Chess King 2015 works on BOTH Windows(R) and Mac(R) Computers
Chess King Gold With Houdini 4 Pro DVD
Chess King Gold with Houdini 4 Pro is the new improved version for 2015 of the top selling Chess King 4 Pro chess software, in its absolutely strongest version. It is sold with both Mac and PC installers and allows up to 4 activations in any mix PC & Mac, for example 3 PC installations and 1 Mac installation. Chess King Gold includes Houdini 4 Pro super grandmaster engine and the new updated 2015 GigaKing game database with 5.7 million games, a database of commented games and the largest correspondence database, bringing the total of games included in Chess King Gold to 6.4 million games.
Includes the strongest engine available Houdini 4 Pro
What separates Chess King Gold from the other versions is the included super grandmaster Houdini 4 Pro, the choice of most of the world’s Grandmasters.
Houdini 4 Pro supports up to 32 threads (cores), up to 256 GB of hash memory, large memory pages, and NUMA-aware (Note: Houdini 4 Standard supports up to 6 threads and 4 GB of hash memory)
The PC engine Houdini 4 Pro is a standard UCI engine which you can take out of Chess King Gold and use in other chess programs, for example Chessbase, Chess Assistant or Aquarium.
PC + Mac and multilingual
Both installers for PC and Mac are included in the Chess King 4 Pro package.
The PC version is compatible with all windows versions from XP, Vista, 7 to the most recent Windows 8 and the last Service Pack.
The Mac version is compatible OS X 10.6 up to OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
It can be installed and use in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian.
Chess King Gold will help you improve at chess. It’s complete with all the best tools, and it’s easy to use for all levels. Play, learn, analyze, prepare for your opponent, store your own games and share them to the world.
Main features of Chess King Gold
• Super Grandmaster engine Houdini 4 Pro
• Huge opening tree with evaluations and success for each move
• GigaKing 2015 games database
• Classical (any level), Random, Puzzle (1500 puzzles) and Quest modes (100 games)
• Prepare for your opponent, opening and custom trees
Play in Classical Mode
You can play at any level you choose, from a rating of 800 to 3200, either with white or black, and either for fun (not counting for rating, you can take back moves), or in rated mode. Your games will automatically be saved in your games database and you will be able to analyze them in detail with the Grandmaster engine Houdini 4 Pro to see what mistakes have been made.
Have fun in the Random Mode
The Random Mode is exclusive to Chess King, in which you can choose what advantage you want to start the game with and the number of pieces you want to have on the board. For example suppose you want to start with an advantage of +6 (the equivalent of 6 pawns advantage), Chess King will randomly select a starting position with the characteristics you decide and then you will play that position against Houdini 4 Pro at the highest level. Anybody should win with such a crushing starting advantage, but you’ll see it’s not that easy!
Setup any position or play Chess960
You can set up any position you like or even play any one of the 960 starting positions of Chess960. Chess King Gold with Houdini 4 Pro knows the complex castling rules of Chess960.
Search in the GigaKing Database
Look out for games of your favorite players in the GigaKing database. For example a search for Magnus Carlsen will give 1,777 games including all the games he played in official tournaments and many of his published exhibition matches and simultaneous exhibitions.
Learn with the Puzzle Mode
You will learn with the puzzle mode, with hundreds of exercises from beginner level until Grandmaster level. Chess King 4 Pro will congratulate you for your success and tell you where you went wrong.
Huge Opening Tree
In the Analysis pane at the beginning of the game, either while analyzing some master game or when entering your own games in your own games database, you can follow the opening tree move by move to see what moves have been played in the whole history of chess and how much success they have had. It’s now easy to study a whole opening just by browsing opening moves, selecting lines, watching games of interest, and learning the ideas behind the opening moves.
Whole Game Evaluation graph and Houdini 4 Pro Analysis
In the Analysis Pane after the opening stage one sees the game notation and comments, the whole game evaluation graph and below the best lines calculated by the engine Houdini 4 Pro. In this position below black could have taken the advantage by taking the pawn on e5, giving an evaluation of -0.86 (Black would have an advantage of close to 1 pawn equivalent), and instead played a bad move a4, which gave an evaluation of +0.49, which means white is up the equivalent of 1/2 pawn. With Chess King Gold you will know the best moves in each position.
$109.95