Author: Joe T. Pangilinan
Date: 08:53:08 07/11/01
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On July 10, 2001 at 22:39:57, Bobby Ang wrote: >I use chess software not so much to play against them, nor play them against >each other, but rather to use them as engines within Chessbase to analyze games. > I have been doing this for at least 8 years and believe that I am not too bad >at this. > >My hardware is an Athlon 1.2 gig 512 RAM, and until recently my favorite >analysis partner has been HiArcs7.32 > >Fritz used to be my favorite, but I have been dissatisfied with it ever since >they came out with Fritz6. With all the additional knowledge they put into it >they also seem to be "dumbed" down its tactical alertness. It started missing a >lot of tactical shots which is crucial if you are studying a particular opening. > >Talking about tactical shots Gambit Tiger 2.0 is awesome, but some of its >positional evaluation is greatly suspect. > >I believe Shredder 5.32 should only be used in the endgame. In the opening and >middlegame its tactics is VERY bad. In the endgame, though, I have no >reservations about stating that it is in a class by itself. > >Junior 7, I am happy to say, has impressed me very much both with its tactics >and positional soundness. If it were not for the two problems given below I >would instantly recommend it to any of my students (both of the problems are >when you run it as an engine within Chessbase 8) : > > 1. If you are analyzing a position and then decide, for example, to do another >operation, for example open a book window to check whether a certain move has >been played before, oftentimes it would crash. > > 2. So the best thing is to close the analysis window first before accessing the >book window. Problem is, it takes forever to unload the junior 7 engine. > >I use 184 MEG hash tables, and maybe decreasing the hash would make it "unload" >faster, but the other engines have no problem with unloading and of course you >would want to make use of the maximum power available from your hardware. > >Anybody else have a similar experience? > >bobby ang
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