and studying one's opponent before facing them at a tournament. Buying Chess King 23 is like getting several products and paying only for one, a professional chess software playing and analysis system, the largest game database available GigaKing, the grandmaster chess engines Rybka and Stockfish, 1500 chess puzzles for all chess levels, a unique random playing mode, and much, much more. Included: Rybka, GigaKing Database of over 8 million games, Full opening tree, Chess puzzles, over one hundred opening positions, Photos of over 1600 chess players. Rybka - a chess engine rated well above 2900 Elo is a good choice for analysis. Considering such a strong engine can be frustrating to play against, Rybka includes various kinds of handicaps that can be set up using the Chess King interface. The GigaKing database is updated up to the end of 2022 and includes a full opening tree. Full Chess960 support. The program is very easy to use, with several video tutorials available on the publisher's site and a possibility to send questions and feedback to the manufacturers.

 

Get yourself Chess King or surprise a loved one with the best chess gift of the year.

 

Play in Classical Mode

 

You can play at any level you choose, from a rating of 800 to 3200, either with white or black, and either for fun (not counting for rating, you can take back moves), or in rated mode. Your games will automatically be saved in your games database and you will be able to analyze them in detail with the Grandmaster engine to see what mistakes have been made.

 

Have fun in the Random Mode

 

The Random Mode is exclusive to Chess King, in which you can choose what advantage you want to start the game with and the number of pieces you want to have on the board. For example suppose you want to start with an advantage of +6 (the equivalent of 6 pawns advantage), Chess King will randomly select a starting position with the characteristics you decide and then you will play that position against Rybka, or Stockfish if you have installed it, at the highest level. Anybody should win with such a crushing starting advantage, but you’ll see it’s not that easy!

 

Setup any position

 

You can set up any position you like and then analyze it or even play it.

 

Search in the GigaKing Database

 

Look out for games of your favorite players in the GigaKing database. For example a search for Magnus Carlsen will give more than 2,000 games including all the games he played in official tournaments and many of his published exhibition matches and simultaneous exhibitions.

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Learn with the Puzzle Mode

 

You will learn with the puzzle mode, with hundreds of exercises from beginner level until Grandmaster level. Chess King 23 will congratulate you for your success and tell you where you went wrong.

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Huge Opening Tree

 

In the Analysis pane at the beginning of the game, either while analyzing some master game or when entering your own games in your own games database, you can follow the opening tree move by move to see what moves have been played in the whole history of chess and how much success they have had. It’s now easy to study a whole opening just by browsing opening moves, selecting lines, watching games of interest, and learning the ideas behind the opening moves.

 

Whole Game Evaluation graph and Engine Analysis

 

In the Analysis Pane after the opening stage one sees the game notation and comments, the whole game evaluation graph and below the best lines calculated by the engine. In this position below black could have taken the advantage by taking the pawn on e5, giving an evaluation of -0.86 (Black would have an advantage of close to 1 pawn equivalent), and instead played a bad move a4, which gave an evaluation of +0.49, which means white is up the equivalent of 1/2 pawn. With Chess King 23 you will know the best moves in each position.

 

We also just published a very complete manual for Chess King that you can download here (23 MB):
http://chessking.net/manuals/ChessKingManual201512.pdf

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Bonus: Free Access to Chess King Learn Online

 

When you buy the Chess King 23, you get 3 month free access to dozens of high quality online chess courses at learn.chessking.com as well as all those courses in either iOS or Android Apps on your iPhone/iPad/phone or tablet. That's an enormous amount of chess educational material at your fingertips during the free 3-month period.

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Check out the free tutorial videos on Chess King 4 (applicable also to the new Chess King 23)
by Alexandra Kosteniuk and Steve Lopez, that’s over 2 hours of training, at this link.
After you successfully pay you should get an email with all links and instructions within 1-3 hours, no later than within 24 hours. If you have any questions about your order, email Diego to support

Price: $89.95

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Chess King 24 for Mac (Download)

Chess King 24 for Mac Download [New for 2024]

Note this is a DIGITAL product! After payment, within on average 0-3 hours you will get an email with serial number, download link and installation instructions. We will assist you up to the moment when Chess King is perfectly installed on your Mac, guaranteed!

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AVAILABLE TODAY: New Chess King 24 for Mac

 

3-monthPack
 

INCLUDES a 3-MONTH PACK of Chess King Learn 90 courses ($39.99 value), works on all platforms (PC/Mac/Android/iOS)

 

We finally have the new Chess King for Mac, it works on all Macs with Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave, 10.15 Catalina, Mac OS 11 Big Sur, Mac OS 12 Monterey, Mac OS 13 Ventura and the newest Mac OS 14 Sonoma. It also works with both Intel and the brand new M1 Macs. After Apple changed its OS and stopped supporting 32-bit programs, we had to work hard to make Chess King compatible, here it is!

 

The new Chess King 24 is considerably improved from the original Chess King or from any of the previous versions of Chess King. It has an updated GigaKing database with 8 million games, a full opening tree, and many playing modes. For analysis, it includes the Grandmaster engine Rybka with a rating of 2961 ELO and an automatic installer for the engine Stockfish with a rating above 3400 ELO. It’s the perfect tool for any chess player to improve at chess, by playing, analyzing one's games, solving thousands of chess exercises. Provides a complete chess program at an unbelievably low price.
This product is the Mac version only.

 

NOTE: If you have a previous version of Chess King, you can buy an upgrade to Chess King 24 at a lower price.

 

BONUS: To help you improve faster, we include a 3-month Free Pack to 90 Complete Chess King courses from Chess King Learn. Don't worry it's a pack and not a subscription, it will not renew. They can be used on any computer browser (Mac or PC), and on any portable device (iOS or Android). The courses can also be downloaded to your mobile device and used offline.
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Includes the Grandmaster engine Rybka (ELO 2961) and an automatic installer for Stockfish with ELO over 3400.
The Mac version is compatible with all recent past versions of the Mac up to the current Mac OS 11 Big Sur, Mac OS 12 Monterey and even Mac OS 13 Ventura. (on Intel or M1 Macs).
 
It can be installed and use in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian.
Internet connection required only to download the program.
Chess King will help you improve at chess. It’s complete with all the best tools, and it’s easy to use for all levels. Play, learn, analyze, prepare for your opponent, store your own games and share them to the world.

 

Main features of Chess King 24

 

• Grandmaster engine Rybka
• Automatic installer for Stockfish engine
• Huge opening tree with evaluations and success for each move
• GigaKing 2022 games database of over 8 million games
• Classical (any level), Random, Puzzle (1500 puzzles) and Quest modes (100 games)
• Prepare for your opponent, opening and custom trees

 

Description of Chess King 24

 

Chess King 24 is a new and versatile tool for chess players and is an ideal introduction for the beginner, a challenging opponent for the practiced amateur, and an invaluable coach for the aspiring master. Chess King 24 emphasizes simplicity of use in training players. However, it is more than just a traditional training program as it includes an extremely strong chess engine and a huge professional database. It is also a convenient tool for analyzing and studying one's opponent before facing them at a tournament. Buying Chess King 24 is like getting several products and paying only for one, a professional chess software playing and analysis system, the largest game database available GigaKing, the grandmaster chess engines Rybka and Stockfish, 1500 chess puzzles for all chess levels, a unique random playing mode, and much, much more. Included: Rybka, GigaKing Database of over 8 million games, Full opening tree, Chess puzzles, over one hundred opening positions, Photos of over 1600 chess players. Rybka - a chess engine rated well above 2900 Elo is a good choice for analysis. Considering such a strong engine can be frustrating to play against, Rybka includes various kinds of handicaps that can be set up using the Chess King interface. The GigaKing database is updated up to the end of 2022 and includes a full opening tree. Full Chess960 support. The program is very easy to use, with several video tutorials available on the publisher's site and a possibility to send questions and feedback to the manufacturers.

 

Get yourself Chess King or surprise a loved one with the best chess gift of the year.

 

Play in Classical Mode

 

You can play at any level you choose, from a rating of 800 to 3200, either with white or black, and either for fun (not counting for rating, you can take back moves), or in rated mode. Your games will automatically be saved in your games database and you will be able to analyze them in detail with the Grandmaster engine to see what mistakes have been made.

 

Have fun in the Random Mode

 

The Random Mode is exclusive to Chess King, in which you can choose what advantage you want to start the game with and the number of pieces you want to have on the board. For example suppose you want to start with an advantage of +6 (the equivalent of 6 pawns advantage), Chess King will randomly select a starting position with the characteristics you decide and then you will play that position against Rybka, or Stockfish if you have installed it, at the highest level. Anybody should win with such a crushing starting advantage, but you’ll see it’s not that easy!

 

Setup any position

 

You can set up any position you like and then analyze it or even play it.

 

Search in the GigaKing Database

 

Look out for games of your favorite players in the GigaKing database. For example a search for Magnus Carlsen will give more than 2,000 games including all the games he played in official tournaments and many of his published exhibition matches and simultaneous exhibitions.

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Learn with the Puzzle Mode

 

You will learn with the puzzle mode, with hundreds of exercises from beginner level until Grandmaster level. Chess King 24 will congratulate you for your success and tell you where you went wrong.

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Huge Opening Tree

 

In the Analysis pane at the beginning of the game, either while analyzing some master game or when entering your own games in your own games database, you can follow the opening tree move by move to see what moves have been played in the whole history of chess and how much success they have had. It’s now easy to study a whole opening just by browsing opening moves, selecting lines, watching games of interest, and learning the ideas behind the opening moves.

 

Whole Game Evaluation graph and Engine Analysis

 

In the Analysis Pane after the opening stage one sees the game notation and comments, the whole game evaluation graph and below the best lines calculated by the engine. In this position below black could have taken the advantage by taking the pawn on e5, giving an evaluation of -0.86 (Black would have an advantage of close to 1 pawn equivalent), and instead played a bad move a4, which gave an evaluation of +0.49, which means white is up the equivalent of 1/2 pawn. With Chess King 24 you will know the best moves in each position.

 

We also just published a very complete manual for Chess King that you can download here (23 MB):
http://chessking.net/manuals/ChessKingManual201512.pdf

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Bonus: Free Access to Chess King Learn Online

 

When you buy the Chess King 24, you get 3 month free access to dozens of high quality online chess courses at learn.chessking.com as well as all those courses in either iOS or Android Apps on your iPhone/iPad/phone or tablet. That's an enormous amount of chess educational material at your fingertips during the free 3-month period.

Hand_App

Check out the free tutorial videos on Chess King 4 (applicable also to the new Chess King 24)
by Alexandra Kosteniuk and Steve Lopez, that’s over 2 hours of training, at this link.
After you successfully pay you should get an email with all links and instructions within 1-3 hours, no later than within 24 hours. If you have any questions about your order, email Diego to support

Price: $84.95

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Upgrade older Chess King PC to Chess King 23 PC (download)

Upgrade to Chess King 23 Windows PC from any older version
Prior owners of Chess King get a discount for upgrading and get on top of that a 3-month Pack of 90 Chess King Courses on all platforms (PC/Mac/Android/iOS), a $39.99 value.
This is the same product as the Chess King 23 for Windows, simply you get a discount for being a prior Chess King user. To qualify for this offer, you need to provide your previous Chess King serial number.

Note: If you have purchased Chess King 22 for PC after October 2022, contact us to get a free upgrade to Chess King 23 for PC.

If you have any questions, please write to diego@chessking.com

Price: $40.00

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Chess Assistant 23 for Windows (Download)

What's new in Chess Assistant 23:

  • Includes a 3-month Chess King LEARN pack (value $39.99), giving access to 90 courses available both on the website and in mobile apps! The courses are available in 9 European languages, sorted by category and difficulty level, and include such gems as Chess Tactics for Beginners 2.0Chess: From Beginner to Club PlayerChess StrategyChess Middlegame series, several courses from CT-ART and Chess Tactics in the Opening series and more.
  • Updated databases now contain 8 million games in total!
  • Premium Game Service 2022 - auto database updates for 2023

Chess Assistant 23 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess through the Internet, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.

Chess Assistant 23 includes grandmaster level playing programs, Chess Opening Encyclopedia mode, a powerful search system, the unique Tree mode, databases of about 8 million games in total (Oct. 1, 2022) that can be automaticaly updated 3000 new games every week for free, 3-month access to all courses at Chess King Learn (How to activate Chess King Learn bonus subscription) and more!

In addition to the grandmaster level engine Rybka 4 coming with the package, Stockfish, the confirmed leader among chess playing programs, will be automatically downloaded and plugged in upon installation.

Stockfish and Rybka can perform any type of analysis: multi-pass game analysis, Interactive analysis, Background analysis.

You can easily connect Chess Assistant 23 to any other UCI playing programs like Komodo. The programs can perform various analysis tasks for any needs:

Automatic opening annotation searches for novelty, adds expert annotations from the Opening Encyclopedia, CAP evaluations, inserts reference games etc.

Search for blunders reveals bad moves.

Multi-pass game analysis is an advanced analysis method to fine-tune each step of the search. You can even choose different engines for each phase of the game.

Analysis markers allow you to mark selected positions for automatic analysis at a later time.

Interactive analysis allows you guide the engine in its analysis and pick lines, remembering the results.

Chess Opening Encyclopedia includes rich theoretical material on all openings, more than 8000 annotations by GM Kalinin and 40 million evaluations by strongest engines key positions. Customizable key system.

When it comes to searching, you will not find a more powerful system. Chess Assistant 23 offers search by position, header, maneuvers, material, comments, novelty search, advanced search by material in 12 regions of the board and more!

Language versions: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian.

System Requirements: 256 RAM, 4 Gb, Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, Internet connection during installation.


Full Review

Chess Assistant 23 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess online, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.

Chess Assistant has a long history of innovative and advanced analysis functions and now, with a built-in CQL search system, it has also taken the lead in advanced search functionality.To get a better idea of Chess Assistant features you can watch short training videos.

The package includes grandmaster level playing engines, Chess Opening Encyclopedia, a powerful search system, a unique Tree mode, databases of 8 million games in total (as of December 1, 2021), 1-year Premium Game Service (3000 new games each week by Internet), 3-month subscription to Chess King Learn with 75+ courses and much more.

Stockfish 12 – The World Rating Lists Leader

Chess Assistant 23 auto-installs the strongest chess engine Stockfish 10, in addition to the good old Rybka 4 that comes with the package. Stockfish is leading in most independent computer chess rating lists. No serious chess player can be without Stockfish!

Opening Studies – Stay Organized with Opening Tables

Chess Opening Encyclopedia contains rich theoretical material on all openings. It contains over 8.000 annotations from GM Kalinin and 40 million evaluations by the strongest engines. The detailed key system for all openings can be edited to suit your needs.Opening Tables is a revolutionary way of creating, maintaining and studying your opening repertoire. Base your studies on the Opening Encyclopedia, customize it with your own moves and evaluations, enhance your favorite variations or create your own private opening repertoire. Working on your opening repertoire finally becomes the creative and enjoyable task it should be!

