NICBase, (NiCBase)
a chess database program of the Dutch chess publishing company New In Chess[1], developed in the late 80s and early 90s by Elsevier[2] with Hans and Nico Kuijf as affiliated developers. Originally designed for the Atari ST[3], 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 [4]. 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 [5]. 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[6], 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 [7].
a chess database program of the Dutch chess publishing company New In Chess [1], developed in the late 80s and early 90s by Elsevier [2] with Hans and Nico Kuijf as affiliated developers. Originally designed for the Atari ST [3], 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 [4]. 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 [5]. 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 [6], 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 [7].
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- 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
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