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Subject: Re: ChessBase 8.0

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 21:06:18 09/07/00

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* Because it doesn't catch all of them a large database can be a great mess in
the end.

* It's also strange that add to database without doubles find more doubles than
add to the database (Without double check) and then kill doubles.

* Kill doubles kills also a lot of games which aren't doubles at all. Something
total different players where killed

* It's also strange that kill doubles kills games where both sides didn't move.
This results that a lot of valuable information will be deleted from the
database. Complete crosstables will be ruined then.

* I've seen A LOT of database corruptions, and I lost a lot of times my database
due to errors with CB7.

Did you use CB7 a lot of times?? For example did you also receive messagebox's
after your 500th or 1000th startup of the software? I did receive :-) I use CB7
almost every day. (sometimes 5 times a day or so). If you don't know what's the
matter with kill doubles then I don't expect you are a heavy user.

However I really love database in comparison with CB6. Because It's MUCH faster.

Kind regards,

Michel Langeveld

On September 07, 2000 at 20:20:07, Marc Plum wrote:

>I'm very satisfied with CB 7, and don't think that I have any reason to upgrade.
> For that matter, version 6.01 worked very well for me, although I hated that
>dongle.
>
>Just out of curiosity though, what are the problems you've had with the "kill
>doubles" function?  I hadn't noticed serious problems, admittedly it may not
>catch all of them, but it seems to do pretty well.
>
>Marc
>
>On September 07, 2000 at 17:41:09, Anatoli wrote:
>
>>Hello everybody !
>>
>>We are waiting for the new CB8. There will be some make up changes, but I didn't
>>read anywhere about any improvments in Kill Doubles. Did I miss this information
>>? From my point of view this function in CB7.01 works not very good. But from my
>>point of view it should be one of the most important possibilities in CB. Can
>>anybody here from ChessBase answer this question ? I have CB7 and now I have to
>>pay around US$90 to upgrade to CB8. I am not interested in new pictures of the
>>players, in their ratings, in new Fritz interface,  or in the games' statistic.
>>I read all previews of CB8 and I am not impressed. I always bought ChessBase
>>products, but now for the first time I have to think. What about you, my
>>friends, are you happy with everything you read about it ?
>>
>>Best wishes
>>Tolya



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