Author: Tina Long
Date: 17:46:18 04/21/02
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On April 21, 2002 at 18:40:58, Telmo Escobar wrote: >On April 21, 2002 at 11:13:01, Jason Repa wrote: > >>What is the strongest commercially available chess engine for doing analysis of >>a position? > > No one. Many people think Fritz 7 is currently the top engine, but that only >means that Fritz 7 is capable to beat the other ones often. Assume that's right: >it doesn't imply that Fritz is best to analyse positions. > > Concerning commercial engines, my advice is: if possible, don't use only an >engine, purchase two or more of them. Personally, I prefer to analyse positions >using Junior 7 and Chess Tiger 14. Junior is a speed monster, analysing at 15 >plyes or more in one minute or less. Note that "Ply" in Junior is different to "Ply" in other programs. Approximately 66%, 200%. That is: when Junior says Ply 21 that is the same as Fritz saying 14-42. Approximately. Tina Long >Tiger, with its human-like style of play, >is probably best understanding static positional features. > > You were asking about commercial engines. May I add that there are today many >phenomenally strong freely available engines. You don't need to spend a buck to >analyse positions well: just download Winboard and -say- Crafty, and you have >enough software to do the work.
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