Shopping spree
Today everything is 25% off (only exceptions: ducats, vouchers, books, account memberships and subscriptions). At the bottom of this page you will find instructions on how you can browse through the ChessBase Shop and search for things you need. Here are some of this time’s prime offers:
Just released: ChessBase’26
Expand your chess horizons
ChessBase’26 has all the time-tested functions of the world’s premiere chess database. In addition the latest version pays special attention to plans. The opening report tells you which piece moves or pawn advances are significant for each important variation. In the reference search you see on the board where the pieces usually go. And the program shows you the most common figure paths.
These are the main features:
Opening report
- Club players need statistics that are different from top players. Prepare for your level, not for GMs.
- Top players instantly see the latest fashion and the statistics for various move orders.
Understand the typical variations with their strategic themes and frequent plans.
New Reference filters
- Instant preparation: Just type the name.
- Filter out Blitz and rapid with one click.
- New detection of duplicate games.
- Ten times faster and much more precise. Database maintenance has never been easier.
AI description of plans: ChessBase’26 Explains a position to you like a good personal trainer would do it. (Valuable insights, but beware of hallucinations which are still possible).
This is what you can get
Mega Database 2026
The premiere chess database with over 11.7 million games from 1475 to 2025 in high quality, more than 120,000 annotated – the world‘s largest collection of high-class analysed games.
Train like a pro! Prepare for your opponents with ChessBase and the Mega Database 2025. Let grandmasters explain how to best handle your favorite variations, improve your repertoire and much more.
• Includes Mega Update Service 2026: update your Mega with your ChessBase´26 (18/17/16) program every week with over 5,000 new games. That’s about 250,000 new games by the end of 2026!
• Direct access to All World Championship matches, Candidates tournaments, famous historical tournaments and all Olympiads!
• Player lexicon for download with over 1.4 million player names and more than 44,000 player photos (only with ChessBase´26/18/17).
Fritz 20 – your ultimate training partner
FRITZ 20 is more than just a chess engine – it is a training revolution for ambitious players and professionals. Whether you are taking your first steps into the world of serious chess training, or already playing at tournament level, FRITZ 20 will help you train more efficiently, intelligently and individually than ever before.
FRITZ 20 analyses your next opponent – and plays like them! Use the style analysis in ChessBase18 to configure whether Fritz should play aggressively, riskily, positionally or exchange-oriented. This allows you to train specifically for your next game – and your next opponent! Realistically and practically.
Perfect your reflexes with the new Bullet Training mode: configure the time limit exactly, and learn to keep your nerves under pressure – ideal for blitz and bullet players on online platforms.
Experience a new dimension of interaction with AI chat and voice output: polished commentary, amusing analyses and subtle hints – spoken in natural language if desired. Fritz commentary at its best.
Order Fritz 20 now:€52.43 (instead of €69.90)
Opening Encyclopedia 2025
Whether you want to build a reliable and powerful opening repertoire, or find new opening ideas, the Opening Encyclopaedia covers the entire opening theory in one product and is the ideal start for your opening training.
The Encyclopaedia can help you learn openings quickly and give you a head start on your next opponent. Each article contains explanations and annotated games illustrating typical plans to deepen your understanding.
Opening tutorials, 100 first-class openings in video format, 1,524 opening articles.
Order the Opening Encyclopedia on discount day: €127.43 (instead of €169.90)
Update: €74.93 (instead of €99.90)
Corr Database 2026
Correspondence players often have a deep chess understanding and enrich their games with interesting new ideas. Thus, the games are not decided by tactical blunders but by strategic understanding, long-term preparation, and passionate, patient scientific work.
This is the large ChessBase collection of correspondence games from the period from 1804 to 2025. it contains 2.5 million games, with more than 80,000 tournaments. Corr 2026 is a must for all correspondence chess fans. But the Corr Database is also very popular among many grandmasters and chess coaches, as correspondence games often herald the development of opening theory! Get insights from the pioneers of chess opening novelties and update your repertoire with games from the new Correspondence Database. It gives you a unique opportunity to enrich your opening repertoire with ideas from a wealth of unknown top-class games.
Order the Corr Database 2026 on discount day: €149.93 (instead of €199.90)
Update: €74.93 (instead of €99.90)
Fritz Powerbook 2026
Even more power for Fritz.
Even more power for you.
The Fritz Powerbook 2026 contains 25 millions opening positions, derived from 1.7 million high class tournament games. Together with each position all relevant information is stored: all moves that were played in the position, by players of what average rating, with what success and performance results. The games from which the Fritz Powerbook 2026 were derived are also included. The Fritz Powerbook 2026 represents the state of the art of current openings theory. The Fritz Powerbook was derived also from the best 100,000 games from the Correspondence 2026 Database to enhance even more the theoretical value of moves given by the book. With the 2026 edition you get 3 Books: Fritz Powerbook, Strongbook and the CorrBook. Discover exciting and tricky new lines and practice them against Fritz. In addition the Powerbook has a small but very exclusive book with the strongest GM games (ELO >= 2550) from the past 100 years (2.7 Mio positions) and StrongBook Games Database.
Order Fritz Powerbook 2026 on discount day: €67.43 (instead of 89.90)
Karsten Müller: Endgame Academy Vol.2
Picture this: you’ve outplayed your opponent move by move, you’re clearly better – and then the endgame slips into a draw, simply because you lacked the crucial theoretical knowledge. That is exactly where this course comes in.
Without solid endgame skills, there’s no way forward. Rook endgames are most essential: they occur more often than any other type of endgame, and often make the difference between victory and half a point. If you master them, you’ll confidently convert your advantages into wins!
Grandmaster Dr. Karsten Müller, one of the world’s leading endgame experts, guides you step by step through everything you need to know in this second volume:
• Rook vs. Pawn
• Rook + Pawn(s) vs. Rook
• Complex rook-and-pawn endgames
Classic themes such as the Philidor, Lucena, Vancura position, umbrella, cut-off, and bodycheck are explained clearly and practically in video lessons. And it doesn’t stop at theory: interactive training exercises allow you to put your knowledge into practice. Each solved task is scored, so you can measure your progress and watch your endgame skills grow step by step. Enjoy innovative chess training – and start turning more games into full points at the board!
Buy now for €29.93 (instead of €39.90)
Shopping guide
Today you should go into the ChessBase Shop and look around. All eligible products display the original retail price and the 25 % discount.
Your wish list
When viewing our Discount Day offers, feel free to put anything of interest into your Shopping Cart.
When you proceed to checkout, you see what you have on your purchase list. The total cost (on discount day 25% will be automatically deducted from each item) is displayed.
Before you advance to payment you can click “Delete” to remove the ones you decide you don’t really need.
So the items you select when browsing the products below are essentially put into a “wish list”, one that you can modify before you complete your purchase.
Improve your opening repertoire
Do you know this special feature? You can go to the Openings A-Z page in the shop and choose the opening you intend to play or to study.
You can even enter moves on the graphic chessboard to search for material relevant to the opening. Is there a quicker or better way to find the ChessBase Trainers you need?
