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Subject: Re: Open letter to Chessbase 8 Programmers

Author: Jeroen van Dorp

Date: 10:49:02 09/11/03

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On September 11, 2003 at 13:32:35, Bob Durrett wrote:


>Yes, I DO want to expand Chessbase 8's capabilities with respect to analysis
>engines and do not feel any shame in that.  I feel no obligation at all to use
>Chessbase SOLELY as a database management tool.  Why should I?

I don't see a single reason why you should, just because I have different
preferences.
As long as CB stays a database application. Time and effort is limited, so
implementing new - non standard database features is likely to harm implementing
or improving new database features.

CA7 is a fierce competitor of CB8; a lot of people think so because of the
possibiliy to play on ICC, and implement multiple engines for analysis. I don't
play myself online as it's all blitz and I don't think blitz is chess at all,
and for full game analysis I use the Fritz GUI.
But what I really want is the faser-fast search and tree building possibilities
of CA7 - according to many outperforming CB8 by a street lenght.

Now if they start working on "popular" additions they could well drop the
database additions. Not that CB8 is a crappy product, far from that, but I would
like to see them concentrate on database functionality.

I see a lot of postings and answer a lot of questions by people asking about CB
software, including CB8. I would say 75% of all CB8 users don't have the need to
use CB8 - they could be happy with the Fritz GUI database function.
If they did it would also mean that CB8 would become more pricey, but it could
be well worth the dough with even more and especially better database
performance.

"Gentleman - we can rebuild him. We have the technology. <...> Better than he
was before. Better - stronger -faster."

Jeroen



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