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Subject: Re: ChessPad - free chess database for Windows95/98/NT

Author: Christopher R. Dorr

Date: 11:58:41 01/28/99

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On January 28, 1999 at 14:09:51, Robert Ericsson wrote:

>On January 28, 1999 at 09:55:20, Christopher R. Dorr wrote:
>
>>Hi Robert!
>>
>>Very interesting looking. Extremely attractive interface. One question...can you
>>search for a specific position? I didn't see a way to. I saw that you could
>>search via the tree or via the opening code, but not how to search a specific
>>position.
>>
>>Thanks for putting this out for download! It looks like you put a great deal of
>>work into it.
>>
>>Chris
>
>Hi Chris!
>
>Don't thank me - thank the guy who did it, that is Mark van der Leek!
>I only found the link from Eric Bentzen's great DTP site at URL
>http://members.xoom.com/ebhkp/homeeng.htm
>

Whoops! Sorry about the mis-attribution. How about thanks for bringing it to our
attention?  :)

It is sad that you can't search for position; and the tree only handles 2000
games, so you can't drill down to it (ala CDB) in large databases.

On the upside, however, it has a gorgeous interface, and nice exporting
capabilities.

For me, I guess the two most important features that could be added to it would
be position search, and some kind of engine interface (again ala Peter
Klausler's excellent CDB).

But I still like it; It'll be interesting to see it's development over time.

Thanks,

Chris


>But for your question: nope, you can't search for a position (and that's sad)!
>I have also reckon that when you copy game scores as text and try to paste
>them into ChessPad (as text) it is important that the preferences are
>setup right. If you for instance copy a game as 1. d4 Sf6 2. c4 Sc6 (German
>notation) you must have German as your 'Paste language' and so on.
>
>It's said on the home page that ChessPad can handle 250 000 games but I guess
>that only counts for games without any comments.
>
>Robert



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