ChessPartner Classic

Description

The Dutch Computer Chess package for everyone, novice or experienced players are invited to play. ChessPartner has various levels of play and can take many challenges.

It's major features

Teacher mode Just click on a piece and all legal moves are shown.

Play Chess using Internet Being one of the first, ChessPartner offers the possibility to play against people anywhere on the globe. Using Chess Servers, you can challenge and play against others or other computer chess programs without the hassle of using a difficult user interface that characterizes most Chess Servers.

Included are the timeseal and timestamp program's which are used with the Chess Servers to compensate for 'net lag' Now you never have to loose a game on time !

Enhanced Opening book Manager Can manage up to 8 opening books in parallel. Includes strong learning algorithms. See the what's new section for more info.

Nalimov tablebases Support for the Nalimov endgame table bases.

Winboard/UCI adapter The Winboard/UCI adapter allows you to use the ChessPartner interface with any Winboard or UCI compatible chess engine. The are many engines available on the Internet, most of them are free.

Native PGN support Read, write and update PGN files.

Layout function New function to quickly change the layout of your screen. You can create your own layouts. Comes with a number of useful layouts pre-installed.

Analysis Using ChessPartner, you can analyze positions or even entire games. ChessPartner's findings can be annotated in the moves list and/or kept in a file. These annotations can also be printed or copied to the clipboard for use in text-processor apps.

Printing Create professional looking reports using a true-type figurine font. Various reports can be printed, with or without diagrams, including you own annotations.

Copy and Paste If the standard printing and reporting facilities are not enough, then using the Windows clipboard you can copy and paste games to your favorite text-processor, various formats are supported; text, bitmaps, true-type fonts.

Database ChessPartner contains a powerful database capable of handling millions of games, you can search on player, opening, tournament and a date range. You can also read or write games in PGN format.

Game histogram The game histogram windows gives a graphical overview of the scores in the game, this make it easy to spot where you made a mistake. Clicking on that spot brings you to that position in the game.

Interfaces to DGT electronic chessboard Use a comfortable real chessboard to enter your moves. (board not included)

Engine Research Tool For those who wants to test the strength of chess engines we have now included a engine research tool. This tool lets you play automated engine matches and automatically have the result as html pages.