Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 04:35:40 06/01/98
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On June 01, 1998 at 01:54:32, Komputer Korner wrote: >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 > >Top of the line databases help the serious player study minute parts of >his games like studying the isolated d pawn, r vs b endgames, the 2 >bishops,..... etc. >What you are really asking is what are the database features contained >in top of the line databases that Rebel doesn't have that will help you >do these? Rebel 9's database does not let you drag and drop games or >databases from one to the other. It is much more labour intensive to >collect new games from the internet and combine them into your Rebel 9 >bases. Rebel 9 does not have theme keys which will provide instant >access to the above theme games in the database. You cannot search on >specific dynamic themes, nor can you combine different search types in >the same search. Rebel 9 doesn't allow direct printing of your games nor >allow diagrams to be inserted which can be useful if you want to take a >bunch of them to a chess tournament. As for opening book study, Rebel 9 >does not allow the user to edit his opening book while in monitor mode. >in other words while in monitor mode you can't get Rebel analysis. Rebel >9 can't sort a database on anything other than the white player's name. >It cannot import a file from a floppy. It cannot import other user books >to its user book format. Rebel 9 does not have a Chesstree as >ChessAssistant and Fritz 5 have. Rebel 9 will sometimes crash running in >my Tecra notebook with a Logictech mouse. Rebel 9 has a 250 page limit >in scrolling back screens in it's database. You cannot import special >training multimedia files. Rebel 9 will not run in WIN NT 4. You can't >find a player's wins losses, draws with a specific colour. The post game >analysis feature is backward. It first analyzes the game's move and then >analyzes it's move. This wastes time because if it did it the other way >around, it would save time in not having to analyze the game move all >over again. Rebel 9 will analyze some of it's book moves. In a pgn game >if there are 2 or 3 promotion squares for the pawn, Rebel 9 will not >import the game. When you save a game to a textfile, it doesn't put the >txt extension on. You have to do it yourself. The move window does not >allow variations. Move comments don't show when Rebel is analyzing. >Selecting all the games after a search takes a horrendous amount of >time. Because Rebel 9 is a DOS program you cannot rearrange the window >sizes. No K best variation mode like Fritz or Tascbase engine has. No >contempt feature like the Tascbase engine. Menus could be larger >lettering. Any selection of certain menus stops Rebel's analysis. Rebel >does not have other external engines besides Rebel. Endgame databases >are not accessed. No email feature. No merging of games into one game. >No intelligent mouse feature. No game marking feature with medals as in >Chessbase. You cannot drag and drop engine analysis into game move list. >There are other drawbacks as well but as a playing program Rebel 9, has >a lot of features that other playing programs don't have such as 4 board >simultaneous play. However as a full fledged database, opening book >editor chess tree, it has it's limitations. What a shit program :) >Rebel 10 will correct many >of these limitations. The best database software is Chess Assistant >3.02 if you don't mind that there is no find and delete doubles feature >and no compress base feature. If you do think these are important then >ChessBase 6.03 is best. IMO Tascbase 2.1 is the best database. - Ed -
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