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ChessBase Account
A ChessBase Account with premium access offers you access to ten
The ChessBase Account is your entry card into the ChessBase world of chess. The ChessBase apps which we want to show one by one.
account allows you to play, to train, and to follow and to enjoy chess events.
The individual apps are linked to each other and buttons on the right
The ChessBase Account is web-based. You do not need a program or an app. Just use the hand side make it easy to switch between them. Information from one
browser to connect on your tablet, smartphone, iPad or PC. When you are online you can play application (e.g. playing and watching) is also available in other
or follow the great tournaments live or you can train and improve chess or enjoy chess shows. applications (e.g. cloud).
No matter whether chess is a serious sport for you or an entertaining hobby: the ChessBase
Premium Account has something for you!

Set up your ChessBase Account Playchess ! Play and watch

https://play.chessbase.com/
Enter the address https://account.chessbase.com into your browser:
With your ChessBase Account you can play on playchess against opponents of all levels and
If you already have a playchess.com account, enter from all over the world. Your blitz-elo shows your progress.
your user name and your password, and click
“Login”. Click on playchess and you are guided into the great playing hall of playchess.
If you are new, click on “Register” and choose a user
name. You will receive an email that asks you to The chess board is ready. You can accept a
confirm the account by clicking the link in the email. challenge – list to the right – or you can yourself
The new ChessBase Account only works after this send a challenge with your preferred time-limit by
security check. clicking on one of the buttons above the board:

The easiest way is to subscribe to your ChessBase Account. This makes sure that your
ChessBase Account is always active and that you can always access it. In the ChessBase shop
you can easily get such a subscription.
If it comes to a game the starting position appears on the board. The colours are allocated
randomly but the program takes care that White and Black are evenly distributed.
If you acquired – via ChessBase 14 or one of our chess programs – a serial number you can
activate or prolong the time you can use your account. To do this click on your user name to
The remaining time is shown on the left
see your user data:
below or above the board. You move with
the mouse. Click on a pawn or a piece and
Here you can complete your user data. The field
move it to its target square (click). A yellow
“serial number” is important for the extension
arrow shows the last move of the opponent.
of your subscription. Click on it and enter the
On the right you see the notation of the
serial number (5 x 5 characters):
game and the buttons in the row above the
board allow you to offer or decline a draw
or to resign or – if the opponent has a bad
connection – to claim a win.
Serial numbers with premium access are part of
our chess programs Fritz, Houdini, Komodo, But playchess offers more than just opportunities to play:
and of ChessBase 14 and can be purchased in
the ChessBase Shop. You can also watch other games live, blitz games on the
server, or real games in tournaments.
In the chat you can talk with chess friends from all over the
world.
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Click on “Community” and check whether chess friends Click “New Game” and enter Bracker, Arne into the search text.
from all over the world are online. With a click on “Friends” Sort the games found by clicking on the column title “White” to
you can mark friends – this makes it easier to find them arrange the games Arne Bracker played with White. Under
again. “Moves” – to the very right – you see that Arne Bracker likes to
play 1.d4.
If you click one of the games the notation appears below the board. To play through

