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Chess Assistant,
a chess GUI and database developed by a team around Victor Zakharov since 1988 [2], 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 [3].
Contents
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:
See also
- Aquarium
- ChessBase (Database)
- Chess King
- Chess Query Language
- jose
- Lomonosov Tablebases
- NICBase
- Portable Game Notation
- SCID
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
