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Subject: Re: ChessBase 8.0

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 09:59:49 09/08/00

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On September 08, 2000 at 00:06:18, Michel Langeveld wrote:

>* 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

 Agree. Futhermore I have asked this question to ChessBase and the answer
 is no. Meaning no improvements in "Killing Doubles" whatsoever. Meaning
 the same , very few parameters, available. Meaning fuzzy duplicates cannot
 be spotted. Meaning uphere we're going for C Assistent! Meaning conclusions
 from consumers/users in my neighbourhood.

 Thanks
>
>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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