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Subject: Re: BookUp

Author: Chuck

Date: 21:07:18 11/05/05

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On November 05, 2005 at 08:10:41, Tony Nichols wrote:

>On November 05, 2005 at 05:48:30, Chuck wrote:
>
>>I think it is an excellent program but its main value is by far its ability to
>>backsolve positions (IMO of course). It needs a major overhaul to bring it up to
>>2005, especially where the GUI is concerned but I'm using it heavily still.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Chuck
>
>Hello Chuck,
>
> Thanks for the info. Besides backsolving(which I'm not interested in), What
>other unique features does it have?
>Regards
>Tony
>
>P.S. I read all the info on the website, but it helps to hear a users comments.

I believe they have a demo program you can download and try out for free at the
Bookup web site. My main interest is in using Bookup to help improve my
correspondence play and tracking my opening choices. It is good for practicing
openings, too, but since I don't live where I can play OTB that's of no use to
me anymore. Unlike Chessbase programs, I've never experienced a crash with
Bookup 2000 (as far as I recall), but I do run it with database safety turned
on, that slows it down but its only an issue if you want to run a big batch
operation, like importing a pgn file, and you can turn this option off and back
on. It's not very useful as a chess *playing* program, and Chess Assistant or
ChessBase are better for just simply storing games - with Bookup you can do a
better job of tracking info about positions. Oh, and Mike, "The Database Man",
is very responsive and helpful.

Cheers,

Chuck



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