CHESSBASE NINE

Reviewed by John Watson

Since I don’t know when I will be able to properly review it, I’ll just mention that the database program ChessBase9 is out. ChessBase is easily the most popular database/analysis program and is used by all of the world’s top players and most of its tournament players. In my opinion this latest version represents the best transition from earlier versions that ChessBase has put out. With the earlier new versions I have always been frustrated with having to get used to new looks and methods of manipulation, finding old functions and trying to learn new ones. It was all too much, even though I eventually preferred using ChessBase8 to ChessBase7, ChessBase7 to ChessBase6, etc. This time the transition from 8 to 9 has been smooth and easy. There are new features, but none that have to be learned immediately in order to be able to function quickly and efficiently. A bonus that comes with ChessBase9 is a years worth of free access to the sophisticated and popular playing site Playchess.com. I hope to address this program in detail at some point, but for now I’ll just recommend ChessBase9, with a less expensive upgrade if possible. Personally I couldn’t do without it.

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