Author: Robin Smith
Date: 08:20:06 11/06/05
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On November 05, 2005 at 15:09:42, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >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 > > > Hi Robin > I've just downloaded Bookup Express 2000 and > must say it's the best thing I have ever seen > for opening training ... and this can I say > after working only 40 minutes with this great > tool. BTW: You have published an excellent > book "Modern Chess Analysis" of which I have > bought the German edition "Moderne Schachanalyse" > also a great book, one of the best I know about > computer chess, congratulations. > Regards > Kurt Hi Kurt, Thank you for the kind words about "Modern Chess Analysis". I was hoping that the book would be useful to more people than just chess software novices, so it is gratifying to hear that an experienced computer user such as yourself enjoyed the book. I have Bookup Pro, which I like a great deal, and I had forgotten that a demo version was also available. I think your advice to Tony to download the demo version is the best advice of all. It is very hard to decide if a piece of software is right for you based on someone else's description; but after trying it oneself you can usually know pretty fast. -Robin
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