Author: martin fierz
Date: 13:01:27 12/20/01
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On December 20, 2001 at 15:00:15, Terry Ripple wrote: >I hear good and not so good and was trying to get a few more opions on how well >ChessBase 8 and Chess Assistant 6.1 perform in regards to what they claim! > >Does Chessbase 8 and Chess Assistant 6.1 have any problems that i should be >aware of before my purchase? i only have CB8, and while i like it in principle, it has a bug which annoys me awfully. if you run fritz in a board window to get analysis on a game, then close the board window because you are done with the game, and open the next game and want to start fritz, it won't work. the engine window just stays dead. you can load another engine though, like crafty, but after one game, boom. as long as you have a lot of good engines, it might not be a problem :-) closing chessbase and restarting it does not solve the problem, i have to restart my computer. this only happens since i installed an online update to chessbase (the latest), but it happened on every computer i tried it on (3, with win95 /98 /ME). since the online update fixes about 1000 bugs in the HTML output capability of chessbase, which is something i like to use, i kept it this way. what really disappointed me is that in spite of a clear error description i never got an answer from the chessbase support team, and i even wrote twice. for me, this bug makes CB a whole lot less useful, and their customer support makes me cry. they also have a FAQ on their webpage, but it's only for CB7... cheers martin
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