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Re: Mega Database Price Outrage
Reply #20 - 12/20/09 at 23:36:45
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TN wrote on 12/16/09 at 11:46:22:
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

The best option is to have a friend who has purchased the latest Mega Database, and download it from him. ChessBase don't seem to overly care about this. Then you receive the high-quality product without the exorbatent costs.


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Reply #19 - 12/17/09 at 22:33:05
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Popped into the Chess & Bridge Centre this morning to make my annual upgrade of the Mega Database only to find the price has gone up from £39.95 last year to £69.95 ...


The problem was when BCM guys sold their store to Chess & Bridge. I was a customer buyer of BCM and when that happened I never bought anything. The guys from Chess & Bridge are completely crazy from long time ago!  Sad
  
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Re: Mega Database Price Outrage
Reply #18 - 12/17/09 at 19:52:42
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With Mega 2010 you receive  games until 2nd round World Cup and purchase downloadable update service till end of 2010 ( with ChessBase 10 though ) its a 2 year service , so its not so bad .
As i have to start somewhere ( wasnt active last 5 years ) i bought it , but i agree that updating via TWIC or others with older versions of Mega ( much cheaper ^^ ) is a good option Smiley .
  
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Reply #17 - 12/16/09 at 11:46:22
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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

The best option is to have a friend who has purchased the latest Mega Database, and download it from him. ChessBase don't seem to overly care about this. Then you receive the high-quality product without the exorbatent costs.
  
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Reply #16 - 12/16/09 at 11:34:02
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Want it cheap?
Buy mega 05 or 06 or 07 and download the rest from twic, there are enough commented games in the megas for all your life.
I have bought mega 07 for 20 Euro,
and updated it with twic.
  
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Reply #15 - 12/16/09 at 02:41:08
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I bought my first database (Big) in 2000, with annotated games and my second one (Mega) only a few months ago. In between I have downloaded from various sources, as TWIC is not the only one. Check Lars Balzer's site. I noticed that I was about 500 000 games behind this way.
I also mostly use dial-up. As I pay my telephone bill in Surinamese Dollars that is cheaper. It takes me about 3 minutes to download a file.
Probably I will buy my next database in 2015 or so. That way the expenses remain in control.
  
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Re: Mega Database Price Outrage
Reply #14 - 12/16/09 at 00:05:23
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Mega 2010 is €50 for subscribers of CBM. 

They claim that most work have been done on the Player database which is a part of Mega.

I still think that the price is horrendous though.
  
What kind of proof is that?
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Re: Mega Database Price Outrage
Reply #13 - 12/15/09 at 21:22:36
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This brings up an interesting point for me:

If all (or enough) chess games are available for free via download, what is the true value of annotations?

ChessBase puts the value at 150 Euros for Megabase.  This seems outrageous to me, but I'm not sure what price would be appropriate.

I know, there will be plenty of people who will suggest that the market determines its own price/value.  Pace, Adam Smith.

What is the intrinsic value of human annotations to games when most of those same humans use computers to generate and check their analysis anyway? 

What are we getting for 150 Euros?
  
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Re: Mega Database Price Outrage
Reply #12 - 12/15/09 at 20:35:43
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TimS wrote on 12/15/09 at 19:48:38:
Thanks John. £44 is certainly a better price, although I don't want to rely on the post, especially at this time of the year.
I'm trying to find out who has the bookstall at Hastings this year ...


I think Today might be risky for parcels to arrive before Xmas. Hastings bookstall would save on postage!
  
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Re: Mega Database Price Outrage
Reply #11 - 12/15/09 at 19:48:38
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Thanks John. £44 is certainly a better price, although I don't want to rely on the post, especially at this time of the year.
I'm trying to find out who has the bookstall at Hastings this year ...
  
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Reply #10 - 12/15/09 at 17:01:31
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TimS wrote on 12/15/09 at 14:11:10:
Popped into the Chess & Bridge Centre this morning to make my annual upgrade of the Mega Database only to find the price has gone up from £39.95 last year to £69.95 ...


Shop around. I've sent you a PM. They will post.
  
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Re: Mega Database Price Outrage
Reply #9 - 12/15/09 at 16:50:58
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If you check out the terms of openingmaster's discount offer they are really weird.  Why the hell would they want proof of age?  Sounds like a freaky excuse to get ahold of someone's ID.  What are these people, Ukranians?

They purport to offer discussions or lessons of some type, but these materials do not appear to be authored by titled players, or at any rate, by any identified players at all.
  
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Re: Mega Database Price Outrage
Reply #8 - 12/15/09 at 16:44:34
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TimS wrote on 12/15/09 at 14:11:10:
Popped into the Chess & Bridge Centre this morning to make my annual upgrade of the Mega Database only to find the price has gone up from £39.95 last year to £69.95 ...


The worth of the pound is deteriorating to the €.
I expect to buy GB with 1 € in 2013 Cool
  
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Re: Mega Database Price Outrage
Reply #7 - 12/15/09 at 16:44:07
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TonyRo wrote on 12/15/09 at 15:45:35:
It's a subscription based website that updates the largest database around, apparently. They update it quite often, at least monthly with new games, and also maintain separate databases for download as well, such as an only FIDE Top 100 database, and a correspondence database. 

www.openingmaster.com


Is there anybody here who's paid for this who has an opinion of its value?  If it were $40.00 a year for the plantinum I might bite, but it's 40.00 Euro = $60.00.  Damn George Bush.
  
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Re: Mega Database Price Outrage
Reply #6 - 12/15/09 at 16:42:22
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Two problems:

i) I like the annotations of Mega

ii) I only have dial-up at home
  
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