Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 22:58:13 09/26/00
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How does he get $90 dollars? It worked out to be about 200 canadian, and I don't the canuck buck has fallen that much, well then again it might have ;). When is the release date? JW On September 26, 2000 at 22:21:12, Frederic Friedel wrote: >On September 26, 2000 at 21:21:59, Miguel Arrospide wrote: > >>Is Chessbase 8 worth $90?...I don't think so!!. I own Chessbase 7 and Fritz 6 >>and to be honest if you own these two programs you dont need chessbase 8 >>specially if it is going to cost 90 of my hard earned dollars. Chessbase 8 is >>suppossed to be a database manager and the new CB8 does not appeared to have any >>IMPORTANT improvement with regards of database management. I loved Chessbase >>products by I think this time the German team is trying to pull a fast one on >>us. They want 90 dollars so we have a nicer interface. I already have it on >>Fritz 6. 90 for a few extra SKINS is too much in my opinion. > >You are absolutely right, just skins. And a few other things, but hardly worth >the mention. > > > >New features of ChessBase 8.0 > >Board window >* Free resizing of windows with automatic scaling of the board. >* Wide choice of piece and board styles. >* Special search window for Reference and Online database: One click search >lists all games that match the current board position. >* Search in the reference database for all moves played in the current board >position, with full statistics. >* One-click review of search results - ChessBase transfers the game to the board >and jumps to the relevant position. >* Table notation with footnotes for densely annotated openings lines. >* Book (previously "Tree") permanently accessible in the board window. >* Book edit window show all important continuations, including the critical >line, on a variation board. >* In the book edit window a double-click or right-click and menu will copy the >variation into the game notation. >* Integrate photo window which automatically displays pictures of the players. A >double-click on the picture retrieves the full biography and the dossier of the >player. >* Automatic transfer of the current board position to Fritz, where you can play >on against the program or process the game with the Fritz functions (e.g. >natural language annotation, blunder-check, postal analysis, etc). >* Undo: take back all deletions and variation entry in a game. >* Easy annotation of games with the new annotation palette. >* Window layout can be saved, including active engines. Select from preset >layouts for different purposes. >* Optional 3D board. >* Full screen board mode in high-resolution graphics. >* Quick "threat" display with a red arrow - without disturbing the engine. >* Games from other lists can be added to the search result window with Drag & >Drop. >* Tournament table can be generated for the currently loaded game. >* Search for the current board position in the current game (useful in densely >annotated games to find whether the position occurs in a different line). > >Database explorer >* Display databases in Explorer style as symbols or detailed list which can be >sorted by a click in the header line. >* Direct access to databases in all drives and directories. >* Recently loaded games and databases available in file menu. >* Direktliste einer Datenbank wird per Einzelklick auf Datenbanksymbol >aktualisiert. >* The contents of a database CD are automatically displayed when this is >inserted. > >Database list >* All contents and keys of a database can be accessed with a single click. >* Fast virtual sorting in the games list, with subsequent "fixing" in the >database. >* One-click access to the players index, one-click access to the white or black >games of a player. >* Openings and theme keys can be generated with two mouse clicks for any >database. >* Transfer database contents to Fritz. > >Engines >* Variation board in the engine window. >* Repetition and 50 move rule applied to analysis. >* Set engine parameters. >* A single keystroke (Ctrl-Space) inserts the best line of all working engines >into the notation. > >Search >* Search in our weekly updated Online database. >* A new TurboCache for the reference database reduces retrieval times for >complex searches to seconds. If there is sufficient RAM the entire reference >database will be stored in memory. >* Search includes variations. >* Search for sacrifice combinations, combine this with positional fragments and >manoeuvres. Examples: > "All combinations from the tournament Zurich 1953"; > "The combinations of Paul Morphy or Efim Geller" > "Mating combinations on the open h-file" >* Search for checks and mates in the manoeuvre search (example: White mates with >Nh6). > >Cross tables >* Generate tables for the currently loaded game. >* Tables display flags for the nationality of the individual players (retrieved >from the players encyclopedia). >E-mail >* One-click e-mail directly from ChessBase. Send databases, marked games or even >entered games from the board window, with diagrams, in plain text, HTML, PGN or >bitmap graphics. > >Printing >* New print preview. >HTML output >* One-click creation of HTML pages with replayable Javascript, including >annotation, to present games on the Internet. >Database maintenance >* Improved double check greatly improved speed. >* Improved integrity check. > >Miscellaneous >* Improved repertoire database functions - automatic assignment of openings >names. >* ChessBase 8.0 has network capability.
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