Chessbase Lite

sydsad

Poet

Only Chess

08 Dec 07

sydsad

Poet

Fågelsången

Joined: 26 Jan 07
Moves: 3413

08 Dec 07

Is the "Lite version" any good? I get the impression from the website that the functionallity is severely limited. Oh, and not in terms of database size.

Is it possible to edit pgn-files in the Lite version? Export genuine pgn-files?

Kepler

Demon Duck

of Doom!

Joined: 20 Aug 06
Moves: 20099

09 Dec 07

Originally posted by sydsad
Is the "Lite version" any good? I get the impression from the website that the functionallity is severely limited. Oh, and not in terms of database size.

Is it possible to edit pgn-files in the Lite version? Export genuine pgn-files?

In a word, no. Use Scid, it's free and does more than Chessbase lite

sydsad

Poet

Fågelsången

Joined: 26 Jan 07
Moves: 3413

09 Dec 07

Does "scid" run properly under Vista? Does it read cbv-files?

Kepler

Demon Duck

of Doom!

Joined: 20 Aug 06
Moves: 20099

09 Dec 07

Originally posted by sydsad
Does "scid" run properly under Vista? Does it read cbv-files?

Does anything run under Vista? I haven't a clue, I won't be installing it until I am convinced it will run and everything I want will run on it! I don't know if scid will read cbv files either. You could always download it and try it, being as it's free!

Mad Rook

Joined: 19 Jun 06
Moves: 847

09 Dec 07

Originally posted by sydsad
Does it read cbv-files?

Nope, Scid doesn't read CBV files, only PGN and EPD. But that's not surprising, since CBV is a proprietary file format created by Chessbase. PGN is the open source standard. CBV files can always be converted to PGN files in Chessbase programs, then exported to Scid as PGN files.