! the game use the arrows on your keyboard (or click “Make Move” with the mouse).
The database allows you to quickly gain information and it helps you to prepare for
your next opponent.
Live Database
https://database.chessbase.com/
My Games Cloud
https://mygames.chessbase.com
The Online Database gives you access to famous grandmaster games and helps you to prepare
for your next opponent. The starting window looks as follows:
The ChessBase Cloud is your desk, your desk for your own analyses, and the interface to
ChessBase 14. You can work with these programs in the cloud databases. You can enter,
On the left is a list of games which you can
analyse, and annotate (not just your own) games in the cloud.
arrange according to various criteria (e.g.
year, White, Black, openings).
On the left you see the screen of the cloud.
The board is in the middle. You can enter
On top is a list of tools with the most
moves on the board or you can bring games
important commands for organising the
to the board by double-clicking a game in the
databases.
list.
On the left a cloud database is open.
On the right hand side, at the top, you see the
Centered are the board and the live-database.
Live Book and Let’s Check. Let’s Check is a
On the right is the notation of the current
permanently updated database with
game.
evaluations by chess engines.
Below are the most important commands for
working with the databases or the games.
The most important functions of the online database are listed in the bar above the database:
With “Open PGN” you can open and work on PGN files on your computer.
With “Databases” you can open, create and delete cloud databases. Here you also
find your playchess games – play.chessbase.com games – and databases which
another user shared with you.
With New Game the starting position appears on the board. With Take Back and Make With “Save” you save your analyses and annotations. If you want to keep the
Move you go a half-move back or continue the game (if you opened a game). With Engine previous version, select “Save as new”.
you can ask a chess engine about the position on the board – even if you do not have an With “Setup Position” you can enter (and save) any (legal) position. The position
engine installed on your computer. Boards allows you to change the look of the board. With on the board is automatically accepted.
Flip Board you can turn the board and view it from White’s or from Black’s perspective. With “My Moves” you can integrate variations and games, particularly your own
Search Board searches the Online Database for all games with the current position on the games, into your opening repertoire (more under Openings).
board. In Enter your search text here you can enter the names of players (surname, first
name) to search for games of the player. With My Moves you can integrate games directly The cloud is an ideal tool to analyse and annotate games. Click on the game you want to work
into your opening repertoire (more about this under Openings). on or enter a game by replaying it on the board.
An example: Preparing for an opponent When the opening phase is over you can hide the Live-Book and
enlarge the board.
Let’s say you know that you will play against ChessBase member Arne Bracker with Black. You enter a variation by entering a move that is not the move in
the game.
You set an annotation symbol by right-clicking on the move (in
the notation) and selecting a symbol with the mouse.
You activate the chess engine by clicking the engine symbol. The
engine always analyses the current position on the board.
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The image to the left shows the starting

screen of the live transmissions. Above on
the left you do see five games. You can
More help to work on a game is in the bar below the notation. You can save the game as PGN regulate the number of games (with a
or pass over to Fritz Online for sparring (more under FRITZ ONLINE). To enter annotations maximum of seven) by changing the size of
you can start a text editor, and you can upgrade, delete or cut variations (the remaining moves the window. One game is in focus and it can
vanish). also be followed in the notation window. You
can decide which game this is by double-
clicking on the board of the game in question.

You can copy games from one database to Below the board windows is a list with all the games of the tournament. By clicking on a
another. Mark the games (click or Ctrl+click) and game you can open it and put it into focus. Below the notation is the Live-Book. If statistical
click on “Copy” in the bar below the database. information about the position is available, it is shown here.
You then open the target database and click on
“Paste”. Deleting games works in a similar way. On the right-hand margin you do see a box with small messages and
hints about other games. Click on the game bar in one of these hints and
the board of this game is opened and put into focus.
The ChessBase Cloud connects different training tools of the
ChessBase Account which gives you easy access to the
material you recently worked on. Here, important databases
are play.chessbase.com games, in which all games you play
on playchess are saved or Tactics Fights Positions, in which
Below the notation is a bar with tools. With these tools you can annotate and analyse the
you can replay the last 100 Tactics Fights (more under
current games. You enter variations of your own by making the moves with mouse. With the
Training). Games from other activities, e.g. games which
tools you can (from left to right) delete variations you entered, upgrade variations you
you watched in the Video Archive or via Live Chess are
entered, cut variations, unannotate the entire game, take back commands, repeat commands
saved in the CloudClip database.
that were taken back, save games as pgn-files, and check in the online database whether the
position has ever occurred before.
Live Chess
https://live.chessbase.com

This gives you a front row seat at all important chess tournaments all over the world. Follow
top games and the tension of matches live. The Tactical Analysis which runs permanently With the first five tools (seen from the left) you can play through the game in focus. The next
does not only give you an evaluation of the current position but also informs you about the two tools load the following or the previous game from the games list. enlarges the board,
previous course of the game. starts a chess engine, and flips the board. With the disk symbol you can download all
games on the games list as pgn-file.
Ask the chess engine if you do not understand a move or if you want to have a more precise
evaluation of the position. You don’t miss anything because the program sends you small
notes to inform you in which game “things heat up”. The Tactical Analysis of all games
makes this possible.

