PIGbase4 v2.7 (long info)
**** Release ten 26/8-97, shareware restrictions almost all removed! ****
**** Now includes: Adobe type 1 chess-font, more games, more piece-sets ****
REQUIREMENTS:
Amiga, 1Mb ram
USE:
- CHESS-DATABASE The most advanced for the Amiga!
- PLAY CHESS Strong and fast play!
- CHESS-EDUCATION Children-friendly!
- CHESS-TOOL For the chess-club player!
* Learn chess (to move the pieces)
* Learn positional play (activity, centre)
* Play without loosing pieces by accident
* Practice chess or problems
* Look at commented games
* Play chess computer against computer, person against computer, person
against person.
* Error free typing of games with comments into text files or prints
* Printout games with comments in short or long form to printer or file
* Make database of your own or other's games with comments
* Checking games in text files for errors
* Read games and rewrite to get a homogenous text-format
* Make Chess-problems
* Analyzing
* Enter and play variations
* Show commented games and problems for other people (on standard TV)
* Read and write games in the standard PGN text files (with NAGs)
* Supports FEN (Forsyth-Edwards Notation) for alternative startpositions
* Get database of games through e.g. NICBASE3 and CHESSBASE
* Get database of games through games-disks (Aug-97: 853.514 games CD)
* Use your own language and piece-letters (LOCALE-file)
* Make ECO and NIC opening keys to games
* The internal .pig gamefile format can contain whole 29 PGN info fields.
* Advanced game-tree generator for analyzing
* Advanced search-patterns to find virtually any position
* Chess clock, sort of
ALSO LOOK FOR (on aminet):
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PIGbaseX.lha extra piece-sets (iff-ilbm format)
PIGs*.lha games collections
CBASC-AM.lha to allow direct import of Chessbase gamefiles
HISTORY:
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New/improved since v2.6 (release nine 19/4-96):
- major improvements to chess-engine (maybe 500 elo better)
- new feature: advanced search patterns to find positions.
- new feature: chess clock, sort of.
- now almost everything working/included in shareware version.
- now move pieces with drag-and-drop.
- faster Chessbase import (requires CBASC-AM.LHA from aminet)
- several minor improvements.
Corrected since v2.6:
- several minor bugs removed.
- better PGN import
- better help
New since v2.5 (release eight 10/3-96):
- Make Tournament table based on selected games
Corrected since v2.5:
- Easier to make ECO and NIC keys
- (equal) in Filter editor now OK
- better PGN conversions
- Increased stability
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