Software for using chess databases
ChessBase Light 2007
See
Chessbase
Light.
SCID/ChessDB
See
SCID.
Fritz 5.32
See
Fritz
5.32.
Chess Assistant 7 Light
See
CA7 Light.
Chess Position Trainer 3.3
This is a good-looking, up-to-date piece of software useful for
creating an opening repertoire and testing your knowledge of it.
There is excellent documentation and a training wizard to
customise testing options according to ability. It can
be
linked to a pgn file of your games to show where the first
move
not covered by your repertoire occured. Also has useful
importing, exporting and backsolving functions. Several
ready-made
repertoires are available for download. Like Bookup, but
free. Recommended!
http://www.chesspositiontrainer.com
Chess Informant Expert Lite
A functionally limited,
but very attractive PGN reader and editor, this software has
perhaps the clearest display for replaying annotated games.
It
doesn't have a search function for PGN files, so finding games in large
files will be difficult. UCI support also seems a bit hit and
miss. However, I particularly like using the right arrow key
to
replay games, and the way it returns to the move before a variation
when it reaches the end of the variation. Other features are a good
selection of cheery colour schemes and piece sets, and a desktop
showing previously opened files. Try it with Jan van Reek's
highly interesting
annotated
games. Recommended!
http://www.sahovski.com/products/software/index.php
Kvetka 2.0
A tiny PGN reader with UCI support for analysis. Even with
the
bundled Fruit engine, the download is less than 400 kb ! Now with English menus.
http://www.kvetka.org/download.shtml
ChessX 0.5
An attractive chess database program under development
that currently acts as a pgn reader, with tree statistics, and
some UCI
engine support. The software seems well thought out and I
look
forward
to seeing how it progresses. Try it out and give the
developers
some
feedback!
http://chessx.sourceforge.net/
ChessPad
An older pgn reader. As
well
as viewing (and editing) games, you can view the database as a tree and
classify openings.
http://www.wmlsoftware.com/chesspad.html
Wilhelm
A useful program for advanced users to get the most from your Nalimov
endgame tablebases,
such as producing annotated best lines.
http://www.geocities.com/rba_schach2000/index_english.html
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