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Richard Reich

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Nov 1, 1995, 3:00:00 AM11/1/95
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In article <47bbvi$t...@news2.deltanet.com> king...@deltanet.com (bruce taylor) writes:
>Does anyone have an opinion on Nicbase database or software. How
>does it compare with Chessbase and Chess Assistant data bases. What are
>the advantages or disadvantages?

Pros of NicBase3:
1. no copy protection
2. very stable program, almost never crashes
3. good doubles removal utillity [best commercial one, though CBDEDUPE.exe, a
freeware utility for ChessBase files, is the best overall by a mile]
4. best game encoding [NicKey is vastly more detailed than ECO]
5. most concise game storage.
6. Allows best game data entry, with full header, any ELO rating [try
entering an ELO of 1600 in ChessBase!].
7. Commercial data from NicBAse has best quality control and comes indexed to
NicBase Yearbooks or NIC magazine

Cons of NicBase3:
1. Black and white graphics.
2. Slowest game search and very slow position search.
3. No interface with playing program from within NicBase3, although Rebel6 and
Rebel 7 read NB data directly.
4. PGN import reads only 1 game at a time. [But shareware utilities convert
PGN to NB and back.]
5. Can't open more than one game file at a time.
6. Slow game entry by hand as there is no "guessing" of your move as in CB.
7. Desk top publishing available only as an expensive addon, though one can
convert NB files to CB and use CBDEMO for free for this purpose.
8. No chess tree function.
9. Sparse annotated data.
I am fond of NicBase, and use it to store most of my games due to my smallish
hard drive. But I generally will convert specific data to examine in
ChessAssistant, or in CBDEMO, if I want to print out a repetoire sheet.

bruce taylor

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Nov 2, 1995, 3:00:00 AM11/2/95
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Does anyone have an opinion on Nicbase database or software. How
does it compare with Chessbase and Chess Assistant data bases. What are
the advantages or disadvantages?

Thank You all

Halibut

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Nov 3, 1995, 3:00:00 AM11/3/95
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Richard Reich (rmr...@facstaff.wisc.edu) wrote:

: >Does anyone have an opinion on Nicbase database or software. How

: >does it compare with Chessbase and Chess Assistant data bases. What are
: >the advantages or disadvantages?

Compared to ChessBase and Chess Assistant, I would guess that
Nicbase is almost dead.

And the severe database copy protection schemes had much to do
with it.

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