I have tried installing Chessbase 13 through 16 on Ubuntu 20.04(It was accidentally mentioned as Linux), but something or the other has broken. Can someone guide me through the process? Chessbase 13 is the closest I got something to work, but the board and the display was horribly broken. I have installed Wine and winetricks, but so far I have not got anything to work. Thank you for your time!
Edit: This is for people who don't know what Chessbase is. ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database that has become the standard throughout the world. I have tried installing it using Wine, but it has some weird errors. So anyone who has tried it successfully, please give some advice!
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Chessbase from 13 thru 18 not work on Wine. You need to change the setting of Wine and setup Windows 7. But and old version of Chessbase work fine try chessbase12.
Now there is a Linux program that will run Chessbase (and .pgn) files fine on Ubuntu.
It is Scidb and is a beautiful program. You download it from sourceforge and there are several tweaks needed to install it.
But after that it runs great on Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04. If interested I can post the tweaks here. It took me a lot of time to figure out the tweaks as the latest kernel upgrades borked it.
