New searching features.

• Search for maneuvers
• Search for positions with a certain material advantage.
• Search for bishops with oposite colors.
• Search for horizontally and vertically symmetrical positions.
• Search for text annotations.

Two tools for classifying games and positions.

• Windows Explorer style classifier.
• Significantly reworked system of classes with the new standard and user-defined classes, inclusion of positions into classes and many ther features..

Chess Assistant 6.0 provides complete playing program facilities with the built-in playing engines. CA 6.0 includes:

• Chess Tiger 13.0 - The latest version of the program by the French programmer Christophe Théron is about 40 ELO points stronger than its predecessor, Chess Tiger 12.0 which was built into CA 5.0; in the endgame and blitz games Tiger 13.0 is even much stronger.
• Tiger Gambit. Another Christophe Theron's creation. Unlike Tiger 13.0, which plays in a solid fashion, Tiger Gambit has an attractive attacking style. It is tuned to sacrifice material for an initiative; so far this feature has been very uncommon for a playing engine.
• Tiger 12.0. In December 1999 it was rated No. 1 amongst all programs according to the SSDF (Swedish computer rating list).
• Crafty 18.3. This program by Robert Hyatt is one of the strongest and most popular freeware engines.
• Dragon. This engine is obviously weaker than the programs listed above, however you may dislike merciless monsters that beat you time after time, and Dragon gives you a chance to get your revenge. Dragon's algorithms differ greatly from all other engines, thus sometimes it finds combinations that the other engines miss, at the same time it may overlook very simple moves. All in all, many users say that playing against Dragon is amusing.

You can also obtain free new versions of the program Chess Tiger: Chess Tiger 14.0 and Gambit Tiger They shall be available for download the Chess Assistant webiste  after April, 2.

Universal Chess Interface protocol is supported, which allows the world champion Shredder-5 and some other programs to operate within CA along with its own built-in engines.

Support of the Nalimov tablebases.

Improved analysis mode.

• Interactive analysis based on hash-tables usage that lets you combine your own chess experience with computer's calculating abilities.
• Besides the very best, several more lines are displayed.
• More convenient analysis interface. Two different engines are simultaneously able to analyze a game.
• Facilities that allow one to run available test suites for comparing different engines' strength.
• You can make the engines compete in a round-robin or swiss tournament, with their ratings being calculated.
• Search for blunders discovers more blunders and much quicker.
• AUTO – 232 interface is supported.

New features in Tree mode.

• Direct Tree can now be built for a dataset.
• New options to include variations and text annotations into a direct tree.
• CAP data includes nearly 6,000,000 positions.

More convenient access to libraries of players, places, etc.

Automatical and manual resorting datasets.

Calculation of ratings and international title norms.

Multimedia support -  Adjustable sound effects.

New optional chess board colors, backgrounds and 3D-like pieces -  you can also load chess fonts and piece sets from other sources.

Supporting DGT-board. Now using DGT-board you can:

-- enter your games and analysis in Chess Assistant 6.0
-- play on DGT-board against playing engines
-- play on DGT-board against your rivals on the Internet Chess Club.

New export and import features.

• Within CA, you can pack a database into one file for transferring it to another computer or sending via e-mail.
• New diagram images for export to HTML. Export of games to the Java scripts.
• PGN export was revised in order to fully meet the standard.
• Improved converting from ChessBase.

CHESS OPENINGS 2001. Opening Encyclopedia was updated considering all valuable novelties of the last year.