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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[User Interface]] * [[GUI]] * Chess Assistant'''<br/>
'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[Software]] * [[Databases]] * Chess Assistant'''
[[FILE:CA13_2.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://chessok.com/?page_id=27628| Chess Assistant Screen <ref>[http://chessok.com/?page_id=27628 Chess Assistant 17 with Houdini 5: ChessOK]</ref> ]]
'''Chess Assistant''',<br/>
a chess [[GUI]] and [[Databases|database]] developed by a team around [[Victor Zakharov]] since 1988 <ref>[http://chessok.com/?page_id=262 About - ChessOK.com]</ref>, commercially distributed via [[ChessOK]], a brand name of Convekta Ltd., early versions running under [[MS-DOS]], subsequent versions under [[Windows]]. The sophisticated GUI allows to search and edit games in a database, to edit games for web publishing, and is also [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_and_back_ends front end] for playing chess online. Chess Assistant 17 is bundled with [[Houdini|Houdini 5]] and one year online access to [[Lomonosov Tablebases]] <ref>[http://chessok.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_54&products_id=723 Chess Assistant 14 Released! - ChessOK.com]</ref>.
=Database=
The CA database is an organized collection of up to millions of [[Chess Game|chess games]], either in form of (compressed) [[Portable Game Notation|PGN]] as interchange format, or as proprietary CA-format, managing classifiers, tree-structures and datasets for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining data mining] and faster [[Chess Query Language|CQL]] access.
=CA Engines=
Chess Assistant is compatible with most modern chess engines. It supports a variety of [[Protocols|protocols]] such as the [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] and [[UCI]]. Various Chess Assistant versions were and are bundled with commercial and free engines over the time:
* [[Chess Tiger]]
* [[Crafty]]
* [[Dragon (Chess Assistant)|Dragon (CA)]]
* [[Ruffian]]
* [[Rybka]]
* [[Houdini]]
=See also=
* [[Aquarium]]
* [[ChessBase (Database)]]
* [[Chess King]]
* [[Chess Query Language]]
* [[jose]]
* [[Lomonosov Tablebases]]
* [[NICBase]]
* [[Portable Game Notation]]
* [[SCID]]
: [[ChessDB]]
: [[ChessX]]
: [[Scid vs. PC]]
* [[TascBase]]
=Reviews=
* [http://ca.chessok.com/AuthorBios/BobPawlak.html Articles] by [[Robert Pawlak]]
* [http://www.jovanpetronic.com/download/chessreviews/Convekta%20Chess%20Assistant%209%20Professional%20package%20review%20IM.FST.%20Jovan%20Petronic.pdf Convekta-Chess Assistant 9 Professional package review] (pdf) by [http://www.jovanpetronic.com/ Jovan Petronic], 2006
=Forum Posts=
==1990 ...==
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/OC2DrsN7wkA/b60hK_ErcoAJ CHESS ASSISTANT vs ChessBase, NicBase?] by CCHB, [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], September 27, 1993 » [[ChessBase (Database)]], [[NICBase]]
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/Z72gdE4292Q/hAaa0d_PgisJ ChessBase, ChessAssistant and NicBase] by Richard Reich, [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], December 03, 1994
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=14913 Chess Assistant 3.0*] by [[Albert Silver]], [[CCC]], February 06, 1998
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=19068 illegal copies of Chess Assistant program] by [[Sergey Abramov]], [[CCC]], May 22, 1998
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=83186 Chess Assistant 5.0 (Chess Tiger 12.0 is included) in January, 2000] by [[Victor Zakharov]], [[CCC]], December 18, 1999 » [[Chess Tiger]]
==2000 ...==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=161551 Chess Assistant 6 / Tiger14 / Tablebases FAQ] by [[Victor Zakharov]], [[CCC]], April 03, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=181150 Chessbase 8 or Chess Assistant 6?] by John Dahlem, [[CCC]], July 25, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=184666 Chess Assistant 6.1 is available] by [[Victor Zakharov]], [[CCC]], August 21, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=192532 *FREE* Chess Assistant Light is out!] by [[Albert Silver]], [[CCC]], October 09, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=203012 Shredder 6 works perfectly in Chess Assistant 6] by [[Albert Silver]], [[CCC]], December 21, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=264805 Chess Assistant 7 is awesome] by George Sobala, [[CCC]], November 13, 2002
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28453 ChessAssistant under Linux with wine] by [[Kurt Utzinger]], [[CCC]], June 16, 2009
=External Links=
* [http://chessok.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=7_54 Chess Assistant 18 : ChessOK, Chess Shop from the Developers of Houdini 5 Aquarium]
* [http://chessok.com/?page_id=19894 Chess Assistant - ChessOK.com]
* [http://chessok.com/rolik/ca/content.html Chess Assistant - Video Tutorials]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Assistant Chess Assistant from Wikipedia]
=References=
<references />
'''[[GUI|Up one Level]]'''
'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[Software]] * [[Databases]] * Chess Assistant'''
[[FILE:CA13_2.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://chessok.com/?page_id=27628| Chess Assistant Screen <ref>[http://chessok.com/?page_id=27628 Chess Assistant 17 with Houdini 5: ChessOK]</ref> ]]
'''Chess Assistant''',<br/>
a chess [[GUI]] and [[Databases|database]] developed by a team around [[Victor Zakharov]] since 1988 <ref>[http://chessok.com/?page_id=262 About - ChessOK.com]</ref>, commercially distributed via [[ChessOK]], a brand name of Convekta Ltd., early versions running under [[MS-DOS]], subsequent versions under [[Windows]]. The sophisticated GUI allows to search and edit games in a database, to edit games for web publishing, and is also [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_and_back_ends front end] for playing chess online. Chess Assistant 17 is bundled with [[Houdini|Houdini 5]] and one year online access to [[Lomonosov Tablebases]] <ref>[http://chessok.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_54&products_id=723 Chess Assistant 14 Released! - ChessOK.com]</ref>.
