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Subject: Re: StarBase

Author: chris sergel

Date: 13:44:11 01/11/01

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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?

I was given this for Christmas.  I checked through my games and also some of the
opponents I am now playing.
Starbase seems as accurate as the more expensive products.  I found no more
duplicates and no more errors than anywhere else.  Considering the price I think
it's a pretty good value.
What it's missing is annotated games.  I think this is pretty important.
One good high-quality well-annotated can be more useful for study than many
casually played games between lesser rated players.
If you can afford both, I think Starbase is a good supplement to more intensive
databases such as from Informants or Chessbase magazine.



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