Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 16:13:02 12/01/03
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On December 01, 2003 at 12:36:03, margolies,marc wrote: >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. Thanks, Marc, for the response. I knew, generally, the difference between the three products in terms of what they do, what they are good for, and how you use them. The question I asked, however, was more specific and may have been based on a false premise. Someone had mentioned GUIs in the context of these three products and I wondered how these products used GUIs and what the respective GUIs would do for each of these products. Later, someone said that at least one of these may not have a GUI. I have always thought of Chessbase 8.0 as being something that incorporated the graphic user interface function plus a whole lot more. Recently, it has been noted here that GUIs are not just graphical user interfaces, but do the function of an executive as well. This made me wonder whether or not that is true for the other products too. Really, I was set back by the revealation that GUIs are not just graphical user interfaces, and was seeking more information about GUIs in other contexts. Bob D.
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