Reports | May 19, 2011 17:07  Happy birthday ChessBase  Happy
birthday ChessBaseFor the ChessBase founders it is not easy to
determine the exact date when their company was born, but in the
end they decided that it was on May 19th, 1986. In other words:
exactly 25 years ago. We congratulate the Hamburg based company
with reaching this wonderful milestone.  Today, for a period of
24 hours, ChessBase offers a 25% discount to all products in
their shop. The reason? They somehow decided it's their 25th
birthday. 'Decided', because it's not that clear when the
company started, and apparently the German founders didn't want
to pick the date on which the company was officially filed in
the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce.  Today in an article on their
website it is described how the idea of a database of chess
games emerged for the first time in the minds of Frederic
Friedel, Matthias Wüllenweber and... Garry Kasparov. Friedel is
one of the founders of the company, and in the eighties a
'philosopher turned science journ