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TascBase GUI ¹

TascBase,
a chess database program by TASC, developed since 1993 by former NICBase developers Hans and Nico Kuijf, the GUI by Marc Derksen was based on the ChessMachine GUI. TascBase requires a 80386 PC with VGA-display and at least 4 Mebibyte of memory, running as 32-bit program either under MS-DOS using the DOS extender DOS/4G, or Windows. TascBase 1.0 was released in October 1994, soon followed by version 1.1, incorporating The King engine by Johan de Koning as analysis tool. TascBase 2.0, released in 1996, features Ken Thompson's 5-men endgame databases, followed by TascBase 2.1 in 1997. TascBase was compliant with the TASC SmartBoard, and was also shipped under the name PerfectBase without EGTBs ¹.

Database

The native multi-indexed database structure always connects two consecutive key positions by one chess move. TascBase will find piece and pawn formations, material distribution, or specific combinations. Query results could either represented in a list view of all games in the current key - or as key structure as tree of variations. TascBase supports various formats for import and export, beside its native TascBase format, ChessBase (CBF), NICBase, and PGN and customizable text formats ².

Tree View

Opening book, tree view ³

See also

• Chess Assistant
• ChessBase (Database)
• ECO
• NICBase

Publications

• Marc Derksen (1996). TascBase 2.0. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 5, Nos. 3+4
• Wil Sparreboom, Hans Kuijf, Ken Thompson et al. (1996). TascBase. Rotterdam : Tasc B.V.

Forum Posts

1994 ...

• what is TASCBASE? by U31..., rgc, May 18, 1994
• TASCBASE by Richard Reich, rgc, June 25, 1995
• TASC FIDECHESS Encyclopedia and TASC PerfectBase? by Richard Reich, rgcc, December 06, 1995
• TascBase 1.0 & 2.0 data formats by Steve Lopez, rgcc, December 20, 1996
• Chessbase 6.0 vs Tascbase 2.0 by John Clarke, rgcc, January 05, 1997
• Tascbase 2.0 - worth it? by Mig Greengard, rgcc, January 11, 1997
• TASC Perfect Base Question by Len, rgcc, January 25, 1997
• TascBase 2.1 - a presentation by Mats Winther, rgcc, January 29, 1997
• TascBase 2 by Gerald Creed, rgcc, March 01, 1997
• Q: Converting chessbase games to TASCBASE 2.0 by Enrico, rgcc, May 18, 1997
• Tascbase copyprotection by Oddi Hestnes, rgcc, November 05, 1997
• TascBase lesson: copy-trees by Mats Winther, rgcc, December 10, 1997
• TascBase lesson: analysing by Mats Winther, rgcc, December 11, 1997
• What are the best benefits given by ChessBase or TascBase? by Eran, CCC, May 31, 1998

2000 ...

• TascBase by Mats Winther, rgcc, November 24, 2006
• TascBase in DOSBox by Mats Winther, rgcc, July 25, 2007

2010 ...

• Re: La Máquina Preservadora. Programas de Ajedrez by Luis a, Meca Foro, May 12, 2016 (Spanish)

External Links

• TascBase 2.0 Chess database program (archived version by Ismenio Sousa)
• TascBase 2.1, chess database for DOS/Windows by Mats Winther
• PerfectBase 98 by Peter Schreiner (German), Schachclub Leinzell
• TascBase 2.0 Diskettenversion - Database from Schachversand Niggemann

References