Author: Michel Langeveld
Date: 02:42:20 09/09/00
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>1) Make one or two backups of your database before you let CB7 kill doubles. I always make backups a lot of times. I had once a database with 2.2 mil games and backuped everytime before I did some huge improvements. But Because my database is about 800Mb and after 20 backups my HD was full I had to remove some old ones. After a while I noticed that about of 10.000 games where ruined. This errors where not found by the LATEST chessbase integrity check. I noticed also that with my most oldest database the errors where still there. So I got all backups for nothing :-(. I made a new database and copied the good parts of the database. After a while working I had corruptions again.... I noticed that a lot of corruptions occur when CB7 crashes. When it crashes it's highly possible you have errors in your database which the integrity check can't find. Another reason you can get corruptions is if ChessBase is processing things (screens) and you move your selection bar. Then it thinks it has to use different data for it's processing. For example this occurs when renaming playernames. CB7 can also make corruptions with importing PGN. And even the Megabase 99 have some strange (data-incorrect) move in them. If you take a good look to the playerbase you also see strange things... So you can find 1800 elo players in it. Every ChessBase related product you can find dataerrors if you look very carefully at it. >2) Maybe some time later, after the release of CB8 in October, some >downloadable new patches from ChessBase would fix "Killing Doubles." I hope so... A very good Check Integrity would fix some problems, which checks as much as it can reporting even errors in MegaBase. It would also be nice if CB8 will be a version which doesn't mess with priorities of software. (I think ChessBase sometimes asks windows to make it's process the highest priority possible, so system freezings occurs), or they have bad written code with calling process messages... isn't it ChessBase? >3) ChessBase 7 acts like Windows 3.x, while ChessBase 8 acts like Windows 9x. >That means, in CB7 you have to change from windows to another windows so often. >in CB8, it acts like explorer meaning you would go from windows to another >windows much less often, because some of the windows are already tiled for >conveniency. The software look is the less important for me. It's functionality and correctness (integrity), robustness of the product is what counts for me. The software look is something which is nice if you see the product for the first time but which begin to irritate if other things are still wrong... Maybe I shall sending A LOT of bugs to ChessBase about CB8 when I began to use it and keep track on my a homepage of what I have found and what they have solved. So everybody can see well they fix bugs. I have sent ChessBase a lot of bugs and of the about 20 bugs I sent them they have solved about 4 :-(. For example startup Chessbase 7. Go to option. Select P-Q4 for move display. And start analyzing with Fritz from the opening position...... tell me what you see :-). I used the latest ChessBase for this. It would also be great if ChessBase compiles it's product again with MSVC 7.0 when it comes out and put on their webesite the new and about 20% faster version... >4) The appearance of the CB8 is more attrative and pleasing than Assistant. See above. >5) I still prefer CB over Assistant, and CB is the number one choice among top >chess players in the world. > >Eran
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