In November, ChessBase started offering trainer CD-ROMs by such GMs as Robert Hübner, Rainer Knaak and Daniel King. In 1998, ChessBase took their database of chess games online. This remains a feature of all of ChessBase's Graphical User Interfaces even now. Also that year, ChessBase released Fritz 5 including a 'friend mode' which would automatically scale its strength of play down to the level that it assessed the player was playing. In March 1998, ChessBase added Junior 4.6 and Dr. In December 1996, ChessBase added Mark Uniacke's Hiarcs 6 chess engine to its product line up, selling it inside the existing Fritz graphical user interface (GUI).
released a series of print books in the ChessBase University Opening Series, including Anatoly Karpov and Alexander Beliavsky's The Caro-Kann in Black and White. In the mid-1990s, R&D Publishing in the U.S. British GM Daniel King was another early author of such CD-ROMs which eventually grew into the Fritztrainer series of multimedia DVDs. In 1994, German GM Rainer Knaak joined ChessBase as a full-time employee, annotating games for the ChessBase magazine, and soon authoring game database CD-ROMs on topics such as the Trompowsky Attack or Mating Attacks against 0-0. Mathias Feist joined ChessBase, and ported Fritz to DOS and then Microsoft Windows. This program was marketed initially as Knightstalker in the U.S., and Fritz in the rest of the world.
The August 1991 issue of Computerschach & Spiele announced that Dutch programmer Frans Morsch's Fritz program would soon be available, sold as software for PCs unlike all of the dedicated chess computers which at the time dominated the ratings lists. The February 1987 issue of Computerschach & Spiele introduced the database program as well as the ChessBase magazine, a floppy disk containing chess games edited by GM John Nunn.
Friedel began working with Bonn physicist Matthias Wüllenweber who created the first such database, ChessBase 1.0, as software for the Atari ST. In 1985, he invited then world chess champion Garry Kasparov to his house, and Kasparov mused about how a chess database would make it easier for him to prepare for specific opponents. The game is also very popular on the internet, with a number of mobile games and desktop games available.Starting in 1983, Frederic Friedel and his colleagues put out a magazine Computer-schach und Spiele covering the emerging hobby of computer chess. It became a sport during the 19th century and today there are a number of cheese tournaments all around the word. Chess as we know it today was first played in Europe during the 15th century. The game of chess is a derivative of a very old game called Shatranj.
It is very much aimed towards professional players, but can also be used by those who simply want to improve their game or their knowledge of the game. The ChessBase database contained over 5 million games of chess, which players can peruse and study, working out strategies and improving their game. Despite being a German company, the ChessBase database is sold predominately in the US and is written in English. ChessBase was developed by the German company ChessBase GmbH which began in 1986 and also operates a website and a server dedicated to chess. ChessBase is a chess database that contains a wealth of information relating to the game of chess.