Opening Test Mode allows you to test your knowledge and skills in openings.

Analysis – Automatic, Manual and Background Analysis

Infinite analysis offers a wide range of options to customize the analysis to your needs:

  • Include/exclude selected moves from analysis
  • Multivariation and adjourned multivariation mode
  • Analyse simultaneously with several different chess engines
  • Check moves in game or annotations
  • Search for additional moves
  • Analyse position from both sides at the same time
  • One- or two-panel display of analysis

Automatic opening annotation searches for novelty, adds expert annotations from the Opening Encyclopedia, CAP evaluations, inserts reference games etc.

Search for blunders automatically analyzes your games and annotates mistakes.

Multi-pass game analysis is an advanced game analysis method with flexible options to fine-tune each step of the search. You can even choose different engines for each phase of the game.

Analysis markers allow you to mark selected positions for automatic analysis at a later time.

Interactive analysis lets you to work with the engine, allowing it to analyze a position, and then guide it in its analysis without forgetting its conclusions.

Background Analysis is the most powerful position analysis tool in the extensive Chess Assistant arsenal. The analysis takes place in a background process, allowing you to continue working in Chess Assistant during the analysis. If you run into an interesting position, simply send it to background analysis while you continue your own analysis.

Background analysis can be split between two or more processors on the same computer or distributed automatically to several networked computers.

Tablebase analysis gives you a precise evaluation of endgames with 3-6 pieces (tablebases required).

Database Search – Standard Searches & CQL

Standard searches. When it comes to searching, you will not find a more powerful system than Chess Assistant. It offers all the types of standard searches you would expect for a chess database:

  • Search by position, header, maneuvers, material, comments, etc.
  • Novelty search
  • Advanced search with simultaneous specification of material in 12 regions on the board

You can search through multiple databases and searches can be saved, enabling you to run them again at a later time. The program also keeps track of your most recent searches so you can quickly modify them and search again.

CQL (Chess Query Language). CQL is simply put the most powerful search method currently available for chess databases. If you have ever run into the limitations of standard search methods, CQL is for you. Mastering Chess Assistant’s CQL allows you to perform searches you could only dream of with any other chess database system.

Composite search allows you to store and organize your CQL queries into a hierachical structure, give them descriptive names, and set up a diagram of a typical position. This allows you to build a library of useful search criteria.

Databases and Premium Game Service

Chess Assistant 23 includes two databases of 8 million in total:
- HugeBase database (as of December 1, 2021) - 7 279 000 million games
- Correspondence database - 596 000+ games.

Premium Game Service: subscription for full database updates with games played from December 1, 2021 till December 31, 2022, in Chess Assistant and PGN formats (supported by Fritz, Chess Base and Aquarium).

  • Subscribe and get new games weekly by Internet through Chess Assistant 23
  • Get full version of database without duplicate games.

Classifiers – Organize Your Chess Data

A database of chess games is a rather unwieldy collection of data. Of course you can sort the games, search etc. but all of this is temporary.The next time you open the database you will see the same list of games without any useful structure. If you want to repeat a search, you have to enter all the search criteria from scratch and then search again.

Classifiers allow you to organize your chess data into nested folders in a similar way as you organize your hard disk into folders. Each folder in a classifier can contain:

  • Icon. The icon serves as a reminder for the data contained in the folder.
  • Text. A text description of the folder.
  • Position. This could for instance be a critical position from an opening.
  • Any search criteria, which allows games to be automatically classified with just a mouse click. This is of course a very powerful feature. An example is a classifier for endgames (pawn endgames, rook endgames etc.). Whenever you update your database, all you need to do is refresh the search in order to classify the endgames that occur in the new games.
  • A list of games. Games can be included in the list either manually or automatically based on a search criteria.
  • Chess tree. You can store chess trees in a classifier folder. This could for instance be detailed analysis results for an opening variation, while only the most important variations are shown in a game annotation.
  • Another classifier, allowing practically unlimited flexibility in the structure of classifiers.
  • Multimedia information: images, audio and video.

Chess Trees – State of the Art

Chess Assistant offers state of the art chess trees:

  • Transpositions are automatically detected
  • New trees can be created from any collection of games
  • Detailed information is displayed about positions: Human evaluations, computer evaluations, and various statistics
  • Games can be annotated automatically based on information in a tree.

Game Annotations and Global Annotations

Chess Assistant supports all types of game annotations, from simple text to multimedia content:

  • Add and manage variations (promote etc.).
  • Powerful annotation editor makes it easy to add Chess Informant symbols, engine evaluations and verbal commentary.
  • Assign visual styles to moves so they stand out in the notation. You can search for games based on styles.
  • Use any of 30 standard classes to classify important games or instructive positions. The same game can belong to multiple classes (e.g. Tactics and Kingside attack). Search for games belonging to specific classes.
  • Organize games with a flexible, user defined, Windows Explorer style Classifier.
  • Display board graphics and insert diagrams at selected point in the notation.
  • Add multimedia annotations (images, video and audio) to moves.
  • Reference games can be inserted from a database, and endgame information from tablebases. All of this can be done manually or through any of the automatic game analysis methods.

As useful as game annotations are, they have one drawback: They are tied to a particular game. When you run into the same position in a different game, how would you like to get a reminder saying: Hey, you have annotated this position before!” Well, in Chess Assistant you can annotate trees and tree annotations are “global”, meaning that they are displayed whenever the same position arises – in all databases.

Playing Features

If you want to play a game of chess against the computer, Chess Assistant offers a variety of engines and options:

  • Wide selection of time controls and other playing options
  • Handicap engine included (Dragon)
  • DGT board support with voice announcement of moves
  • Powerful opening book editor allows you to adapt the opening choice of the chess engine to your needs.

Database Compatibility: Chessbase and Chess Assistant

Chess Assistant supports all the most popular chess database formats, which means that your current database can most likely be used in Chess Assistant:

  • Chess Assistant’s own efficient database format (CDP)
  • Chessbase (CBH, readonly)
  • PGN (Portable Game Notation)
  • EPD (Extended Position Description)

Optionally you can open and save databases in Zip-format in order to save space and conveniently send and receive databases by email.

Strong Chess Engine Support

Chess Assistant is compatible with most modern commercial and free chess engines. It supports a variety of protocols for communicating with chess engines, such as UCI, UCI2, WinBoard and MCS. In layman terms, this means that Chess Assistant gives you an unparalleled choice of chess engines for analysis and play.

  • Support for all popular engines
  • Winboard support – Ruffian and Crafty are included, built-in support for over 50 others, available via free download
  • Hundreds of chess engines to choose from, including specialized mate solvers. Most of them are available via free download
  • Automatic test set processing with comprehensive reporting features.

Chess King LEARN Courses

Chess Assistant 23 comes with 3-month access to all courses available at learn.chessking.com.

How to activate Chess King Learn bonus subscription

So far, the collection consists of 75+ courses available in 9 European languages, sorted by category and difficulty level, and includes such gems as Chess Tactics for Beginners 2.0Chess: From Beginner to Club PlayerChess StrategyChess Middlegame series, several courses from CT-ART and Chess Tactics in the Opening series and more.

Documentation & Updates

Manuals

Sergey Rublevsky, Russian Chess Champion: “I have been using Chess Assistant with great pleasure for more than 10 years already.”

Language versions: English, Spanish, German, French and Italian versions are available.

System requirements: PC, 256 MB RAM, 4GB of free disk space, Windows 10/8/7/XP/Vista, Internet connection during installation.

Price: $94.95

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Chess Assistant 24 for Windows (Download)

What's new in Chess Assistant 24:

  • Includes a 3-month Chess King LEARN pack (value $39.99), giving access to 90 courses available both on the website and in mobile apps! The courses are available in 9 European languages, sorted by category and difficulty level, and include such gems as Chess Tactics for Beginners 2.0Chess: From Beginner to Club PlayerChess StrategyChess Middlegame series, several courses from CT-ART and Chess Tactics in the Opening series and more.
  • Updated databases now contain 8 million games in total!
  • Premium Game Service 2024 - auto database updates for 2024

Chess Assistant 24 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess through the Internet, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.

Chess Assistant 24 includes grandmaster level playing programs, Chess Opening Encyclopedia mode, a powerful search system, the unique Tree mode, databases of about 8 million games in total (Nov 1, 2023) that can be automatically updated 3000 new games every week for free, 3-month access to all courses at Chess King Learn (How to activate Chess King Learn bonus subscription) and more!

In addition to the grandmaster level engine Rybka 4 coming with the package, Stockfish, the confirmed leader among chess playing programs, will be automatically downloaded and plugged in upon installation.

Stockfish and Rybka can perform any type of analysis: multi-pass game analysis, Interactive analysis, Background analysis.

You can easily connect Chess Assistant 24 to any other UCI playing programs like Komodo. The programs can perform various analysis tasks for any needs:

Automatic opening annotation searches for novelty, adds expert annotations from the Opening Encyclopedia, CAP evaluations, inserts reference games etc.

Search for blunders reveals bad moves.

Multi-pass game analysis is an advanced analysis method to fine-tune each step of the search. You can even choose different engines for each phase of the game.

Analysis markers allow you to mark selected positions for automatic analysis at a later time.

Interactive analysis allows you guide the engine in its analysis and pick lines, remembering the results.

Chess Opening Encyclopedia includes rich theoretical material on all openings, more than 8000 annotations by GM Kalinin and 40 million evaluations by strongest engines key positions. Customizable key system.

When it comes to searching, you will not find a more powerful system. Chess Assistant 24 offers search by position, header, maneuvers, material, comments, novelty search, advanced search by material in 12 regions of the board and more!

Language versions: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian.

System Requirements: 256 RAM, 4 Gb, Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, Internet connection during installation.


Full Review

Chess Assistant 24 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess online, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.

Chess Assistant has a long history of innovative and advanced analysis functions and now, with a built-in CQL search system, it has also taken the lead in advanced search functionality.To get a better idea of Chess Assistant features you can watch short training videos.

The package includes grandmaster level playing engines, Chess Opening Encyclopedia, a powerful search system, a unique Tree mode, databases of 8 million games in total (as of December 1, 2021), 1-year Premium Game Service (3000 new games each week by Internet), 3-month subscription to Chess King Learn with 75+ courses and much more.

Stockfish 12 – The World Rating Lists Leader

Chess Assistant 24 auto-installs the strongest chess engine Stockfish 10, in addition to the good old Rybka 4 that comes with the package. Stockfish is leading in most independent computer chess rating lists. No serious chess player can be without Stockfish!

Opening Studies – Stay Organized with Opening Tables

Chess Opening Encyclopedia contains rich theoretical material on all openings. It contains over 8.000 annotations from GM Kalinin and 40 million evaluations by the strongest engines. The detailed key system for all openings can be edited to suit your needs.Opening Tables is a revolutionary way of creating, maintaining and studying your opening repertoire. Base your studies on the Opening Encyclopedia, customize it with your own moves and evaluations, enhance your favorite variations or create your own private opening repertoire. Working on your opening repertoire finally becomes the creative and enjoyable task it should be!

Opening Test Mode allows you to test your knowledge and skills in openings.

Analysis – Automatic, Manual and Background Analysis

Infinite analysis offers a wide range of options to customize the analysis to your needs:

  • Include/exclude selected moves from analysis
  • Multivariation and adjourned multivariation mode
  • Analyse simultaneously with several different chess engines
  • Check moves in game or annotations
  • Search for additional moves
  • Analyse position from both sides at the same time
  • One- or two-panel display of analysis

Automatic opening annotation searches for novelty, adds expert annotations from the Opening Encyclopedia, CAP evaluations, inserts reference games etc.

Search for blunders automatically analyzes your games and annotates mistakes.

Multi-pass game analysis is an advanced game analysis method with flexible options to fine-tune each step of the search. You can even choose different engines for each phase of the game.

Analysis markers allow you to mark selected positions for automatic analysis at a later time.

Interactive analysis lets you to work with the engine, allowing it to analyze a position, and then guide it in its analysis without forgetting its conclusions.

Background Analysis is the most powerful position analysis tool in the extensive Chess Assistant arsenal. The analysis takes place in a background process, allowing you to continue working in Chess Assistant during the analysis. If you run into an interesting position, simply send it to background analysis while you continue your own analysis.

Background analysis can be split between two or more processors on the same computer or distributed automatically to several networked computers.

Tablebase analysis gives you a precise evaluation of endgames with 3-6 pieces (tablebases required).

Database Search – Standard Searches & CQL

Standard searches. When it comes to searching, you will not find a more powerful system than Chess Assistant. It offers all the types of standard searches you would expect for a chess database:

  • Search by position, header, maneuvers, material, comments, etc.
  • Novelty search
  • Advanced search with simultaneous specification of material in 12 regions on the board

You can search through multiple databases and searches can be saved, enabling you to run them again at a later time. The program also keeps track of your most recent searches so you can quickly modify them and search again.

CQL (Chess Query Language). CQL is simply put the most powerful search method currently available for chess databases. If you have ever run into the limitations of standard search methods, CQL is for you. Mastering Chess Assistant’s CQL allows you to perform searches you could only dream of with any other chess database system.

Composite search allows you to store and organize your CQL queries into a hierachical structure, give them descriptive names, and set up a diagram of a typical position. This allows you to build a library of useful search criteria.

Databases and Premium Game Service

Chess Assistant 24 includes two databases of 8 million in total:
- HugeBase database (as of December 1, 2021) - 7 279 000 million games
- Correspondence database - 596 000+ games.

Premium Game Service: subscription for full database updates with games played from December 1, 2023 till December 31, 2024, in Chess Assistant and PGN formats (supported by Fritz, Chess Base and Aquarium).

  • Subscribe and get new games weekly by Internet through Chess Assistant 24
  • Get full version of database without duplicate games.

Classifiers – Organize Your Chess Data

A database of chess games is a rather unwieldy collection of data. Of course you can sort the games, search etc. but all of this is temporary.The next time you open the database you will see the same list of games without any useful structure. If you want to repeat a search, you have to enter all the search criteria from scratch and then search again.

Classifiers allow you to organize your chess data into nested folders in a similar way as you organize your hard disk into folders. Each folder in a classifier can contain:

  • Icon. The icon serves as a reminder for the data contained in the folder.
  • Text. A text description of the folder.
  • Position. This could for instance be a critical position from an opening.
  • Any search criteria, which allows games to be automatically classified with just a mouse click. This is of course a very powerful feature. An example is a classifier for endgames (pawn endgames, rook endgames etc.). Whenever you update your database, all you need to do is refresh the search in order to classify the endgames that occur in the new games.
  • A list of games. Games can be included in the list either manually or automatically based on a search criteria.
  • Chess tree. You can store chess trees in a classifier folder. This could for instance be detailed analysis results for an opening variation, while only the most important variations are shown in a game annotation.
  • Another classifier, allowing practically unlimited flexibility in the structure of classifiers.
  • Multimedia information: images, audio and video.

