Author: margolies,marc
Date: 09:36:03 12/01/03
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Bob Pawlak wrote a whole book about this subject. Bookup is designed to train the user in opening theory, it is not a database (it does not do searches for example, but it reads pgn and epd files just fine.)The user imports data like the new chessbase ECO into new books and studies the data closely. It allows engine analysis of concrete positions (these can be stored in the tree of variations and transpositions) but it does not play games with the user. It does not use an 'interactive analysis' or 'multi-variation analysis' that the other two mentioned products have in their engine packages. ChessAssistant is a complete suite of database, comp playing and internet playing packages that includes Tiger and can run shredder and Rebel. Chessbase are two seperately-priced packages, one is a database while the other is for comp and internet play. as a databse chessassistant is more powerful while chess base is more windows-looking in appearance. Most people who use chessbase know how to push the three or four buttons they need to do what they want to do and are happy about it. Chessbase users tend to pay alot more for this. ChessAssistant is more dynamic than this.There are free updates every couple of months with all kinds of undocumented experimental features that one needs to explore through context submenus. Most of them work! And they fix bugs in real time-- it's amazing! >What are the main differences between the GUIs of Chessbase, BookUp and Chess >Assistant? > >Bob D.
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