Author: Tony Nichols
Date: 21:52:47 11/05/05
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On November 05, 2005 at 12:55:35, Robin Smith wrote: >On November 05, 2005 at 04:57:00, Tony Nichols wrote: > >> I am curious about the value of this program. Has anybody had any experience >>with it(good or bad)? All comments welcome. >>Regards >>Tony > >If you are familiar with Chessbase "trees", Bookup is somewhat similar; it is a >chess _position_ database program, not a _games_ database program. It will allow >you to backsolve the trees, it handles transpositions a little bit better (IMHO) >than chessbase, you can export positions (either all positions or just leaf >nodes) to EPD files for analysis by programs such as Shredder (classic GUI); >this can sometimes be useful for finding TN's. Bookup is also good for creating >your own opening repertoire database for personal study (for example you can add >comments and evaluations in any position); and it can be used to create (by >hand) endgame databases to help analyze certain endgames that have very large >numbers of transpositions. > >All that said, it is not a tool for everyone. If you have chessbase you might >find that Bookup is a little expensive for relatively few new features. > >-Robin Hello Robin, Thanks for the response. "Relatively few new features..." is exactly what I am worried about. Regards Tony
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