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Do you need Mega database 25 to run the style report? I keep trying to run on Megadatabase 21 and it is not generating even with CB18

Thanks Sir

Great video, congratulations! But is it possible to create synchronized videos with ChessBase to directly upload them into the program, like with Chess Media System and FritzTrainer?

7:14 Interesting line here. After Kf4 the immediate Kf6 is not the move because of Rxf5+! and gxf5 stalemate. I assume Ra4+ followed by Kf6 is cleaner

Good luck!

i bought the chessbase 18 m not able to install at all when i click the chessbase account to install it just taking me to techinical support page i wrote an email recieved a ticket number still no reply

Maybe I missed it, but did you at any point employ a system of "corresponding squares"? I wouldn't blame you if you didn't. It seems to be one of the most frequently mentioned yet poorly explained systems in endgame books. The best treatment I've found is Averbakh's Comprehensive Chess Endings (Volume 4): Pawn Endings.

I now have a negative impression of Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual since I looked up the K+Q vs K + R endgame in that book. It consists of the only draw, the basic Philidor position, then an analysis of a single position. It is therefore pretty much useless when trying to learn this difficult endgame, since it doesn't even mention the second rank and third rank defences required to understand what is going on.

A friend of mine owns CB17 and curses it as it's prone to frequent crashes. Can anyone confirm that? or is it just his machine?

Chessbase 18 + Stockfish 17💪

I cannot work the prep against an opponent function. I can get the name of the player. But when I say click on prep against white it no longer shows me the list of moves to work through the move tree as I did with CB16. I just get a board. Can anyone help?

First thing first: the best video about CB18 so far! Well done! I applaud ChessBase GmbH for major improvements and new functions. However, 3 service packs in 48h is not so nice. Additionally, I believe they missed an opportunity to integrate Compute Cluster due to their lack of understanding of cloud architecture or trying to keep ChessBase a closed shop.

I'm not disagreeing and I'm not the one who designed it. I just know that there are people who will scream bloody murder because a program uninstalled an older version without their consent.

I think you did a lousy review job. Yes, some new functionalities work good and are amazing but not to mention that the online player search does not work and not show it in this video. Or even showing an app that does not exist. It is an online webpage and the app is due in months as the developer mentions.

Nice overview! Silly question... How did you manage to get the Chessbase products you own to show up in the "My databases" folder view in Chessbase? Did you simply install them into that folder (or copy manually into it), or is there another trick? I've a bunch Fritztrainer products and other databases from Chessbase, during installation I'm asked for the top-level Chessbase documents folder, afterwards they show up under "Purchased Data" folder in the folders tree, so I need to navigate between folders to find them. Ideally, I'd want the CB products I use the most to be readily available next to my work database and other personal databases.

The question is not should you buy it, but can you afford it.

I think that this version of chessbase is the ultimate must have tool, lichess and chess databases from users+ player and blunder report+ better search, it dont need mothing more, is just perfect.

These new features introduced by chessbase18 were not done well, but some of the performances looked very attractive, but after they were actually used, the results were not satisfactory. They should listen to the opinions of users, especially the opinions of middle and low level chess players or parents, and not close the door by themselves.

Thanks for this video, after viewing it, I'll definitely buy it.

Should I keep the previous versions of Chessbase or delete them? Thank you for your videos.

How did u get your hands on torch v3?

Very nice

is it possible to get this video in German??

Great, thank you. Thats what i am searching for.

for free,you can use lichess study function and openingtree...best combo ever

do Mega Database 2025 reviews + how to install

Does chessbase have the ability to save repertoire and spaced repetition like in chessbook? That is, daily repetitions of the saved opening repertoire are proposed. If you correctly indicate the moves, the next linerepetition is postponed much further in time, and if you make a mistake, the next repetition of a given variant will be scheduled faster. Another useful feature on chessbook is suggesting where we have the biggest gap in our repertoire, and this is done based on the frequency of moves in the game database. How can I find and use this functionality in chessbase?

