Chess Software Recommendations

[n8dawg84]

@SCMiller

For starters,
(a) ChessBase (not the lite version);
(b) Fritz (or something similar), which will work with ChessBase (I actually only use Fritz through ChessBase); and
(c) the Mega Database.

ChessBase is a database for chess games; Fritz is an analysis engine; and the Mega Database is large collection of chess games (some which are annotated).

Steven Craig Miller

With regards to the Mega Database, is it a necessary purchase? Doesn’t ChessBase come with some 5 Million games?