ChessBase

ChessBase GmbH is a German company that markets chess software. It also has a chess news website, and uses a server for online chess. Set up in 1998, it builds and sells large databases, with up to three million games, classified in various ways. A smaller fraction have notes, about 60,000 at present. It is possible to connect the database with one or more chess engines which calculate likely good moves.^[1]^[2] Databases organize data from past games; engines do calculations and use look-up tables for standard information, having, for example, answers to special endgame problems.^[2]^p400-406^[3]

References

↑ Watson, John 1998. Secrets of modern chess strategy: advances since Nimzowitsch Gambit, London. p8
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Muller, Karsten and Lamprecht, Frank 2001. Fundamental chess endings: a new endgame encyclopedia for the 21st century. Gambit, London. p9-10
↑ Tim Krabbe, Chess Records http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm#list.

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[1] Watson, John 1998. Secrets of modern chess strategy: advances since Nimzowitsch Gambit, London. p8

[Muller-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Muller, Karsten and Lamprecht, Frank 2001. Fundamental chess endings: a new endgame encyclopedia for the 21st century. Gambit, London. p9-10

[3] Tim Krabbe, Chess Records http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm#list.

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