Wow, what a bunch of fraudsters. Does chessbase have a lot of cachet in the chess community?
Edit: It may not be the single largest database, I suspect that honor goes to Chess.com or Lichess, but it is certainly the largest curated one.
This actual software, in terms of UI, is basically shit, and the technology is questionable (search really should be an order faster - my understanding is it has to do a full sequential read of the main DB (which is several GB)
Some format documentation:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160329061708/http://rybkaforum...
http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&...