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Subject: Re: BookUp

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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