> Neverthless trying it can give some flavour. But I don't want to buy it.
By the way: I've bought ChessBase 11, I need it only for test reasons, for the development of the decoder. This database application, a very expensive product, is really lousy, I cannot see a real practical value, and it cannot give a real flavour, and that's the thing with most proprietary software. (The price was 200 Euro. Last year ChessBase 12 has been released, the price for the upgrade from version 11 to version 12: 200 Euro. This is a kind of trickery, it's frustrating to buy software, and I didn't buy the upgrade.) > I don't know about open source project for chess training.... I've found two ones: http://www.chesspositiontrainer.com/index.php/en/ http://innokuo.altervista.org/chesshero.html But i didn't try any of them, the development of Jessy has not yet started, at first the alpha version of Scidb has to be released. About ideas for Scidb: of course a window layout management is still missing, and the search functions are not yet realized. Furthermore an opening book is one of the most wanted features. Apart from these any ideas which functions are desirable in Scidb? Please consider that the following functionalities are not destined for Scidb: - FICS connection - Correspondence/Email chess support - Automatic game analysis - Chess training - Playing against external chess programs - Other chess program or chess training specific tasks For such functionalities another project is in planning stage: Jessy (but probably not for chess training). In this way an overloading of the database application Scidb will be prevented. Cheers, Gregor
