You might suspect, given the name of the product, that each year brings a new version of the database to the market. You can access them by going to Options – Misc – Use ‘Theme Keys.’ Note the last three keys are not accessible in the default ChessBase 12/13 settings. The database is searchable by player, tournament, and annotator (among other things), and you can access various indices or ‘keys’ for openings, endgames, strategic and tactical themes. The largest and most well-known of these reference databases are Big Database ( BigBase) and Mega Database ( MegaBase) 2016 from ChessBase.īigBase and MegaBase each contain over 6.46 million games running from the earliest recorded games through October of this year.
They require internet connections and you can’t easily manipulate online data. Online databases like, and ChessBase’s own online database are no substitute. You need a large reference database if you’re going to do any serious chess research or study.
pgn format, making them readable by those using GUIs other than ChessBase or Fritz. All of them are available in ChessBase’s native data format, and two (TWIC and Paramount) are also available in. In this review I’ll look at four (or five, depending on how you look at things) of the most important databases out there, and as we will see, there is something useful for just about everyone. Fortunately for us, there are a number of high quality databases out there, each fulfilling a specific set of needs for different types of users. You can buy the fanciest GUI (graphical user interface) the market has to offer, and you can collect all of the strongest engines around, but if you’re working with poor quality data, your research will suffer for it. When I was in high school and learning about the basics of computer science, I was taught an acronym to underscore the importance of having clean data to work with: GIGO, or ‘Garbage in, Garbage out.’ You can have all the fantastic algorithms and formula you like, but if your data is in poor shape, you’ll never come close to the results you desire.
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