This collection is a huge collection of various programs dedicated to the most ancient strategic game on Earth! There are more than 90 classic chess applications for PC, Pocket PC, Symbian S60, WM Smartphone and Palm OS on the two disks of the Wise Owl. In addition, there are a variety of games created on the basis of chess, training programs for chess players of different levels of training, a lot of illustrations, a collection of freeze-frames from movies and much more! All chess lovers - both beginners and experienced - this collection will certainly have to taste! Features of the collection:     * 98 chess programs of different levels of complexity.     * 32 programs with multiplayer mode.     * 24 games based on chess.     * 15 tutorials.     * 14 programs for converting files with databases of chess games, creating your own training programs, solving problems and organizing tournaments.     * Collection of freeze-frames from more than 1000 movies.     * More than 100 paintings, prints and illustrations on the subject of chess.     * Base of games of the greatest grandmasters, articles and links to popular chess sites.

To the delight of chess fans, this mega-sampler came out - a huge collection of various programs dedicated to the most ancient strategic game on Earth! There are more than 90 classic chess applications for PC, Pocket PC, Symbian S60, WM Smartphone and Palm OS on the two disks of the “Wise Owl”. In addition, there are a variety of games created on the basis of chess, training programs for chess players of different levels of training, a lot of illustrations, a collection of freeze-frames from movies and much more! All chess lovers - both beginners and experienced - this collection will certainly have to taste! The two disks contain:     * 98 chess programs of different difficulty levels     * 32 programs with multiplayer mode     * 24 chess based games     * 15 tutorials     * 14 programs for converting files with databases of chess games, creating your own training programs, solving problems and organizing tournaments     * Collection of freeze-frames from more than 1000 movies     * More than 100 paintings, prints and illustrations on the subject of chess     * Base of games of the greatest grandmasters, articles and links to popular chess sites System requirements:     * Microsoft® Windows® Me / XP operating system     * Screen resolution 1024x768     * Device for reading DVDs OFFICIAL DISTRIBUTION

Chess has always personified remarkable intelligence, ingenuity and resourcefulness. No one can argue with the fact that this is a great workout for the human mind and memory. Now, thanks to modern computer technologies, you have the opportunity to fight and hone your skills on the chessboard as much as you like! One of the most popular intellectual games will appear before you in a magnificent three-dimensional graphics! Numerous settings allow you to create a universal gaming partner that will be interesting both for beginners and professionals. Chess players will have the opportunity to play not only with the computer, but together with a friend. You are waiting for exciting battles and even participation in the championship! Show your abilities - become a world champion! System requirements:     * Microsoft® Windows® XP operating system     * 1.0 GHz Pentium® 4 processor     * 256 MB of RAM     * 1 GB of free hard disk space     * 32MB video adapter     * Sound device compatible with DirectX® 7.0     * DirectX® 7.0     * Device for reading CDs OFFICIAL DISTRIBUTION

If you are a beginner, you must be able to protect your pieces from being captured and take them out of attack if you want to improve your game! This training course contains about 3,000 one-step exercises with a large number of pieces on the board. A large number of exercises makes this course an excellent tool for quickly learning beginner chess players. Even if you study and decide 20% of the exercises, you will significantly improve your chess “vision” and stop “yawning” the pieces! All exercises are taken from practical games and are divided by the name of the figures and the level of complexity. • Solution examples • View rating changes • Tracking the course of training multiple users • Playing against the chess program from the current position • Print jobs

If you are a beginner, you should not miss the opportunity to take advantage of your opponent! This training course contains more than 5,800 one-step exercises with a large number of pieces on the board. A large number of exercises and ease of use allows you to quickly train novice chess players much faster than any book! Even if you study and decide 20% of the exercises, you will significantly improve your chess “vision” and stop “yawning” the pieces! All exercises are taken from practical games and are divided by the name of the figures and the level of complexity. • Solution examples • View rating changes • Tracking the course of training multiple users • Playing against the chess program from the current position • Print jobs

