ChessBase 17 Steam Edition Reviews

Chessbase 17 Steam Review I am a Chess player who likes to know everything I can about Chess. I mostly use free and Open-Source software to manage my Chess databases. However, because Chessbase is very popular among professional players, I wanted to try it out. At first, I found this program confusing and wondered what I could use it for. What I found is that I could easily import any PGN database I already had. I had Caissabase and some other sources. Chessbase makes it easy to navigate imported databases and play through them. However that really wasn't something I couldn't already do with ChessX or HIARCS. But what I discovered is that part of the experience of Chessbase comes from the fact that databases, opening books, and courses can all be purchased separately from the Chessbase store. Basically Chessbase is to Chess education what Steam is for video games. Does this justify the high cost of the Chessbase application? In my opinion it does not. However, there may be features that I don't understand yet because I am very new to using Chessbase. I will learn more and then perhaps update my review. But regardless, Chessbase is very popular among the top Chess players and so it was worth my time to learn about this application so that I understand why it is helpful. I don't regret my purchase of Chessbase 17 but I can't help but wonder why the price is so high when free open source applications like ChessX and En-Croissant have many of the same features.

Excellent chess app. It is working great for what I need at a great price this Christmas. It has solved the issues mentioned in previous comments: - I changed the appearance of the board and pieces without any problem. - I don't have any problem related to the pieces displayed on the board. Note: functions like "Set beauty" are available, but the format of the database should be 2CBH.