Bookbuilder 4.0.4

Bookbuilder 4.0.4 won't make you disappointed because it helps you learn playing the royal game of chess by starting with the openings.

A unique program to learn everything you need to know about chess openings, especially for beginning/average chess players. Comprehensive help included; practice Spanish, Italian lines. Study opening names, practice against built-in engine. Contains all currently known opening names, variants, gambit names, unorthodox openings. Fully transpositional, thus also interesting for more advanced chess club players.

Major Features:

1. Define, investigate, study, and improve your own opening repertoire
2. Interactive Replay/animation of all the openings listed with opening &variant name
3. Improve your chess playing ability by in depth studying of up-to-dates opening theory
4. The fastest program in the world being able to read in, backcalculate, and use large opening books (about 1-100+ Mb, used in Ram memory).
5. Develop your own personally special opening repertoire, for gambit play or correspondence chess !
6. Reading and adding extensive comments for different opening positions
7. Backcalculate your book x times faster than the equally priced programs
8. Edit positions and analyse manually witch quick recalculation.
9. Build your own power books from PGN quick and easy
10. Read in huge pgn GM files amazing fast, import for example very easily the ECO opening system (in pgn), and improve it. Compress database by removing moves only read in once (new!).
11. Analyze your book with top-freeware chess engine Crafty (22.3) (online, while adding lines, or offline by analyzing book) .
12. Import only "quality" PGN files by defining maximum length.
13. Export endnodes of your book to EPD format for import and analysis by chess engines
14. Only unique positions are stored, no matter how often imported; full support of transpositions
15. Play chess against others after Crafty book generation, with freeware Winboard interface eg. on Internet chess servers, current rating on Internet Chess Club now more than 2900!).
16. Extensive opening book (more than 330,000 positions) including most ECO opening variations included with program
17. Get information about most opening(-name)defined until this moment (2009)

Requirements:

• Modern/fast CPU is recommended for the engine analysis,
• 'Hyperthreading' (two or more threads preferable, also for crafty chess engine) program Acrobat is needed to read the free e-book (a better chess repertoire) (in pdf format)