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9/2/2020 – The next Playchess Online Blitz Open is scheduled for Saturday September 5th 2020 at 4:30 p.m. European time. The tournament is sponsored by the Indian environment-friendly enterprise GoodEarth, and is organized by ChessBase India. There is a low entry fee — just €4 for international amateurs — and a total prize sum of €685 (US $815). Registration has started, the last date for registration is September 4th.
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Details of the online tournament:
- Date: Saturday 5th September 2020
- Time: 8:00 p.m. IST (your location)
- Time control: 3 mins + 0 second increment
- Number of rounds: 10
- Venue: Vishy Anand Arena in Playchess
- Entry fee: €4
- Total Prize fund: ₹60,000 (€685 or US $815)
The low entry fee for untitled players is intended to encourage maximum participation. The entry is free for GMs, IMs, WGMs and WIMs. First prize for the champion is €137 / $163 (₹12,000), with a total of further 50 prizes to be distributed.
Discounted entry fee ₹150 for Indian players below 15 years of age and veterans above 60 years of age, €3 euros for foreign players.
Players outside India who would like to participate can make the payment of €4 through the Paypal link and write an email to [email protected] mentioning their name, FIDE ID, Playchess and Transaction ID to confirm their entry. Titled players can also write to the above mentioned e-mail ID mentioning the same details to confirm their participation.
For registration queries please contact: Mr. Shahid Ahmed (Tournament director) - 9038139510 (Entry confirmations will be done via site only, no whatsapp/phone call confirmation of entries). Email - [email protected].
We request all players to check their internet connection before the tournament. Minimum requirement should be at least 2 mbps. No phone calls/messages will be entertained once the tournament starts from 8 p.m. IST onwards. All queries must be resolved before the tournament. Each player is responsible for their internet connection, organizers will not be held responsible for any players connectivity issues.
All games will be thoroughly checked for cheating/impersonation. Anyone adapting any unfair means will be removed from the tournament and will not be allowed to participate in future events on Playchess.
How to play a tournament?
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At the airport, in the hotel or at home on your couch: with the new ChessBase you always have access to the whole ChessBase world: the new ChessBase video library, tactics server, opening training App, the live database with eight million games, Let’s Check and web access to playchess.com
1. Download the free Windows software of Playchess
Firstly you have to download the free native Windows software from here. If you have Mac OS or Mac Computer, then you have to use some VMWare to run it as Playchess Desktop Client has native support on Windows OS only.
The tournament cannot be played via mobile or tablet device. All players must update the Playchess software to the latest version before the tournament.
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2. Login or Create account
After you have installed the Client. You must log in.
Enter your Playchess username and password if you have one. (Note, for all the ChessBase Account Premium members, your login credentials will work). If you do not have a Username, you must click on 'Create New Player Name' and create a new account. Alternatively, you can also create it here. This is free and gives you access to Playchess for a few days.
The tournament will take place in the Vishy Anand Arena in the ChessBase India room. Registered players should be online and logged into Playchess at least 45 minutes before the start of the tournament to confirm your entries on 5th of September.
Click on the ‘Players’ Tab and then click on ‘Join Event’. The Sysop (Tournament Director) will accept your entry. Only those who have donated the money will be allowed to play.
Note: The Playchess id, while donating the amount and playing the tournament should be the same.
About the sponsors
This DVD allows you to learn from the example of one of the best players in the history of chess and from the explanations of the authors how to successfully organise your games strategically, consequently how to keep your opponent permanently under press
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ChessBase GmbH is a German company that makes and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates internet chess server for online chess. Founded in 1986, it maintains and sells massive databases, containing the moves of recorded chess games .[1][2] Databases organise data from prior games; engines provide analyses of games while endgame tablebases offer perfect play in some endgames.[3][4]
History[edit]
Starting in 1983, Frederic Friedel and his colleagues put out a magazine Computer-schach und Spiele covering the emerging hobby of computer chess. In 1985, he invited then world chess champion Garry Kasparov to his house, and Kasparov mused about how a chess database would make it easier for him to prepare for specific opponents. Friedel began working with Bonn physicist Matthias Wüllenweber who created the first such database ChessBase 1.0, software for the Atari ST. The February 1987 issue of Computerschach & Spiele introduced the database program as well as Chessbase magazine, a floppy disk containing chess games edited by GM John Nunn.
The August 1991 issue of Computerschach & Spiele announced that Dutch programmer Frans Morsch's Fritz program would soon be available, sold as software for PCs unlike all of the dedicated chess computers which at the time dominated the ratings lists. This program was marketed initially as Knightstalker in the U.S., and Fritz in the rest of the world. Mathias Feist joined ChessBase, and ported Fritz to DOS and then Microsoft Windows.
In 1994, German GM Rainer Knaak joined ChessBase as a full-time employee, annotating games for Chessbase magazine, and soon authoring game database CD-ROMs on topics such as the Trompowsky Attack or Mating Attacks against 0-0. British GM Daniel King was another early author of such CD-ROMs which eventually grew into the Fritztrainer series of multimedia DVDs.
In the mid-1990s, R&D Publishing in the U.S. released a series of print books in the Chessbase University Opening Series, including Anatoly Karpov and Alexander Beliavsky's The Caro-Kann in Black and White.
In December 1996, ChessBase added Mark Uniacke's Hiarcs 6 chess engine to its product line up, selling it inside the existing Fritz graphical user interface (GUI).[5] In March 1998, ChessBase added Junior 4.6 and Dr. Christian Donninger's Nimzo99.[6] Also that year, ChessBase released Fritz 5 including a 'friend mode' which would automatically scale its strength of play down to the level that it assessed the player was playing.[7] This remains a feature of all of ChessBase's Graphical User Interfaces even now.
