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Chess software website company
ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess. Founded in 1986, it maintains and sells large-scale databases containing the moves of recorded chess games. The databases contain data from prior games and provide engine analyses of games. Endgame tablebases are also provided by the company. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ChessBaseA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: ChessBase CompleteThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Life with ChessbaseCited 1 times
- Go sideways: Chess engineA closely related topic
- Go sideways: List of chess softwareA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Life with Chessbase
THE 2006 AND 2007 CHESSBASE BEST-PUBLICATION AWARD
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THE 2001 and 2002 CHESSBASE BEST-PUBLICATION AWARD
THE 2003, 2004, AND 2005 CHESSBASE BEST-PUBLICATION AWARD
THE 2000 CHESSBASE BEST-PUBLICATION AWARD
THE 2000 CHESSBASE BEST-PUBLICATION AWARD
THE 1999 CHESSBASE BEST-PUBLICATION AWARD
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕ChessBase CompleteJon Edwards · 2014
- 📕Best of Chessbase · 1992
- 📕The Spanish Exchange! (Chessbase Univ Power Play Ser)Ron Henley · 1994
- 📕Chessbase Magazin 134 (Februar 2010)
- 📕The Dragon!Ron Henley · 1993
- 📕The ChessBase University BlueBook Guide to Winning with The King's Indian Attack! · 1993
- 📕FischerAlex Fishbein · 1996
My First Chess BookJessica E. Prescott · 2014
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