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Subject: Re: Chessvision Database? 100-300$ is this as good as CBASE 7?

Author: Mike Welling

Date: 07:55:07 01/13/99

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On January 10, 1999 at 11:22:15, Matthew Herman wrote:

>Yep I downloaded it, and also have deleted it from my HD.. it has tons of
>general protection faults, its ics interface BITES, it is NOT the most powerful
>db etc.. it has lots of problems and I don't consider it even NEAR Cb7 or Ca4..
>Lots of hype .. but nothin to support it.. (I think it allows cheating on
>unrated games.. what a waste.. the last thing an ICS needs is to have people
>able to cheat without even opening up a seperate program!!)

Being very amazed about your message I couldn't resist to reply.
I've also downloaded Chessvision a while ago and in my opinion its a great
package. I've looked pretty much into it and didn't experience any general
protection fault yet. Also,I do not have any display-problems, however, I read
in the newsgroup 'rec.games.chess.computer that there are problems with it when
you have in your videosettings large fonts selected.

For me, the interface of Chessvision is far more advanced and user-friendly then
cb7. For example you can create your own desktops with multiple boards, multiple
databaseviews, multiple engines etc.. and save them as sessions. Further, it has
more position-tree facilities and nearly unlimited search capabilities. It keeps
track of all the installed databases the way it should, and maintains one
central player-database with nice options like automatically rating-assignment
to unrated games and replace misspelled players by the correct ones globally.

But Chessvision is even more than a database-package. As you noticed it also has
an interface for Internet Chess servers. I figured it out myself but Chessvision
absolutely doesn't allow you to use an engine while playing games at these
servers. You can only use them while watching games of others. Due to the
realtime engine-analyis and position-tree information, Chessvision gives me much
more pleasure to watch the Hoogovens games at ICC then with their own interface.

Ofcourse you need an open mind to accept a new package competing with the
'standard'. You probably spend a lot of money and time in something like cb7 and
do not want to accept anything new which might be better. For those who think
I'm overreacting, just download Chessvision at http://www.microvision.nl and
look for yourself.

Mike Welling



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