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NICBase, (NiCBase) a chess database program of the Dutch chess publishing company New In Chess, developed in the late 80s and early 90s by Elsevier with Hans and Nico Kuijf as affiliated developers. Originally designed for the Atari ST, 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. 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. 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, 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.

=See also=
 * ChessBase (Database)
 * NIC-Key
 * TascBase

=Forum Posts=

1989

 * Re: Looking for a Chess Database by Jarmo Sorvari, rgc, October 04, 1989

1990 ...
1994
 * 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
 * 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=
 * NICBase Online

=References=

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