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How about a Chess Assistant users group?
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What is a Chess Assistant?
Jun 5, 2008
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Possibly, I've used CA many times, most experiance with CA 7. Just bought CA 9 and have had many troubles getting it to work with Vista, despite help from the developers.
Chess Assistant is amongst other a chess database utility.
Carl, I am sorry to hear about your problems. I had a bad start running CA 9.1 under Vista (now I think/hope it runs OK). I think the key is to download a bat-file from Convekta and to run your PC in "Admin mode". The Developers have probably already told you all about it in more scientific terms. I was just trying to bring some hope....
Jun 5, 2008
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#6
I talked to Convekta and I did the bat file, killed the UAC, got all the patches, run it only in the administrator account and it seems to be working. I dislike having to kill UAC and run in the administrator account since I'm often at WiFi hotspots to do updates, etc (its dialup at home). In addition I got the Total Chess Trainer at the same time and it simply will not work in Vista. I prefer CA to ChessBase, especially the ability to run engines within the database but this experiance is not making me happy and there is no news (that I've heard), about a CA 9.x or CA 10 that will work properly with CA.
Too bad!! Sorry. I cannot really compare CA to ChessBase. I am a new CA user.
I recently exchanged email with someone at Convekta and they are hoping that CA10 will be released by the end of the year. I decided to hold off on purchasing CA until the release of 10.
Jun 9, 2008
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#9
After my difficulties I would definitely recommend anyone with Vista put off buying any Convekta product until it has been truly updated for Vista or its successor. Their workarounds don't.
Nov 28, 2008
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#10
I use Chess Assistant 9 and I really like it for analyzing my games. I'm thinking about getting CA10 with Rybka 3 - maybe for Christmas 
Anyway, organizing a Chess Assistant group would be a great idea!
I am running CA9 under Vista. I think I got some patch file from the company
Mar 12, 2009
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#14
I got the patch, I did the system tweaks Convekta said was necessary. It works after a fashion but only so-so.
How about a Chess Assistant users group? Any takers?