Chess Assistant 26

Your DOWNLOAD LINK

If the link above doesn't work, try Mirror 1

• Run the setup program you downloaded. Follow the instructions in the installation program.

STOCKFISH 18

Stockfish 18 will also be automatically installed upon the first launch.

You can also manually connect any engine (Stockfish 18, Comodo etc) to Chess Assistant 26 as a UCI engine.

MANUALS

Download manuals from the Manuals page.

DATABASES AND ADDITIONAL COMPONENTS

• After you install Chess Assistant 26, you can also download two databases with about 9,5 million games in total and additional components:
  • Huge Base - a database with 8 811 000 games (updated on November 11, 2025) (Mirror 1)
  • Correspondence Database - a database with 596 000+ top Correspondence chess games (Mirror)
  • Direct Tree (now included in the installer) - Opening moves tree (November 11, 2025)
  • CAP evaluations (now included in the installer) - an analysis tree with more than 65 000 000 evaluations
  • Guru base - a database of top rated chess players with photos (Mirror)
• Please download these files one by one, do not start several downloads simultaneously to avoid slowdown.
• Make sure CA26 is not running.
• Copy files from cap.zip to to <CA26>\ folder.
• Copy files from hugebase.zip to <CA26>\bases.
• Copy files from corr2012.zip to to <CA26>\bases folder.
• Copy files from d2m.zip to to <CA26>\ folder.
• Extract guru.zip into <CA26>\Bases\

1-month CHESS KING LEARN SUBSCRIPTION

To activate your Chess King Learn subscription, go to https://learn.chessking.com/learning/purchases/buy, log in or register an account if you don't have one, and use your product key as a promo code.

GAME SERVICE 2026-2027

You can download new games directly from the Chess Assistant 26 interface until December 31, 2027. When you purchase Chess Assistant 26, you receive a numeric login and a serial code (same as your Chess Assistant 26 serial code) for your Premium Game Service 2026-2027 subscription. Enter the login and password in Help\update wizard\automatic update in Chess Assistant 26. If you want to receive these bases in the PGN format, please email to chessassistantshop@gmail.com