Author: Rory Nolan
Date: 15:58:04 04/19/01
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On April 19, 2001 at 17:27:16, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 19, 2001 at 17:03:40, Scott Woods wrote: > >>Nice easy one for you this time.... hey and it's a sale too! >> >>I think Tiger(s)can be bought with different GUI interfaces ( ie Chessbase, >>ChessAssistant? etc ) >> >>What should I be looking for to help me choose where I buy it from and get the >>best out of it. ( ie table bases, opening books - better analysis etc etc ) >> >>Thanks in advance >>Scott > > >I think the best is to find a store where you can try the various GUIs (if >possible), or visit the following websites: > >for Rebel-Tiger, visit: www.rebel.nl >for ChessAssistant visit: www.chessassistant.com >for ChessBase visit: www.chessbase.com > > >I know the advice sounds trivial, but I do not know what else to say. You see, >I'm not a good salesman. :) > > > > Christophe Ok Here's my 2 bits worth, and you must remember that I am a rank amatuer but I have bought all the Tigers so this is what I think. The chessbase interface is in my opinion the easiest to get along with in the first instance it has for me a quite intuitive feel and I have never had any difficulty switching opening books, saving games and creating databases. The default wood board is lovely and when using announce moves the voice actor is acceptable. So if you want good looks go Chessbase. The Rebel gui is also no problem to use however if you like to play around with opening books this gui is more difficult to come to terms with than chessbase. However if you want to analyse positions thrown up on this group or elsewhere then the Rebel gui is your man. It also has the bonus of the rebel century 2.01 engine as an analysis engine. Also don't forget if you decide to go for the rebel gui you will but rebel 11 which has Rebel-Century 3.0 which for me was a Bigggg plus (the elo adjust feature is the closest to the real thing I could find, Fritz is crap at this IMHO ;). The gambit book which is available for download for this gui and which should be used with Gambit tiger for best results is brilliant, I only wish they had put it on the chessbase version:( Finally There's Chess Assisstant 6.0 this program is the brilliant if you want to set up eother you or your chess prog to play on the internet. It also has a rather cool feature that's makes twat's like me seem like the know what they're talking about. This is called monitor so log on to ICC observe a high rated game fire up the monitor which will analyse the game in progress using Tiger 14.0, Gambit 2.0 etc. and you can kibitz all its analysis as fast as your chubby fingers can type:) The main fuction of chess assisstant is however as a database program so remember this. I could go an, and on and on but I won't hope this helps Rory
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