Chess Assistant 7.1 is the unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess on the ICC, viewing electronic texts in CA or PGN format, studying openings, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer. About 10.000 new games per month to be downloaded for free via the Internet on the Chess Assistant servers.

• Database:
  
  CA7.1 includes a database containing 2.117.000 games, up-to-date until January 1st, 2003.

   

• Opening studies:
  
  For all kinds of opening studies, CA 7.1 provides you with various chess trees, which include 2.117 Million games. Evaluations done by GM Kharitonov, the composer of the Encyclopedia Of Chess Openings 2003, and computer assessments of the opening phases of the game. You can automatically get the opening phase of the game commented for you, using all the above mentioned sources of information.

   

• Middlegame studies:
  
  For middlegame studies, the program provides analysis by a wide variety of chess engines, including: Chess Tiger 15 and Gambit Tiger 3, which are incredibly strong and reliable Chess programs. Furthermore, there is a large variety of analysis modes, supported by the program, including fully automatic multi-pass analysis of game(s) and manually controlled analysis. You can even use two engines at the same time or analyze games in the background and much more.

   

• Database and game management:
  
  Facilitated with an easy-to-handle drag and drop interface plus a navigation/database browser window, which really - should be - standard for programs of this type. There are also (self understanding for our standards) tools for keeping player and tournament names consistent, and removing doubles from your collection at the highest possible speed and correctness, the entire Market offers at present.

   

• Search tools:
  
  And of course, all sorts of search tools at your disposal, like searches for material, pawn structures, positions, players, sacrifices, piece movements, statistical analysis, etc.

   

• Internet Play:
  
  By terms of chess related Internet play, Chess Assistant 7.1 provides you with a comfortable interface for the connect to the ICC, which has the - by far - highest membership capacity of all chess clubs on the Internet. The interface allows you to play games online, or watch the games of others and so forth.

   

• Playing:
  
  And as chess playing itself is concerned, you can use Chess Assistant 7.1 in combination with its built-in engines (Chess Tiger 14/15, Gambit Tiger 3, Ruffian, Crafty and the Russian Dragon), or with a wide, additional variety of other engines (Shredder 5 or 6, even Winboard engines).

Includes 2 CDs and a manual consisting of 100 printed pages.