=Database=
The CA database is an organized collection of up to millions of [[Chess Game|chess games]], either in form of (compressed) [[Portable Game Notation|PGN]] as interchange format, or as proprietary CA-format, managing classifiers, tree-structures and datasets for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining data mining] and faster [[Chess Query Language|CQL]] access.
=CA Engines=
Chess Assistant is compatible with most modern chess engines. It supports a variety of [[Protocols|protocols]] such as the [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] and [[UCI]]. Various Chess Assistant versions were and are bundled with commercial and free engines over the time:
* [[Chess Tiger]]
* [[Crafty]]
* [[Dragon (Chess Assistant)|Dragon (CA)]]
* [[Ruffian]]
* [[Rybka]]
* [[Houdini]]
=See also=
* [[Aquarium]]
* [[ChessBase (Database)]]
* [[Chess King]]
* [[Chess Query Language]]
* [[jose]]
* [[Lomonosov Tablebases]]
* [[NICBase]]
* [[Portable Game Notation]]
* [[SCID]]
: [[ChessDB]]
: [[ChessX]]
: [[Scid vs. PC]]
* [[TascBase]]
=Reviews=
* [http://ca.chessok.com/AuthorBios/BobPawlak.html Articles] by [[Robert Pawlak]]
* [http://www.jovanpetronic.com/download/chessreviews/Convekta%20Chess%20Assistant%209%20Professional%20package%20review%20IM.FST.%20Jovan%20Petronic.pdf Convekta-Chess Assistant 9 Professional package review] (pdf) by [http://www.jovanpetronic.com/ Jovan Petronic], 2006
=Forum Posts=
==1990 ...==
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/OC2DrsN7wkA/b60hK_ErcoAJ CHESS ASSISTANT vs ChessBase, NicBase?] by CCHB, [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], September 27, 1993 » [[ChessBase (Database)]], [[NICBase]]
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/Z72gdE4292Q/hAaa0d_PgisJ ChessBase, ChessAssistant and NicBase] by Richard Reich, [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], December 03, 1994
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=14913 Chess Assistant 3.0*] by [[Albert Silver]], [[CCC]], February 06, 1998
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=19068 illegal copies of Chess Assistant program] by [[Sergey Abramov]], [[CCC]], May 22, 1998
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=83186 Chess Assistant 5.0 (Chess Tiger 12.0 is included) in January, 2000] by [[Victor Zakharov]], [[CCC]], December 18, 1999 » [[Chess Tiger]]
==2000 ...==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=161551 Chess Assistant 6 / Tiger14 / Tablebases FAQ] by [[Victor Zakharov]], [[CCC]], April 03, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=181150 Chessbase 8 or Chess Assistant 6?] by John Dahlem, [[CCC]], July 25, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=184666 Chess Assistant 6.1 is available] by [[Victor Zakharov]], [[CCC]], August 21, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=192532 *FREE* Chess Assistant Light is out!] by [[Albert Silver]], [[CCC]], October 09, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=203012 Shredder 6 works perfectly in Chess Assistant 6] by [[Albert Silver]], [[CCC]], December 21, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=264805 Chess Assistant 7 is awesome] by George Sobala, [[CCC]], November 13, 2002
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28453 ChessAssistant under Linux with wine] by [[Kurt Utzinger]], [[CCC]], June 16, 2009
=External Links=
* [http://chessok.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=7_54 Chess Assistant 18 : ChessOK, Chess Shop from the Developers of Houdini 5 Aquarium]
* [http://chessok.com/?page_id=19894 Chess Assistant - ChessOK.com]
* [http://chessok.com/rolik/ca/content.html Chess Assistant - Video Tutorials]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Assistant Chess Assistant from Wikipedia]
=References=
<references />
'''[[GUI|Up one Level]]'''
