Chess Openings Encyclopedia 2014 (Download)

This excellent program for learning chess openings includes theoretical material on every opening, a user-friendly and detailed classification of variations, a quick search option and an option for analyzing games and positions.

There are two ways of studying an opening: by looking through encyclopedic tables for chosen openings or variations and by moving along a Chess Tree displaying expert evaluations of a current position.

Openings material is based upon

• 500 000 expert evaluations, verified and corrected by Rybka
   
• 8 000 annotations to key moves
   
• 40 million evaluations by Houdini and Rybka engines
   
• Database of 5,400,000 games as of December 1, 2013.

A Rybka 2.3 program is integrated into the Encyclopedia with a possibility of simple connection to Houdini 4, Rybka 4 or other UCI and Winboard engines.. A powerful system of search according to player’ name, position, positional element, motif and material correlation is supported.

A test of opening mode will allow you to test your knowledge and your skill of playing in your chosen opening against the program and to obtain recommendations automatically.

Language versions: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian

System requirements: PC, 128 MB RAM, 2.5GB of free disk space, Windows 10/8/7/XP/Vista.

Extensive Opening Databases
Openings Encyclopedia 2014 has all the data needed to support your opening studies right at your fingertips:

• A game database with 5.4 million games.
• Over 8,000 text annotations from GM Kalinin
• Over 500,000 expert evaluations of key opening positions.
• Over 40 million opening positions analyzed by Rybka and Houdini.

Opening Tables Opening tables are a powerful tool, which complements the move tree and present the theory in a familiar format. As the opening tables are dynamically generated, you can create a table for any position. You can add your own moves, variations and annotations to opening tables.

Opening Classifiers: Overview of Openings and Variations

Classifiers allow you to view the variations covered by Openings Encyclopedia 2014 through a Windows Explorer style interface. If you want to study a particular variation, just double click on its folder in the classifier.

Tree Display Openings Encyclopedia 2014 also uses position databases, which has several advantages over traditional game databases. A tree representation gives you an overview of the current positions, which moves have been played or analyzed in the position and performance statistics. The tree catches all transpositions.