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NICBase, (NiCBase)
a chess database program of the Dutch chess publishing company New In Chess [2], developed in the late 80s and early 90s by Elsevier [3] with Hans and Nico Kuijf as affiliated developers. Originally designed for the Atari ST [4], NICBase was soon ported to the IBM PC running under DOS supporting CGA, Hercules and EGA cards, already a GUI with mouse or keyboard controlled interaction with a menu-bar and pull-down menus. The NICBase 3.0 format was not compatible to earlier database versions, which required conversion [5]. After the NICBase development was stopped in early 1993, the Kuijf brothers agreed with TASC president Wil Sparreboom to make an entirely new database program TascBase instead [6]. NICBase was also supported by Rebel 6.0.
There were attempts to develop a new NICBase front-end by Peter van Diepen and Anton Schermer [7], which was apparently not released to the public. While its back-end is still used by the New In Chess team to classify openings with the NIC-Key, NICBase is available as online database via the New In Chess site [8].
See also
Forum Posts
1989
- Re: Looking for a Chess Database by Jarmo Sorvari, rgc, October 04, 1989
1990 ...
- ChessBase (or NIC-Base) - any users? by John Richards, rgc, June 20, 1990 » ChessBase (Database)
- Re: ChessBase by Mike Valvo, rgc, January 30, 1991 » ChessBase (Database)
- NICBase for mac? by Albert Henderson, rgc, May 18, 1992
- ChessBase or NICBase? by Amarnath Mukherjee, rgc, July 06, 1992 » ChessBase (Database)
- ChessBase vs. NICBase by Jeff Lesser, rgc, September 27, 1992
- ChessBase vs. NICbase by Edward M. Hummel, rgc, December 07, 1992
- CHESS ASSISTANT vs ChessBase, NicBase? by CCHB, rgc, September 27, 1993 » Chess Assistant
1994
- NIC2PGN uploaded! by Carsten Hansen, rgc, January 14, 1994
- ch_tools updated, again! by Carsten Hansen, rgc, January 24, 1994
- NIC2CB ... by Carsten Hansen, rgc, January 31, 1994
- NIC-format by Carsten Hansen, rgc, January 31, 1994
- nicbase files at uoknor by Steven L Harrington, rgc, March 21, 1994
- Nicbase 3.0 -> Nicbase 2.0 by Soeren Fisker, rgc, April 18, 1994
- ICS & NICBase by Steve Davis, rgc, August 10, 1994
- New NicBase by Nicolo de Groot, rgc, October 31, 1994
- ChessBase, ChessAssistant and NicBase by Richard Reich, rgc, December 03, 1994
1995 ...
- NicBase 3.0--any newer ver? by Gustavus Vasa, rgc, June 19, 1995
- Nicbase database by Richard Reich, rgcc, November 01, 1995
- Where to find the Atari ST-version of NiCBASE? by Conrad Hoogenboom, rgcc, May 07, 1996
- NICbase 2 - importing data into by Keith, rgcc, January 09, 1998
External Links
References
- ↑ Image taken from a 1994 catalog
- ↑ New In Chess was founded in 1984 by Wim Andriessen, evolving from the Schaakbulletin, see Wim Andriessen, 1938 - 2017 by Hans Ree, May 20, 2017
- ↑ New In Chess – Wikipedia.de (German)
- ↑ Where to find the Atari ST-version of NiCBASE? by Conrad Hoogenboom, rgcc, May 07, 1996
- ↑ Nicbase 3.0 -> Nicbase 2.0 by Soeren Fisker, rgc, April 18, 1994
- ↑ Marc Derksen (1996). TascBase 2.0. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 5, Nos. 3+4
- ↑ New NicBase by Nicolo de Groot, rgc, October 31, 1994
- ↑ New In Chess - Chess Books, Chess Magazines & Chess Shop
