Check the listing for details. Paramount Chess Database. Condition: Brand New. Listed at 163.94 USD. Manufacturer of the World's Finest Chess Equipment Chess Pieces Chess Boards Chess Set and Board Combinations Chess Boxes Travel Sets Chess Bags Chess Clocks Chess Books Chess DVDs Chess Software Chess Magazines Chess Accessories Other Paramount Chess Database Specifications Manufacturer: Chess Informant Platform: Windows / iOS / Android System Requirements: NO SOFTWARE INSIDE: Paramount does not contain any dedicated chess software; it is a database that works with all leading chess database programs, including Chessbase, Chess King and Chess Assistant (which must be purchased separately). Host: Publication Year: 2015 Paramount is a unique historical collection of annotated chess games which will serve as a premium quality database for daily use by competitive players. While it is not intended to match the massive amount of material offered by similar databases on the market, it is the jewel that will differentiate your preparation from a great many others. Chess Informant’s concept has always been about selection – to preserve and highlight the best examples of human creativity. Quite simply, here you will find the best games. This has been our specialty for 50 years and it remains our ongoing policy. Non-verbal chess symbols are employed to analyse the games, the majority of which are annotated by the players themselves, including world champions and virtually all the biggest names in chess since 1965. Qualitatively, Paramount is the finest chess database on the market. It has been constructed with love and care, not by computers but by generations of experts, utilizing standard processes that have been continually improved and perfected over time. In this way, the Paramount chess database brings you 50 years of modern chess history at a glance. Paramount is a collection of all the games ever published in Informant, from its very first issue, presenting games from 1965 right up to this year’s Informant 123. It is designed to offer you easy access to the entire database – to each individual Informant – to games played by prominent players and world champions – to annotators of games – to openings of games according to the ECO code – to the most popular openings and variations – to the “golden games” as voted by a grandmaster jury, etc. With a grand total of 113,832 games (70,043 full games and 43,789 game fragments), in numerical terms it is the biggest collection of annotated games on the market. But this is not a numbers game. In contrast to the commercial databases which offer millions of freely accessible games with no analysis, Paramount is a triumph of quality over quantity. ANNOTATORS Just a quick glance at the list of annotators shows how gigantic is this half-century Chess Informant project. Here’s just a sample selection, together with the total number of games each grandmaster has analysed in Chess Informant over the years: Botvinnik (29), Smyslov (130), Tal (372), Petrosian (510), Spassky (17), Fischer (10), Karpov (580), Kasparov (630), Anand (507), Ponomariov (136), Topalov (55), Kramnik (442), Gaprindashvili (62), Chiburdanidze (127), Xie Jun (30), Susan Polgar (99), Gligoric (685), R. Byrne (611), Timman (569), Gelfand (517), Adams (428), Larsen (416), Polugaevsky (339), Nunn (317), Shirov (515), Van Wely 338, Gulko (301), Ivanchuk (403)... the list is enormous, there are 3512 annotators in total. SOFTWARE Although we recommend ChessBase 13 as the preferred software solution for using the Paramount database in a Windows environment, an older version of this same program will serve equally well. Mac users can browse Paramount thanks to the additional PGN database (for Hiarcs, Shredder and any other program). PGN will also be handy when using your favourite program (any PGN viewer) on Android or iOS device. NO SOFTWARE INSIDE: Paramount does not contain any dedicated software; it is designed to be used by almost every popular free or commercial program on the market. **NO COUPONS CAN BE USED FOR THIS ITEM** Returns and Exchanges Computer Software and DVDs that come on Physical Media (such as CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMS) can only be returned or exchanged if the product is in its original, shrinkwrapped packaging and has not been installed or used in any way. Once you open the packaging of a Computer Software or DVD title, it can only be exchanged for a new copy of the same title and only if the original media is defective. There are NO exceptions to this rule. Manufacturer of the World's Finest Chess Equipment Why settle for less when you can own a legend! 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