Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 04:49:40 12/02/01
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On December 02, 2001 at 03:24:01, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 02, 2001 at 02:57:47, William Penn wrote: > >>On December 01, 2001 at 20:04:40, Alvaro Rodriguez wrote: >> >>>Hello all chessfriends! I´ve been away for a while, and I have to admit it, I´m >>>not updated on what´s going on in the computerchess-world. So anyway, can >>>somebody give me some ideas on which program I should buy? I will use the >>>chessprogram mainly for 1-day analysis of different positions. And only >>>single-processors should be considered.. Thank you all! >>> >>>Best regards >>>Alvaro >> >>Look at tournaments people are running here such as ChessFun, Shep, and Jonas >>Cahonas. They enter the chess programs/engines in their tournaments which they >>think are the strongest competitors, and they are probably right! It's hard to >>say for sure which one is the strongest. There are several strong ones of >>similar strength at the top of the heap. The SSDF list is also of interest: >>http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-36794/ssdf/ >>I would just caution against Fritz 7 for analysis. From what I hear it doesn't >>work right. > >I read the claims and I do not care if the 10th or the 20th move in the pv is >wrong. > >If I want to get long line then I usually give the program to analyze more than >one position by playing against itself. > >It is known that it is dangerous to trust long pv for all programs because they >can miss some tactics that is too deep for them. > >Uri I don't think there is one program which has a good way of deep anelyzing positions Just folowing the mainline first and using other tries (wich means lot and lots of work) And this mean not only \in the 1st 2nd 3th etc branch Will give a better way of looking at a position I played in some positions moves wich even did not stand in the branches of the program but after playing it it became instantely the mainline! Mostlikely because some engines are more tactical and don't see strong positional moves Then again if a program is positional it can overlook strong tactical moves.
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