Markovich wrote on 08/29/06 at 01:15:44:
Trevormkidd wrote on 08/28/06 at 21:13:01:
tont wrote on 08/28/06 at 19:00:23:
I use both Bookup and chess position trainer. While I do agree that CPT is amazing software I still find it to be unstable. I have never had Bookup crash on me in the several years I have used it, but having started to use CPT again a couple weeks ago, I have had it crash on me about 15 times and I find the engine works poorly with CPT. Still that fact that I am continuing, and will continue to use it shows that I think that (with the exception of being unstable) CPT is superior to Bookup in many ways.
How it is better?
I think that there are some things that bookup does better:
Chess engine works better, you can use engines other than just Crafty, backsolving works better, more stable. I think Bookup is excellent in these areas and CPT is very weak.
Things that I think CPT does better:
Training - way better - there are dozens of ways that you can train with CPT some of those ways are very ingenius, fun and hopefully more effective. This was the thing that most impressed me when I downloaded CPT a couple weeks ago - I was actually blown away by the training.
Sub-repertoires is what CPT uses so you could have a sub-repertoire for say: Nimzo-Indian another for Queen's Indian etc. Seperate sub-repertoires for white and black etc. Whatever your heart desires. All of the subrepertoires are right there so by hitting the tab for that button you immediately switch into it. That is not a very good explanation - if you were to download the manual from the site it explains it a lot better.
Endgame and Middlegame positions - I never liked trying to do endgame and middlegame positions in bookup. I find it easy and very effective in CPT, plus with all of the different ways of training, I think it very effective for that too.
Multiple Candidate moves - one of the things that always bugged me about bookup was that in the positions were I like to use two different moves I would have to manually put one move or the other at the top and could only train that move, then change the other move to the top and then train that move. With CPT I can make more than one move the candidate move and when training I can play which ever one I feel like in that position.
So I will continue to use both, and I actually find that it is pretty easy to transfer my repertoire from one to the other. I will use Bookup for working on my repertoire, updating it etc, looking for weak spots, but I will use CPT for training not just my openings but also endgame and middlegame positions.
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