In 1998, Chessbase took their database of chess games online.[8] In November, Chessbase started offering trainer CD-ROMs by such GMs as Robert Hübner, Rainer Knaak and Daniel King.[9]
In 1999, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's Shredder had won the world computer chess championship. In April, Meyer-Kahlen and Huber released the Universal Chess Interface (UCI) protocol for engines to communicate with GUIs, to compete with Winboard and Chessbase's. Meyer-Kahlen's contract with Millennium 2000 expired in June, and ChessBase immediately snapped him up, adding Shredder to their product line under a Fritz style GUI, and giving their new GUIs the ability to import UCI engines.[10]
In April 2000, ChessBase released a Young Talents CD featuring the engines Anmon, Goliath Light, Gromit, Ikarus, Patzer, Phalanx and Rudolf Huber's SOS. Christophe Theron's engines Chess Tiger and Gambit Tiger were also released as Chessbase engines that month.[10]
In the early 2000s matches were held pitting world champions Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik against versions of the Fritz or Junior engines.
In 2003, ChessBase introduced the Chess Media System, allowing players to produce videos with them playing out moves that can be seen on the user's chessboard within a Chessbase program. Eventually, ChessBase commissioned world champions Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik and Rustam Kasimdzhanov to produce DVDs using the new format. Chessbase also produced Fritztrainer Opening DVDs by the likes of grandmasters Alexei Shirov and Viktor Bologan and a Power Play series by British GM Daniel King for lower level players.
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In April 2006, following its victory at the World Computer Chess Championship, Anthony Cozzie's Zappa chess engine was published by ChessBase as Zap!Chess.
In 2008, Vasik Rajlich's Rybka engine was added to the ChessBase product line, followed by Robert Houdart's Houdini and Don Dailey and Larry Kaufman's Komodo engines.
Recent versions of ChessBase and the engine GUIs such as Fritz offer access to cloud engines. ChessBase/Playchess had long had a downloadable client, but they had a web interface by 2013.[11] ChessBase added a tactics trainer web app in 2015.[12] In 2015, ChessBase added a play Fritz web app,[13] as well as My Games for storing one's games.[14]
The company[edit]
The company is located in Hamburg, Germany. ChessBaseUSA[15] markets their products in the United States, and some of the most popular programs are sold by licensee Viva Media, now a division of Encore, Inc. In 1998, the German company Data Becker released the program 3D Schach Genie, containing the Shredder engine and Fritz interface. Chessbase India markets their products in India and surrounding countries. Chessbase India is run by International Master(IM) Sagar Shah and his wife Amruta Mokal.[16]
The database[edit]
Chessbase the program was originally designed for the Atari ST by Matthias Wüllenweber, the physicist/co-founder of the company. Mathias Feist helped port the program to DOS, and has been a key developer ever since. In more recent years, Lutz Nebe, Wolfgang Haar and Jeroen van den Belt have also been involved in program development.
Image of ChessBase 8.0 running under Windows XP (year 2008).
ChessBase uses a proprietary format for storing games (CBH), but can also handle games in portable game notation (PGN). The proprietary format uses less hard drive space and manages information that is not possible in PGN. The software converts files from PGN to ChessBase format, or from ChessBase to PGN.
The program permits searches for games, and positions in games, based on player names, openings, some tactical and strategic motifs, material imbalance, and features of the position. Chessbase can import engines either those such as Fritz or Shredder in native Chessbase format or Universal Chess Interface (UCI) engines such as Stockfish.
As of 12 November 2017, Chessbase's database contained 7.8 million games.[17] The online database can be accessed directly through their database programs.
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News site[edit]
Chessbase also maintains ChessBase News, a web site containing chess news, as well as information on their products. The site is available in English, German, Spanish and Hindi.[18]
Other publications[edit]
ChessBase produces many CDs and DVDs, including monographs on famous players, tactical training exercises, and training for specific opening systems. They publish ChessBase Magazine 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.
Related computer programs[edit]
A database-only version of ChessBase for the BBC Micro, called 'BBChessBase', was published by Peter Tate in 1991.[19]
Gerritt Reubold's Der Bringer chess program is a rare example of a Chessbase format engine not released by Chessbase itself.[20]
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^John Watson, Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances Since Nimzowitsch (London: Gambit Publications, 1998), 8.
- ^Karsten Muller and Frank Lamprecht, Fundamental Chess Endings: A New Endgame Encyclopedia for the 21st Century (London: Gambit Publications, 2001), 9-10.
- ^Muller and Lamprecht, 400-406.
- ^Tim Krabbe, Chess Recordshttp://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm#list
- ^Computer-schach & Spiele. 1997#6
- ^Computer-schach & Spiele. 1998#1
- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 1998-02-13. Retrieved 2019-06-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^'Wayback Machine'. web.archive.org. May 11, 2000.
- ^Computer-schach & Spiele. 1998#5
- ^ abComputer-schach & Spiele. April May 2000
- ^'Play Chess Online For Free'. web.archive.org. December 17, 2013.
- ^'ChessBase Training'. web.archive.org. May 4, 2015.
- ^'Fritz Chess Program Online'. fritz.chessbase.com.
- ^'ChessBase MyGames'. mygames.chessbase.com.
- ^'ChessBase USA'. chessbaseusa.com.
- ^'Welcome to ChessBase India'. Chess News. 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ^'ChessBase, MegaBase'. Retrieved 2017-11-12.
- ^'Chess News | ChessBase'. en.chessbase.com.
- ^Bernard Hill (August–September 1991). 'Chess for the BBC Micro'. Beebug. 10 (4): 11.
it is good to see appearing a BBC version of the PC-based product known as 'ChessBase'
- ^'Der Bringer User's Guide Home Page'. chess.kearman.com.
External links[edit]
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