Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:30:12 02/24/00
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On February 24, 2000 at 03:57:45, Peter Kappler wrote:
>On February 23, 2000 at 21:49:01, Richard Heldmann wrote:
>
>>Any opinions of Bookup vs. Chessbase 7.0 or Chess Assistant 5?
>
>I can comment on CB 7.0 and Bookup, but not CA5:
>
>CB 7.0 is a full-fledged database, with numerous searching features. It's a
>great tool if you're a serious player who wants to do lots of opening research,
>or just enjoys studying lots of grandmaster games.
>
>Bookup doesn't have the database features of CB7. Instead, it's geared towards
>helping you manage your existing opening repertoire. It allows you to enter
>variations and annotate key positions. These variations are stored in a "tree"
>structure for easy navigation. ChessBase has some support for constructing move
>trees from a collection of games, but it's more cumbersome than the Bookup
>method. (If ChessBase ever fixes this, I'll stop using Bookup.)
CA5 has all this plus a small openings encyclopedia (Openings 2000) to boot. You
can build an opening repertoire by pulling in information from various sources
and have it build a tree for this (a 1,000,000 game database WITH a complete
tree takes up less that 230 MB), plus the tree of your repertoire can directly
access the tree information (statistics) from other databases. Ex: You build a
small repertoire on the various lines you play in the Sicilian and build a tree
for it. From the tree itself you can look at the statistics for the various
positions from your main 1,000,000+ game database as well without having to open
it too and switch back and forth. Naturally, you can annotate the positions
directly in the tree or in the games according to preference. You can also make
a copy of the openings encyclopedia and use it as a base reference to build on
(with the same possibilities as above). The advantage is that the encyclopedia
has a convenient system of folders that makes it sometimes easier to organize
everything IMO.
>
>Both programs include chess engines for analysis of positions. CB7 can use any
>of the Chessbase family of engines (Fritz, Junior, Hiarcs, Nimzo, etc) while
>Bookup only includes Zarkov.
CA5 comes with Chess Tiger 12 and Crafty 17.6 (which can have it's various
parameters modified and can be upgraded as newer versions come out), plus can
use all the Winboard engines and MCS engines (Zarkov, Shredder 4, Nimzo 2000,
Wchess 2000, but not the Genius family) as internal engines. Other programs such
as Rebel, Mchess, and Genius can be called upon as external engines to analyze
positions and insert analysis directly in CA.
Albert Silver
>
>Chessbase definitely sports the prettier interface. It's also much more complex
>- be prepared to spend a weekend learning all the features.
>
>I use both programs reguarly, and think ChessBase offers better overall value.
>Bookup 2000 is due for release in early March, so you might want to checkout
>some of the new features.
>
>--Peter
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