Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 08:14:34 04/11/99
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On a feature by feature basis, I feel that Chess Base is a much more syphisticated and polished product. It is a database program, that comes with more than a million games, and an excellent player encyclopedia in its basic package. For around $300.00 it does just about anything you might want to do with a chess game. For another $50.00, you can get Fritz5.32, and your play/analysis desires will be met too. BookUp has its points - There are some excellent books on disk available for it, most of which are written by Chuck Shullien, a strong Senior Master, who now lives in the NW, but it is a more individualy designed product, there are less different things you can do with it, and though it is somewhat less expensive, (And I'm not even sure of that, when you start adding in the cost of the different books on disk that are seperate), it is not exactly a Chess database program, (more a position based move tree), and so is not as efective for storing games. It is more useful for studying an opening by process of entering your own moves, which encourages you to do your own learning work. But it will likely leave you unsatified in the long run if you want a program to do more. I hope this isn't too terrible a slight on BookUp, (I own version 1.5.3, and am thinking of upgrading anyway, because I am after all a total chess software addict!), but I really see ChessBase7 as a much better price per dollar investment; the program to keep on my hard disk, for downloading games from the Internet, and even upgrades to the program itself with just 2 clicks! mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! On April 11, 1999 at 06:34:26, Phil Dixon wrote: >I'd like opinions on the latest version of Bookup and the books you can buy for >it. Good/bad? Are the books worthwhile for someone who wants to improve opening >knowledge? How does it compare with CB7? What about the back/solving part of >Bookup? > >Opinions, please!! > >A big THANK YOU in advance. :) > >Regards, >Phil
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