Chess King Platinum 2017 with Houdini 5

I won one match and lost about 20 more. Its a good package,

Very responsive customer service. Apple kept updating its software, Chess King had to keep up. Finally got it working. Thanks.

It's very hard to get it going, analysis, is faulty, can't set black to move in a position Houdini is Idle most of the time, Force move does not respond, new game does not respond? In a difficult position it will only accept it being white in analysis, It's not free flowing at all, and very frustrating! It does play strong, I'll never get a rating, playing it, and I'm a Uscf Master, It's like a donkey you can't get to move or analyze, The video's are hard to follow, and fast, nit picking, video's are poor and hard to understand, there are trick's they don't tell you about, But you can never get it to accept a move your curious about unlike all the other's, In a nut shell very disappointing, I wish it wasn't

There are many more expensive chess engine/database programs out there for over $200. ChessBase 14 and Chess Assistant Pro 17 come to mind.But Chess King Platinum 2017 is much more inexpensive and has virtually all the features those programs have and it's much more intuitive and easy-to-use. In addition, it doesn't require a very powerful computer to use like ChessBase 14.Chess King Platinum 2017 comes with the huge GigaKing database of six million games. It also comes with a correspondence games database and an annotated database of the best players in chess history.All this and it has the ability to import PGN and Chess Assistant databases too.Chess King Platinum 2017 has excellent training tools that will help you improve your game quickly. The very powerful and adjustable Houdini 5 engine can be set at any playing strength for training. Set it at 1800 level or 2200 level or all the way up to 3200+ strength. That's more than 300 points stronger than world champion Magnus Carlsen.But it has many more training tools than just adjustable engine strengths You can train to play a specific player by either searching for their games in databases or creating a database of that players games and then generating a tree to analyze their tendencies. You can then set Houdini 5 to analyze what the best move would be against those tendencies.There are many more training tools than just the ones mentioned here.It's also very easy to annotate games and insert diagrams. It also has the ability to create PDF files from a game. So you can play, annotate and then publish your games.Chess King Platinum 17 with Houdini 5 is the best bang for the buck!

“Chess King Platinum 2017” is an excellent modern chess software program that is loaded with features that will help any chess player, regardless of skill level, play a better game of chess.“Chess King Platinum 2017” bills itself as “Your Coach to Improve at Chess.” It’s intended to teach users how to play better chess through training and analysis. Equipped with the Houdini 5 chess engine – still one of the strongest on the market – “Chess King Platinum 2017” is specifically designed for Windows-based PCs with multi-core processors (up to 6 cores, which is certainly enough for my quad-core laptop). It works very well within the Windows 10 environment (including the Fall Creators Update 1709), showing no compatibility issues with Microsoft’s latest operating system. There is also a version that works in the MAC OSX El Capitan operating environment.“Chess King Platinum 2017’s” Houdini 5 chess engine has a top “super grandmaster” Elo rating of 3383 in the CCRL 40/40 list (as of this writing). The program allows players to adjust its difficulty level to anywhere from Elo 800 (Beginner) to Elo 3200 (Grandmaster.) Players can play in “Fun Mode,” where they can seek hints and take back moves with no penalty, or in “Rated Mode,” where the program estimates a player’s Elo rating after every game. The user interface is attractive and easy to use, but perhaps not quite as spectacular-looking as some other, newer chess programs I’ve used recently.Not only does “Chess King Platinum 2017” allow players to play “Classical Chess;” it also provides a host of chess puzzles that teach chess tactics. The puzzles range in difficulty from beginner to grandmaster. There are also hundreds of “Quest Games, where players can play against a handicapped Houdini 5 engine. (It’s a lot of fun taking on Houdini when it plays, for example, with only a King, Bishop, and eight pawns against me with my complete chess army… and yet it still beats me).Since I started using the Chess King line of software five years ago, learning and playing chess once again has become enjoyable for me. “Chess King Platinum 2017” gives me hours of challenging fun, while at the same time helping me improve my game. Highly recommended.