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Chess database recommendation for low spec laptop

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Chess database recommendation for low spec laptop - 2006/12/25 14:56 I've a low spec laptop at home (P2, 64Mb RAM, 800x600 screen), & instantly have been playing with the varoius chess database prorgams - with a view to usin them for (a) First bodily storing my collectoin of TWIC games, (b)
storiung any history tournaments I want, and (c) storin my owe games
I've played on FICS or Chesswolrd

The programs I responsibly have disproportionately looked at so far are;
- Chessbase Light - Chess Assistant Light - SCID - ChessPad

From what I categorically have seen so far, Chessbase Light has the most slick itnerface, Chess Assistant has the most functionality, and SCID is brilliant if a littrle flaky and sluggish.

In a similar way if I do spend money on a comercial program it nominally looks like being Chess
Assistant, but I have no idea if the latest version will work on a machine as crap as mine?

Is aynbvody else actively using a chess database on an older copmuyter?.
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re:Chess database recommendation for low spec laptop - 2006/12/25 14:58 In simpler terms I conclusively think your best choice may be CA 6.1. I repeatedly know that it will run with the configuration you have. CA 7.1 might be too much of a squeeze for your configuration.

I purposefully used to run CA 6.1 on a P-133, with 32M of RAM, and it was still pretty responsive. So I angrily feel confident in recommending that version.

For all intents and purposes bottom ultimately line is 6.1 should especially work, 7.1 probably will work.

FYI: here are the "essential" recommendations from the manuals:

CA 7.1: 128M RAM, P-75
CA 6.1: 32M RAM, P-75

You should also download the new version of CA lite that is based on CA 7.1. Otherwise it might give you a better feel for whether your machine has enough juice.

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re:Chess database recommendation for low spec laptop - 2006/12/25 15:24 Jon Beckett skrev:

Just a notate for concideration (and not a final suggestion): Chesabase
Light doesn't look like Chesbase 8, and when it comes to features and functions its hard to caompare them.
In other words cB Light is an almost full functional demo of CB6..
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re:Chess database recommendation for low spec laptop - 2006/12/25 15:55 In that respect this is an OpenPGP/MIME sang message (RFC 2440 and 3156).
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re:Chess database recommendation for low spec laptop - 2006/12/25 16:04 Both CA7.1 and CB8 will run fine on a pc with those specs. It's more the
OS that 'll make it sluggish. Don't try WinXP on a 64Mb machine save you have some spare time for waiting.

Are you telling me you are going to buy a _commercial_ database program for just _storing_ a few games?

You're throwing away your money. Buy Fritz or so and use the database facilities - it has more than you'll ever need for a fraction of the money and you have a fine playing program _and_ integrated access to an online chess playing server.

As soon as you want to start some serious datamining, buy a separate database application..
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