Grandmasters use ChessBase because they can do 30-40 times as much chess in an hour with it as without it. GMs have 40 hours a week to spend on chess; the closest most of us will ever come to a 40-hour chess week is two hours and ChessBase.
And now the world�s finest, fastest, most efficient chess training system is even finer, faster, and more efficient � with 21st Century improvements in speed, feel, and presentation:
ChessBase 9 Mega Package
ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database that has become the standard throughout the world. Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it. What you can do with ChessBase: Enter, annotate and save games, including variations, text commentary, spoken comments, embedded pictures, soundtracks and even video sequences; analyse position with GM-strength modules Fritz and Crafty (both included); retrieve games according to openings, players and tournaments; generate tournament cross tables and full graphic statistics of players or openings; merge games on-the-fly into an opening tree; generate a player�s dossier containing all available information from the database; find the new move in a game with one mouse click; generate a comprehensive openings report with main and critical lines, plans and most important games; search for material distribution, positions and manoeuvres, search for mates and stalemates; classify games according to self defined middle and endgame criteria; print games in superb DTP quality with diagrams and multiple columns; easy and direct access to the comprehensive ChessBase online database; freely configurable board and list windows, automatic email transmission of positions, games or databases; management of team championships; intelligent search for tactical themes.
New in ChessBase 10.0: new database browser, hyperthreading support, integrated player index, tournament index, source index, annotator index and team Index, new opening key layout, automatic opening reference, new HEUMAS (Heuristic Move Assistant), game history, fast real 3D, board supported, threat animation, improved search, Chess Media System (teaching videos with synchronized chess boards) integrated, improved correspondence chess features and much, much more...
ChessBase Mega Package contains:
ChessBase Magazine subscribtion for one year (6 issues)
Fritz5.32 analyzing Engine
Crafty-Engine for analyzing
Player encyclopedia with over 20,000 pictures
ChessBase Mega DataBase 2005 (DVD) Contains more than 2.6 millions games from 1530 to 2003 in the highest ChessBase quality standard. 55.000 games contain commentary from top players, with ChessBase opening classification with more than 91.000 key positions, direct access to players, tournaments, middlegame themes, endgames and Mega Database 2005
DVD Fritz Endgame Turbo II
CorrDatabase 2004
System recommendations:
Windows XP or better, 256 MB RAM, 1 GHz or better. New graphics adapter for a fast 3D board.
Windows Media Player 9.0 for ChessMedia System.
Required: Windows 98, Internet-Explorer 6, DVD-ROM drive, 64 MB RAM, 300 MHz.