Chess Trees – State of the Art

Chess Assistant offers state of the art chess trees:

  • Transpositions are automatically detected
  • New trees can be created from any collection of games
  • Detailed information is displayed about positions: Human evaluations, computer evaluations, and various statistics
  • Games can be annotated automatically based on information in a tree.

Game Annotations and Global Annotations

Chess Assistant supports all types of game annotations, from simple text to multimedia content:

  • Add and manage variations (promote etc.).
  • Powerful annotation editor makes it easy to add Chess Informant symbols, engine evaluations and verbal commentary.
  • Assign visual styles to moves so they stand out in the notation. You can search for games based on styles.
  • Use any of 30 standard classes to classify important games or instructive positions. The same game can belong to multiple classes (e.g. Tactics and Kingside attack). Search for games belonging to specific classes.
  • Organize games with a flexible, user defined, Windows Explorer style Classifier.
  • Display board graphics and insert diagrams at selected point in the notation.
  • Add multimedia annotations (images, video and audio) to moves.
  • Reference games can be inserted from a database, and endgame information from tablebases. All of this can be done manually or through any of the automatic game analysis methods.

As useful as game annotations are, they have one drawback: They are tied to a particular game. When you run into the same position in a different game, how would you like to get a reminder saying: Hey, you have annotated this position before!” Well, in Chess Assistant you can annotate trees and tree annotations are “global”, meaning that they are displayed whenever the same position arises – in all databases.

Playing Features

If you want to play a game of chess against the computer, Chess Assistant offers a variety of engines and options:

  • Wide selection of time controls and other playing options
  • Handicap engine included (Dragon)
  • DGT board support with voice announcement of moves
  • Powerful opening book editor allows you to adapt the opening choice of the chess engine to your needs.

Database Compatibility: Chessbase and Chess Assistant

Chess Assistant supports all the most popular chess database formats, which means that your current database can most likely be used in Chess Assistant:

  • Chess Assistant’s own efficient database format (CDP)
  • Chessbase (CBH, readonly)
  • PGN (Portable Game Notation)
  • EPD (Extended Position Description)

Optionally you can open and save databases in Zip-format in order to save space and conveniently send and receive databases by email.

Strong Chess Engine Support

Chess Assistant is compatible with most modern commercial and free chess engines. It supports a variety of protocols for communicating with chess engines, such as UCI, UCI2, WinBoard and MCS. In layman terms, this means that Chess Assistant gives you an unparalleled choice of chess engines for analysis and play.

  • Support for all popular engines
  • Winboard support – Ruffian and Crafty are included, built-in support for over 50 others, available via free download
  • Hundreds of chess engines to choose from, including specialized mate solvers. Most of them are available via free download
  • Automatic test set processing with comprehensive reporting features.

Chess King LEARN Courses

Chess Assistant 24 comes with 3-month access to all courses available at learn.chessking.com.

How to activate Chess King Learn bonus subscription

So far, the collection consists of 75+ courses available in 9 European languages, sorted by category and difficulty level, and includes such gems as Chess Tactics for Beginners 2.0Chess: From Beginner to Club PlayerChess StrategyChess Middlegame series, several courses from CT-ART and Chess Tactics in the Opening series and more.

Documentation & Updates

Manuals

Sergey Rublevsky, Russian Chess Champion: “I have been using Chess Assistant with great pleasure for more than 10 years already.”

Language versions: English, Spanish, German, French and Italian versions are available.

System requirements: PC, 256 MB RAM, 4GB of free disk space, Windows 10/8/7/XP/Vista, Internet connection during installation.

Price: $94.95

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Upgrade to Chess King 24 Windows PC from any older version
Prior owners of Chess King get a discount for upgrading and get on top of that a 3-month Pack of 90 Chess King Courses on all platforms (PC/Mac/Android/iOS), a $39.99 value.
This is the same product as the Chess King 24 for Windows, simply you get a discount for being a prior Chess King user. To qualify for this offer, you need to provide your previous Chess King serial number.

Note: If you have purchased Chess King 23 for PC after November 2023, contact us to get a free upgrade to Chess King 24 for PC.

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CT-ART 20 Maximum Chess Tactics

NEW IN 2024! THIS IS A NEW VERSION OF THE CT-ART 10 PACKAGE. More courses in all areas of Chess Tactics and Defense. If you already have CT-Art 10, it's possible to get the new 10 Tactics courses at a lower price.

FULLY DIGITAL! After we get your order and process it, usually from a few minutes to maximum a few hours, you will get an email with activation code(s) and (download) link(s). Online access to all courses can be used on any number of devices you own (PC, Mac, iOS, Android), even simultaneously. Progress synchronized between devices. NO LIMIT to the number of simultaneous devices used. On PC and Mac you get online web access to all courses in any browser. On mobile all courses can be downloaded to the device(s) and used OFFLINE. This is NOT a DVD, it's DIGITAL. Guaranteed to work on all platforms, and FOREVER!

NEW: CT-ART 20.0 – 20 Courses, All Platforms, Forever Access: Web, Mac/PC + mobile (iOS + Android).

AVAILABLE NOW!
For a limited time you can request 2 codes for the same price. Mention that in the order form.

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CT-ART 10 WAS THE MOST POPULAR ITEM IN STORE, RECOMMENDED BY CHESS COACHES WORLDWIDE
WE'VE NOW ADDED 10 COURSES TO MAKE IT THE LARGEST CHESS TACTICS COLLECTION IN THE WORLD!

Chess King Learn is guaranteed to work on all platforms and in all languages

Ct-Art 20 is a combo of 20 tactics courses, levels 1 - 9 [Rating 200-2400]

web access Mac & PC and mobile iOS & Android in the Chess King app.

You also get web access on Mac or PC on the Chess King Learn site at learn.chessking.com and also on mobile (iOS & Android), see chessking.app for a description and the links to download the free Chess King app.

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It all started in the 1994 when the company Convekta in Russia (which became later ChessOk) created the CT-ART brand (it stands for Chess Tactics Art). People noticed when countless grandmasters and international masters were asked how they became so good, and they answered it was thanks to the courses "CT-ART". Since then new versions of the software have been created, and since 2008, teaming up with the company Chess King, the courses have been improved (checking of all variations, partial credit given, 5x5 hint puzzles) and have been made compatible with all modern computer and mobile platforms.

Ct-Art 6.0 since 2010 was the largest Tactics combo available with over 10,000 exercises for all chess players, from beginners to masters. The most used chess tactics package in the world. 12 years later, Chess King perfected the exercises and added 10,000 to end with 20,000 exercises in all areas of tactics to get to 10 Tactics courses. And now, in 2024, we added 10 new Tactics courses to make sure you get to any level you want to. The 20 courses are the best in Tactics and Defense and will accompany you from absolute beginner to accomplished chess master. You can access the courses directly in any web browser at learn.chessking.com or on any mobile phone or tablet via the free Chess King App (see chessking.app)

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Original Courses included in CT-ART 6:

Level 1 - Chess Tactics for Beginners (ELO 200 - 1400; 1200+ puzzles)
The critically acclaimed chess training program (previously also called Chess Tactics for Beginners 2.0) based on the bestseller by the experienced coach Sergey Ivashchenko which became the chess publishing leader and sold over 200,000 copies. All exercises are classified by theme and difficulty.
Level 2 - Elementary Chess Tactics 1 (ELO 1000-1400; 5000+ puzzles)
Every beginning chess player needs to study simple tactical methods and learn how to employ them. This course (previously also called Elementary Chess Combinations) is designed for exactly this purpose and includes more than 5,000 exercises for beginners on the following chess tactics: fork, pin, double check, discovered check, annihilation of the opponent’s king defense, exploiting a back (1st) rank weakness.

Level 3 - Chess Tactics Art (For Beginners, ELO 1400 - 1600; 150 examples, 1500 puzzles)
This is a perfect training course for beginners that will introduce you to typical chess combinations and develop your playing skills. The exercises are classified according to more than 30 tactical methods and motifs.

Level 4 - CT-ART. Chess Mate Theory (ELO 1400 - 2000; 1200 examples, 700 puzzles)
This excellent course for club players written by the famous coach Victor Khenkin (previously also called CT-ART. Mating Combinations) will illustrate the peculiarities of using certain pieces in mating combinations. The built-in hint system will help you understant and solve the more difficult puzzles.

Level 5 - CT-ART 4.0 (Chess Tactics 1200 - 2400 ELO); 2,200 exercises and 1,800 auxiliary exercises)
The legendary tactics course that has been voted more than once by chess experts as the best chess training program in the world. This version includes 2,200 basic exercises and 1,800 auxiliary exercises, divided into 50 topics. The course is based on the bestselling book Combination Motifs by a renowned trainer grandmaster Maxim Blokh. All positions have been hand-picked over the course of 20 years of training practice and come in the order that ensures most efficient learning. Each position comes with a special hint unique to this course – a 5x5 mini-position designed to convey the very essence of the tactical maneuver used in the main example.

In CT-ART 10, these 5 new courses have been added:

Mate in 2 (Chess Puzzles): The best way to improve your game is to train yourself on your device in solving problems from practical games. If you a beginner but already know how to mate in 1 move, you have to move on and learn how to attack a king and give mate in 2 moves! This course (previously also called Attack on the King I) includes 19 000 exercises from masters games. In every exercise you will have to find a best continuation for an attack against the king. All the exercises are taken from practical games and arranged according to the names of pieces and difficulty levels. A great number of exercises makes the course an excellent tool for quick training both beginners and club players.

Mate in 3-4 (Chess Puzzles): This course (previously also called Attack on the King II) includes more than 2500 exercises for mating in 3 or 4 moves. You will have to use your fantasy and precise calculation in order to find a correct way of attacking the king. After going through this course you are sure to improve your skills and abilities considerably and will not miss an opportunity to employ a nice little combination in a practical game of your own. The program is intended both for club players and intermediate players. All the exercises are taken from practical games and arranged according to the names of pieces and difficulty levels.

ART OF DEFENSE – 3500 exercises: Most important new course, that will help students avoid blunders by teaching all the ways to defend, such as moving away from attack, defending with another piece, capturing the attacking piece, intercepting the attack. Defending from mate is also covered.

BEGINNER TACTICS THEMES 1 – 2400 exercises: The course contains 2400 new exercises useful for consolidation of acquired knowledge. The exercises are classified according to tactical methods and motifs: "Сlearing", "Decoying", "Opening". All puzzles guaranteed not to be in any other course.

INTERMEDIATE TACTICS THEMES 1 – 300 exercises: This course includes more than 300 exercises for intermediate players. The exercises are classified according to tactical methods and motifs: "Сlearing", "Decoying", "Opening".

And now in 2024 10 new courses most useful for students. Exercises guaranteed not to be repeated in other courses!

Beginner Tactics Themes 2 - 2000 exercises: The course contains 2000 new exercises useful for consolidation of acquired knowledge. The exercises are classified according to tactical methods and motifs: "Distracting", "Discovered", "Decoying"

Elementary Chess Tactics 2 - 1800 exercises for beginners: If you are a beginner, it is necessary for you to study simple tactical methods and learn how to employ them! This course includes more than 1800 exercises for beginners on the following tactical methods: annihilation of defense, decoy, interception and distraction.

Intermediate Tactics Themes 2 - 428 exercises: This course includes more than 400 exercises for intermediate players. The exercises are classified according to tactical methods and motifs: "Distracting", "Decoying", "Discovered".

Manual of Chess Combinations - 1083 exercises: The material used in the program is based on a textbook by a renowned chess trainer Sergey Ivashchenko - Manual of Chess Combinations vol 2.

Chess Tactics Art (1600-1800 ELO) - 340 exercises: A fundamental course on chess tactics for Club Players. The course contains 240 teaching examples and 340 new exercises useful for consolidation of acquired knowledge. The exercises are classified according to about 30 tactical methods and motifs.

Chess Combinations Vol. 1 - 222 exercises: The fundamental chess program for club players. This first part includes more than 1300 exercises (more than 200 examples to explore and 1100 to solve), classified in 40 tactical methods and motifs.

Chess Combinations Vol. 2 - 470 exercises: The fundamental chess program for club players. This second part includes more than 2600 exercises (more than 400 examples to explore and 2200 to solve), classified in 60 tactical methods and motifs.

Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) - 2800 exercises: If you are a beginner, you just have to learn how to defend your pieces from being taken! Every chessplayer has to master and consolidate some basic defensive skills such as withdrawing or protecting a piece, interception or attacking an opponent's piece. Having consolidated your knowledge by doing a great number of exercises you will be able to improve your level of playing. This course includes more than 2800 exercises with lots of pieces on the board. Such a great number of exercises makes this course an excellent tool for quick training of chess beginners.

Advanced Defense (Chess Puzzles) - 380 exercises: The course includes 380 exercises on the following aspects of defense: Avoiding checkmate, Interference, Support

Defense and counter attack - 484 exercises: One of the most important things every chess player should learn is how to protect their king! Defense and Counter attack features about 500 exercises (chess puzzles) with large number of pieces in play. All the exercises are taken from real games. This chess course is designed for beginners and club players.

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Price: $89.99

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Upgrade to Chess King 22 Windows PC from any older version
Prior owners of Chess King get a discount for upgrading and get on top of that 3 months of 74 Chess King Courses on web & mobile. This is the same product as the Chess King 22 for Windows, simply you get a discount for being a prior Chess King user. To qualify for this offer, you need to provide your previous Chess King serial number.
If you have any questions, please write to diego@chessking.com

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Upgrade older Chess King Mac to Chess King 23 Mac (download)

Upgrade to Chess King 23 Mac.
Available today!
Prior owners of Chess King get a discount for upgrading and get on top of that get a 3-month pack of 90 Chess King Courses on all platforms (Mac/PC/iOS/Android), a $39.99 value.
 
Concerning Mac software, it's tough for both developers and users, since Apple upgrades their OS pretty much each year in the fall. And quite often when users update their OS, is may cause some incompatibility for Chess King (and quite a few other Mac games), and it forces us to get into urgent fixing mode, which sometimes is quite costly. For this reason, we ask for your understanding, and in exchange we keep the upgrade price very low, and when you take into consideration you also get a 3-month pack of 90 courses Chess King Learn, it's basically free.
 
You need this upgrade if your previous version ran on Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra or OS 10.14 Mojave or previous and you upgraded to either 10.15 Catalina or 11 Big Sur or OS 12 Monterey or OS 13 Ventura. Apple changed the OS with Catalina which broke compatibility with all 32-bit apps, which forced us to make a new version. This is the same product as the Chess King 23 for Mac, simply you get a discount for being a prior Chess King user. To qualify for this offer, you need to provide your previous Chess King serial number. If you have a Chess King 21 or prior, it's worth upgrading to Chess King 23 to get the GigaKing database with now 8 million games, update GigaTree and some more program improvements.
If you have any questions, please write to diego@chessking.com

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Upgrade older Chess King Mac to Chess King 24 Mac (download)

Upgrade to Chess King 23 Mac.
Available today!
Prior owners of Chess King get a discount for upgrading and get on top of that get a 3-month pack of 90 Chess King Courses on all platforms (Mac/PC/iOS/Android), a $39.99 value.
 
