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Subject: Re: which 6 man tablebases are the most important?

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 16:15:35 04/02/04

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>>I think Chessbase and Fritz is the most widely known combination of software, at
>>least here in Denmark among club players.
>
>How many copies did fritz sell?
>
>Chessmaster like 6 million or so.
>
>Forget it. Chessmaster is number 1.

Hard to say without knowing how much fritz sells.

Among the more serious chess players I'm quite sure chessbase is the big seller,
the database tools are very important to many.

Just go to the net and see how many game collections you can download in
chessbase format. It's crawling with them!

>Then somewhere in a dark gray room at playchess you'll find a few chessbase
>fans.

Only because chessbase hasn't made it possible for them to connect to ICS. They
want to be confined to their own server instead of spreading them out all over,
let's just agree to be thankful for that :)

>>You won't believe how many times I've explain they should start out with the
>>strong winboard engines which they can download _for free_.
>>-S.
>
>No one gets that to work except a few dudes.
>
>Like 99.999% of the population will not get winboard engines to work even if you
>make a video how to do it.

Yes, I always recommed they use Arena, it's much easier to install engines for
the novice user.

-S.



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