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Subject: Re: StarBase

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 23:09:54 01/10/01

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On January 11, 2001 at 01:06:46, Derek wrote:

>Has anyone purchased the Starbase 2.33 CD from Chessco.com?
>(http://www.chessco.com). It's reported to contain 2.33 million games,
>but it gives no indication of the quality of the games nor the
>percentage of duplicates. The price seems OK though. Any opinions?

Paying for a database of games just always confused me.  If you have an interest
in a particular player or event, you can probably download them for free.  And
what posible use could you come up with for 2.33 million games anyhow?

Quality?  How could there _posibly_ be a reasonable percent of quality games in
a collection of that size?  98% of any given feild is a load of crap in my
opinion anyhow.

Hey, I got no way to know not having seen the thing, but to me, they appear to
be selling quantity...

Who knows, you might just love it.

Pete



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