Author: Jay Rinde
Date: 12:00:44 07/05/02
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On July 05, 2002 at 14:33:09, Matthew Barnett wrote: >I bought ChessBase 8 about a year ago and use it almost daily. The alternatives >seem to be Chess Assistant or SCID (which is free and worth having a look at >just because of that). The main reason I bought it, apart from it's features, >is that it was stocked at the main London chess shops (so I could just pop down >the road and buy one!), that the .cbh format is very popular on the internet and >I have copies of Fritz, Hiarcs and Nimzo. > >I have a few annoyances with CB8, like ECO opening names don't fully appear in >certain fields, and some people have found fault with other small details which >I'm not sure if they have been resolved. I think the email/correspondence >feature is dire and not up to the ease of use of something like ECTool. > >My CB8 runs on my XP system. Now and again it to freezes for between 10-20 >seconds but if you wait awhile it continues as usual. It hasn't crashed on me >yet - perhaps I've been lucky. > >However, despite these problems which you might never notice, or can work >around, it's a nice bit of kit, although on the slightly expensive side. (N.B. >You get a database and player picture library with it!) > >Hope this helps > >Matthew Having XP I notice the same problem you mention when in analysis the program will idle or freeze for awhile. But I also find the problem with the other Chessbase programs (Fritz, etc) I still have my old Windows 98 and all the Chessbase programs run without a hitch.
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