Re: From CB8 to CB9


"Alexander Wagner" <a.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im
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> Hm, maybe before you invest money, why not look in the free
> world? http://scid.sourceforg.net. At least I did not find
> real bugs there, it handles painlessly a 3 million games
> base, costs nothing and works for me very well. (Ok, I'm on
> Linux, but it runs on DOS XP as well ;)

Yes, this one has a good feedback, but the GUI does not please me much.
And there were no more updates since 2003 or so. Functionality like creating
special books and so on seems not so good like in cb.
Its not the money that matters, playing tournaments, you know the best tools
are hardly good enough. Yust show me the best.

>> Chess Trainer 2.0
>> http://www.personalchesstrainer.com/ ...

Whats about this one ?
Does it help to improve playing strength for advanced players or more for
beginners ?

> If they did not change it:
> chessprogram -engine
> starts Fritz directly where as
> chessprogram -login
> gets you directly to playchess.
> chessprogram -database
> fires up Fritz' database program. (Works for me with Fritz8
> in wine.)

Yes the later versions support this one but even so, if you just want to
play
some grazy games, a prompt start within one or two seconds is great.

> NEVER experienced a corrupted database so far in SCID. And
> if I look at CB's price list, ahm, well this bug alone makes
> it a waste of money... Sorry. Databases that corrupt their
> data are not worth a single cent. Database implies some size
> of data to be managed.

I agree, but i will stay with my bugfixed cb8, the corrupted databases i can
fix with fritz.
The integrity-check within cb does not work alway properly. But after nearly
10years
with cb, i'm still hoping it comes back to quality one day.

> If you want to invest some time in testing, get scid,
> doesn't cost anything. Really ;) And I did not yet
> experience any grave bug and never lost any data...

Maybe i didnt ckeck all functionality of scid but my first impression was,
you dont really can do a lot with it or am i wrong with my mind ?

> The only painfull thing is to import MegaBase into scid as
> it goes from Fritz -> PGN -> scid which requires some 5G of
> HDD-Space and some hours for Fritz to write out the pgn.
> (Total conversion took some 5 hours. scid readin was 5min,
> ok, then came the indexing.)

But time is the only thing men can't earn.

Thanks for intentions
Elbro


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