Tournament winning tool used by greatest representatives of Russian chess school!

Chess Assistant 12 with Houdini 2 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess online, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.

The Starter Package includes the best chess engine – Houdini 2 (rating 3350 by CCRL), Chess opening Encyclopedia 2011, a powerful search system, a unique Tree mode, databases of 5.1 million games in total (as of October 1, 2011) that can be updated with 2000 new games each week, etc.

Houdini 2 is the World’s strongest chess engine, capable of supporting up to 6 cores and 4 GB of hash. You can connect Houdini 2 UCI engine to  Aquarium, Fritz and ChessBase.

Chess Opening Encyclopedia 2011 includes rich theoretical material on all the openings, with key opening positions provided with more than 8000 annotations by GM Kalinin and 40 million evaluations by the strongest engines. The detailed key system for all openings can be edited to suit your needs.

Chess Assistant 12 includes the Playing Zone interface and twelve months of free access (1 year membership) to the Playing Zone, providing you with full access to its various features, including tournament participation, lecture creation and game analysis in groups.

Sergey Rublevsky, Russian Chess Champion: “I have been using Chess Assistant with great pleasure for more than 10 years already.”

Language versions: English, Spanish, German, French and Italian versions are available.

This is a download version of the program.

System Requirements: 128 Mb RAM, Hard Disk 1 Gb, Windows 7/2000/NT/XP/Vista.

Opening Studies – Stay Organized with Opening Tables

• Opening Encyclopedia 2010
• Opening Tables
• Opening Test Mode

Analysis – Automatic, Manual and Background Analysis

• Infinite analysis
• Automatic opening annotation
• Search for blunders
• Multi-pass game analysis
• Analysis markers
• Interactive analysis
• Background analysis
• Tablebase analysis

Database search — Standard searches & CQL

• Standard searches
• CQL (Chess Query Language)

And much more ...

• Free Playing Zone
• Chess trees
• Strong chess engines support
• Classifiers
• etc ...

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