Editing ChessBase (section)

==The database==
ChessBase was originally designed for the Atari ST by Matthias Wüllenweber, the physicist/co-founder of the company. Mathias Feist helped port the program to DOS. In more recent years, Lutz Nebe, Wolfgang Haar and Jeroen van den Belt have also been involved in program development.
[[File:ChessBase.PNG|thumbnail|Image of ChessBase 8.0 running under Windows XP (year 2008).]]

ChessBase uses a proprietary format for storing games (CBH), but can also handle games in [[portable game notation]] (PGN). The proprietary format uses less hard drive space and manages information that is not possible in PGN. The software converts files from PGN to ChessBase format, or from ChessBase to PGN.

The program permits searches for games, and positions in games, based on player names, [[chess opening|openings]], some tactical and strategic motifs, material imbalance, and features of the position. ChessBase can import engines either those such as Fritz or Shredder in native ChessBase format or [[Universal Chess Interface]] (UCI) engines such as [[Stockfish (chess)|Stockfish]].

{{As of|2020|11|19}}, ChessBase's database contained over 8.4 million games.<ref>{{cite web |title=ChessBase, MegaBase |url=https://shop.chessbase.com/es/products/mega_database_2021 |access-date=2020-11-19}}</ref> The online database can be accessed directly through their database programs.