Even if there are no current games at a tournament you can replay all games or download
them as pgn-file.
The image to the left shows a snippet of the starting page. It
shows a list of tournaments that are transmitted live or were
transmitted live (including a link to the current table). The
transmitter mast indicates that games are currently
transmitted live.
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Openings (Maintain your openings) After clicking “Drill White” the program starts to check how well you remember your
repertoire. It’s your move and you play 1.e4. The program now replies with one of the moves
https://openings.chessbase.com
that you entered, in this case 1. – e5. You now follow your repertoire and you play 2.Nf3. The
program replies with 2. – Nc6, and so on. If you know “your” theory the program applauds
To have a good start into the game it helps to know your openings. With the help of the
with “Played until end of preparation, excellent!”. But if you enter a wrong move, the
opening trainer it is easy to build and to update an opening of your own and to continually test
program tells you, “Not in your preparation. Take back and try again.” If you repeat the drill
and enlarge your knowledge.
the program will consider your previous results and first of all test the gaps you have.
To build an opening repertoire you can create two repertoires: one
The opening training is linked to other ChessBase Account applications. If you, for example,
for White and one for Black. If you want to work on your repertoire
discover a game in the live-database which you want to include into your opening repertoire
with White click “Load White”.
you can mark a move as “important” there, and the line will be included into your repertoire
up to this move.
Your repertoire with White is still empty. On the
right you see the Live-Book with all the moves that
have been played or analysed in the given position.
When you play a move on the board it is
temporarily added to your repertoire. The Live-
Book is updated after every move.

After you have entered and analysed variations for

a while your repertoire will probably look a bit like
the image on the left. To take a variation
permanently into your repertoire the last move by
White (it is the repertoire for White) has to be
marked. If you work on your repertoire it will grow and the overview can become confusing. If you
double-click a move in the line you want to work on all the other variations will be hidden.
This puts the variation you want to work on into focus. If you later click on another line, the
Go with the mouse to the move, then to the star (= variations are no longer hidden.
for “Mark move”), and click the star. Repeat this
for all the variations which you want to learn. All
marked moves get an asterisk. Videos
https://videos.chessbase.com
If you already built an opening repertoire with ChessBase 14 you can
copy it into a cloud file. You can open this file in “MyGamesCloud”, and The video archive offers more than 13,000 chess videos – about 6,500 hours of chess – and
then you can add the lines which you want to accept to the repertoire for new videos are added continuously. The range of the videos, which are mainly in German and
White or for Black by marking the moves in the cloud with the star. English, is large. There are videos about the opening and about strategy and tactics in the
middlegame, and videos about the endgame. There are videos for serious training and light
entertainment, videos for the casual player and for the tournament player.
The next step after building a repertoire is to check whether you remember the lines – perhaps In the search mask you can search for topics or you can search for tournament reports, live or
even after a long break. The function “Drill” checks this. as summaries, or you can search for special shows such as “Game of the Week”. When you
click on a video an image like the following will appear:

At the top on the left you see the board which

runs parallel to the presentation of the author.
At the top on the right you see the author.
However, if you watch the video on a mobile
device you hear the sound but cannot see the
picture.
On the left below are links to other shows of the
same series.
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On the right below is the notation. You can work on the notation, you can analyse with an Tactics fight
engine or download it as PGN. Or access it in the cloud to save it in a database of your Here you compete with an opponent to find out
choice. who is able to solve twelve tasks faster. The first
one to make seven points wins. But be careful –
entering the wrong solutions costs a point.

