Author: William Penn
Date: 21:24:54 12/23/03
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On December 23, 2003 at 19:48:36, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >This might well be a _very_ local problem on my side, but I remember a message >here from someone who had problems with databases screwing up in ChessBase 8. > >I received my 2004 copy of Big Database, and installed it to hard disk. Setting >it as reference database, I found out it returned wrong games, and a number of >games that's way too low. >Also I suddenly had a problem with the database in which the game was stored I >was searching for. Problem = database kaputt. > >After various attempts of copying and re-copying Big 2004, I tried "integrity >check" returning an unrecoverable error in the headers. (cbh) So I copied the >whole database into a new empty one, and set that as reference database. It >asked me with the first search to create a search booster (the *.cbb-file) >After creating it, the new database worked fine. > >So I decided to delete the orgininal booster file of my Big 2004, and let CB8 >create a new booster file. After that my problems were gone. > >The faulty cbb-file is on the CD. Again, it can well be a problem with _my_ copy >of Big Database 2004, but maybe more people encountered problems. In that case >it might be a speedier solution than returning your CD-Rom, and maybe get >another one with a corrupt booster file as well. I saw no visible damage to my >CD-Rom. > >(On the pro side: finally ChessBase added English names to the opening key, it's >not only the Eco code and moves, but now with all possible names (up to >subvariations)) > >Again, FYI and FWIW. > >Happy chess. > >J. Thanks for the tip. I've been thinking about getting that CD, so have saved your information for future reference. I've never purchased a CB database before and wonder if it comes with any online update privileges? For example some databases come with free 1 year online updates. I think about that every time I goto the CB online site to research an opening. To get statistics I have to count the game results manually, very laborious if there are over 100 games in the line of interest. Sure would be nice if there were a shortcut... WP
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