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Chess Assistant
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<p>Chess Assistant is a commercial database program produced by Convekta, Ltd. The company started in Russia, but also has offices in England and the United States. The software is a management tool for organising <a href="/facts/Chess/47ykvkHF">chess</a> information (databases of millions of games), opening training, game analysis, playing against the computer, and viewing electronic texts. It is the major commercial competitor to <a href="/facts/ChessBase/atkGcfEC">ChessBase</a>. The first version of Chess Assistant was released in 1990. The current version 16, released in 2015, includes a database of 6.2 million games and 40 million computer-generated evaluations of opening moves. The program uses <a href="/facts/Houdini_(chess)/vKT0Czr8">Houdini 4</a> as an analysis tool. </p>