ChessBase 18 & Opening Encyclopedia 2025
ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database that has become the standard throughout the world. Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy the game even more.
Whether it is preparation for an individual opponent or tournament, administration and analysis of one’s own games, development of training material for self-study or for training groups, or publication of games on the web or in print: ChessBase o.ers an incredible wealth of functions for all areas of study and playing levels. Anyone who is seriously involved in chess, plays tournaments or simply wants to understand chess, needs ChessBase: youth players, amateurs, tournament players, coaches, grandmasters, professional players etc.
NEW IN CHESSBASE 18:
- Playing style analysis: What type of player is your next opponent? ChessBase 18 checks the games and recognises aspects such as “Manic attacker who risks everything”, “Strong endgame expert with great fighting spirit”, “Exchanger with too high a draw ratio” and many more.
- Search for strategic themes: Find games with a thrilling kingside attack, or on the topics: Defence; space advantage; strong square; queenside play etc. – training and illustrative material in abundance!
- Access to 6 billion Lichess games, extremely fast access via the ChessBase Database Server.
- Player preparation by matching Lichess games: Matching Lichess or Chess.com accounts via statistical matching provides deep insights for opponent preparation!
- Download Chess.com games with built-in API, convenient and fast!
- Built-in cloud engine: Use the power of the cloud on your notebook or tablet, rent the appropriate engine and save your own battery at the same time! With free flat rate for premium users*
- ChessBase Mobile: The app for on the go – access to your own cloud databases, opening preparations and the ChessBase Database Server with over 12 million games!
Further innovations: Printing of QR codes for games and positions. New design for Interface. All new icons. Icon colours adapt to the design theme. Better displays for reference searches (e.g. filter for Elo and year or draw range). Faster game input by voice and much more…
Opening Encyclopedia 2025
YOUR EASY ACCESS TO OPENING THEORY
Be well prepared with the new Opening Encyclopaedia 2025! Whether you want to build up a reliable and powerful opening repertoire or find new opening ideas for your existing repertoire, the Opening Encyclopaedia covers the entire opening theory on one product and is the ideal start for your opening training. Many new articles enrich the current theory with new or revisited ideas. 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.
The Opening Encyclopaedia offers quick access to all openings. The openings are sorted by name and ECO code via the menu for quick and easy access to your favorite openings. Opening Tutorials give a quick yet comprehensive overview of all established openings to help every chess player find the most suitable opening according to their personal preferences. 100 high-class opening videos are included in the Encyclopaedia 2025, from our popular ChessBase Authors. Daniel King, Dorian Rogozenco, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Mihail Marin, Ivan Sokolov, Adrian Mikhalchishin, Leon Mendonca, Jan Werle, Luis Engel, Rainer Knaak, Robert Ris, Felix Blohberger and many other grandmasters present new opening ideas clearly and vividly. The number of articles in the Opening Encyclopaedia is growing – it now contains 1,524 and the included database contains all games from all opening articles.
One more highlight: Grandmaster Dorian Rogozenco presents opening trends in world-class chess. You can look forward to a total of 9 videos on the French, Sicilian, Najdorf, Ruy Lopez, Italian, Petroff, English, Queen’s Gambit Declined, from the entire year 2024 to spring 2025. A separate video “early deviations” shows the trend of leaving the territory of the established main variations. An approach that is becoming increasingly popular in grandmaster chess. All this makes the new Opening Encyclopaedia 2025 an indispensable reference work for every tournament player.
- 1,524 special theoretical databases – analyses with annotated games & ideas by Grandmasters
- Over 40,000 illustrative games
- 7,850 opening surveys, 300 new or updated
- 100 opening videos. Total duration: over 35 hours
- Grandmaster Lectures : Dorian Rogozenco: The latest trends (9 Videos)
