Author: Majd Al-Ansari
Date: 02:30:09 12/25/05
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Personally I buy ANY good chess software even if I will never use it. It is hard enough to make money in chess so I feel that I am contributing to the cause when I pay for good software. Fruit, Shredder, Fritz, Hiarcs all qualify in my book and I will buy them all even though I will not use them. Now with Rybka things have really changed. I really find it very instructive how this program plays, especially in the opening phase. I feel I am really learning quite a bit since the moves it makes make a lot of sense. Looking at the evaluation as the engine is playing games you can immediately see Rybka evaluation go up when the other engine makes a mistake. It is amazing how quickly it realizes the other engine makes a mistake and how ruthlessly it takes advantage of the mistake. This almost instantaneous ability to know good moves is very useful, and for the first time I really feel my personal chess ability can improve by watching an engine play. That alone makes it worthwhile to assure such software succeeds by paying for it and thus making it financially feasible to improve on it.
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