Stonebase 4.5 update

After receiving some comments on the last post comming from Stonebase developers, I've realised I made some mistakes on my pre-review. In order to understand my mistakes here you need to find a way to make objective reviews of programs: a list of features a program must have. If I fail to find it, I use the help file. In this case, there isn't any English help file available, so the only available support is given by 10 video tutorials in Chinese made with outdated versions.

The pattern search feature, though once disabled, is finally available on this version of the program. As the comment on the last post claims, you just have to select the area which is to be analysed, and click with the right button on that area, once the database are loaded in the basket.

Now we can see the games where this pattern is found, though the games (if opened) don't directly show the pattern but start from the first move. Here we can also check the games by thumbnails, one of the nicest features of this program. On the other hand, it is not possible to apply the pattern search results to your game: you won't see any A, B...

It is in order to avoid this sort of troubles that an English version of the help file is needed. Meanwhile, I created a section at my forum so that we can create a Stonebase tutorial in English, but I can't develop it entirely on my own...