ChessBase GmbH

Thirty-five years ago World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov said: ChessBase is the greatest development for chess since the invention of the printing press. The company, founded in 1986 by physics student Matthias Wullenweber, science journalist Frederic Friedel, and chess trainer Gisbert Jacoby, has revolutionized the game. ChessBase is a database software for the game, one that has become the international standard for top players, from the World Champion to ambitious amateurs. The current version, ChessBase 16, gives players over eight million games, and instant access to 200 million position evaluations, generated by the strongest chess engines in the world and stored in the Cloud. In addition to the powerful database software ChessBase also offers a chess playing program. Launched in 1992, Fritz won the Computer Chess World Championship a year later, ahead of a prototype version of Deep Blue. Twelve years later it beat the reigning human World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik, in a si...