A couple of months ago and two years after the previous version ChessX has released a new version. This is version 0.6, which can be downloaded for Windows and Mac on the download section of the ChessX site.
I decided to try this version and I started by saving the games of the IJ105 database as a PGN file, which is currently the format that is needed for ChessX, but a Native Database Format is planned for the next release. I also made a PGN file that contained the first 1000 games of this Database.
As you can see the PGN file uses a lot of memory when compared to the SCID or ChessDB database files.
I was unable to use the large database. It started to load the games, but after waiting for more than an hour it was still busy loading.
Loading the file with the first 1000 games went raher smooth and I like the way it looks and how you can position everyting as you wish.
If you only need something like this for your own games (with a rather small database) than this may be a very interesting multi platform alternative, but for large databases it will probably not be usable. However, the next release promises to add a Native Database Format, which may solve these problems.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:13 am
See also Scid, ChessDB and ChessX
November 8th, 2009 at 9:14 am
Whew! finally I’ve found this chess lesson blogs. thanks for sharing new version of ChessX version 0.6 and hope we could exchange more ideas.