Detailed description of Chess Assistant Light

4. Playing a Game

Chess Openings 2001 keeps this tradition and brings in a few of the best engines available (Crafty 18.10 and Russian Dragon), and the possibility to connect a great number of other.

It supports numerous other formats such as UCI, which allows you to connect the World Champion program Shredder 5, and the rising stars Gandalf 4.32h and SOS; the MCS format which supports Wchess and Zharkov 5, for example, and the Winboard format which supports tons of engines, most of which are freely available for downloading in Internet. There is also support for Nalimov endgame tablebases as a separate consulting tool. Moreover, if you own an old favorite such as MChess Pro, Rebel (8, 9, 10), Genius (4 and 5), you can call on them from Chess Openings 2001 to analyze a position and include their analysis.

The most obvious function of the engine, apart from aiding you to understand the intricacies of a position, is that it appears to be your training partner. Of course you can just start a game and play against the engine of your choice using Chess Assistant opening book, and then set any time control you can think of, including the newly announced FIDE time controls, for example. However, if at any moment you see a particularly interesting or funny position, you can choose to play from it as well with a single click. This allows you to practice easily your opening knowledge, your middlegame understanding, or endgames that you studied. And if you find it unpleasant to play on the screen and miss the feeling of a wooden board, you can connect the DGT board and play on it instead.

5. Analysis

6. Searches

7. Trees and Cap data

8. Folders/classifiers and Classes

9. Printing and Exporting

10. Statistics

11. Fonts, colors, pieces, backgrounds and DGT board