Author: margolies,marc
Date: 17:37:52 11/24/03
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both disks contain the same gmaes. The fritz gui that comes with shredder can read these files. But CBLite cannot as it exceeds it size limit. In order to view the photos of players on the second disk of mega - you must have CB8. While you can access these png files individually (otherwise) they serve no uyse that way. Some of the annotations in Mega are marginal and written by staff at CB. Other annotations were written by Gari Kasparov and form the origins of his current hardcover book (more re-working for the book). Many of the best annotations appeared previously in the CBMagazine on CD, so if you subscribe to that you needn't buy and updated mega--if you do the subscriber price for mega is about a hundred dollars less! In my opinion, if you need current annotations, then Chess Informant on disk is best for that and you can port the data over if you are a clever boy. If you are a student of Chess who wants to appreciate the History of classical games, then you may want Mega instead, --or even cheaper is the new data DVD from chessbase which includes all world champion games and some video. I expect the games on the dvd are annotated( and that the annotations are boosted from Mega) but I did not examine this. Other great products for annotated games are the Tal and Alekhine disks from Convekta-- these cannot be read in Shredder unless you have a friend with the full version of chess assistant who will port them over for you. But these stand alone annotated game disks with photos and crosstables are rather excellent. I suspect some of the annotations were done by comps. but not all of them were done that sloppily.
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