Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 12:38:05 09/22/03
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On September 22, 2003 at 14:48:21, Jason Michael Rogers wrote: >On September 22, 2003 at 07:46:45, William Penn wrote: > >>On September 21, 2003 at 20:35:31, Bob Durrett wrote: >> >>>On September 21, 2003 at 14:41:29, Jason Michael Rogers wrote: >>> >>>>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3146731352 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Chessbase MegaBase 2003 chess database on CD. >>>> >>>>The ultimate chess database plus Bonus CD: Players Encyclopedia 2003. >>>>Mega 2003 contains more than 2.3 millions games. 50,000 contain commentary by >>>>top players, making Mega 2003 the largest collection of top-class annotated >>>>games in the world. >>>>Mega 2003 comes on two CDs, the second contains a new edition of Playerbase with >>>>150,000 entries and a database of 14,000 photos. >>>>There are many testimonials in the chess newsgroups saying that MegaBase 2003 is >>>>the very best database that money can buy. >>> >>>When the day comes that I "kick the bucket," my heir(s) will probably sell my >>>chess software and other chess stuff too. Perhaps someone died? >>> >>>Bob D. >> >>-------------------------- >>My "big database" notes... >>-------------------------- >> >>Chessbase MegaBase 2003 Chess Database, ebay, current bid, US $34.01, 9 days >>still to go in the bidding. It's being shipped from Canada, and doesn't say how >>much the shipping/handling cost is to Canada, USA, etc. > > >You need to learn how to read, it clearly says that shipping to Canada or USA is >$6.00 > >I suppose you're >>supposed to guess. How else? >> >>A reputable USA supplier is selling it for $119.95 + $10.95(?) shipping to USA. > >Well, the bidding is up to $66.00 + $6.00 s/h (much cheaper) for exactly the >same thing. > > >> >>But if you just want the 2.3 million unannotated games and don't need the Player >>Encyclopedia on a 2nd CD, you can get Big Database 2003 instead. > >Big database doen't compare at all to MegaBase 2003. MegaBase 2003 has over >50,000 top player annotated games, over 150,000 playerbase profiles, and over >14.000 photos of players for a full featured database experience. Big database >has none of those things. > > >A reputable USA >>supplier is selling it for $42.95 + $5.95 shipping to USA. >> >>In both cases the games stop in mid-November 2002, so they're already almost a >>year out of date!? So I'd probably wait for the 2004 version anyway. >> >>------------------------------- >> >>There's also a large database being offered from Europe via advertisements on a >>well-known newsgroup. It contains over 3 million games, > >The amount of games is all but meaningless! There are plenty of free databases >on the net, but with alot of crap games and errors. > > > updated to Sept 12 2003. >>You can buy it on CDs or download them. It's currently selling for 33 Euros for >>the CDs, or 29 Euros for the download (1.00 Euro = about $1.15 US). They're also >>offering a free download of 2.5+ million games from 1485-1999, same games as >>above but without any 2000-2003 games. I've looked at the latter, and it >>apparently contains less than 0.1% doubles. >> >>------------------------------- >> >>Dan Corbitt also offers a large number of games on his ftp site, compressed in >>.bz2 format so you'll have to find some way to uncompress them. But they're >>divided into 500 files based on ECO classifications so it would be a chore to >>download all of them, then combine them. Also his ftp site at cap.connx.com >>isn't connecting for me right now (even with my firewall turned off). >> >>WP > > >YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR! MEGABASE 2003 SELLS FOR OVER $200.00 FOR A REASON. Chessbase wants money? The main difference between Big and Mega is the 50.000 commented games to be found in the latter. Those games are also in Big - but without comments. The worth put in these games differ from person to person. Both bases have an excellent player-and tournamentbase. Only matched, perhaps, by CA?! /S
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