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Subject: Re: Looking for database

Author: Kunnar Klauks

Date: 23:02:30 04/18/05

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On April 18, 2005 at 03:13:48, Tony Nichols wrote:

>On April 18, 2005 at 01:51:56, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>On April 17, 2005 at 23:31:35, Tony Nichols wrote:
>>
>>> Well, If your getting serious about studying chess I suggest you get either
>>>chessbase or chess assistant. There is no substitute for a good database
>>>program. I use CB 9 and love it. Manipulating databases is very easy, you can
>>>use all your chessbase and UCI engines for analysis, and even use it for your
>>>website.
>>>Good Luck
>>>Tony
>>
>>Up until now SCID has served it's purpose very well.
>>
>>Looking into ChessBase 9 and Chess Assistant 8 the prices are relatively close,
>>but from looking at the information there is not much that they do that SCID
>>can't.
>>
>>Maybe it is just me but I can't justify the money for the little extra that they
>>_might_ be able to provide.
>>
>>I might download a light version and try it out to see what is what..
>>
>>Peter
>The light version is based on CB6 and does not reflect what can be done with
>CB9. I'm not familiar with SCID but if you can't filter databases very quickly

Maybe you should try SCID. I have impression that i dont need to spend any money
to buy commercial chess database. I dont know any important feature that
ChessBase or Chess Assistant have what SCID does not.



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