I’ve been given a chance to review how CB9 works, and so far, I have to say, I’m not all that impressed. It has some opening study tools that seem quite useful, I’ll admit, and I’m taking advantage of the short time I have to work with it to get some value out of it, but it’s so slow that at times I’ve been sure the machine I’m using for the test (a 2.4GHz P4 with 1GB of RAM) has locked up. It’s been a good lesson in patience, all by itself, to realize that an Opening Report will take as long as it does (Half an hour or more, generally, once well over an hour).

Frankly, its marketshare mystifies me. I’ll have more to say as I continue the experiment.

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