ChessOK Aquarium 2010 (Download)

Rybka Aquarium 2010 offers advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing, databases and much more.

Aquarium 2010 is available for pre-ordering. The product will be released on December 1.

Aquarium 2010 is revolutionary analysis and database tool, combined with the strong chess playing engine, Rybka 2.3.2a (one of the strongest playing program in the world).

Aquarium is a graphical chess interface, which offers advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing, databases and much more.

• Analyze and annotate your games with Aquarium's advanced analysis methods.
• Databases with fast searches
• Powerful and fast chess trees
• Play against the computer
• Publish your chess text: Print, word processor or web
• Free internet chess server access for playing against chess players all over the world
• Database: 4,400,000 games (up to November 1, 2009). Lightning fast database searches. Chessbase/Fritz CBH format (reads and converts), Chess Assistant CDP, PGN and EPD databases
• Full Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit) and Vista compatibility.

• More powerful Interactive Deep Analysis (IDeA): Multi-engine, local or remote analysis, multiple analysis projects, multiple root positions and more. One of the biggest changes in Rybka Aquarium 2010 is the greatly improved Interactive Deep Analysis (IDeA). Many players were happy with the possibilities offered by IDeA in Rybka 3 Aquarium, but I'm afraid that it will look like a dinosaur compared to the new version. It provides better automatic analysis and much more effective ways to control the analysis process and the shape of the analysis tree. I'm sure that many serious players will find that the new and improved IDeA is an essential tool to stay competitive:
  • Analyzing with many engines
  • Analyzing on a network of computers
  • Multiple IDeA projects analyzed in parallel
  • Multiple analysis "roots" for a single project
  • Shaping the analysis tree
  • Move repetition detection
  • Automatic backup of analysis trees
  • Browsing the analysis queue
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• Greatly enhanced database capabilities. Increased speed when searching and converting databases.
• Interactive Chess Books or iBooks. Read more >>>
• New and enhanced publishing features. Publish interactive chess content on web pages and blogs (also supported on the Rybka Forum). The iBook format supports both small and large publications, from a single chess puzzle to a fully featured books with hundreds of pages. Publish as iBooks or convert to a word processor format. Animated GIFs with graphical annotations can be published on web pages and blogs.
• Full Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit) and Vista compatibility.
• We'll continue releasing our popular free updates with new features.
• Great support forum (http://rybkaforum.net) monitored by the developers.

Language versions: English and German versions are available.

System requirements: PC, 256 MB RAM, 4GB of free disk space, Windows 7/2000/XP/Vista.

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Aquarium is a modern graphical user interface (GUI) designed for Rybka with full support for its features, including randomizer matches, persistent hash and sampled search.

Analysis methods

• New Interactive Deep Analysis (IDeA) – a new and advanced approach to analysis
• Variable multi-variation analysis (evaluation limited)
• Infinite Analysis
• Game Analysis
• Find Blunders
• Batch analysis of selected positions

• Play chess against the computer (any installed engine) from any position with flexible time controls
• Tournament or Fun mode with hints and drawbacks
• Automatic rating calculation
• Material handicaps and rating handicaps (ELO 700-2400) with rating based opening book
• Chess960/Fischerandom games
• Blindfold and semi-blindfold games

• State of the art chess trees (fast, powerful, compact)
• Advanced opening book creation and modification
• Fast and flexible move coloring system
• User defined move color priority (play only experimental moves where available etc.)
• Combine several trees into one tree configuration for unprecedented flexibility
• Use a discarded moves tree to mask certain moves or opening systems from being played
• Multiple, reusable discarded moves trees
• Add comments to trees – even visual annotations
• Build trees from a list of games

• A database with over 4 400 000 games
• Very fast searches.
• An opening book for chess engines
• A special rating handicap opening book for playing against the computer

• On-line access to Nalimov endgame tablebases (3-6 pieces)
• Free online play
• Free Internet chess server access
• Chess Resource Server
• A new approach to program and database updates
• Automatic program updates
• Automatic database updates
• Updates to other Aquarium related data

• iBooks
• A powerful system for publishing chess texts in print and on the web
• Suitable for short texts (e.g. for a blog entry) as well as books containing hundreds of pages
• Images, diagrams (both full and partial), visual annotations
• Full flexibility in arranging order of pages, sections etc. until the document is published
• Printing and web publishing
• Print one or more games with annotations
• Publish games on the web with JavaScript replay option
• Blog export with support for Blogger.com

• Chess engine support: Universal Chess Interface (UCI) protocol, WinBoard protocol
• There are hundreds of free and commercial chess engines are available and can be easily managed within Aquarium
• Install all engines from a selected directory with the click of a button
• Various engine tournaments and matches capabilities:
  • Round robin and Swiss system tournaments
  • Blitz, Tournament, Time/move and fixed-depth time controls
  • Flexible opening book selection
  • User defined starting position in tournaments and matches
  • Optionally use EPD file with starting positions for matches

• Compatible with all recent Windows systems
• Compatible with single core/multi-core systems

• Interactive Deep Analysis (IDeA) With Rybka Aquarium 2010
• Aquarium's Hidden Treasures
• iBook Examples
• Dadi Jonsson «Introduction to Writing Aquarium iBooks»
• Analysis Presets in Rybka Aquarium
• Large-scale Analysis with Rybka Aquarium
• Infinite Analysis with Rybka Aquarium
• Interview with the Developers of Rybka 3
• Game Analysis with Rybka Aquarium
• Rybka Aquarium FAQ
• Get on Swimmingly
• Rybka Aquarium: Interview with the Developers