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Subject: Re: What are the best benefits given by ChessBase or TascBase?

Author: Moritz Berger

Date: 02:49:52 06/01/98

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Probably within the next month timeframe I plan to write a detailed
review on ChessBase 7 and Chess Assistant 3.02 for Computer Chess
Review.

There is no clear recommendation what to buy right now (ChessBase 6,
Chess Assistant or TASCbase). TASCbase is still a DOS program that runs
in a limited screen resolution (640x480?), something which is
unacceptable to me on my 21" screen which I usually use with ChessBase
and CA at 1600x1200 res.

ChessBase 6 is quite cheap nowadays and they got rid of the dongle,
ChessAssistant still does some tasks better than even the upcoming
ChessBase 7 but lacks many other features of CB. I use both programs
complementary, but since you haven't made up your mind yet whether to
buy a chess database at all, I would recommend you just to wait and
watch the inevitable flood of reviews after the launch of CB 7 in a few
weeks.

To get a good grasp about what you can do with a chess database, I would
take a look at the electronic T-notes by Steve Lopez at the
www.chessbase.usa site. Also you can download trial versions of all 3
programs you mentioned at

www.chessbase.com
www.chessassistant.com
www.tasc.nl

Hope this helps

Moritz



On May 31, 1998 at 12:39:17, Eran wrote:

>
>
>Hi,


>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?



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