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Subject: Re: Chessbase 9 engines

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 09:10:05 10/29/04

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On October 29, 2004 at 11:58:47, Michel Langeveld wrote:

>On October 29, 2004 at 07:37:11, Vikrant Malvankar wrote:
>
>>On October 29, 2004 at 07:29:29, Andrew Platt wrote:
>>
>>>On October 29, 2004 at 01:29:02, Vikrant Malvankar wrote:
>>>
>>>>Absolutely true, these engines are given from Chessbase7,8. So what is new here?
>>>>They should have definitely given new version of Fritz instead of the old
>>>>Fritz5.32.
>>>
>>>I may be missing something but the details were very explicit on the CB website
>>>about which engines you got with CB9. Yet there seems to be an implication that
>>>people have been duped?
>>>
>>>Andy.
>>Yes all the details were given but is the upgrade from cb8 to cb9 really worth
>>it.? Atleast to make it worth something they should have included additional
>>engines (considering the price we users have to pay) possibly latest versions.
>
>I think CB9 is worth over CB8 for me personally:
>
>1) CB9 supports databases more as 4.1 million games ... this is a big plus over
>Cb8 with merging very large databases. Big / Mega Database contains already
>2,607,013 games so reaching this limit should be not difficult to do so.

I had to write > 4G.

>2) Easier to:
>* see what are all played moves from a certain position
>* filter certain games on rating, gender, etc
>* sorting games.
>
>3) Easier sorting
>
>4) Better opening clasification
>
>5) See the name of a certain eco opening
>
>6) Integration with playchess.com
>
>7) Configure columns, order of columns, sorting of views, and memorize them.
>
>I did not read yet if:
>* merging database is faster
>* deduping databases is faster / better quality
>
>But if this thenCB9 is must really a plus over CB8
>
>Have a look here:
>Part 1: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1971
>Part 2: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1972
>Part 3: later on

Here is another link:
http://www.chesscentral.com/software/chessbase.htm



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