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Subject: Re: CB 8 Basic vs CB 8 Mega Pkg, Is it worth the difference in price?

Author: Laurence Chen

Date: 13:02:03 10/27/00

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On October 27, 2000 at 15:26:15, Terry Ripple wrote:

> I'am about to purchase ChessBase 8 and reviewed the differences between the two
>and if i'am only interested in a good database of games then the difference in
>price is quite a difference, about $210.00 more for the CB Mega pkg.
>
>The Mega gives you correspondence games and about 37,000 games from the database
>are anatated, plus turbo endgame discs and a years worth of CB Magazine.
>
>For the 37,000 games that are anatated, and about a few thousands correspondence
>games included, is it worth the extra money?
>
>Regards,Terry
I had the same dilemma when I considered buying CB 7.0, and decided that for the
extra annotations of games it was not worth the price, and I decided to go with
the BASIC package.  The reason why I decided this way was because the chess
engines are getting strong and stronger each year, and I can use the chess
engines to do the annotations.  It's not perfect, but, at least with the chess
engines making the annotations, it will eliminated any tactical errors in the
human analysis, and avoid any "bad and wrong" lines done on purpose to catch the
unaware chessplayer.
My 2 cents worth.
Laurence




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