Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 09:15:06 01/21/02
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On January 20, 2002 at 16:13:35, Roy Eassa wrote: >On January 20, 2002 at 15:01:45, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: > >>On January 20, 2002 at 14:31:54, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>>If one owns Chess Assistant 6.1, would there any reason to also own Bookup? >> >>Bookup is the only piece of commercial chess software I own, I have version 1.01 >>for Windows. I cannot imagine that Chess Assistant could do anything like bookup >>does. The tree function I see from its demo is cool but it is not the same. They >>complement each other and both can communicate with epd and pgn. In a way, >>Bookup is unique. IMHO, it is a bit expensive but if you really are into either >> >>1) Serious study of openings >>2) Correspondence chess >> >>You will **LOVE** it. I think that is a wonderful complement for any Chess >>database. IMHO, if you are a pro-player or a opening theoretician you will be a >>fool if you do not have it (along with a strong engine and chess database, of >>course). It is the _best_ way to store you own analysis and conclusions. >>Now, it is useful for a lesser player? I do not know. I guess it is for its >>training mode. >> > > >Miguel, > >What _specifically_ can you do with Bookup that one could not do (or not easily >do) with CA 6.1? It is a positional database, the others are game databases. Basically, you navigate through positions that are connected with moves. A bookup file is a huge tree. The main advantage is that transpositions are handled automatically, since they go to a final position that is common. That is why is powerful to store your own analysis or to update a file. You import a pgn file into a bookup file and those games are "melted" automatically into the tree. You can also make a computer analyze the "leaves" of the tree and reorganized all the branches minimaxed (they call that backsolve) to select what move is better. That is quite interesting for certain positions. To summarize, bookup is an outstanding tree editor, navigator and analyzer. That is why I said it is unique, it is different. I think that they have a functional demo for download. Check it out to see whether you like it or not. Regards, Miguel
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