ChessRoller: Looking for feedback on a new database GUI (.cbh/.2cbh support, Mac/Win)

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ChessRoller: Looking for feedback on a new database GUI (.cbh/.2cbh support, Mac/Win)

Post by chessroller »

Hi folks, I'm a software engineer, and I’ve been working for the past few years on a chess database program called ChessRoller (https://chessroller.com), which I released publicly last week, and I would greatly appreciate any feedback from folks interested in trying it. The project started off first as a UCI chess library, then a GUI, then a database...and now ChessRoller.

A few highlights currently implemented:
• Imports ChessBase .cbh and .2cbh, scid, pgn, and one vintage easter egg Mac format.
• Fast position search. On my dev machine I'm getting sub-second position queries for databases of ~11M games.
• macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows (x64/arm64) builds. I don't currently publish a Linux build, but if that potential Linux user is you, please tell me!

Any constructive feedback/criticism on performance, interface usability, or missing features that you want would be immensely helpful, and I'd be happy to answer any questions that I can. Of course, I'm happy to hand out license keys for those that try it and provide feedback.

Thank you!
Lu
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Re: ChessRoller: Looking for feedback on a new database GUI (.cbh/.2cbh support, Mac/Win)

Post by Ponti »

I'm a linux user (most of my machines run Debian or Mint ). I´d be glad to test a linux version.
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