Join the community! “Let’s Check” Fritz 13 that will change the chess world *. Fritz 13 users can play with them. If you are analyzing the fritz 13? You will be able to find yourself at the moment. If you’re not in the morning, you’ll not be in trouble. It is a great deal of effort to meet your needs. “Discover” a position! It’s not a matter of a Super-GM club player or super-GM. If you use the “discoverer” of that position. “Conquer” chess positions! This will be available. The newest engine, the deepest analysis. If you encounter the position. You can become one of the most recent openings. If you haven’t been up, you can’t get it. The openings book is updated on a weekly basis. It will also reveal which lines are being analyzed and the international community. It becomes the player’s experience. If you’re on the Internet, you’ll be able to find out what you’re looking for. Other features of Fritz 13: Fritz 13 engine, especially tuned for deep analysis. Freedz 13 fritz boarding board, trainer, trainer, trainer, trainer of online games and grandmasters. The sixth largest chess server: Playchess.com. Minimum: Pentium III 1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, Windows Vista, XP (Service Pack 3), DirectX9 graphics card with 256 MB RAM, 100% DirectX10 compatible soundcard, DVD-ROM drive, Windows Media Player 9 and Internet connection required for Internet-based features (playchess.com, lets check etc.). Program activation via Internet required! Recommended: PC Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 3 GB RAM, Windows 7, DirectX10 graphics card (or compatible) with 512 MB RAM or more, 100% DirectX10 compatible soundcard, Windows Media Player 11, DVD ROM drive and Internet connection required for Internet-based features (playchess.com, lets check etc.). Program activation via Internet required! * Access to “Let’s Check” database database December 31, 2014

If you are a beginner chess player, you need to know and be able to apply simple tactical techniques! This training course contains more than 2500 exercises for the "fork", more than 500 exercises for the "bunch", about 200 exercises for the "double check" and 320 exercises for the "open check". Learn to destroy the King's defense of the enemy on 720 examples and use the weakness of the 8th (1st) horizontal on 765 examples. A large number (in the amount of more than 5000!) Exercises makes this course an excellent tool for quick learning, both beginners and first-rank players. • Sample solutions • View rating changes • Tracking the progress of training of several users • Playing against the chess program from the current position • Print jobs

Includes a large theoretical material on all debuts. About 500,000 expert assessments and more than 8,000 text comments by MG Kalinin. Chess tree - getting detailed statistics for any debut position in a few seconds. Construction of the Debut table for any position, the possibility of adding material. The "Debut Testing" mode will help chess players to test their knowledge in the debut, as well as point out inaccuracies and mistakes and give recommendations on their elimination. The base is 4,800,000 parties for 1 April. Any kind of search by title, position, etc. Print and export to RTF (WORD) and HTML. Built-in game programs: Rybka 2.3 - grandmaster power of the game, Ruffian, Crafty, Delfi and Dragon. Play on any time controls. Possibilities of deep automatic batch analysis, multivariate analysis of positions, background analysis, etc. Russian scoring moves.

The strongest game program in the world The estimated Elo score is 3350 Chess Support 960 Multivariate analysis (with limited evaluation) Playing against the computer Automatic rating counting Material Handicap Handicap by rating (900-3200) Start the game from any position

The program is developed on the basis of Sergey Ivashchenko's best-selling book "A Textbook of Chess Combinations", 1A and 1B. As the training material, elementary and simple tasks (1-, 2-, and 3-way) are used, located with increasing complexity. Five levels of training: 1. Simple mats in 1 turn 2. Complex mats in 1 turn, winning a figure, a pat, a mat in 2 moves. 3. Mat in 2 moves by a certain figure, scoring a figure. 4. The winning of the figure, the pat, How would you play. 5. At the last stage of training, the student is encouraged to play the position on his own. Level of tasks from beginner to III-II level. The program also includes an additional course "Mat in 1 move", which contains more than 900 exercises. There are more than 2200 examples for the solution.

Exclusive annotated databases. Contains more than 5.4 million games from 1560 to 2012 in a high standard of quality ChessBase. 67,000 games contain comments from leading players, with ChessBase opening the classification with more than 100,000 key positions, direct access to players, tournaments, middlegame themes, endgames. The largest TopClass annotated database in the world. The most recent database games from mid-November 2012. Mega 2013 is also equipped with a new version of the playerbase. As usual, this is where most of the work was done. As the player index currently contains already more than 281,000 entries, it makes sense to use an adapted playerbase which includes about 293000 names. By doing this, the photo database has been extended, and also contain 33,000 photos now. Inclusive Internet Mega-update 2013: With 10 ChessBase, 11 or 12 you can download games for Mega 2012 for the whole year, a total of about 200,000! This means that your Mega 2013 remains until now from January to December.

A fundamental program on chess tactics. It was made on the basis of the material of the eponymous grandmaster's book by correspondence N. Kalinichenko. Includes about 4000 exercises (more than 600 examples for the study and about 3300 for the solution), classified according to 100 tactical methods and motives. Level of difficulty from the IV level to the master. Modes "Study", "Practice", "Game", "Test". The program calculates the ELO depending on the success of the solution, and also collects detailed statistics for the solution of tasks. Speed ​​settings for moving shapes, colors and sizes of fonts and boards. Print exercises and topics. Built-in game program with varying the strength of the game.