Henning Rogge
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re:Use Bookup or ChessBase? - 2006/07/10 06:58
I would recommend Chess Assistant. Very fine Software. Checked some search algorithms comparing Chessbase 8 and CA 6 (CA 7 published recently, but I do not have it), and usually CA is - at least 10 - 15 times faster than Chessbase. Both, CA and Chessbase tests were done on a P4 1.8, Database about 1.8 Mill games
- Searching for a position in CA : < 2 sec. Chessbase: about 20 sec (may depend on position)
- Searching for position patterns (French Advance Center) values about the same in CA, about 25 secs in Chessbase
Using CA I was wondering about the - IMO - strange Window handling in
Chessbase. You very often have to switch from this to that window etc.
Not very user friendly IMO.
Key handling in Chessbase is IMO a little bit outdated. Compare these
2 kinds of handling:
Target: Search for some games in French Winawer Poisoned Pawn, Main line with 13.Qxc3 Nf5 14.Rb1 d4 15.Qd3 f6 16.g4 Nh6
Chessbase: Clicking and clicking through the keys until I finally reach (after about 10 clicks or more) the desired position (if such a key exists...) open Window with games. Select & open Game
CA: Open Openings 2001, select "French Winawer", Open Game-Window,
Click on desired position, (if it does not exist (not very likely), just input the moves) select & open Game (All games to any position reachable with 1 mouseclick, available in about 0.5 secs)
Additionally - for me playing CC very important is: In every given position in CA you can see any played next move in this position with - Success rate in percent - Number of games
In Chessbase you need to let the system calculate that, which again is very slow.
but to make that clear, if you know nothing at all about openings, you may be completely lost in CA, and should prefer Chessbase, which may be much more suitable for players below 1700 ELO ....
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