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Subject: Re: Buy Shredder 6.0 or Fritz 7.0?

Author: Jim Monaghan

Date: 12:32:48 08/07/02

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I agree with GCP's comments below. The Shredder interface is very comfortable to
work in. You can install about two dozen free UCI engines for alternative points
of view about a position on the fly. Some of these are pretty strong like
LG2000V3.6, SOS2, and Yace. The same could be said about Fritz though with WB
engines (disabled somewhat however -- let's not go there.)

Another neat feature is that Shredder Classic never needs refreshing. (Oh, it
asked for it once after I upgraded for the first time to the Padderborn
version.) My orginal CD is safely tucked away. I had the Fritz GUI installed for
a short time, but never used it much.

Cheers,
Jim

On August 07, 2002 at 14:47:31, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 07, 2002 at 14:42:46, Steve Cote wrote:
>
>>I want to buy a good chess program for play and analysis of played games. I've
>>narrowed down to these (2) programs. I'm not so concerned about strength because
>>I know both are very strong.  It may just boil down to features and interface.
>>What do you like or dis-like regarding these programs? Or is there another
>>program I should consider? Thanks for your help!
>
>Advantages of Shredder over Fritz:
>
>a) You get *two* intefaces instead of one, including the best there is (Shredder
>Classic)
>b) You get the Sandro Necchi tournament book with the Classic inteface
>c) Shredder supports UCI and can be used in other programs
>
>Advantages of Fritz over Shredder
>
>a) You get the Alex Kure book which is perhaps better than the Necchi one.
>
>I'd go with Shredder.
>
>--
>GCP



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