Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 12:22:03 01/23/01
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My "insider" impressions are the following: pros: - all in one package (you get a program to play, a professional database, and some tutorials) - database functions are very advanced (near to Chessbase/ChessAssistant: with tree [no trasposition] and opening-book tree trasposition, all the search options you can think) and very, very fast - interface is linear (and windows like), no frills - a good native engine is provided with a huge book, a middlegame book, and a endgame capability (I think the endgame CD's are sold separately, but if you ave some KT's format CD they should work) - fantastic winboard support with many, many engines preinstalled (most with book, some not), and no "new" sent between moves - a huge database - a complex keying system - multiple clipboards (datasets) - good printout features - good tutorial features (some not seen elsewhere) cons: - the interface is not as snappy as CB stuff in some aspects (move input, moving games between databases) - no eng-eng support - no support for tournament - no support for alternating-side in multiple games matches via auto232 (well others lack thhe opposite, the possibility to play matches with locked color) - some pgn import rigidity - no ELO in the database games - game autoanlisys is pretty new and not at the level of Fritz (the features are there, but the output could be improoved [e.g. adding natural language commentaries]) the program is also generally very stable. For somebody with no database nor playing program this could be almost the only program he needs, and it is a bargarin. If you want it for the engine, I don't think it is a so strnong buy. Nevertheless what you get for the price is very honest. regards Franz p.s. discalimer: as I said this is the opinion of an "insider"
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