The way these typically work is this: a 'framing' text acts as a chess article The included ChessBase Reader to access these databases. Use ChessBase, one of the Fritz family of playing programs, or Interweaves text, videos, and (oftentimes) games in ChessBase format. Each folder contains a multimedia database which The Jubilee DVD contains a set of folders corresponding to twenty-one The printed supplement that accompanied CBM #1. There was so much cool stuff available that it couldn't all be put on the DVDĪnd it's not all multimedia. Will be interwoven into a preview of what the CBM Jubilee DVD provides.įirst of all, CBM 100 and the CBM Jubilee DVD go hand in glove Issues and the events and news they provided. With ChessBase for twelve of the seventeen years that CBM's been publishedĪnd, believe it or not, I have some very fond memories of some of these CBM To something more akin to my trademark rambling screeds. I'll warn you that this article is about to veer off from being just a preview Hear audio and video of our favorite players. So youĬouldn't just click on any old chess site to get audio and video the way weĬan today. We didn't have broadband Internet access back in those days - a 56.6bpsĭialup modem was a pretty pricey acquisition. It's hard for younger players today to comprehend what a breakthrough this As Fred explains in the print booklet that accompanies CBM 100, ChessBase's Fred Friedel, who was alwaysĪ 'travellin' man', now started globetrotting with a video camera seeminglyĬBM 55, the first issue containing multimedia content, blew everybodyĪway. Now we were able to seeĪnd hear them in action: watching them play at the board and hearing theirĬomments in post-tournament interviews. Top players in magazines such as Inside Chess.

had only seen still pictures (in black and white) of the world's The magazine began to appear on CD and now contained video clips and audioĬommentary in addition to the previously mentioned database content. In 1996, CBM went from being something special to something extraordinary: The diskĪlso contained opening theoreticals, strategy and tactics advice, a specialĮndgame database, and (for a long time in the 1990's) a special 'blunders'ĭatabase which showed that even top players suffer lapses. Quarter to a third of them being annotated by top masters and GMs.

'standardized' - about 1500 games would appear in each issue, with about a Starting in the early 1990's the content became more or less Just a haphazard bunch of games but was (and is) an ongoing part of the historical The early versions consisted of a floppy disk containingĪ database of games with the emphasis on complete tournaments CBM wasn't In this case, obviously, it'sįor players unfamiliar with the publication, ChessBase Magazine (orĬBM for short) has been the foremost electronic chess publication for the hundredthĪnniversary or hundredth edition of something.

It wasn't the magazine CD itself which struck me (although it's excellentĪs usual) - it was the bonus insert: a DVD called ChessBase Magazine Jubilee.įor my fellow Yanks who aren't familiar with the term, 'jubilee' is a (primarilyĮuropean) expression that corresponds roughly with 'centenary', i.e. Hits my mailbox that turns out to be very special. Had intended to preview another instructional CD in this ChessBase Workshopīut I'm going to detour to another product instead. New products are piling up on my desk faster than I can write about them.

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