Chess+Assistant

a chess GUI and database developed by a team around Victor Zakharov since 1988, commercially distributed via ChessOK, a brand name of Convekta Ltd., early versions running under MS-DOS, subsequent versions under Windows. The sophisticated GUI allows to search and edit games in a database, to edit games for web publishing, and is also [|front end] for playing chess online. Chess Assistant 17 is bundled with Houdini 5 and one year online access to Lomonosov Tablebases. || toc =Database= The CA database is an organized collection of up to millions of chess games, either in form of (compressed) PGN as interchange format, or as proprietary CA-format, managing classifiers, tree-structures and datasets for [|data mining] and faster CQL access.
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 * [[image:CA13_2.jpg link="http://chessok.com/?page_id=27628"]] ||~ || **Chess Assistant**,
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=CA Engines= Chess Assistant is compatible with most modern chess engines. It supports a variety of protocols such as the Chess Engine Communication Protocol and UCI. Various Chess Assistant versions were and are bundled with commercial and free engines over the time:


 * Chess Tiger
 * Crafty
 * Dragon (CA)
 * Ruffian
 * Rybka
 * Houdini

=See also= > ChessDB > ChessX > Scid vs. PC
 * Aquarium
 * ChessBase (Database)
 * Chess King
 * Chess Query Language
 * jose
 * Lomonosov Tablebases
 * NICBase
 * Portable Game Notation
 * SCID
 * TascBase

=Reviews=
 * [|Articles] by Robert Pawlak
 * [|Convekta-Chess Assistant 9 Professional package review] (pdf) by [|Jovan Petronic], 2006

=Forum Posts=

1990 ...

 * [|CHESS ASSISTANT vs ChessBase, NicBase?] by CCHB, rgc, September 27, 1993 » ChessBase (Database), NICBase
 * [|ChessBase, ChessAssistant and NicBase] by Richard Reich, rgc, December 03, 1994
 * [|Chess Assistant 3.0*] by Albert Silver, CCC, February 06, 1998
 * [|illegal copies of Chess Assistant program] by Sergey Abramov, CCC, May 22, 1998
 * [|Chess Assistant 5.0 (Chess Tiger 12.0 is included) in January, 2000] by Victor Zakharov, CCC, December 18, 1999 » Chess Tiger

2000 ...

 * [|Chess Assistant 6 / Tiger14 / Tablebases FAQ] by Victor Zakharov, CCC, April 03, 2001
 * [|Chessbase 8 or Chess Assistant 6?] by John Dahlem, CCC, July 25, 2001
 * [|Chess Assistant 6.1 is available] by Victor Zakharov, CCC, August 21, 2001
 * [|*FREE* Chess Assistant Light is out!] by Albert Silver, CCC, October 09, 2001
 * [|Shredder 6 works perfectly in Chess Assistant 6] by Albert Silver, CCC, December 21, 2001
 * [|Chess Assistant 7 is awesome] by George Sobala, CCC, November 13, 2002
 * [|ChessAssistant under Linux with wine] by Kurt Utzinger, CCC, June 16, 2009

=External Links=
 * [|Chess Assistant from Wikipedia]
 * [|Chess Assistant: ChessOK, Chess Shop from the Developers of Rybka 3 Aquarium]
 * [|Chess Assistant - ChessOK.com]
 * [|ChessAssistantDocs: Chess Assistant 9 - Everything a Chessplayer Needs!]
 * [|Chess Assistant - Video Tutorials]

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