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Chess Assistant, a chess GUI and database developed by a team around Victor Zakharov since 1988, 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 front end for playing chess online. Chess Assistant 17 is bundled with Houdini 5 and one year online access to Lomonosov Tablebases.

=Database= The CA database is an organized collection of up to millions of chess games, either in form of (compressed) PGN as interchange format, or as proprietary CA-format, managing classifiers, tree-structures and datasets for data mining and faster CQL access.

=CA Engines= Chess Assistant is compatible with most modern chess engines. It supports a variety of 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 (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=
 * Articles by Robert Pawlak
 * Convekta-Chess Assistant 9 Professional package review (pdf) by Jovan Petronic, 2006

=Forum Posts=

1990 ...

 * CHESS ASSISTANT vs ChessBase, NicBase? by CCHB, rgc, September 27, 1993 » ChessBase (Database), NICBase
 * ChessBase, ChessAssistant and NicBase by Richard Reich, rgc, December 03, 1994
 * Chess Assistant 3.0* by Albert Silver, CCC, February 06, 1998
 * illegal copies of Chess Assistant program by Sergey Abramov, CCC, May 22, 1998
 * Chess Assistant 5.0 (Chess Tiger 12.0 is included) in January, 2000 by Victor Zakharov, CCC, December 18, 1999 » Chess Tiger

2000 ...

 * Chess Assistant 6 / Tiger14 / Tablebases FAQ by Victor Zakharov, CCC, April 03, 2001
 * Chessbase 8 or Chess Assistant 6? by John Dahlem, CCC, July 25, 2001
 * Chess Assistant 6.1 is available by Victor Zakharov, CCC, August 21, 2001
 * *FREE* Chess Assistant Light is out! by Albert Silver, CCC, October 09, 2001
 * Shredder 6 works perfectly in Chess Assistant 6 by Albert Silver, CCC, December 21, 2001
 * Chess Assistant 7 is awesome by George Sobala, CCC, November 13, 2002
 * ChessAssistant under Linux with wine by Kurt Utzinger, CCC, June 16, 2009

=External Links=
 * Chess Assistant 18 : ChessOK, Chess Shop from the Developers of Houdini 5 Aquarium
 * Chess Assistant - ChessOK.com
 * Chess Assistant - Video Tutorials
 * Chess Assistant from Wikipedia

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