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Originally Posted by bradclark1
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Originally Posted by Skybird
Didn't know you were in chess that seriously, Brad!  What is your precise need? |
I just started teaching myself and am getting into it pretty much. I have MC10 and Fritz Deluxe is coming. If I'd have gotten the database it would have been an impulse buy because I suffer from "If I'm into it I must have everything that goes with it" whole hog disease. Drives my wife nuts. But $100 for a database put me into price shock.  |
The chessprogram Fritz and others from Chessbase) include databases of usually 1- 1.5 million played matches. It should fit your needs, but at less then one third of the price for the chessbase database starter kit version 9. The interface (as I just have written in another chess-ralated thread) is superb.
Price for new Fritz 10 in Germany is 40-50 euro. You could as well buy some older version of it or another chessbase-engine, and eventually buy it for a price in the one-digit range (in Germany at last, availability of these softwares in the Us seems to be a bit limited, what surprises me).
http://cgi.ebay.com/FRITZ-10-CHESS-S...QQcmdZViewItem
http://www.amazon.com/ChessCentral-H...3445128&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Junior-10-Cham...3445128&sr=8-5
If I could be of help, let me know.