Thank you. I have had ChessBase for years, but use it very little, as I find it quite an unintuitive software & hard to use for that reason. Simple things like importing pgn files into it from folders on PC seem more complicated than making a database in the program & dragging_dropping files from folder into the DB? Can it make an EXACT search of a database for exact moves without transpositions? This is a useful function to have (at least a function I would find useful) that seems hidden, if it even exists!? The help menus on all ChessBase products are very sketchy & not very helpful & contacting their support is not very helpful either. It is undoubtedly packed with features, but there is a steep learning curve with it & this takes time away from your chess study & play. Thank you for helping to explain it clearly.

brother i have a problem with CB Reader 17..... while opening a game it's showing red arrows and again for wrong side.....engine is neither running nor my pc is connected to internet..... can u help?

Isn’t there one more function where you can access the lichess database from CB 18?

What a nice coincidence. I just downloaded CB 17, looked for guide for it, and here is fresh video about it

can you do a full review of CB 18 and MEGA 2025.

That was a good summary and even though I use the product fairly frequently I had forgotten about the auto engine analysis of an entire game. I recently came back to chess like you and I first used Chessbase along with some chessable courses to help create my repertoires. I then used it to find historic model games on those lines and finally every week I pull out the games from TWIC pertaining to my repertoire and play through as many as time permits.

Can you do videos on chess books. Explaining each topic step by step?

Can you do a video on chess topics from chess books. Like from books Like Sillmans endgame manual?

i wish they brought a feature where it annotates complete game explaining each and every move like decodechess which will help ametuer players to study master games

Thank you for this clear, organized, and useful video!

Thank you for presenting Pachman! 🙏👌👌👌💪

Gracias por compartir...esperaré el proximo video relacionado con mantener el alfil bueno para el avance a d5 ....muy interesante

At 11:07, you give white moves pawn to h7, but that allows black Bc2 capturing that pawn and covering the queening square. This requires further analysis.

This is great. I looked at signing up to Claude AI and it wants a lot of personal info which I'm wary of giving out. I tried to paste the text file (not just 'paste', but 'paste, keep text only') into MS Word (I'm using 365, so it's probably the latest version). Then Pressing Review - Translate, the text kept the formatting and after copying, ChessBase had the file already open as in your Claude AI example. The translation of move 5 as per the video is: "Rubinstein, who already knew my analysis, chooses the continuation that Bogoljubow had taken against me in one of the earlier rounds. Black, however, now develops his queen's bishop and frees himself from all difficulties." Not bad. perhaps not as brilliant as Claude AI, but certainly 90%+ and any chess player will get the sense. Additionally, in ChessBase, I always have the figurine notation in use. By 'paste, keep text only' the text is done as per your file and the resulting opened game board is in figurine. What didn't work so well was ChessBase failing to read the game header properly which, given there appear to be no changes, seems strange.

The most underrated chess channel...thanks alot for your contents ❤❤

Greetings! I am the player on the business end of Albert's brilliant rook sac! Here is how it felt on my end. After a dozen games or so with Albert and not winning any, I felt pretty good about this one until queen h4. I thought I was holding me own and was pretty happy about that. And then my position collapsed faster than I think I've ever experience before!! Here is what I said to Albert about the game - "I realized I was in trouble after you played queen h4. I didn't see it coming at all, but I figured there is no way you blundered and just gave up such an obvious exchange and so starting to try to figure out what you were up to. I saw some of the lines you talked about, or at least part of them. Enough to see there was a very imminent mating threat from the queen, which of course is way I didn't take the rook. At that point, I thought I might still be able to wiggle out of the immediate problem, but realized that my position was quickly becoming so packed in that you had essentially won, even though we were even in material. But, as you said in the video, when I played queen b7 is when I realized this position was much worse than I had thought"

I love your channel. Very helpful advice. I have chessbase 17 but rarely use it since I find it so complicated.

nice. I used to do postal chess years ago, but gave it up because of computers.

This channel is the perfect example for "a great niche find".

Just wanted to say I appreciate your videos which appear well researched and presented. As someone coming back into chess in my 50s after a long hiatus since the very early 2000s so much has changed due to technology. Hoping I can get back to 2100+ and your videos are helping :)

Hey man, I’m studying chess a lot myself right now. I love the concept of studying with me videos which I haven’t ever seen anywhere else on TH-cam. I hope you’ll keep making them!

I was taught the opposition with this simple position: White Ka1, Rc1 and Black Ka8. White to play and win by moving the rook only once.

Thanks. always good to review opposition