Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 09:46:12 03/14/04
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On March 14, 2004 at 12:40:31, Bob Durrett wrote: >On March 14, 2004 at 10:07:33, Michael Nolan wrote: > >>I apologize if this question has been asked many times before--I'm new to this >>forum. I am interested in doing computer-assisted analysis of games, and would >>like to get the strongest commercially-available software for time settings such >>as six or twelve hours per move. Possibilities are Shredder 8, Junior 8, Fritz >>8, Hiarcs 9, etc. Any suggestions? (In other words, I'm wondering if some >>programs are relatively much stronger at deep analysis than their 3 minutes / >>move ratings would indicate.) > >Although I cannot give a definitive answer, I have often used several different >engines to do automatic analysis, [which I call "overnight analysis" since I >typically have the program running at night while I'm sleeping,] of a serious >game. Generally, Shredder seems to give the best results most of the time and >Fritz second. Junior behaves like a wild horse, often diverging widely from the >other engines. Note that a PV is ***NOT*** displayed in this mode. Analysis >lines presented in such analyses are not PVs. > >For analysis with the human present, Fritz is my choice since Shredder still >appears to have a credibility problem with it's PV. When I'm sitting in front >of the computer screen, I use infinite analysis mode. > >Bob D. I just notice that you said 6-12 hours "per move." I have never done that and cannot imagine why any "user" would do that. A chess programmer conceivably might do it out of curiosity to see what would happen to his chess program in that extreme situation. Perhaps you intended to say that you were interested in having the program look at a single *****POSITION***** for 6-12 hours. That is a very different thing from looking at a single move. Bob D.
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