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six times per year, which comes on DVD with video clip interviews, articles on opening novelties, database updates (including annotated games), and other articles. All these are designed for viewing within their database software or the free ChessBase Reader.
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to his house. Kasparov mused about how a chess database would make it easier for him to prepare for specific opponents. Friedel began working with Bonn physicist
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ChessBase responded to this criticism by adding references but claiming the new engine differs from
Stockfish due to added input from the original Fat Fritz neural network—itself claimed by Lichess to be derived closely from
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Friedel's & Lubomir Ftancink's favorite player, WCA World Correspondence Chess Champion 1998-2003: The GM Level Games Of The Undefeated Ljupce!!!
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ChessBase also maintains ChessBase News, a web site containing chess news, as well as information on their products. The site is available in
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added a web interface by 2013. ChessBase added a tactics trainer web app in 2015. In 2015, ChessBase released a play Fritz web app, as well as My Games for storing one's games.
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As of 19 November 2020, ChessBase's database contained over 8.4 million games. The online database can be accessed directly through their database programs.
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ChessBase produces CDs and DVDs, including monographs on famous players, tactical training exercises, and training for specific opening systems. They publish the
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interface. ChessBase India markets their products in India and surrounding countries. ChessBase India is run by
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containing the moves of recorded chess games. The databases contain data from prior games and provide engine analyses of games.
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joined ChessBase as a full-time employee, annotating games for the ChessBase magazine, and soon authoring game database
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introduced the database program as well as the ChessBase magazine, a floppy disk containing chess games edited by chess
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