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Aquarium, a sophisticated, commercial Windows GUI by ChessOK, developed by Victor Zakharov and Vladimir Makhnychev, supporting UCI and WinBoard engines. Aquarium is based on the fluent design as introduced by Microsoft Office 2007, featuring a ribbon, which is a set of toolbars placed on tabs. Beside the ribbon, the main window is tiled by a navigation window with multiple panes to switch modes and documents, and a bigger working area with various views on that documents, that is game databases, generated game lists and move variation trees as result of database queries, and a single chess game, optional with variation trees and notations. In game playing or analyzing mode, the working area is dominated by a board view associated with dockable and stackable notation-, multiple column tree-, header-, analysis- and information windows. First released as aquarium for the fish dubbed Rybka, the Aquarium GUI is also bundled with Houdini.

=Screenshot= Deep Rybka 4 Aquarium by ChessOK

=Database= Aquarium has its own proprietary database format, and further supports the format of its stable mate Chess Assistant, Portable Game Notation and Extended Position Description. It can read, query and import ChessBase CBH-Format. Aquarium can probe Lomonosov Tablebases.

=IDeA= Aquarium features an Interactive Deep Analysis dubbed IDeA, using a permanent minimaxed analysis tree, the user can interactively explore and expand during of after analysis with various engines.

=See also=
 * Arena
 * ChessGUI
 * Chess King
 * ChessPartner GUI
 * Engine Testing
 * Fritz GUI
 * jose
 * Protocols
 * Shredder GUI
 * UCI
 * WinBoard

=Forum Posts=

2008 ...

 * Rybka 3 with new GUI: are they serious?! by Jouni Uski, CCC, April 05, 2008
 * Rybka GUI (Aquarium)'s screenshots II by Ulysses P., CCC, July 05, 2008
 * Aquarium and Engine Matches by Ted Summers, CCC, August 07, 2008

2010 ...

 * Aquarium (other GUIs too?) and WB support => I am shocked by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, February 27, 2010
 * UCI Implementation of Aquarium is broken (FEN positions) by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, June 05, 2010
 * is it worth going from aquarium 3 to 4 by Joseph, CCC, December 10, 2010
 * Houdini 2 Aquarium released by Robert Houdart, CCC, October 08, 2011
 * Aquarium? by Carl Langan, CCC, September 03, 2012
 * Aquarium IDEA, repetitions, and minimax over cycles by kevinfat, OpenChess Forum, September 17, 2012 » Repetitions, Graph History Interaction
 * Opening Book (for Aquarium) by andytl755, OpenChess Forum, January 21, 2013 » Opening Book
 * Aquarium 2014 by Shaun, Rybka Forum, December 09, 2013

2015 ...

 * Changes in Aquarium 2017? by Matthew Friend, CCC, November 29, 2016

=External Links=

Chess GUI

 * Aquarium 2018 : ChessOK, Chess Shop from the Developers of Houdini 5 Aquarium
 * Houdini Aquarium, ChessOK, December 01, 2016 » Houdini
 * ChessOK Aquarium Tiki
 * Aquarium 2016 by Carl Bicknell,  YouTube Video

IDeA

 * IDeA : ChessOK Aquarium Tiki
 * IDea YouTube Video Series by Carl Bicknell
 * 1) IDeA Video 1 Introduction
 * 2) Video 2: IDeA setup
 * 3) Video 3: Seeding an IDeA Project Manually
 * 4) Video 4: Seeding an IDeA Project using a database
 * 5) Video 5: Seeding an IDeA Project using an Engine
 * 6) Video 6: Which is the best IDeA Engine?
 * 7) Appendix 1: Parallel Search and IDeA
 * 8) Appendix 2: Hyper Threading and IDeA

Misc

 * Aquarium from Wikipedia
 * Aquarium (disambiguation) from Wikipedia

=References=

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