Selecting games in Chessbase
MLC
When selecting specific games or all games after performing a search
database in chessbase, how do you selecting all of the games? Right now all
I know how to do is ctrl-mouse to select multiple games. How can I select
all of the games that result from the search.
Komputer Korner
SHIFT-END. Hold down both keys at same time.
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MLC <M...@email.com> wrote in article <01bcc5f2$c184e1c0$15c485ce@default>...
Eric Schiller
CTRL-A will select all games (SHIFT-END works if you happen to be at the
top of your file, but otherwise selects only from the selected game to the
end, so don't use that.).
BUT
If you have too many games not all will be selected. In fact, none will.
Not that the interface-challenged CB would ever notify you.
Eric
MLC wrote in article <01bcc5f2$c184e1c0$15c485ce@default>...
Rolf Tueschen
"Eric Schiller" <news...@chessworks.com> wrote:
>CTRL-A will select all games (SHIFT-END works if you happen to be at the
>top of your file, but otherwise selects only from the selected game to the
>end, so don't use that.).
>BUT
>If you have too many games not all will be selected. In fact, none will.
>Not that the interface-challenged CB would ever notify you.
Which in fact is more so a clear proof for the basical arrogance of the
top company ChessBase.
I once tried to give the headchiefs over there some advice for these
scandalous points if you look at it from the users' side.
I got no reaction/understanding *at all*.
But it's really a bad thing. And more so taken on the pretended strategy
of CB (like every WIN oriented BIG ONES) that the user is accompanied by
an assistant for help who also counts the entries with care and gives
you information if you're on the 100th visit....
All very nice stuff.
But if you want to mark some thousands of games (not so unusual in a
database top program for over a million of games...) ---- suddenly the
pretended principle is somewhere lost in the port of Hamburg and you'd
have to find yourself a way out all by yourself. <sniff>
For instance in the mentioned situation you have to keep an eye on the
mouse sign. If the sandglass's still "running" you have to translate,
"ah, well, the big and friendly CB6 is doin it...". But if there#s no
reaction, you have these few 47 possibilities.
1 My mouse driver is dead?
2 Mouse sign crASHED?
3 My keyboard is full of beer?
4 Of Miles-milk?
5 Perhaps I missed the right keys?
6 Repetition.
7 A bug in CB6????
8 Not probable.... :)
9 Wait a minute, perhaps too much games?
10 Manual?
11 My RAM's too small?
12 Shit, mine is already 71 Megabytesuperburstyneondope, no?
13 Where's the email adress of Mats?
14 Deaden street?
15 (Not to bore you anylonger) Aha, I take for a start 133 games and
give them for a copy...
16 THEN I'm able to paste the next part of 4001 games. :))))))))))
(Because 4134 minus 133 is 4000. Duh.)
Note. This is not a provocation. This is simply a
interlingualautofeedbackedcreativebulltopassociativeconnected
**feature** of ChessBase where the user is the mater himself.
It's also the progression of the dongle-idea. No, it's the real true
dongle. Because if you fail to solve these 74 steps of the adventure
game you're detected as a clear non-fit-for-chess but purely "off-topic"
rambler who is forbidden to use the installed software. The new rgcp is
in this understanding a mirror of the common CB politics. Mm!mmhh!
But isn't it like real life?
I always take my famous PORSCHE example for this one. You own a nice
PORSCHE. It happens once a year you had to enter a big city, if you know
what I mean. Where's the red light all 250 meters.
Now, think of this. Did you buy a PORSCHE to have this stop and go for
hours???? OK, this is real life. You simply are forbidden to *fly* away
in the central city.
But damned, if I buy a software for my brain I want the highways to
heaven **FREE**, you know? I don't enjoy it to stop and go. I put these
sunglasses on and then I want to be free like a real hell's angel. No??
I have to concentrate on my *GM-title*. And I hate it to be miniturized
by these non-GM-fools (sorry, but my ehglish is so swollen limited) in
ChessBase as if I still had to go to kindergarten.
Therefore, CB, beware. I'm bad, bad, bad, --- hi-man. Either you change
it or I'll come in **through the bathroom window**... If you know what I
*mean*.
The POpe of helldrivers GM association Unlimited.
(@) by Mads Magazine, Muenster
>Eric
Carl Tillotson
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Rolf, I take it you don't like Chessbase. Big deal !
You are not forced to go out and purchase their software. You don't become
top-dog by selling crap, some of it has to be of use to the end-user.
Agreed, there are a lot of things in Chessbase that could be done better, but
then again there are lots of things that could be done better in windows. For
example, next year the whole world (well maybe a few million) will all pay
around $120 to purchase the bug-fixes for Windows 95, got any gripes about
that ?
Carl Tillotson
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Rolf Tueschen
Carl Tillotson <anti...@anti.spam.somewhere.com> wrote:
><lot of stuff about Chessbase snipped>
>Rolf, I take it you don't like Chessbase. Big deal !
Totally wrong! But please stay mute about it...
>You are not forced to go out and purchase their software. You don't become
>top-dog by selling crap, some of it has to be of use to the end-user.
You tell us... :)
>Agreed, there are a lot of things in Chessbase that could be done better, but
>then again there are lots of things that could be done better in windows. For
>example, next year the whole world (well maybe a few million) will all pay
>around $120 to purchase the bug-fixes for Windows 95, got any gripes about
>that ?
Yeah, I just contacted Patti Davis for further details.... :)
Carl Tillotson
In article <60ahqb$9te$1...@news00.btx.dtag.de>, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
> Yeah, I just contacted Patti Davis for further details.... :)
Did she give you them :-)