ChessBase light (and even the most recent full Chessbase 8, which is over 3
years old) are not needed if you have fritz with its wonderful database
utilities.


"DDEckerslyke" wrote in message
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"john" wrote in message
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I have just joined a local club for some OTB games and want to prepare
for
my weekly matches. I know some of my opponents always play the same
opening
and have been recording the games. How best do I go about creating a
database of the games and where I made my mistakes plus what my best
option
was in each game. Creating databases are not something I know a lot
about
so
what arre the basics and which software is most commonly used.

Chessbase Light is free, or at least it was when I downloaded it a couple
of
years ago, from chessbase.com. AFAICS it's got bells, whistles, and
GoFaster
stripes. I'm not sure what more Chessbase UnLight does, maybe it makes
great
coffee. Also if you can't figure out how to use it you can ask here, as I
have a couple of times recently.

BTW there isn't always a best option, just whatever fits the way you play
(I
just learned that from LCMBM), but I'm sure you knew that :-)

cheers

dd