Quick Overview
Houdini PRO Aquarium 2015 is a revolutionary analysis, database and chess publishing tool, combined with the world’s strongest chess playing engine, Houdini 4 PRO, which supports up to 32 cores and 32 GB of hash.
Houdini PRO Aquarium 2015 offers advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing against the computer, databases, advanced publishing features and much more:
Interactive Deep Analysis is the most advanced chess analysis method available today.
Infinite Analysis is more flexible than ever with analysis presets.
Find Blunders and Game Analysis for analyzing whole games.
Aquarium 2015 can auto-find chess programs (including the strong Stockfish engine) on the Internet, download and install them – all in a couple of clicks. Stockfish can use locally stored Lomonosov Tablebases (to be released on DVD in 2015) in analysis!
Play against the computer. Choose from three different strength handicap methods, material handicap or time handicap. You can also just set the ELO level you want to play against!
Publish your games, analyses or even whole chess books! Publish as Aquarium iBook, on the web/blog or in print.
Compatibility with major opening book and database formats.
Databases of about 6.2 million games in total (up to October 15, 2014) that can be updated from www.chessok.com each week with 1500 new games for free.
Houdini 4 PRO can be also used in Fritz and other chess programs.
Bonus Disc: Chess Openings Encyclopedia 2014, which includes rich theoretical material on all openings.
What’s new in Houdini PRO Aquarium 2015:
- Aquarium 2015 can automatically download, install and configure chess engines, including the latest version of strong Stockfish engine
- locally stored 7-man Lomonosov Tablebases can be used by Stockfish in analysis – for instance, to find winning moves in 8-9 man positions that can be reliably reduced to a won 7-man position in the Tablebases (Lomonosov Tablebases will be released on DVDs in 2015)
- fast and solid multiple trees mode
- new game databases (6.2 million games in total as of October 15, 2014)
What’s the difference? – Check the comparison table we made to help you choose the best product for your needs.
| ChessOK products comparison | ChessOK Aquarium 2015 | Houdini Aquarium 2015 | Houdini PRO Aquarium 2015 | Chess Assistant Standard | Chess Assistant 15 | Chess Assistant 15 PRO |
| Engine Included | Rybka 2.3 | Houdini 4 | Houdini 4 PRO | Rybka 2.3 | Houdini 4 | Houdini 4 PRO |
| Approx. Engine Rating | 3000 | 3350 | 3400 | 3000 | 3350 | 3400 |
| Engine Max Cores | 1 | 6 | 32 | 1 | 6 | 32 |
| Play against the computer | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Playing with handicap | YES | YES | YES | NO | NO | YES |
| Game Analysis | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Interactive Deep Analysis (IDeA) the most advanced analysis method | YES | YES | YES | NO | NO | YES |
| Tree Mode | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Advanced Tree Mode, building new trees | NO | NO | NO | YES | YES | YES |
| Advanced database management, idantical games detection | NO | NO | NO | YES | YES | YES |
| Lomonosov Tablebases access in the Aquarium interface | YES | YES | YES | NO | NO | YES |
| Lomonosov Tablebases access on chessok.com | YES | YES | YES | NO | YES | YES |
| Chess Openings Encycopledia 2014 (integrated or bonus disc) | NO | YES bonus disc | YES bonus disc | YES integrated | YES integrated | YES integrated |
| Publish your chess text: Print or word processor | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Publish to web and blog | YES | YES | YES | NO | NO | YES |
| Databases with fast searches | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Advanced Search System | NO | NO | NO | YES | YES | YES |
| Databases Size | 6.2 million | 6.2 million | 6.2 million | 6.2 million | 6.2 million | 6.2 million |
| Weekly database update | 1500 games | 1500 games | 1500 games | 1500 games | 3000 games (auto update) | 3000 games (auto update) |
| Multilingual | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Windows 8 compatible | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| 64-bit support | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| 64-bit optimized | YES | YES | YES | NO | NO | NO |
ChessOK Aquarium 2015, Houdini Aquarium 2015 and Houdini PRO Aquarium 2015 were released on November 30, 2014.