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Aquarium 2010 / Rybka 4 Aquarium family release notes.
Aquarium 2010 und Rybka 4 Aquarium - identical GUI's with different Rybka's
Latest Version of Rybka Aquarium GUI includes the following products:- Rybka 4 Aquarium and Deep Rybka 4 Aquarium
– the latest Aquarium GUI with the latest and most powerful chess playing Engine. Rybka 4 Aquarium is recommended for users with only 1 core (CPU) on their computers. For reaching maximum strength on the computers with multiple cores (CPUs) Deep Rybka 4 Aquarium is recommended.
- Aquarium 2010 and Deep Aquarium 2010 – Aquarium GUI with Rybka 3 chess playing engine (playing approximately 60 ELO weaker as compared with Rybka 4 engine). You may upgrade for free Aquarium 2010 GUI to the latest Rybka 4 Aquarium GUI by downloading and installing 4.0.5 update package of Aquarium
There're two ways of using the latest Rybka 4 engine in Aquarium 2010:
- To order Rybka 4 UCI
package (it is engines without GUI)
- To order Deep Rybka 4 Aquarium
product (look at the ordering page or ask directly sales group) about bonuses for previous versions Aquarium customers.
ChessOk Aquarium 2010


Versions of Rybka 4 Aquarium
The latest version of Aquarium is 4.0.5. (Check your version using Rybka button \ Help\ About menu item.) If you have not the latest version it is recommended to upgrade it up to 4.0.5
It is supposed to release Aquarium 4.0.6 at the middle of July.
National versions
German, French, Spanish (and later Russian) versions of Aquarium 4.0.5 are available. Install your language pack after you've installed Aquarium.Spanish pack

French pack

German pack

Language packs are not fully completed yet. One more release of language packs is expected with 4.0.6 patch..
Opening Books
Rybka4 Opening book
Chessok cafe

Note: First releases of Rybka4 book had minor installation problems. Paths to d2m tree and main book tree could be wrong. You may reload the package

After downloading, start it and provide the path to Date directory of Aquarium. The program will inform you if any patch is essential and will make needed changes after the confirmation.
Aquarium Home Server
One of the nicest features of Aquarium is the ability of using remote engines. I.e. you may start engine on any computer and use it on another one with Aquarium. Starting Aquarium 4.0.3 you need to use update version of Home Server
Chessok downloader
Users of previous versions of Aquarium are used to download updates of programs and bases via Chessok downloader program. Due server overload you can’t download latest updates using Chessok downloader. It is supposed to restore normal functioning of Chessok downloader server in July 2010.Aquarium Scripter
With 4.0.6 update Aquarium team will provide one more innovation - AqScripter program, providing access to Aquarium API. This program is oriented on the advanced users first of all. They will be able to have access to data structures and engines using high level scripting language. So many tricky features may be implemented by yourself without asking this Aquarium programmers. If you are not a programmer you still may use scripts written by another users. Some of useful scripts are already created by Aquarium beta testers.Technical support
Use e-mail address if you have any problems with Aquarium. Don’t hesitate to write to rybkaforum.net into Aquarium section about your problems. In most cases this section is the fastest way to receive the reply on your problem.Note: Sometimes after starting Aquarium pops up an error message : Failed to set data for 'CA Chess (TrueType)'. If you see it, run Aquarium once with adiminstrative rights. (Right click on Aquarium icon\ select Run as administrator). You can also use a standalone font installation program

Note:If you've installed Rybka4 Aquarium, but it won't start and pops up the Access violation at address 0xc0150002, do the following: download the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)


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