Concerning Mac software, it's tough for both developers and users, since Apple upgrades their OS pretty much each year in the fall. And quite often when users update their OS, is may cause some incompatibility for Chess King (and quite a few other Mac games), and it forces us to get into urgent fixing mode, which sometimes is quite costly. For this reason, we ask for your understanding, and in exchange we keep the upgrade price very low, and when you take into consideration you also get a 3-month pack of 90 courses Chess King Learn, it's basically free.
 
You need this upgrade if your previous version ran on Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra or OS 10.14 Mojave or previous and you upgraded to either 10.15 Catalina or 11 Big Sur or OS 12 Monterey or OS 13 Ventura or OS 14 Sonoma. Apple changed the OS with Catalina which broke compatibility with all 32-bit apps, which forced us to make a new version. This is the same product as the Chess King 24 for Mac, simply you get a discount for being a prior Chess King user. To qualify for this offer, you need to provide your previous Chess King serial number. If you have a Chess King 23 or prior, it's worth upgrading to Chess King 24 to get the GigaKing database with now 8 million games, update GigaTree and some more program improvements.

Note this is a DIGITAL product! After payment, within on average 0-3 hours you will get an email with serial number, download link and installation instructions. We will assist you up to the moment when Chess King is perfectly installed on your Mac, guaranteed!

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CT-ART 10 Chess Tactics

NOTE: THERE IS A NEWER VERSION OF THIS PRODUCT WITH 20 COURSES INSTEAD OF 10.

FULLY DIGITAL! After we get your order and process it, usually from a few minutes to maximum a few hours, you will get an email with activation code(s) and (download) link(s). Online access to all courses can be used on any number of devices you own (PC, Mac, iOS, Android), even simultaneously. Progress synchronized between devices. NO LIMIT to the number of simultaneous devices used. On mobile all courses can be downloaded to the device(s) and used OFFLINE. This is NOT a DVD, it's DIGITAL. Guaranteed to work on all platforms, and FOREVER!

NEW: CT-ART 10.0 – 10 Courses, All Platforms, Forever Access: Web, Mac/PC + mobile (iOS + Android).

AVAILABLE NOW!

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MOST POPULAR ITEM IN STORE, RECOMMENDED BY CHESS COACHES WORLDWIDE

Chess King Learn is guaranteed to work on all platforms and in all languages

Ct-Art 10 is a combo of 10 tactics courses, levels 1 - 9 [Rating 200-2400]

web access Mac & PC and mobile iOS & Android in the Chess King app.

You also get web access on Mac or PC on the Chess King Learn site at learn.chessking.com and also on mobile (iOS & Android), see chessking.app for a description and the links to download the free Chess King app.

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Ct-Art 6.0 since 2010 was the largest Tactics combo available with over 10,000 exercises for all chess players, from beginners to masters. The most used chess tactics package in the world. Now, 12 years later, Chess King perfected the exercises and added 10,000 to end with 20,000 exercises in all areas of tactics. You can access the courses directly in any web browser at learn.chessking.com or on any mobile phone or tablet via the free Chess King App (see chessking.app)

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Original Courses included in CT-ART 6:
Level 1 - Chess Tactics for Beginners (ELO 200-1400; 1200+ puzzles)
The critically acclaimed chess training program (previously also called Chess Tactics for Beginners 2.0) based on the bestseller by the experienced coach Sergey Ivashchenko which became the chess publishing leader and sold over 200,000 copies. All exercises are classified by theme and difficulty.
Level 2 - Elementary Chess Tactics 1 (ELO 1000-1400; 5000+ puzzles)
Every beginning chess player needs to study simple tactical methods and learn how to employ them. This course (previously also called Elementary Chess Combinations) is designed for exactly this purpose and includes more than 5,000 exercises for beginners on the following chess tactics: fork, pin, double check, discovered check, annihilation of the opponent’s king defense, exploiting a back (1st) rank weakness.

Level 3 - Chess Tactics Art (For Beginners, ELO 1400-1600; 150 examples, 1500 puzzles)
This is a perfect training course for beginners that will introduce you to typical chess combinations and develop your playing skills. The exercises are classified according to more than 30 tactical methods and motifs.

Level 4 - CT-ART. Chess Mate Theory (ELO 1400 - 2000; 1200 examples, 700 puzzles)
This excellent course for club players written by the famous coach Victor Khenkin (previously also called CT-ART. Mating Combinations) will illustrate the peculiarities of using certain pieces in mating combinations. The built-in hint system will help you understant and solve the more difficult puzzles.

Level 5 - CT-ART 4.0 (Chess Tactics 1200-2400 ELO); 2,200 exercises and 1,800 auxiliary exercises)
The legendary tactics course that has been voted more than once by chess experts as the best chess training program in the world. This version includes 2,200 basic exercises and 1,800 auxiliary exercises, divided into 50 topics. The course is based on the bestselling book Combination Motifs by a renowned trainer grandmaster Maxim Blokh. All positions have been hand-picked over the course of 20 years of training practice and come in the order that ensures most efficient learning. Each position comes with a special hint unique to this course – a 5x5 mini-position designed to convey the very essence of the tactical maneuver used in the main example.

Now, these 5 new courses have been added:

Mate in 2 (Chess Puzzles): The best way to improve your game is to train yourself on your device in solving problems from practical games. If you a beginner but already know how to mate in 1 move, you have to move on and learn how to attack a king and give mate in 2 moves! This course (previously also called Attack on the King I) includes 19 000 exercises from masters games. In every exercise you will have to find a best continuation for an attack against the king. All the exercises are taken from practical games and arranged according to the names of pieces and difficulty levels. A great number of exercises makes the course an excellent tool for quick training both beginners and club players.

Mate in 3-4 (Chess Puzzles): This course (previously also called Attack on the King II) includes more than 2500 exercises for mating in 3 or 4 moves. You will have to use your fantasy and precise calculation in order to find a correct way of attacking the king. After going through this course you are sure to improve your skills and abilities considerably and will not miss an opportunity to employ a nice little combination in a practical game of your own. The program is intended both for club players and intermediate players. All the exercises are taken from practical games and arranged according to the names of pieces and difficulty levels.

And 3 new courses most useful for students. Exercises guaranteed not to be repeated in other courses!

ART OF DEFENSE – 3500 exercises: Most important new course, that will help students avoid blunders by teaching all the ways to defend, such as moving away from attack, defending with another piece, capturing the attacking piece, intercepting the attack. Defending from mate is also covered.

BEGINNER TACTICS THEMES 1 – 2400 exercises: The course contains 2400 new exercises useful for consolidation of acquired knowledge. The exercises are classified according to tactical methods and motifs: "Сlearing", "Decoying", "Opening". All puzzles guaranteed not to be in any other course.

INTERMEDIATE TACTICS THEMES 1 – 300 exercises: This course includes more than 300 exercises for intermediate players. The exercises are classified according to tactical methods and motifs: "Сlearing", "Decoying", "Opening".

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This is the Tactics Pack of Chess King Learn.
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Price: $59.99

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UPGRADE FROM CT-ART 10 TO CT-ART 20 Maximum Chess Tactics

NEW IN 2024! UPGRADE FROM CT-ART 10 TO CT-ART 20. 10 More courses in all areas of Chess Tactics and Defense.

FULLY DIGITAL! After we get your order and process it, usually from a few minutes to maximum a few hours, you will get an email with activation code(s) and (download) link(s). Online access to all courses can be used on any number of devices you own (PC, Mac, iOS, Android), even simultaneously. Progress synchronized between devices. NO LIMIT to the number of simultaneous devices used. On mobile all courses can be downloaded to the device(s) and used OFFLINE. This is NOT a DVD, it's DIGITAL. Guaranteed to work on all platforms, and FOREVER!

NEW: CT-ART 20.0 – 20 Courses, All Platforms, Forever Access: Web, Mac/PC + mobile (iOS + Android).

THIS PACK CONTAINS THE 10 NEW COURSES THAT WERE NOT INCLUDED IN CT-ART 10:

The 10 new courses included in this Upgrade CT-ART 10 -> CT-ART 20:
• Beginner Tactics Themes 2
• Elementary Chess Tactics 2
• Intermediate Tactics Themes 2
• Manual of Chess Combinations
• Chess Tactics Art (1600-1800 ELO)
• Chess Combinations Vol. 1
• Chess Combinations Vol. 2
• Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles)
• Advanced Defense (Chess Puzzles)
• Defense and counter attack

AVAILABLE NOW!
For a limited time you can request 2 codes for the same price. Mention that in the order form.

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CT-ART 10 WAS THE MOST POPULAR ITEM IN STORE, RECOMMENDED BY CHESS COACHES WORLDWIDE
WE'VE NOW ADDED 10 COURSES TO MAKE IT THE LARGEST CHESS TACTICS COLLECTION IN THE WORLD!

Chess King Learn is guaranteed to work on all platforms and in all languages

Ct-Art 20 is a combo of 10 tactics courses, levels 1 - 9 [Rating 200-2400]

web access Mac & PC and mobile iOS & Android in the Chess King app.

You also get web access on Mac or PC on the Chess King Learn site at learn.chessking.com and also on mobile (iOS & Android), see chessking.app for a description and the links to download the free Chess King app.

Price: $34.99

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CHESS KING CHAMPIONS ANTHOLOGY 26

NEW IN 2024! The largest collection ever of World Champions and Super Grandmaster Games. Over 50,000 games, many commented, and exclusive carefully selected exercises from their best games, more than 5,400 in fact! Play like the champion, and defend against the champion. This is the easiest way to enjoy the best games ever played, and to understand the style of each champion. Try to find the best moves that made chess history! Enjoy and understand the most important games ever played. Suitable for players 1000-2400 ELO.

We will continue to add champions to this collection and to update the games collections for the champions that are still active. Buy today and get all future updates free!

This is the easiest way to enjoy the best games ever played, in an interactive way, on your computer or mobile device, forever! It's like carrying around 26 huge books, which are continuously updating, and best of all interactive, you can see each position live and guess what the champion played!

FULLY DIGITAL! After we get your order and process it, usually from a few minutes to maximum a few hours, you will get an email with activation code(s) and (download) link(s). Online access to all courses can be used on any number of devices you own (PC, Mac, iOS, Android), even simultaneously. Progress synchronized between devices. NO LIMIT to the number of simultaneous devices used. On PC and Mac you get online web access to all courses in any browser. On mobile all courses can be downloaded to the device(s) and used OFFLINE. This is NOT a DVD, it's DIGITAL. Guaranteed to work on all platforms, and FOREVER!

NEW: CHESS KING CHAMPIONS ANTHOLOGY – 26 Courses, All Platforms, Forever Access: Web, Mac/PC + mobile (iOS + Android).

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TO ENJOY CHESS FULLY AND TO IMPROVE AT CHESS YOU NEED TO KNOW THE CLASSICS.
THIS IS THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF CHAMPIONS GAMES AND RELATED EXERCISES EVER PUBLISHED.
WE CAREFULLY ANALYZED THOUSANDS OF GAMES AND SELECTED FOR YOU OVER 5,400 EXERCISES BASED ON CHAMPION GAMES.

FULLY DIGITAL, YOU CAN ENJOY THEM ON ALL PLATFORMS! INCLUDING OFFLINE ON ALL YOUR MOBILE DEVICES!

CHAMPIONS ANTHOLOGY 26 is a combo of 26 champions courses, levels 5 - 9 [Rating 1000-2400]

web access Mac & PC and mobile iOS & Android in the Chess King app.

You also get web access on Mac or PC on the Chess King Learn site at learn.chessking.com and also on mobile (iOS & Android), see chessking.app for a description and the links to download the free Chess King app.

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CONTENT:

World Champions:
17: Ding Liren: 2000 games, 300 exercises
16: Magnus Carlsen: 2376 games (370 commented), 110 exercises
15: Viswanathan Anand: 2929 games (539 commented), 191 exercises
14: Vladimir Kramnik: 2537 games (394 commented), 126 exercises
13: Garry Kasparov: 2466 games (298 commented), 225 exercises
12: Karpov: 196 analyzed games, 247 exercices
11: Bobby Fischer: 940 games (217 commented), 180 exercises
10: Boris Spassky: 2470 games, 204 exercises
9: Tigran Petrosian: 2200 games, 150 exercises
8: Mikhail Tal: 2516 games, 260 exercises
7: Vasily Smyslov: 2800 games, 170 exercises
6: Mikhail Botvinnik: 1069 games, 350 exercises
5: Max Euwe: 1500 games, 150 exercises
4: Alexander Alekhine: 1300 analyzed games, 200 exercises
3: Jose Raul Capablanca: 640 analyzed games, 250 exercises
2: Emanuel Lasker: 630 analyzed games, 203 exercises
1: Wilhelm Steinitz: 517 games, 55 exercises

Top Players:
Hikaru Nakamura: 5000 games, 390 exercises
Fabiano Caruana: 3000 games, 298 exercises
Alireza Firouzja: 1600 games, 200 exercises
Ian Nepomnizchtchi: 2373 games, 182 exercises
Paul Morphy: 426 games, 100 exercises
Viktor Korchnoi: 5000 games, 300 exercises
David Bronstein: 2290 games, 150 exercises
Levon Aronian: 3900 games, 300 exercises
Sergey Kajakin: 2232 games, 120 exercises

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Chess King Learn ULTRA pack 106 + Videos Best of Best

FULLY DIGITAL! You will get an email with activation code(s) and (download) link(s). Can be used on any number of devices you own (PC, Mac, iOS, Android), even simultaneously. Progress synchronized between devices.

The best and most complete pack we carry.

It includes ALL 106 interactive courses of Chess King Learn, guaranteed to work on all platforms PC, Mac, iOS, Android, forever, as well as all the 20 best selling chess courses in video format from chessking.tv.

The courses can even be used offline on mobile (see chessking.app) and the videos are unprotected so you can readily copy them to any of your devices.

The best for you or a loved one to go from beginner to master.

What sets our courses apart?

* Expert Guidance: Our courses have been created and used by chess grandmasters from around the world, including the prestigious Soviet/Russian chess tradition, ensuring you receive the highest level of instruction from the best in the chess community.
* Comprehensive Curriculum: We cover every aspect of chess comprehensively. From opening theory and middle-game tactics to endgame mastery, our courses leave no stone unturned. You can also delve into the fascinating world of chess world champions with our dedicated series, where you can study their games and even guess their moves.
* Interactive Learning: Our courses go beyond theory. They include both a theoretical part and numerous interactive exercises for you to solve. Puzzles come with hints, and depending on your answers, you get to play out variations, earning either full or partial credit for your play. This immersive approach is the pinnacle of chess learning.
* Flexible Learning: Life can be busy, but that shouldn't hinder your chess progress. Our courses offer flexibility, allowing you to learn at your own pace, on your schedule. You can access the courses even offline on mobile devices, ensuring that chess is always at your fingertips.
* Brain Fitness: Chess is not just a game; it's a powerful mental exercise. For older individuals looking to keep their minds sharp and agile, our courses provide a stimulating and enjoyable way to challenge your brain and maintain cognitive vitality.
* Academic Excellence: Kids who use Chess King Learn courses often excel not only in chess but also in their studies. The cognitive skills and problem-solving abilities developed through chess can translate into improved academic performance. Your child may find themselves at the top of their class, both in chess and school.
* Unmatched Resources: Access a treasure trove of chess resources, including video lectures, interactive quizzes, annotated games, and more. Our goal is to provide you with everything you need to become a formidable chess player.

