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Subject: Re: Extreme Chess Database limit

Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin

Date: 20:25:43 02/12/99

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I hear you, but I think you should find the Expensive American Money for just
this one chess program - Fritz5.32.  You can get it for about $50.00, from
Gambit-Soft, and probably ICD too.  It comes with 303,043 good quality chess
games, around 5000 anotated.  It has just about every helpful analytical
function you can imagine, and it even will talk at you.  It has some bugs, but
then so do they all.  But for the price & the features it has, you won't be
dissappointed.  Consider Xtreme chess something like, Fritz3.5 for windows.
Fritz5.32 will impress you by comparison.  You can even plug in other strong
chess engines into it, including HIARCS6. (availble for extra $).

Another good choice, if you want something with a whole lot of feature's (many
of which Fritz5 does not have), and stylistically unique would be Rebel10.  But
you have to be willing to put up with DOS at least for now; until the Windows
Beta version comes out, which will be free to current Rebel10 owners. But for
the price, technical support, unique features, this program also is hard to
beat, at a value price. (about $60).  Best of all perhaps, is that you can
download, and try it out for 30 days, before you buy.

mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!

On February 12, 1999 at 22:02:27, Derek Bays wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>This is my first post, so please be kind. I bought the program Extreme Chess
>in response to Hiarcs 4's pathetic ability to handle databases of any serious
>size & inability to read any PGN format other than it's own. XChess handles
>DB's well, and I use the Hiarcs 4 engine to analyze with in DOS with a whole
>lot of hash. I was getting along fine using X to compile & search DB's,
>importing to H4 and having fun. Until I assembled a DB of 61,125 games. It
>keeps overwriting previous ones to make room for the new. DOES ANYONE KNOW
>HOW TO GET PAST THIS WITHOUT SPENDING MORE EXPENSIVE AMERICAN MONEY TO THROW AT
>ANOTHER CHESS PROGRAM???
>
>P.S. I will never buy a Hiarcs program again !



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