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 * [[image:chessbase.JPG width="112" height="106" link="http://www.chessbase.com/Home"]] ||~  || **ChessBase** [|GmbH] is a German chess software company located in [|Hamburg]. ChessBase is marketing chess software, maintaining a chess news site and is operating Playchess, a server to play chess online.

//For the Chess database see main article ChessBase (Database).// || toc =History and Products= ChessBase was founded in 1986 by Physicist Matthias Wüllenweber and Journalist Frederic Friedel, eponymous was the chess game database developed by Wüllenweber for Atari ST computers. End of the 80s the chess database program was ported by Mathias Feist to the IBM PC and MS-DOS operating system, released as ChessBase 3.0 for Atari and PC. ChessBase 4.0 was the last Atari release, and already included the chess playing program Fritz, based on the program Quest by Frans Morsch, which was also market as stand alone product.
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Fritz Family
In the early 90s ChessBase focused on Microsoft operating systems, MS-DOS and since 1994 Windows, notably as //ChessBase for Windows// and //Fritz 4//, not only the engine but also a Graphical User Interface for other chess-playing programs of the "Fritz Family" by various top commercial authors, most notably Junior, Hiarcs, Shredder, Chess Tiger, the Zappa version //Zap!Chess//, since 2008 Rybka, since November 2012 Houdini 3 , since November 2013 **Deep Fritz 14** with Gyula Horváth , and in November 2015 **Fritz 15** with Vasik Rajlich as engine authors, since September 2014, Komodo 8. 

Young Talents
In May 2000, ChessBase released a CD with seven different amateur chess programs dubbed //Young Talents//, able to natively communicate with the proprietary Fritz or ChessBase GUI :
 * AnMon 5.07 by Christian Barreteau
 * Goliath Light aka Little Goliath by Michael Borgstädt
 * Gromit 3.1 by Frank Schneider and Kai Skibbe
 * Ikarus 0.18 by Munjong and Muntsin Kolss
 * Patzer 3.11 by Roland Pfister
 * Phalanx XXII by Dušan Dobeš
 * SOS by Rudolf Huber

Misc
ChessBase is also publishing company of chess games, various chess multimedia products, such as the chess teaching software [|Fritz & Chesster], chess opening monographs, and the Music composing software Ludwig  , developed by Matthias Wüllenweber.

=Publications=
 * Frederic Friedel (**1990**). //Chessbase//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3

 =Best-Publication Award= In 1999 ChessBase has offered to continue the Mephisto / Novag Award, until 2010 the ChessBase Best-Publication Award which enables the ICGA to distinguish a researcher or a group of researchers for their excellence.

Quote 1999
ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3, //Many Changes// :

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Quote 2010
ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2, //The 2008 and 2009 ChessBase Best-Publication Awards//:

Quote 2011
ICGA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 3, //The 2010 Best-Publication Award//:

Winners
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 * [|Open letter to ChessBase] by Ed Schröder, rgcc, January 09, 1997
 * [|chessbase is selling free engines] by Uri Blass, CCC, July 25, 2004
 * [|Are nalimov EGTB's a copyright from chessbase?] by Vincent Diepeveen, CCC, June 07, 2004

=External Links=
 * [|ChessBase from Wikipedia]
 * [|ChessBase news]
 * [|ChessBase Support - Wiki]
 * [|ChessBase online Database]
 * [|Christmas dinner on a train – meet the ChessBase team], ChessBase News, December 23, 2003
 * [|Who is Who at ChessBase] from [|ChessBase auf Helgoland], June 16, 2004
 * [|The ChessBase Christmas Party – part 1] by [|Nadja Wittmann], ChessBase News, December 28, 2010
 * [|The ChessBase Christmas Party – part 2] by Frederic Friedel and [|Nadja Wittmann], ChessBase News, January 04, 2011
 * [|ChessBase is 25 – everything 25% off in our shop] from ChessBase News, May 19, 2011
 * [|Greetings from Pál Benkö for 25 years of ChessBase] from ChessBase News, May 20, 2011
 * [|ChessBase is 25: Birthday greetings from Anand] from ChessBase News, June 1, 2011
 * [|Kasparov on 25 Years of ChessBase] from ChessBase News, June 8, 2011
 * [|2013 ChessBase Christmas party] by [|Nadja Wittmann], ChessBase News, December 24, 2013

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