ChessBase and the Mega Database by Jim Rizzitano Reviewed this Month ChessBase 13 by ChessBase Mega Database 2015 by ChessBase This month I will review two software titles from ChessBase: ChessBase 13 and Mega Database 2015. This software is useful for both master level and club players. Chess software has become an essential tool for efficient chess study. The majority of chess players utilize software to record games and prepare openings – chess software is also indispensable for writing chess books and publishing to the web. The ChessBase software program is the industry-standard tool utilized by both professional and club players to record and study their own games. A … [Read more...]
Unlucky 13
Unlucky 13 by Mark Donlan Tutorial: How to install ChessBase 13, by ChessBase, DVD, Various pricing Thirteen might be a lucky number for Garry Kasparov, but it’s not for ChessBase. This column was designed to be a walk-through for installing the latest iteration of their flagship product ChessBase 13. Yet things didn’t go quite so smoothly as I’ve come to expect from ChessBase products. Perhaps it has something to do with only meeting the minimum requirements rather than the recommended requirements. I’ve found it is usually beneficial to meet the latter, rather than the former. However, even though I was installing on a Windows Vista machine, it is one that meets the recommended … [Read more...]
Creating a Multimedia Database
Tutorial: Creating a Multimedia Database by Mark Donlan In the tutorial Creating a Personal Tournament Book we looked at how to create a personal ebook from the web in ChessBase 12 using the No Logo Norway 2014 tournament as an example. This month we will examine how to create a multimedia database similar to the ChessBase Media System DVDs using the 2014 Carlsen-Anand world championship match as an example. In the previous column we saw how to import web pages into a database text file. Here we will learn how to embed videos. The video file must be in the Windows .wmv format. You could also embed pictures (.bmp) and sound files (.wav) if you so wished. A database text is not a game … [Read more...]