Paramount Chess Database Chess Software
Category: Sports & Outdoors
Categories: Sports & Outdoors > Fan Shop
Store: Chess Informant
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PARAMOUNT CHESS DATABASE Paramount is a unique historical collection of annotated chess games which will serve as a premium quality database for daily use by competitive players. While it is not intended to match the massive amount of material offered by similar databases on the market, it is the jewel that will differentiate your preparation from a great many others. Just a quick glance at the list of annotators shows how gigantic is this half-century Chess Informant project. Here’s just a sample selection, together with the total number of games each grandmaster has analysed in Chess Informant over the years: Botvinnik (29), Smyslov (130), Tal (372), Petrosian (510), Spassky (17), Fischer (10), Karpov (580), Kasparov (630), Anand (507), Ponomariov (136), Topalov (55), Kramnik (442), Gaprindashvili (62), Chiburdanidze (127), Xie Jun (30), Susan Polgar (99), Gligoric (685), R. Byrne (611), Timman (569), Gelfand (517), Adams (428), Larsen (416), Polugaevsky (339), Nunn (317), Shirov (515), Van Wely 338, Gulko (301), Ivanchuk (403)... the list is enormous, there are 3512 annotators in total. SOFTWARE Although we recommend ChessBase 13 as the preferred software solution for using the Paramount database in a Windows environment, an older version of this same program will serve equally well. Mac users can browse Paramount thanks to the additional PGN database (for Hiarcs, Shredder and any other program). PGN will also be handy when using your favourite program (any PGN viewer) on Android or iOS device. NO SOFTWARE INSIDE: Paramount does not need any dedicated software; it is designed to be used by almost every popular free or commercial program on the market.