Author: Steve Coladonato
Date: 11:37:32 06/22/02
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Hi Frank, I am strictly a user. When I first joined CCC, there was basically the amateur programmers (Crafty and Crafty clones) the commerical programs (Fritz, Chessmaster, Shredder, etc.). I found the computer tournaments quite interesting in that Shredder, Stephen Mayer-Kahlen, was basically an outsider commercial program going against the main garde. I still believe he has developed the best algorithms although I have nothing concrete to confirm this. I had purchased Shredder as my first chess program mainly because, at the time, it was the only one that would run on NT. Shortly thereafter, Fritz came out with a release than ran on NT but it was not a windows program like Shredder was. I purchased it too. I used these programs mainly for analysis and I always felt that Shredder was a bit better. I messed around a bit with winboard and crafty and that is a great combination but I still felt the commercial programs gave a better analysis. I eventually got into Chess Assistant, 6.x, and I stopped buying upgrades to Fritz and Shredder. Mainly because you could hook the Shredder engine into CA and that was enough for me. And then Shredder went under the Chessbase umbrella and I lost interest in it. Now I have dumped windows and gone Linux and am using SCID, Xboard, Crafty, and Yace. I was really hoping that CA would bring out a version for Linux, price comparable to the windows version, but nothing so far. The Crafty engine, at this stage, is very good in analysis and the SCID management system is superb. I use Xboard for an occasional game but not very often. The combination of these programs provides me with everything I need and I am content. Steve
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