i have chess assisitant 9.it does all that i could ever ask.the only problem i have is that the program has difficulty adding other engines to the program.
there is a free data base called jose which might serve you well.it does not have the opening tables like chess assistant but can be had with about 3 million games and comes with 2 strong engines for analysis or playing against.
good luck,
pawnroller
I have ChessBase, which I've opened more than 2500 times (the software congratulated me when I hit this milestone). I lack the time to list all the features. If you can think of it, CB probably can do it.
Let's say that I want to study the Gruenfeld Defence. I can find all the Gruenfeld games played since 1950 in which Black was rated 2350 or higher and use these to create an ECO style table that I can take along with my chess set to the local bistro for a study session. (Of course, I'll need to narrow this topic a bit if I'm unwilling to go through an entire ream of paper printing the table and games.)
Chessbase is more popular and I recommend it.
Let's say that I want to study the Gruenfeld Defence.
Good example. I was crushed twice in the Gruenfeld this week for both tactical and opening reasons. Chessbase helped me with the second part by highlighting where I went wrong, showing me how better players developed their pieces, and how they tried for an advantage. Now that I've chosen a specific setup against the Gruenfeld, it also alerted me to new games played with the same setup this week.
chess assistant can do all of that as well.i get about 6 thousand games a week added to my database.i can search by position,tactical theme,material,date,event,
player and so on.the plus for assistant as i see it is the analysis engines are stronger.
best wishes,
pawnroller
*Bump*
I just wanted to bump up this very old topic, because I'm interested in hearing about other people's experiences with Chess Assistant and ChessBase. I am considering shelling out the money for ChessBase (As well as installing Windows through Bootcamp on my Mac just for chess stuff!), and was looking through topics on it, and this topic led me to look a little bit a Chess Assistant as well.
Feedback appreciated!
Eliza
This may help. I have used Chessbase for awhile, it seems to answer all my needs.
http://www.chess.com/article/view/chessbase-11---rewiew
Hey folks,
After doing some research on software to help me analyze my games and develop my opening repetoire it seems like the two top candidates are Chessbase or Chess Assistant.
Has anyone had any experience with either program? What did it do well / not so well?
thanks for your help.