You can recapitulate the last 100 tactic fight positions with the help of the cloud file “Tactics
The menu below the videos help you to navigate the video – and if you want to think a bit Fight Positions” where these tasks are saved.
about a position you can simply stop the video.
Fritz Online
Training https://fritz.chessbase.com/
https://tactics.chessbase.com/
Fritz Online is a chess program against which you can play in rather classical fashion.
Tactics decide chess games. If you know tactical patterns and if you can calculate precisely However, it is particularly strong as sparring and training partner.
you will score more points. You can learn that. The ChessBase Account here offers two
options: solving tactical tasks and the tactic fight. You can use Fritz Online as sparring partner
to get practical experience in certain
Classical tactics tasks opening variations. Before you move the
Here you “fight” against the task. If you program gives you hints. All possible moves
solve the task (in the example 1. – Rh1+ of the piece you clicked on (in the example
2.Kxh1 Qxf1+ etc.) you win rating points the knight on g1) are indicated. Green
and the task loses rating points. If your means good move, red means bad move,
solution is not correct the task wins rating and the shades of yellow moves that are in-
points (which are deducted from your between.
rating). You solve the task by entering the
(right) move! With a premium account the games you have played against Fritz Online are automatically
saved in the cloud database MyGames to allow you to replay and analyse the games whenever
After a small warm-up at the beginning of a session the program will give you tasks that fit you want.
your previous performance. The tasks you will get are challenging but not too difficult. The
right way to improve. Another good way to train is the
calculation of variations. If you start with
The program offers a number of options to have a closer look at the task or to make it easier. a certain position which you can set up or
take from a game you can practice to
When you finished the task you can start the engine to take a closer look at the “calculate”. You make the moves but the
solution with the arrows or the cursor keys. pieces do not move. In the notation your
The program helps you with verbal and visual hints. Of course, using the help moves are visible.
costs rating-points.
Shows the solution and allows you to try the next task. However, this costs
rating points because asking for the solution is like resigning! The most important commands and possibilities:
Loads the next position and continues the test. Take care that you solve the
position first. The program rates unsolved tasks as a win – and you lose rating A click on “New Game” brings the starting position on the board.
points.
With “Make Move” and “Take Back” you move in variations and the
All positions can be solved without time pressure. There’s no stress. The database on which game.
the tactics training is based includes about 50,000 positions, more than enough for all levels. “Setup Position” opens a menu with which you can setup any (legal)
The “Ranking List” shows you how well you do compared to others. position to analyse it or to play it out.
The program moves immediately.

A strong chess engine analyses the current position and shows the
most important variations and evaluations.
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Here you select the playing strength of the program. You have a
choice between five levels, from beginner to full grandmaster
strength.
Here you activate or deactivate the function “Assisted Calculation”.

ChessBase Account – Overview

There is a premium and a standard ChessBase Account. Here’s an overview about the
benefits:

€ 49.90 € 34.90
One-year- One-year-
subscription subscription
Playing & watching, player name &
Playing & watching, player name & chat,
chat, rating & save games, live
rating & save games, live transmissions,
transmissions, playing tournaments,
playing tournaments
GM simuls, live training
Following tournaments live, multi-
board, live commentary, internet Following tournaments live, multi-board
chess TV, chat
Limited access to database and live
Unlimited access to database and live
opening book, unlimited access to Let’s
opening book and Let’s Check
Check
Unlimited access to more than 6,500
hours and 13,000 videos with training No access to the video archive
and entertaining
200 MB storage space for the games 80 MB storage space for games and
and analyses analyses
Full playing strength, five levels,
automatically saved games in the Full playing strength, five levels
cloud database
Building up a repertoire, training this
Building up a repertoire, training this
repertoire, connection with other
repertoire
applications
Database with about 50,000 tactic
Database with about 1,000 tactic tasks
tasks

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https://account.chessbase.com

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