Author: Ernst Walet
Date: 05:15:42 06/01/98
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On June 01, 1998 at 07:35:40, Ed Schröder wrote: >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 :) You should contact the programmer, Ed :). (this means joking, though?) > >>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 - I subscribe this opinion, Ernst-jan.
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