Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 18:52:25 09/20/99
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Chess Base Magazine comes out about every 2 months. It has about 1250 games, of which around 2/3rd's are annotated in words & variations. Also included is a video file of the main event, a tactics database, a middle-game databae, an endgame database, a computer database & a correspondence database. (some months, some of these things are alternated). It also comes with a small booklit with the highlights of the CD. Someone here did an excellent review of this product, so check the ICD archives. I think its a much better value than the informant. It cost about $140.00 US for a one year subscription, or about $29.00. Issue 58 for instance had a lot about the Kasparov versus Deep Blue match, that I don't recall seeing anywhere else. (Especially, Kaspparov trying to explain what was going on in each game, while gobaling his food at a local NY restaurant:). All of the games ultimately become intergrated into Megabase, so this is a good way to build a 'killer' database. Also all of the games are catagorised by medals & theme keys, so you can easily search useing the included Chess Base Lite. Larry - the chess software/book addict! On September 20, 1999 at 13:47:57, Weldon MacDonald wrote: >At the risk of being sacraligous, I find a database even more useful that a >chess engine. I downloaded Crafty and it's all I need. >The problem with a database is the cost. Chessbase 7 with the "Mega" database >and thousands of annotated games is over $400. >What are the alternatives, or are there any? >I want to be able to search for pawn structures, endgames etc. Annotated games >are a must as are, of course, openings.
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