Unlock the secrets of chess mastery and elevate your game to new heights. Join us at Chess King and embark on a journey that will transform you into a formidable chess player. Don't miss out on this opportunity to become a chess champion. Purchase the pack now and make your move towards greatness!"

This is a digital product. After you place the order, you will receive an email with activation code(s), link(s) and all instructions. We are available to answer your questions and help you activate or install your product(s). Don't forget you can use discount codes to bring down the price of this pack further.

Price: $398.00

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Upgrade older Chess King Mac to Chess King 22 Mac (download)

Upgrade to Chess King 22 Mac.
Available today!
Prior owners of Chess King get a discount for upgrading and get on top of that 3 months of 74 Chess King Courses on web & mobile. You need this upgrade if your previous version ran on Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra or OS 10.14 Mojave or previous and you upgraded to either 10.15 Catalina or 11 Big Sur or OS 12 Monterey. Apple changed the OS with Catalina which broke compatibility with all 32-bit apps, which forced us to make a new version. This is the same product as the Chess King 22 for Mac, simply you get a discount for being a prior Chess King user. To qualify for this offer, you need to provide your previous Chess King serial number. If you have a Chess King 21, it's worth upgrading to Chess King 22 to get the GigaKing database with now 8 million games, update GigaTree and some more program improvements.
If you have any questions, please write to diego@chessking.com

Price: $40.00

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CHESS KING ULTIMATE PLAY AND LEARN COMBO

Perfect for a Holiday gift for yourself and a loved one.

Includes BOTH

1) Chess King software for PC or Mac, to be installed on your PC or Mac that allows you to PLAY, ANALYZE with the top world engine, BROWSE the Largest game database GIGAKING, STORE your own games, REVIEW a complete opening tree

and 2) CHESS KING LEARN MAXIMUM 106 Forever courses on all platforms, PC, Mac, iPhone, Android. Even offline for mobile!

Buy 1 such COMBO and get 2 codes, keep one for you and gift one for your loved one!

Note you can use any discount codes on this combo to reduce its price)

Price: $319.99

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Chess King Maximum 113

FULLY DIGITAL! You will get an email with activation code(s) and (download) link(s). Can be used on any number of devices you own (PC, Mac, iOS, Android), even simultaneously. Progress synchronized between devices. This is NOT a DVD, it's DIGITAL.

NEW FOR 2024: UPGRADED TO CHESS KING MAXIMUM 113 – 113 Courses, All Platforms, Forever Access: Web, Mac/PC + mobile (iOS + Android)

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ALL CHESS KING LEARN 113 COURSES IN ALL AREAS OF CHESS TO GET YOU FROM BEGINNER TO MASTER.

Chess King Learn is guaranteed to work on all platforms and in all languages!

Chess King Complete 113 is a combo of all of Chess King Learn's chess courses, levels 1 - 9 [Rating 200-2400], More than 200,000 exercises. ---- NOTE March 2024: Added courses, now this combo has 113 courses! As we add courses, they will be included in your forever purchase!

You get web access on Mac or PC on the Chess King Learn site at learn.chessking.com and also on mobile (iOS & Android), see chessking.app for a description and the links to download the free Chess King app.

Chess King Maximum 113 is the biggest and complete collection of chess courses that have come out of the chess labs at Convekta/ChessOK/Chess King/Chess King Learn. They include ALL courses of Chess King Learn.

The only courses NOT included are the ones from other providers, such as the Dvoretsky 7 courses and the Chess Informant 3 Courses.

The full list of courses in all categories is here.

The 113 courses include ALL courses in all other combos and more!

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This is the maximum 113 Pack of Chess King Learn.

What sets our courses apart?

* Expert Guidance: Our courses have been created and used by chess grandmasters from around the world, including the prestigious Soviet/Russian chess tradition, ensuring you receive the highest level of instruction from the best in the chess community.
* Comprehensive Curriculum: We cover every aspect of chess comprehensively. From opening theory and middle-game tactics to endgame mastery, our courses leave no stone unturned. You can also delve into the fascinating world of chess world champions with our dedicated series, where you can study their games and even guess their moves.
* Interactive Learning: Our courses go beyond theory. They include both a theoretical part and numerous interactive exercises for you to solve. Puzzles come with hints, and depending on your answers, you get to play out variations, earning either full or partial credit for your play. This immersive approach is the pinnacle of chess learning.
* Flexible Learning: Life can be busy, but that shouldn't hinder your chess progress. Our courses offer flexibility, allowing you to learn at your own pace, on your schedule. You can access the courses even offline on mobile devices, ensuring that chess is always at your fingertips.
* Brain Fitness: Chess is not just a game; it's a powerful mental exercise. For older individuals looking to keep their minds sharp and agile, our courses provide a stimulating and enjoyable way to challenge your brain and maintain cognitive vitality.
* Academic Excellence: Kids who use Chess King Learn courses often excel not only in chess but also in their studies. The cognitive skills and problem-solving abilities developed through chess can translate into improved academic performance. Your child may find themselves at the top of their class, both in chess and school.
* Unmatched Resources: Access a treasure trove of chess resources, including video lectures, interactive quizzes, annotated games, and more. Our goal is to provide you with everything you need to become a formidable chess player.

Unlock the secrets of chess mastery and elevate your game to new heights. Join us at Chess King and embark on a journey that will transform you into a formidable chess player. Don't miss out on this opportunity to become a chess champion. Purchase the pack now and make your move towards greatness!"

This is a digital product. After you place the order, you will receive an email with activation code(s), link(s) and all instructions. We are available to answer your questions and help you activate or install your product(s).

Price: $249.99

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Chess King Complete 25

FULLY DIGITAL! You will get an email with activation code(s) and (download) link(s). Can be used on any number of devices you own (PC, Mac, iOS, Android), even simultaneously. Progress synchronized between devices. This is NOT a DVD, it's DIGITAL.

NEW FOR 2023: CHESS KING COMPLETE 25 – 25 Courses, All Platforms, Forever Access: Web, Mac/PC + mobile (iOS + Android)

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THE BEST 25 COURSES IN ALL AREAS OF CHESS TO GET YOU FROM BEGINNER TO MASTER

Chess King Learn is guaranteed to work on all platforms and in all languages

Chess King Complete 25 is a combo of the most important chess courses, levels 1 - 9 [Rating 200-2400]

web access Mac & PC and mobile iOS & Android in the Chess King app.

You also get web access on Mac or PC on the Chess King Learn site at learn.chessking.com and also on mobile (iOS & Android), see chessking.app for a description and the links to download the free Chess King app.

Chess King Complete 25 is a collection of the best courses that millions of young chess players have gone through and which have brought many of them to the level of master and grandmaster. There are over 100,000 exercises and examples for all areas of chess. You can access the courses directly in any web browser at learn.chessking.com or on any mobile phone or tablet via the free Chess King App (see chessking.app)

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This is the Complete 25 Pack of Chess King Learn.
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Price: $129.99

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Chess King Openings 10

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NEW FOR 2022: CHESS KING OPENINGS 10 – 10 Courses, All Platforms, Forever Access: Web, Mac/PC + mobile (iOS + Android)

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ALL YOU NEED TO GET YOUR OPENINGS UP TO SPEED

Chess King Learn is guaranteed to work on all platforms and in all languages

Chess King openings 10 is a combo of 10 openings courses, levels 5 - 9 [Rating 1400-2400]

web access Mac & PC and mobile iOS & Android in the Chess King app.

You also get web access on Mac or PC on the Chess King Learn site at learn.chessking.com and also on mobile (iOS & Android), see chessking.app for a description and the links to download the free Chess King app.

Chess King Openings 10 is a complete openings collection of 10 courses with over 8,000 exercises and examples for a range of chess openings. You can access the courses directly in any web browser at learn.chessking.com or on any mobile phone or tablet via the free Chess King App (see chessking.app)

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Courses included in Chess King Openings 10:

Typical mistakes in Openings
This chess course is designed to teach you how to play in the opening by exploring opening mistakes and their consequences. The training program covers various blunders in more than 40 different openings and contains over 1700 new teaching puzzles of varying difficulty, taken from real games in 2011-2020 year. All puzzles are guaranteed new, with no repetition with previous courses. Study chess opening and learn to see through traps in the opening, and set up your own!

Chess Opening Lab (ELO 1400-2000)
This is a great opening manual. It features a theoretical review of all the chess openings, which are illustrated by instructive games of the greatest chess players. This compact opening manual contains a detailed classification, which makes it useful to players of any level - beginners, intermediate and advanced players. Each opening variation is supplied with evaluations and characteristics of key moves. The history of the variations' development is described, as well as their current status. The theoretic material is nicely illustrated by classic games with detailed annotations that demonstrate the principal ideas and plans of each variation for White and Black. There is also a special training section with more than 350 exercises of various difficulty on more than 40 openings.

Mate in 2 (Win in the Opening)
The best way to improve your game is to train yourself on your computer in solving problems from practical games. Learn to attack and win in the opening: a great number of puzzles will give you a fine chance to master every standard method of attacking the king in your chosen opening and help you to come out on top in your future games. This course is intended for club players and includes more than 900 new puzzles for mating in the openings. All the puzzles are taken from practical games in 2011-2020 years and arranged according to the names of openings. All puzzles are guaranteed new, with no repetition with previous courses.

Modern Chess Openings 1 - Open Games (1. e4 e5)
This is an opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Openings 1 - Open Games (1.e4 e5) course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 858 games/lectures in total. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following openings: Petroff defense, Scotch game, Ruy Lopez defense, French Defense, Caro-Kann defense, Sicilian defense, King Indian defense, Queen's Gambit. Also the program includes more than 305 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

Modern Chess Openings 2 - Semi-Open Games (1. e4)
This is an opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening 2 - Semi-Open Games (1. e4) course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 426 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following variations of Sicilian Defense: System 2. c3, Scheveningen, Rauser Attack, Chelyabinsk variation, the systems with e7-e5, Dragon variation, Najdorf variation, Paulsen system, Closed system (2. Nc3), Moscow variation (2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5), Rossolimo variation (2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5), etc. Also the program includes 232 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

Modern Chess Openings 3 - Sicilian Defense (1. e4 c5)
This is an opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 3, Sicilian Defense course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 509 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following variations of Sicilian Defense: system 2.c3, Scheveningen, Rauser Attack, Chelyabinsk variation, the systems with e7-e5, Dragon variation, Najdorf variation, Paulsen system, Closed system (2.Nc3), Moscow variation (2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5), Rossolimo variation (2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5), etc. Also the program includes 401 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

Modern Chess Openings 4 - Semi-Closed Games (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6)
This is an opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 4, Semi-Closed Games (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6) course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 266 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the main variations of King's Indian defense and Gruenfeld defense. Also the program includes 368 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

Modern Chess Openings 5 - Semi-Closed Games (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6)
This is an opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 5, Semi-Closed Games (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6) course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 294 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following openings: Nimzo- Indian defense, Queen’s Indian defense and Catalan opening. Each opening variation is supplied with evaluations and characteristic of the key moves. Also the program includes 301 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

Modern Chess Openings 6 - Closed Games (1. d4 d5)
This is a openning manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 6, Closed Games (1. d4 d5) course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 416 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following openings: Queen’s gambit, Queen’s gambit accepted, Cambridge springs variation, Tarrasch defense, Slav defense. Also the program includes more than 202 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

Modern Chess Openings 7 - Other
This is an opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 7 course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 258 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following openings: English defense, Dutch defense, Queen’s pawn opening (1.d4 Nf6 2. Nf3), Benko gambit, Modern Benoni defense, RFeti opening, King’s Indian opening, Old Indian defense, Trompovsky opening, 1.b3, Sokolskiy opening. Also the program includes 323 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

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Premium All Chess Informant Category – FOREVER

Premium All Chess Informant Category - FOREVER


This subscription covers all the courses below, forever. At the moment there are 3, more could be added to this list in the future. This is a premium subscription, guaranteed without ads. After purchase you will get your purchase code, you will enter it on the Chess King Learn Site Subscribe page, after which the web access will be open to you (need to register if not yet done). Then if you wish download the iOS or Android app (links in the Chess King App page), those are free downloads. As soon as you link your mobile app to your Chess King account all your courses will open on iOS and Android. Progress will sync between all devices. You can install in as many devices you own as long as you are connected to the same Chess King account.


INFORMANT 3 COURSES
Learn Chess: From Beginner to Club Player
Encyclopedia Chess Combinations Vol. 1 Informant Tactics

Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations vol. 1 (ECC vol. 1) is the ultimate educational tool with systematic, carefully selected content for player with ELO 2000. The material is based on the latest edition of the eponymous bestselling book released by Chess Informant. This volume contains chess combination of Basic Level (ELO 2000) for solving, all hand-picked and sorted by theme to provide the most exciting and efficient training experience possible! Unlike disorganized, basic tactics you can learn all over the Internet, this Chess Sphinx will challenge you consistently and systematically, unveiling new intricacies right when you decide you have mastered that particular tactic.

Chess Tactics for BeginnersEncyclopedia Chess Combinations Vol. 2 Informant Tactics

Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations vol. 2 (ECC vol. 2) is the ultimate educational tool with systematic, carefully selected content for player with ELO 2200. The material is based on the latest edition of the eponymous bestselling book released by Chess Informant. This volume contains chess combination of Intermediate Level (ELO 2200) for solving, all hand-picked and sorted by theme to provide the most exciting and efficient training experience possible! Unlike disorganized, basic tactics you can learn all over the Internet, this Chess Sphinx will challenge you consistently and systematically, unveiling new intricacies right when you decide you have mastered that particular tactic.

Chess Tactics for BeginnersEncyclopedia Chess Combinations Vol. 3 Informant Tactics

Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations vol. 3 (ECC vol. 3) is the ultimate educational tool with systematic, carefully selected content for player with ELO 2400. The material is based on the latest edition of the eponymous bestselling book released by Chess Informant. This volume contains chess combination of Advanced Level (ELO 2400) for solving, all hand-picked and sorted by theme to provide the most exciting and efficient training experience possible! Unlike disorganized, basic tactics you can learn all over the Internet, this Chess Sphinx will challenge you consistently and systematically, unveiling new intricacies right when you decide you have mastered that particular tactic.

