Author: Ernst Walet
Date: 13:00:30 05/31/98
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On May 31, 1998 at 12:39:17, Eran wrote: > > >Hi, > >Since I am a positional player favoring slow games in Rebel9, I do not >know whether I need ChessBase or TascBase and why. In addition, I do >not know exactly what the purpose of ChessBase or TascBase is. I never >bought one of them before; I am not sure whether I will buy one until I >fully understand why ChessBase or TascBase is so important to any strong >positional player. > >What are the best benefits given by ChessBase, TascBase, or any other >database software? Are they very helpful to any strong chess player? >If so, how? Please give me several examples how any strong positional >chess player manages ChessBase or TascBase to gain benefits in chess. > >Which is the best chess database software, ChessBase, TascBase, or any >other one, and why? > >The reason I am considering very carefully about any other commercial >database software is that they have several million games comparing to >Rebel's Topbase database file that has only about 116,000 games and that >is not enough. On the other hand, the commercial chess database >software is quite expensive. > >Your help is greatly appreciated. > >Thank you, >Eran Hi Eran, Let me share my opinion with you on the differences of Rebel9 and Tascbase 2.1 but first; they have a lot in common, including their price, see Gambitsoft. Ok, their differences as I see it. Rebel is of course up to date with it's playing strength, as Ed is developing this all the time. Tasc's engine, The King, is quite strong too, but not really state of the art anymore and more important, not in development anymore, since Johan de Koning no longer works with Tasc, as I've been told. I could be wrongly informed though so don't pin me down on this one. Fact is that Johan de Koning told in a dutch magazine after the dutch championship last year that The King did not get any stronger lately. When I look at Tascbase 2.0 and 2.1, the development is small, and I don't think there will be a Tascbase for Windows. Tascbase as it is now however has everything you need as a database. It has a collection of 400,000+ games and you can search in every way you like i.e. player, gamelength, country, title, Elo, time, date, opening, board pattern etc. So the acccent on Tascbase is.... on its database functions. The King in Tascbase i.e. can not use more than 8MB hash, which I find a pity. Because Rebel9 and Tascbase 2.1 can exchange data through PGN files, they can add to each other's functionality. The new Rebel10 however will have more database functions as well, and a much bigger database included, see www.rebel.nl and this database is constantly updated, and that is a big pro. So concluding, I use both Rebel9 and Tascbase2.1, and enjoy this combination very much. Kind regards, Ernst-Jan.
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