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{{short description|Chess software website company}}

'''ChessBase''' is a German company that develops and sells [[chess]] software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an [[internet chess server]] for online chess. Founded in 1986, it maintains and sells large-scale [[Chess database|databases]] containing the moves of recorded chess games.<ref>John Watson, ''Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances Since Nimzowitsch'' (London: Gambit Publications, 1998), 8.</ref><ref>Karsten Muller and Frank Lamprecht, ''Fundamental Chess Endings: A New Endgame Encyclopedia for the 21st Century'' (London: Gambit Publications, 2001), 9-10.</ref> The databases contain data from prior games and provide engine analyses of games. [[Endgame tablebase]]s are also provided by the company.<ref>Muller and Lamprecht, 400-406.</ref>

ChessBase's Indian YouTube channel '''ChessBase India''' has amassed more than 2.5 million YouTube subscribers and more than 2.5 billion total views as of December 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ChessBase India - YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/c/ChessBaseIndiachannel/about |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=www.youtube.com}}</ref>