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Upgrade Chess Assistant to 24 (download)

Upgrade your Chess Assistant to Chess Assistant 24. Enter your Chess Assistant serial number into the comments field when ordering. It's the exact same product as the Chess Assistant 24 product but it's cheaper for current users.

What's new in Chess Assistant 24:

  • 3-month Chess King LEARN subscription, giving access to 75+ courses available both on the website and in mobile apps! The courses are available in 9 European languages, sorted by category and difficulty level, and include such gems as Chess Tactics for Beginners 2.0Chess: From Beginner to Club PlayerChess StrategyChess Middlegame series, several courses from CT-ART and Chess Tactics in the Opening series and more.
  • Updated databases now contain 8 million games in total!
  • Premium Game Service 2024 - auto database updates for 2024

Chess Assistant 24 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess through the Internet, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.

Chess Assistant 24 includes grandmaster level playing programs, Chess Opening Encyclopedia mode, a powerful search system, the unique Tree mode, databases of about 8 million games in total (Dec. 1, 2021) that can be automaticaly updated 3000 new games every week for free, 3-month access to all courses at Chess King Learn (How to activate Chess King Learn bonus subscription) and more!

In addition to the grandmaster level engine Rybka 4 coming with the package, Stockfish, the confirmed leader among chess playing programs, will be automatically downloaded and plugged in upon installation.

Stockfish and Rybka can perform any type of analysis: multi-pass game analysis, Interactive analysis, Background analysis.

You can easily connect Chess Assistant 24 to any other UCI playing programs like Komodo. The programs can perform various analysis tasks for any needs:

Automatic opening annotation searches for novelty, adds expert annotations from the Opening Encyclopedia, CAP evaluations, inserts reference games etc.

Search for blunders reveals bad moves.

Multi-pass game analysis is an advanced analysis method to fine-tune each step of the search. You can even choose different engines for each phase of the game.

Analysis markers allow you to mark selected positions for automatic analysis at a later time.

Interactive analysis allows you guide the engine in its analysis and pick lines, remembering the results.

Chess Opening Encyclopedia includes rich theoretical material on all openings, more than 8000 annotations by GM Kalinin and 40 million evaluations by strongest engines key positions. Customizable key system.

When it comes to searching, you will not find a more powerful system. Chess Assistant 24 offers search by position, header, maneuvers, material, comments, novelty search, advanced search by material in 12 regions of the board and more!

Language versions: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian.

System Requirements: 256 RAM, 4 Gb, Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, Internet connection during installation.


Full Review

Chess Assistant 24 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess online, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.

Chess Assistant has a long history of innovative and advanced analysis functions and now, with a built-in CQL search system, it has also taken the lead in advanced search functionality.

To get a better idea of Chess Assistant features you can watch short training videos.

The package includes grandmaster level playing engines, Chess Opening Encyclopedia, a powerful search system, a unique Tree mode, databases of 8 million games in total (as of December 1, 2021), 1-year Premium Game Service (3000 new games each week by Internet), 3-month subscription to Chess King Learn with 75+ courses and much more.

Stockfish 12 – The World Rating Lists Leader

Chess Assistant 24 auto-installs the strongest chess engine Stockfish 10, in addition to the good old Rybka 4 that comes with the package. Stockfish is leading in most independent computer chess rating lists. No serious chess player can be without Stockfish!

Opening Studies – Stay Organized with Opening Tables

Chess Opening Encyclopedia contains rich theoretical material on all openings. It contains over 8.000 annotations from GM Kalinin and 40 million evaluations by the strongest engines. The detailed key system for all openings can be edited to suit your needs.

Opening Tables is a revolutionary way of creating, maintaining and studying your opening repertoire. Base your studies on the Opening Encyclopedia, customize it with your own moves and evaluations, enhance your favorite variations or create your own private opening repertoire. Working on your opening repertoire finally becomes the creative and enjoyable task it should be!

Opening Test Mode allows you to test your knowledge and skills in openings.

Analysis – Automatic, Manual and Background Analysis

Infinite analysis offers a wide range of options to customize the analysis to your needs:

  • Include/exclude selected moves from analysis
  • Multivariation and adjourned multivariation mode
  • Analyse simultaneously with several different chess engines
  • Check moves in game or annotations
  • Search for additional moves
  • Analyse position from both sides at the same time
  • One- or two-panel display of analysis

Automatic opening annotation searches for novelty, adds expert annotations from the Opening Encyclopedia, CAP evaluations, inserts reference games etc.

Search for blunders automatically analyzes your games and annotates mistakes.

Multi-pass game analysis is an advanced game analysis method with flexible options to fine-tune each step of the search. You can even choose different engines for each phase of the game.

Analysis markers allow you to mark selected positions for automatic analysis at a later time.

Interactive analysis lets you to work with the engine, allowing it to analyze a position, and then guide it in its analysis without forgetting its conclusions.

Background Analysis is the most powerful position analysis tool in the extensive Chess Assistant arsenal. The analysis takes place in a background process, allowing you to continue working in Chess Assistant during the analysis. If you run into an interesting position, simply send it to background analysis while you continue your own analysis.

Background analysis can be split between two or more processors on the same computer or distributed automatically to several networked computers.

Tablebase analysis gives you a precise evaluation of endgames with 3-6 pieces (tablebases required).

Database Search – Standard Searches & CQL

Standard searches. When it comes to searching, you will not find a more powerful system than Chess Assistant. It offers all the types of standard searches you would expect for a chess database:

  • Search by position, header, maneuvers, material, comments, etc.
  • Novelty search
  • Advanced search with simultaneous specification of material in 12 regions on the board

You can search through multiple databases and searches can be saved, enabling you to run them again at a later time. The program also keeps track of your most recent searches so you can quickly modify them and search again.

CQL (Chess Query Language). CQL is simply put the most powerful search method currently available for chess databases. If you have ever run into the limitations of standard search methods, CQL is for you. Mastering Chess Assistant’s CQL allows you to perform searches you could only dream of with any other chess database system.

Composite search allows you to store and organize your CQL queries into a hierachical structure, give them descriptive names, and set up a diagram of a typical position. This allows you to build a library of useful search criteria.

Databases and Premium Game Service

Chess Assistant 24 includes two databases of 8 million in total:
- HugeBase database (as of December 1, 2021) - 7 279 000 million games
- Correspondence database - 596 000+ games.

Premium Game Service: subscription for full database updates with games played from December 1, 2023 till December 31, 2024, in Chess Assistant and PGN formats (supported by Fritz, Chess Base and Aquarium).

  • Subscribe and get new games weekly by Internet through Chess Assistant 24
  • Get full version of database without duplicate games.

Classifiers – Organize Your Chess Data

A database of chess games is a rather unwieldy collection of data. Of course you can sort the games, search etc. but all of this is temporary.

The next time you open the database you will see the same list of games without any useful structure. If you want to repeat a search, you have to enter all the search criteria from scratch and then search again.

Classifiers allow you to organize your chess data into nested folders in a similar way as you organize your hard disk into folders. Each folder in a classifier can contain:

  • Icon. The icon serves as a reminder for the data contained in the folder.
  • Text. A text description of the folder.
  • Position. This could for instance be a critical position from an opening.
  • Any search criteria, which allows games to be automatically classified with just a mouse click. This is of course a very powerful feature. An example is a classifier for endgames (pawn endgames, rook endgames etc.). Whenever you update your database, all you need to do is refresh the search in order to classify the endgames that occur in the new games.
  • A list of games. Games can be included in the list either manually or automatically based on a search criteria.
  • Chess tree. You can store chess trees in a classifier folder. This could for instance be detailed analysis results for an opening variation, while only the most important variations are shown in a game annotation.
  • Another classifier, allowing practically unlimited flexibility in the structure of classifiers.
  • Multimedia information: images, audio and video.

Chess Trees – State of the Art

Chess Assistant offers state of the art chess trees:

  • Transpositions are automatically detected
  • New trees can be created from any collection of games
  • Detailed information is displayed about positions: Human evaluations, computer evaluations, and various statistics
  • Games can be annotated automatically based on information in a tree.

Game Annotations and Global Annotations

Chess Assistant supports all types of game annotations, from simple text to multimedia content:

  • Add and manage variations (promote etc.).
  • Powerful annotation editor makes it easy to add Chess Informant symbols, engine evaluations and verbal commentary.
  • Assign visual styles to moves so they stand out in the notation. You can search for games based on styles.
  • Use any of 30 standard classes to classify important games or instructive positions. The same game can belong to multiple classes (e.g. Tactics and Kingside attack). Search for games belonging to specific classes.
  • Organize games with a flexible, user defined, Windows Explorer style Classifier.
  • Display board graphics and insert diagrams at selected point in the notation.
  • Add multimedia annotations (images, video and audio) to moves.
  • Reference games can be inserted from a database, and endgame information from tablebases. All of this can be done manually or through any of the automatic game analysis methods.

As useful as game annotations are, they have one drawback: They are tied to a particular game. When you run into the same position in a different game, how would you like to get a reminder saying: Hey, you have annotated this position before!” Well, in Chess Assistant you can annotate trees and tree annotations are “global”, meaning that they are displayed whenever the same position arises – in all databases.

Playing Features

If you want to play a game of chess against the computer, Chess Assistant offers a variety of engines and options:

  • Wide selection of time controls and other playing options
  • Handicap engine included (Dragon)
  • DGT board support with voice announcement of moves
  • Powerful opening book editor allows you to adapt the opening choice of the chess engine to your needs.

Database Compatibility: Chessbase and Chess Assistant

Chess Assistant supports all the most popular chess database formats, which means that your current database can most likely be used in Chess Assistant:

  • Chess Assistant’s own efficient database format (CDP)
  • Chessbase (CBH, readonly)
  • PGN (Portable Game Notation)
  • EPD (Extended Position Description)

Optionally you can open and save databases in Zip-format in order to save space and conveniently send and receive databases by email.

Strong Chess Engine Support

Chess Assistant is compatible with most modern commercial and free chess engines. It supports a variety of protocols for communicating with chess engines, such as UCI, UCI2, WinBoard and MCS. In layman terms, this means that Chess Assistant gives you an unparalleled choice of chess engines for analysis and play.

  • Support for all popular engines
  • Winboard support – Ruffian and Crafty are included, built-in support for over 50 others, available via free download
  • Hundreds of chess engines to choose from, including specialized mate solvers. Most of them are available via free download
  • Automatic test set processing with comprehensive reporting features.

Chess King LEARN Courses

Chess Assistant 24 comes with 3-month access to all courses available at learn.chessking.com.

How to activate Chess King Learn bonus subscription

So far, the collection consists of 75+ courses available in 9 European languages, sorted by category and difficulty level, and includes such gems as Chess Tactics for Beginners 2.0Chess: From Beginner to Club PlayerChess StrategyChess Middlegame series, several courses from CT-ART and Chess Tactics in the Opening series and more.

Documentation & Updates

Manuals

Sergey Rublevsky, Russian Chess Champion: “I have been using Chess Assistant with great pleasure for more than 10 years already.”

Language versions: English, Spanish, German, French and Italian versions are available.

System requirements: PC, 256 MB RAM, 4GB of free disk space, Windows 10/8/7/XP/Vista, Internet connection during installation.

Price: $74.95

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Chess King Strategy/Endgames 5

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NEW FOR 2022: CHESS KING STRATEGY & ENDGAMES 5 – 5 Courses, All Platforms, Forever Access: Web, Mac/PC + mobile (iOS + Android)

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Chess King Strategy 5 is a combo of 4 strategy courses and 1 complete endgame course, levels 4 - 9 [Rating 1000-2400]

You get web access on Mac or PC on the Chess King Learn site at learn.chessking.com and also on mobile (iOS & Android), see chessking.app for a description and the links to download the free Chess King app.

Chess King Strategy 5 is a collection of 4 strategy courses and 1 complete endgame course with over 7,000 exercises and examples about strategy and endgames. You can access the courses directly in any web browser at learn.chessking.com or on any mobile phone or tablet via the free Chess King App (see chessking.app)

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Courses included in Chess Strategy 5:

Chess Strategy for Beginners
This course is an interactive tutorial for those unexperienced players, both children and adults, who have already learnt the rules of chess and now wish to become players of intermediate strength. This course covers a wide range of opening, middlegame and endgame subjects. It starts off by teaching you how to checkmate the lone king and proceeds to more advanced topics, such as utilizing a material or positional advantage. This program includes 55 lessons with more than 1200 instructive examples and exercises. This course turns a beginner into an intermediate player!

Chess Strategy & Tactics Vol 1 (1600-2000 ELO)
This is a course for club players based on a textbook by a distinguished Russian chess trainer Victor Golenishchev. The source material is supplemented with examples of play by lead chess players from the latest major contests and is organized in chess lessons. The course contains 57 themes, including theoretical material and practical exercises. The theoretical part includes more than 400 examples of play. The practical part includes more than 200 exercises of varying difficulty.

Chess Strategy & Tactics Vol 2 (1800-2200 ELO)
This is a course for intermediate players based on a textbook by a distinguished Russian chess trainer Victor Golenishchev. The source material is supplemented with examples of play by lead chess players from the latest major contests and is organized in chess lessons. The course contains 34 themes, including theoretical material and practical exercises. The theoretical part includes more than 290 examples of play. The practical part includes more than 750 exercises of varying difficulty.

Chess Strategy (1800-2400)
This chess program presents many instructive positions with 18 most important strategic themes such as Advantage in development, Advantage in space, Attack on the king, Attack on the queenside, Weak squares, Pawn structure, Open files and diagonals and others.

Total Chess Endgames (1600-2400 ELO)
Total Chess Endings course composed by GM Alexander Panchenko. It's aim is to teach a student the intricacies of the endgame through a theoretical section, which includes over 600 games/lectures, each of them illustrating theoretical and practical endgame methods, and training section, with more than 2400 endgame exercises, classified according to 500 endgame themes. The material written by IM ICCF Alexander Alpert.

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Chess King Beginners 6

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Chess King Beginners6 is a combo of the best 6 courses that will help you go from nothing to proficient at chess. For players Unrated to 1400.

You get web access on Mac or PC on the Chess King Learn site at learn.chessking.com and also on mobile (iOS & Android), see chessking.app for a description and the links to download the free Chess King app.

You can access the courses directly in any web browser at learn.chessking.com or on any mobile phone or tablet via the free Chess King App (see chessking.app)

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Courses included in Beginner's Pack 6:

Chess: Year 1
It's never too late to learn how to play chess - one of the most popular games in the world! This course will help you start learning chess from scratch. You will learn all about the chessboard, the moves of the pieces and the basic chess concepts, after which you can already play your first game! Also, some of the basic checkmating techniques, the tasks for checkmate in 1-2 moves and the examples of draw positions are covered in the course. In addition, you will be able to master the "double attack" tactical method to hit your opponents at the beginning of your chess way.

