Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 19:47:30 11/24/03
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On November 24, 2003 at 20:37:52, margolies,marc wrote: >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. Good point ...I still get Informants - both book and CD, the games are superbly annotated usuually by the players themselves, when you get the subscription for the the book & CD , you get the CD for almost mininmal cost. VOl 88 should be out next week for shipping. Some of the older volumes are extinct - I just completed my collection last year - Volumes 1-87. The books are handy when you do not feel like being tied to your computer. You can easily convert them to CB format with all annotations - very - very nice. >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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