CHESSX SOFTWARE announces a "chess openings" database and learning aid that
will run on any DOS-based PC with 2Mb of spare hard-disk storage, 640kb of
memory and graphics capability (SVGA,VGA,EGA,CGA or Hercules). Colour
and/or a mouse are used if available but are not essential.

CHESSOP displays positions, not games. Starting at the initial position the
student can make moves and at each position CHESSOP displays the board and
the moves that are generally regarded as the best at that point. There are
many notes displayed also - these indicate why specific moves are good (or
bad sometimes). The student can follow the named lines or see many of the
variations that grandmasters are currently playing. Extensive on-line help
is available. As at May 1993, the supplied CHESSOP database contained
82,986 positions, 88,681 moves and 17,163 annotations.

You can also intermix your own moves and comments (up to black's move 100)
with the supplied database moves and notes. Your comments can be "tagged"
with codes that you invent to represent the source of your games or
researches. All your changes are logged so that they can be re-applied
automatically, if you wish, to future versions of the CHESSOP database.
And you can password-protect the update feature so that other people can
view the openings data but not alter it in any way. CHESSOP is the result
of 1300 person-hours of development.

CHESSOP can be obtained by writing to "CHESSX Software, 12 Bluebell Close,
Glenmore Park, NSW 2745, Australia" specifying the disk type required (
3.5" or 5.25"). Cost is $US39.00 or $Aus49.00 (postage included). Payment
can be by cheque ($A or $US), Mastercard, VISA or Australian/NZ bankcard;
please quote card number, cardholder's name and card expiry date. FREE
SUPPORT via mail (preferably) or email (m.steel@uws.edu.au) is available
for 3 months after sale (4 months outside Australia). 

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