Chess: Year 2
This course is a continuation of the first year program. It covers the basic principles of the game in the opening, as well as various techniques and methods for attacking the king in the middlegame. You will get acquainted with such important concepts as a double attack, a pin, decoy, deflection, etc. In addition, you will learn how to prepare and implement tactical combinations, as well as finding weaknesses and using the opponent's mistakes. The course is intended for beginner chess players who wish to improve their playing skills.

Chess: Year 3
With "Chess: Year 3" (ELO 1200-1400) you receive access to 34 lessons that will go deeper into tactical play and introduce opening principles and popular gambits. The training course is prepared by the famous coach and International master Sergei Slugin and includes 287 instructive examples on 34 lessons and 372 exercises (chess puzzles). The program will give hints if you make a wrong move. Each lesson includes 2 parts: theory (a fully voiced and animated video lesson) and practice (10-20 interactive exercises).

Complete Chess Course 1
Chess King's Complete Chess Course is the quickest and easiest way to learn the chess basics, the patterns, tips, strategies, techniques which will turn you from a beginner into an accomplished chess player. The video format makes it super simple to improve your chess. Just watch, listen and learn. You'll be surprised at how fast your play improves after you watch Chess King's Complete Chess Course. The Complete Chess Course is a fountain of knowledge and a great help to parents and coaches. The set contains over 4 hours of structured instruction with hundreds of ready-to-use examples of sound chess fundamentals. Chess opening Principles. Demonstrates that you don't need to try to memorize hundreds of openings variations as long as you play the opening by following several common basic ideas. You'll learn all about fast development, centralization, mobility, and defense, all of which will help you get a good position which will lead directly into a playable middle game. 20 chapters, 90 minutes.

Complete Chess Course 2
Chess King's Complete Chess Course is the quickest and easiest way to learn the chess basics, the patterns, tips, strategies, techniques which will turn you from a beginner into an accomplished chess player. The video format makes it super simple to improve your chess. Just watch, listen and learn. You'll be surprised at how fast your play improves after you watch Chess King's Complete Chess Course. The Complete Chess Course is a fountain of knowledge and a great help to parents and coaches. The set contains over 4 hours of structured instruction with hundreds of ready-to-use examples of sound chess fundamentals. Basic Tactics and Strategy. You'll discover a variety of tactical weapons that you could use over and over again to win material and gain an advantage over your opponents. You'll also learn all about chess strategy, plans and formations that will provide you with a lasting edge. 27 chapters, 100 minutes.

Complete Chess Course 3
Chess King's Complete Chess Course is the quickest and easiest way to learn the chess basics, the patterns, tips, strategies, techniques which will turn you from a beginner into an accomplished chess player. The video format makes it super simple to improve your chess. Just watch, listen and learn. You'll be surprised at how fast your play improves after you watch Chess King's Complete Chess Course. The Complete Chess Course is a fountain of knowledge and a great help to parents and coaches. The set contains over 4 hours of structured instruction with hundreds of ready-to-use examples of sound chess fundamentals. When few pieces are left on the board, knowing the proper procedures can spell the difference between victory and defeat. 22 chapters, 45 minutes + bonus material.

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Mark Dvoretsky is well known as the world's leading chess trainer. Many of his pupils have won World and European championships in their youth and got Grandmaster titles later on; Among them, Artur Yusupov, Nana Aleksandria, Sergey Dolmatov, and Aleksey Dreev took part in candidates' matches for the world championship. To a certain degree, the secret of many Soviet Grandmasters was due to Dvoretsky's efficient method of chess training, as well as with his unique exercise cardfile.
In particular, there are many extremely instructive positional exercises as well as exercises designed for developing the qualities required for the practical player - searching in an optimal way and taking the right decisions. These exercises help, for example, to develop one's positional feeling, imagination, calculation technique, the art of setting traps or exchanging pieces favorably at the right moment... Not long ago, this cardfile was available only to his carefully selected pupils.
Now, after extensive work computerizing, classifying, and verifying the material, it’s now possible for every aspiring chess playing to own it. It is particularly useful for advanced players - from experts to grandmasters. The computerized system enables you to use modern training methods which either were unavailable previously or could be used only in direct work with a trainer. It will bring first-class material to chess players and chess teachers to serve them for years, and help them to significantly improve their playing level.
This combo includes 5 courses with 200 carefully selected exercises each for expert, master and advanced players (ELO 2000 – 2400) on the following chess themes: Strategy and Plan Calculation of Variations Endgame Technique Defending Inferior Positions. In total 1,000 extremely interesting, challenging, and useful exercises.

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Chess King 22 for PC (Download)

Chess King 22 Download [New for 2022]

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Introduced December 2021: New Chess King 22 for Windows

The new Chess King 22 is considerably improved from the original Chess King or from any of the previous versions of Chess King. It is compatible with Windows 10 and 11 (or any previous version Windows) and has an updated GigaKing database with games till end of November of 2021, a full opening tree, and many playing modes. For analysis, it includes the Grandmaster engine Rybka with a rating of 2961 ELO and an automatic installer for the engine Stockfish with a rating above 3400 ELO. It’s the perfect tool for any chess player to improve at chess, by playing, analyzing one's games, solving thousands of chess exercises. Provides a complete chess program at an unbelievably low price.

 

Note! This product is the Windows version only. We have a separate Mac version in our shop.

If you own a previous version of Chess King you can use the discounted upgrade option to buy Chess King 22. Mention your previous Chess King Serial number to qualify.

 

BONUS: To help you improve faster, we include a 3-month Free subscription to 74 Complete Chess King courses from Chess King Learn. They can be used on any computer browser (Mac or PC), and on any portable device (iOS or Android). The courses can also be downloaded to your device and used offline.
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Includes the Grandmaster engine Rybka (ELO 2961) and an automatic installer for Stockfish with ELO over 3400.
The PC version is compatible with all windows versions from XP, Vista, 7, 8 to the most recent Windows 10.
It can be installed and use in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian.
Internet connection required only to download the program.
Chess King will help you improve at chess. It’s complete with all the best tools, and it’s easy to use for all levels. Play, learn, analyze, prepare for your opponent, store your own games and share them to the world.

 

Main features of Chess King 22

 

• Grandmaster engine Rybka
• Automatic installer for Stockfish engine
• Huge opening tree with evaluations and success for each move
• GigaKing 2021 games database of over 8 million games
• Classical (any level), Random, Puzzle (1500 puzzles) and Quest modes (100 games)
• Prepare for your opponent, opening and custom trees

 

Description of Chess King 22

 

Chess King 22 is a new and versatile tool for chess players and is an ideal introduction for the beginner, a challenging opponent for the practiced amateur, and an invaluable coach for the aspiring master. Chess King 22 emphasizes simplicity of use in training players. However, it is more than just a traditional training program as it includes an extremely strong chess engine and a huge professional database. It is also a convenient tool for analyzing and studying one's opponent before facing them at a tournament. Buying Chess King 22 is like getting several products and paying only for one, a professional chess software playing and analysis system, the largest game database available GigaKing, the grandmaster chess engines Rybka and Stockfish, 1500 chess puzzles for all chess levels, a unique random playing mode, and much, much more. Included: Rybka, GigaKing Database of over 8 million games, Full opening tree, Chess puzzles, over one hundred opening positions, Photos of over 1600 chess players. Rybka - a chess engine rated well above 2900 Elo is a good choice for analysis. Considering such a strong engine can be frustrating to play against, Rybka includes various kinds of handicaps that can be set up using the Chess King interface. The GigaKing database is updated up to the end of 2021 and includes a full opening tree. Full Chess960 support. The program is very easy to use, with several video tutorials available on the publisher's site and a possibility to send questions and feedback to the manufacturers.

 

Get yourself Chess King or surprise a loved one with the best chess gift of the year.

 

Play in Classical Mode

 

You can play at any level you choose, from a rating of 800 to 3200, either with white or black, and either for fun (not counting for rating, you can take back moves), or in rated mode. Your games will automatically be saved in your games database and you will be able to analyze them in detail with the Grandmaster engine to see what mistakes have been made.

 

Have fun in the Random Mode

 

The Random Mode is exclusive to Chess King, in which you can choose what advantage you want to start the game with and the number of pieces you want to have on the board. For example suppose you want to start with an advantage of +6 (the equivalent of 6 pawns advantage), Chess King will randomly select a starting position with the characteristics you decide and then you will play that position against Rybka for Chess King or Stockfish if you installed it, at the highest level. Anybody should win with such a crushing starting advantage, but you’ll see it’s not that easy!

 

Setup any position

 

You can set up any position you like and then analyze it or even play it.

 

Search in the GigaKing Database

 

Look out for games of your favorite players in the GigaKing database. For example a search for Magnus Carlsen will give more than 2,000 games including all the games he played in official tournaments and many of his published exhibition matches and simultaneous exhibitions.

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Learn with the Puzzle Mode

 

You will learn with the puzzle mode, with hundreds of exercises from beginner level until Grandmaster level. Chess King 22 will congratulate you for your success and tell you where you went wrong.

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Huge Opening Tree

 

In the Analysis pane at the beginning of the game, either while analyzing some master game or when entering your own games in your own games database, you can follow the opening tree move by move to see what moves have been played in the whole history of chess and how much success they have had. It’s now easy to study a whole opening just by browsing opening moves, selecting lines, watching games of interest, and learning the ideas behind the opening moves.

 

Whole Game Evaluation graph and Engine Analysis

 

In the Analysis Pane after the opening stage one sees the game notation and comments, the whole game evaluation graph and below the best lines calculated by the engine. In this position below black could have taken the advantage by taking the pawn on e5, giving an evaluation of -0.86 (Black would have an advantage of close to 1 pawn equivalent), and instead played a bad move a4, which gave an evaluation of +0.49, which means white is up the equivalent of 1/2 pawn. With Chess King 22 you will know the best moves in each position.

 

We also just published a very complete manual for Chess King that you can download here (23 MB):
http://chessking.net/manuals/ChessKingManual201512.pdf

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Bonus: Free Access to Chess King Learn Online

 

When you buy the Chess King 22, you get 3 month free access to dozens of high quality online chess courses at learn.chessking.com as well as all those courses in either iOS or Android Apps on your iPhone/iPad/phone or tablet. That's an enormous amount of chess educational material at your fingertips during the free subscription period.

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Check out the free tutorial videos on Chess King 4 (applicable also to the new Chess King 22)
by Alexandra Kosteniuk and Steve Lopez, that’s over 2 hours of training, at this link.
After you successfully pay you should get an email with all links and instructions within 1-3 hours, no later than within 24 hours. If you have any questions about your order, email Diego to support

Old Price: $69.95

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Chess King TV – ALL 20 Courses Maximum Video Download Pack

All the 20 videos on ChessKing.tv:

3 Complete Chess Course
3 Chess Opening Ideas
4 Chess King Openings
7 Chess King Traps and Tactics in the Openings
1 Basic Moves
1 Winning Quickly Tactics
1 Winning with the World Champions

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Approximately 40 hours of video.
Each course approximately 300-500 mb in size.
Possible to download individually each course.
Format is unprotected MP4 files, can use in any media player.

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Chess King 22 for Mac (Download)

Chess King 22 for Mac Download [New for 2022]

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AVAILABLE TODAY: New Chess King 22 for Mac

 

We finally have the new Chess King for Mac, it works on all Macs with Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave, 10.15 Catalina, Mac OS 11 Big Sur, and Mac OS 12 Monterey up to 12.5. It also works with both Intel and the brand new M1 Macs. After Apple changed its OS and stopped supporting 32-bit programs, we had to work hard to make Chess King compatible, here it is!

 

The new Chess King 22 is considerably improved from the original Chess King or from any of the previous versions of Chess King. It has an updated GigaKing database with more than 8 million games, a full opening tree, and many playing modes. For analysis, it includes the Grandmaster engine Rybka with a rating of 2961 ELO and an automatic installer for the engine Stockfish with a rating above 3400 ELO. It’s the perfect tool for any chess player to improve at chess, by playing, analyzing one's games, solving thousands of chess exercises. Provides a complete chess program at an unbelievably low price.
This product is the Mac version only.

 

NOTE: If you have a previous version of Chess King, you can buy an upgrade to Chess King 22 at a lower price.

 

BONUS: To help you improve faster, we include a 3-month Free subscription to 74 Complete Chess King courses from Chess King Learn. They can be used on any computer browser (Mac or PC), and on any portable device (iOS or Android). The courses can also be downloaded to your mobile device and used offline.
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Includes the Grandmaster engine Rybka (ELO 2961) and an automatic installer for Stockfish with ELO over 3400.
The Mac version is compatible with all recent past versions of the Mac up to the current Mac OS 11 Big Sur (on Intel or M1 Macs).
It can be installed and use in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian.
Internet connection required only to download the program.
Chess King will help you improve at chess. It’s complete with all the best tools, and it’s easy to use for all levels. Play, learn, analyze, prepare for your opponent, store your own games and share them to the world.

 

Main features of Chess King 22

 

• Grandmaster engine Rybka
• Automatic installer for Stockfish engine
• Huge opening tree with evaluations and success for each move
• GigaKing 2021 games database of over 8 million games
• Classical (any level), Random, Puzzle (1500 puzzles) and Quest modes (100 games)
• Prepare for your opponent, opening and custom trees

 

Description of Chess King 22

 

Chess King 22 is a new and versatile tool for chess players and is an ideal introduction for the beginner, a challenging opponent for the practiced amateur, and an invaluable coach for the aspiring master. Chess King 22 emphasizes simplicity of use in training players. However, it is more than just a traditional training program as it includes an extremely strong chess engine and a huge professional database. It is also a convenient tool for analyzing and studying one's opponent before facing them at a tournament. Buying Chess King 22 is like getting several products and paying only for one, a professional chess software playing and analysis system, the largest game database available GigaKing, the grandmaster chess engines Rybka and Stockfish, 1500 chess puzzles for all chess levels, a unique random playing mode, and much, much more. Included: Rybka, GigaKing Database of over 8 million games, Full opening tree, Chess puzzles, over one hundred opening positions, Photos of over 1600 chess players. Rybka - a chess engine rated well above 2900 Elo is a good choice for analysis. Considering such a strong engine can be frustrating to play against, Rybka includes various kinds of handicaps that can be set up using the Chess King interface. The GigaKing database is updated up to the end of 2021 and includes a full opening tree. Full Chess960 support. The program is very easy to use, with several video tutorials available on the publisher's site and a possibility to send questions and feedback to the manufacturers.

 

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Play in Classical Mode

 

You can play at any level you choose, from a rating of 800 to 3200, either with white or black, and either for fun (not counting for rating, you can take back moves), or in rated mode. Your games will automatically be saved in your games database and you will be able to analyze them in detail with the Grandmaster engine to see what mistakes have been made.

 

Have fun in the Random Mode

 

The Random Mode is exclusive to Chess King, in which you can choose what advantage you want to start the game with and the number of pieces you want to have on the board. For example suppose you want to start with an advantage of +6 (the equivalent of 6 pawns advantage), Chess King will randomly select a starting position with the characteristics you decide and then you will play that position against Rybka, or Stockfish if you have installed it, at the highest level. Anybody should win with such a crushing starting advantage, but you’ll see it’s not that easy!

