Author: Steve Coladonato
Date: 07:55:15 04/21/00
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On April 20, 2000 at 21:20:07, D Ridge wrote:
>I use my PC mostly for analysis of games I've played.
>
>I currently have chessmaster 5000,6000,7000.
>
>Not real impressed with Chessmaster for analysis. I think it can best be
>described as annoying.
>
>I need some advice.
>
>What is the best program specifically for analysis and why do you think so?
>
>Thanks
>
>David
David,
I use CA5, Shredder 4, and Fritz 5.32.
CA5:
Can use the standard Chess Tiger engine or the optional Crafty engine. I have
also linked in the Shredder 4 MCS engine. The CA5 display only shows the best
line at each ply depth (if anyone knows how to display more lines please let me
know). You can invoke the analysis engine just by pressing the space bar and
then you can switch engines on the fly if you so wish. For a given position,
you can invoke the analysis engine and then pick only the moves you wish it to
evaluate. It will do a full games analysis, "check for blunders", and you can
set up 1-3 passes at various ply depths.
Shredder 4:
Shows the evaluation of x number of variations (user definable {F6/F5 key}) at
each ply depth. Shredder also has a nice feature where by pressing the CTRL key
you can make a (virtual) move on the board and it will give you the analysis for
that. I like this because the move I would make isn't always in the variation
list that is being displayed and it will tell you why this move evaluates lower
than the others. Does full game analysis based on the level setting that you
select.
Fritz 5.32:
Basically the same as Shredder 4 but without the CTRL key feature for
analyzing a move of your choice.
I use CA5 to do the printouts. This is accomplished by saving the Shredder 4
and Fritz analysis to a PGN file.
Steve
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