Author: James T. Walker
Date: 08:22:48 06/28/03
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On June 28, 2003 at 10:56:01, Alastair Scott wrote: >On June 28, 2003 at 08:13:30, Thorsten Czub wrote: > > >>>So the first person to email me (at the address in the profile) will receive F8 >>>in the post in due course and can struggle with it without financial cost; I >>>shall revert to Arena, which is a fine piece of work. >>> >>>Alastair >> >>That is the right spirit :-)) > >Yes, I was so unimpressed - despite 3 months of trying to be impressed - I would >never have asked whoever took it on to pay for it. > >I was away for 2 hours, came back and there were 4 responses; I wonder how many >there would've been on a weekday? Anyway, the winner is in Norway and I'll be >sending the box off on Monday once I get his postal address. > >Alastair Good luck with Arena. In my opinion, the only thing that makes it tollerable is the fact that it's free. But I still hardly ever use it. No, I'm not defending Chessbase. I agree about the GUI. The database functions need fixing. I also hate the nag boxes when playing auto232 games. It seems that Chessbase missed the point of automatically playing games between two computers. The idea of course was to let the computers play games while you are free to do something else and can check the games later in "quick time". But of course in their wisdom they decided the best thing to do when something goes wrong is to stop everything and do nothing. I have also nagged Chessbase about the problems with the databases but their answer was "have you downloaded the latest update?" Jim Jim
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