 

Setup any position

 

You can set up any position you like and then analyze it or even play it.

 

Search in the GigaKing Database

 

Look out for games of your favorite players in the GigaKing database. For example a search for Magnus Carlsen will give more than 2,000 games including all the games he played in official tournaments and many of his published exhibition matches and simultaneous exhibitions.

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Learn with the Puzzle Mode

 

You will learn with the puzzle mode, with hundreds of exercises from beginner level until Grandmaster level. Chess King 22 will congratulate you for your success and tell you where you went wrong.

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Huge Opening Tree

 

In the Analysis pane at the beginning of the game, either while analyzing some master game or when entering your own games in your own games database, you can follow the opening tree move by move to see what moves have been played in the whole history of chess and how much success they have had. It’s now easy to study a whole opening just by browsing opening moves, selecting lines, watching games of interest, and learning the ideas behind the opening moves.

 

Whole Game Evaluation graph and Engine Analysis

 

In the Analysis Pane after the opening stage one sees the game notation and comments, the whole game evaluation graph and below the best lines calculated by the engine. In this position below black could have taken the advantage by taking the pawn on e5, giving an evaluation of -0.86 (Black would have an advantage of close to 1 pawn equivalent), and instead played a bad move a4, which gave an evaluation of +0.49, which means white is up the equivalent of 1/2 pawn. With Chess King 22 you will know the best moves in each position.

 

We also just published a very complete manual for Chess King that you can download here (23 MB):
http://chessking.net/manuals/ChessKingManual201512.pdf

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Bonus: Free Access to Chess King Learn Online

 

When you buy the Chess King 22, you get 3 month free access to dozens of high quality online chess courses at learn.chessking.com as well as all those courses in either iOS or Android Apps on your iPhone/iPad/phone or tablet. That's an enormous amount of chess educational material at your fingertips during the free subscription period.

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Check out the free tutorial videos on Chess King 4 (applicable also to the new Chess King 22)
by Alexandra Kosteniuk and Steve Lopez, that’s over 2 hours of training, at this link.
After you successfully pay you should get an email with all links and instructions within 1-3 hours, no later than within 24 hours. If you have any questions about your order, email Diego to support

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Chess Assistant 22 (download)

What's new in Chess Assistant 22:

  • 3-month Chess King LEARN subscription, giving access to 75+ courses available both on the website and in mobile apps! The courses are available in 9 European languages, sorted by category and difficulty level, and include such gems as Chess Tactics for Beginners 2.0Chess: From Beginner to Club PlayerChess StrategyChess Middlegame series, several courses from CT-ART and Chess Tactics in the Opening series and more.
  • Updated databases now contain 8 million games in total!
  • Premium Game Service 2022 - auto database updates for 2022

Chess Assistant 22 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess through the Internet, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.

Chess Assistant 22 includes grandmaster level playing programs, Chess Opening Encyclopedia mode, a powerful search system, the unique Tree mode, databases of about 8 million games in total (Dec. 1, 2021) that can be automaticaly updated 3000 new games every week for free, 3-month access to all courses at Chess King Learn (How to activate Chess King Learn bonus subscription) and more!

In addition to the grandmaster level engine Rybka 4 coming with the package, Stockfish, the confirmed leader among chess playing programs, will be automatically downloaded and plugged in upon installation.

Stockfish and Rybka can perform any type of analysis: multi-pass game analysis, Interactive analysis, Background analysis.

You can easily connect Chess Assistant 22 to any other UCI playing programs like Komodo. The programs can perform various analysis tasks for any needs:

Automatic opening annotation searches for novelty, adds expert annotations from the Opening Encyclopedia, CAP evaluations, inserts reference games etc.

Search for blunders reveals bad moves.

Multi-pass game analysis is an advanced analysis method to fine-tune each step of the search. You can even choose different engines for each phase of the game.

Analysis markers allow you to mark selected positions for automatic analysis at a later time.

Interactive analysis allows you guide the engine in its analysis and pick lines, remembering the results.

Chess Opening Encyclopedia includes rich theoretical material on all openings, more than 8000 annotations by GM Kalinin and 40 million evaluations by strongest engines key positions. Customizable key system.

When it comes to searching, you will not find a more powerful system. Chess Assistant 22 offers search by position, header, maneuvers, material, comments, novelty search, advanced search by material in 12 regions of the board and more!

Language versions: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian.

System Requirements: 256 RAM, 4 Gb, Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, Internet connection during installation.


Full Review

Chess Assistant 22 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess online, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.

Chess Assistant has a long history of innovative and advanced analysis functions and now, with a built-in CQL search system, it has also taken the lead in advanced search functionality.To get a better idea of Chess Assistant features you can watch short training videos.

The package includes grandmaster level playing engines, Chess Opening Encyclopedia, a powerful search system, a unique Tree mode, databases of 8 million games in total (as of December 1, 2021), 1-year Premium Game Service (3000 new games each week by Internet), 3-month subscription to Chess King Learn with 75+ courses and much more.

Stockfish 12 – The World Rating Lists Leader

Chess Assistant 22 auto-installs the strongest chess engine Stockfish 10, in addition to the good old Rybka 4 that comes with the package. Stockfish is leading in most independent computer chess rating lists. No serious chess player can be without Stockfish!

Opening Studies – Stay Organized with Opening Tables

Chess Opening Encyclopedia contains rich theoretical material on all openings. It contains over 8.000 annotations from GM Kalinin and 40 million evaluations by the strongest engines. The detailed key system for all openings can be edited to suit your needs.Opening Tables is a revolutionary way of creating, maintaining and studying your opening repertoire. Base your studies on the Opening Encyclopedia, customize it with your own moves and evaluations, enhance your favorite variations or create your own private opening repertoire. Working on your opening repertoire finally becomes the creative and enjoyable task it should be!

Opening Test Mode allows you to test your knowledge and skills in openings.

Analysis – Automatic, Manual and Background Analysis

Infinite analysis offers a wide range of options to customize the analysis to your needs:

  • Include/exclude selected moves from analysis
  • Multivariation and adjourned multivariation mode
  • Analyse simultaneously with several different chess engines
  • Check moves in game or annotations
  • Search for additional moves
  • Analyse position from both sides at the same time
  • One- or two-panel display of analysis

Automatic opening annotation searches for novelty, adds expert annotations from the Opening Encyclopedia, CAP evaluations, inserts reference games etc.

Search for blunders automatically analyzes your games and annotates mistakes.

Multi-pass game analysis is an advanced game analysis method with flexible options to fine-tune each step of the search. You can even choose different engines for each phase of the game.

Analysis markers allow you to mark selected positions for automatic analysis at a later time.

Interactive analysis lets you to work with the engine, allowing it to analyze a position, and then guide it in its analysis without forgetting its conclusions.

Background Analysis is the most powerful position analysis tool in the extensive Chess Assistant arsenal. The analysis takes place in a background process, allowing you to continue working in Chess Assistant during the analysis. If you run into an interesting position, simply send it to background analysis while you continue your own analysis.

Background analysis can be split between two or more processors on the same computer or distributed automatically to several networked computers.

Tablebase analysis gives you a precise evaluation of endgames with 3-6 pieces (tablebases required).

Database Search – Standard Searches & CQL

Standard searches. When it comes to searching, you will not find a more powerful system than Chess Assistant. It offers all the types of standard searches you would expect for a chess database:

  • Search by position, header, maneuvers, material, comments, etc.
  • Novelty search
  • Advanced search with simultaneous specification of material in 12 regions on the board

You can search through multiple databases and searches can be saved, enabling you to run them again at a later time. The program also keeps track of your most recent searches so you can quickly modify them and search again.

CQL (Chess Query Language). CQL is simply put the most powerful search method currently available for chess databases. If you have ever run into the limitations of standard search methods, CQL is for you. Mastering Chess Assistant’s CQL allows you to perform searches you could only dream of with any other chess database system.

Composite search allows you to store and organize your CQL queries into a hierachical structure, give them descriptive names, and set up a diagram of a typical position. This allows you to build a library of useful search criteria.

Databases and Premium Game Service

Chess Assistant 22 includes two databases of 8 million in total:
- HugeBase database (as of December 1, 2021) - 7 279 000 million games
- Correspondence database - 596 000+ games.

Premium Game Service: subscription for full database updates with games played from December 1, 2021 till December 31, 2022, in Chess Assistant and PGN formats (supported by Fritz, Chess Base and Aquarium).

  • Subscribe and get new games weekly by Internet through Chess Assistant 22
  • Get full version of database without duplicate games.

Classifiers – Organize Your Chess Data

A database of chess games is a rather unwieldy collection of data. Of course you can sort the games, search etc. but all of this is temporary.The next time you open the database you will see the same list of games without any useful structure. If you want to repeat a search, you have to enter all the search criteria from scratch and then search again.

Classifiers allow you to organize your chess data into nested folders in a similar way as you organize your hard disk into folders. Each folder in a classifier can contain:

  • Icon. The icon serves as a reminder for the data contained in the folder.
  • Text. A text description of the folder.
  • Position. This could for instance be a critical position from an opening.
  • Any search criteria, which allows games to be automatically classified with just a mouse click. This is of course a very powerful feature. An example is a classifier for endgames (pawn endgames, rook endgames etc.). Whenever you update your database, all you need to do is refresh the search in order to classify the endgames that occur in the new games.
  • A list of games. Games can be included in the list either manually or automatically based on a search criteria.
  • Chess tree. You can store chess trees in a classifier folder. This could for instance be detailed analysis results for an opening variation, while only the most important variations are shown in a game annotation.
  • Another classifier, allowing practically unlimited flexibility in the structure of classifiers.
  • Multimedia information: images, audio and video.

Chess Trees – State of the Art

Chess Assistant offers state of the art chess trees:

  • Transpositions are automatically detected
  • New trees can be created from any collection of games
  • Detailed information is displayed about positions: Human evaluations, computer evaluations, and various statistics
  • Games can be annotated automatically based on information in a tree.

Game Annotations and Global Annotations

Chess Assistant supports all types of game annotations, from simple text to multimedia content:

  • Add and manage variations (promote etc.).
  • Powerful annotation editor makes it easy to add Chess Informant symbols, engine evaluations and verbal commentary.
  • Assign visual styles to moves so they stand out in the notation. You can search for games based on styles.
  • Use any of 30 standard classes to classify important games or instructive positions. The same game can belong to multiple classes (e.g. Tactics and Kingside attack). Search for games belonging to specific classes.
  • Organize games with a flexible, user defined, Windows Explorer style Classifier.
  • Display board graphics and insert diagrams at selected point in the notation.
  • Add multimedia annotations (images, video and audio) to moves.
  • Reference games can be inserted from a database, and endgame information from tablebases. All of this can be done manually or through any of the automatic game analysis methods.

As useful as game annotations are, they have one drawback: They are tied to a particular game. When you run into the same position in a different game, how would you like to get a reminder saying: Hey, you have annotated this position before!” Well, in Chess Assistant you can annotate trees and tree annotations are “global”, meaning that they are displayed whenever the same position arises – in all databases.

Playing Features

If you want to play a game of chess against the computer, Chess Assistant offers a variety of engines and options:

  • Wide selection of time controls and other playing options
  • Handicap engine included (Dragon)
  • DGT board support with voice announcement of moves
  • Powerful opening book editor allows you to adapt the opening choice of the chess engine to your needs.

Database Compatibility: Chessbase and Chess Assistant

Chess Assistant supports all the most popular chess database formats, which means that your current database can most likely be used in Chess Assistant:

  • Chess Assistant’s own efficient database format (CDP)
  • Chessbase (CBH, readonly)
  • PGN (Portable Game Notation)
  • EPD (Extended Position Description)

Optionally you can open and save databases in Zip-format in order to save space and conveniently send and receive databases by email.

Strong Chess Engine Support

Chess Assistant is compatible with most modern commercial and free chess engines. It supports a variety of protocols for communicating with chess engines, such as UCI, UCI2, WinBoard and MCS. In layman terms, this means that Chess Assistant gives you an unparalleled choice of chess engines for analysis and play.

  • Support for all popular engines
  • Winboard support – Ruffian and Crafty are included, built-in support for over 50 others, available via free download
  • Hundreds of chess engines to choose from, including specialized mate solvers. Most of them are available via free download
  • Automatic test set processing with comprehensive reporting features.

Chess King LEARN Courses

Chess Assistant 22 comes with 3-month access to all courses available at learn.chessking.com.

How to activate Chess King Learn bonus subscription

So far, the collection consists of 75+ courses available in 9 European languages, sorted by category and difficulty level, and includes such gems as Chess Tactics for Beginners 2.0Chess: From Beginner to Club PlayerChess StrategyChess Middlegame series, several courses from CT-ART and Chess Tactics in the Opening series and more.

Documentation & Updates

Manuals

Sergey Rublevsky, Russian Chess Champion: “I have been using Chess Assistant with great pleasure for more than 10 years already.”

Language versions: English, Spanish, German, French and Italian versions are available.

System requirements: PC, 256 MB RAM, 4GB of free disk space, Windows 10/8/7/XP/Vista, Internet connection during installation.

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Chess Endings Combo (2 books pdf + 1 download Endgame)

NEW!!!! INCLUDES THE SAME COURSES IN CHESS KING LEARN, ALL PLATFORMS (WEB PC/MAC, iOS + ANDROID)

Theory and Practice of Chess Endings 1

Contents:
PAWN ENDINGS
KNIGHT ENDINGS
BISHOPS OF OPPOSITE COLOR
OPPOSITE COLORED BISHOPS WITH ROOKS OR QUEENS ON THE BOARD
BISHOPS OF THE SAME COLOR
BISHOP AGAINST KNIGHT
BISHOP PAIR IN THE ENDGAME
Solutions to the Contest Tasks
160 pages, 2009 year

Theory and Practice of Chess Endings 2

Contents:
Extra Exchange
Rook Against Pawns
Rook Endings
Endings with Four Rooks
Queen Endings
Queen Against Two Rooks
Multi-Piece Endings
Solutions to the Contest Tasks
176 pages, 2009 year

Total Chess Ending (Download)

Total Chess Ending course composed by GM Alexander Panchenko. It's aim is to teach a student the intricacies of the endgame through a theoretical section, which includes over 700 games/lectures, each of them illustrating theoretical and practical endgame methods, and training section, with more than 2450 endgame exercises, classified according to 500 endgame themes.

This program includes 2 great endgame courses:

  1. Chess Endgame Training
  2. Theory and Practice of Chess Ending

You get plenty of feedback and opportunity to track your progress.

  • Study the training material and test your knowledge
  • Review your rating history
  • Keep track of the progress of multiple users. Compete against your friends and family members
  • Practice by playing against a chess program

System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 64 Mb RAM, Hard Disk 50 Mb of free disk space, Windows 10/8/7/XP/Vista. No additional software required.

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